In today's paper

...is a wonderful story about one of our favorite patrons extolling libraries and our "mad skills" with computer literacy. It's quite nice although very scattershot in terms of what it covers. I'd give it a low D if I were grading it in journalism class. Still, we librarians come off looking damned fine!


There is also this headline: ['Tucky] man arrested after threatening relative with knife, "'Tucky' being what we call the town(-ish place) where I live. As per the norm, it's the OTHER side of the lake from where I live, but it pisses me off how regular headlines like this appear. Per capita, I'm pretty sure we have more of this sort of crime than anywhere else in our county. Freakin' $#&^%s....

No nerves

OK, so I have the new Blogger post template and it's extremely odd. I'm sure I'll get used to it, but right now it's just ... white on white.

But the main reason I decided to break radio -- er, blog -- silence is that I realized today that I've finally reached the point where I don't lie awake for a week before an 'event' and worry and plan and obsess and freak out about it endlessly. Tomorrow is Sparky's graduation party and despite the fact that we don't know if we'll have 30 or 100 people show up, I'm pretty much ok with where we are. I realized a few days ago that anyone who isn't on Facebook isn't going to come because I didn't do any invites outside of the Event posting there. I suck. And I'm ok with that.

And that's the weird part: I'm ok with things. We may need more food, entailing an emergency run to the store midday. We may not have enough chairs, or tables. People will just have to pitch in and get comfortable and hang out. I hope they are ok with that. I am. And tomorrow, I'll have to be aware of people who aren't quite sure of themselves. And, guess what: I'm ok with that too.

In other news, it's hotter than blazes, and we haven't had rain for a couple of weeks, so I'm really excited about the fact that the grass is CRUNCHY, like when I grew up!


[Side note: our creepy neighbor was arrested yesterday at his house. That's all we know, aside from refusing to leave his house until a warrant was issued, which took a couple of hours. I'm sure it'll be in the paper.]

Boom season

I'm kind of surprised: this year's festivities only started last night. Maybe it's the economy. Maybe people are getting sane.

Nah, it's probably the economy.

Booms last night at dusk. Booms again just now. Aha! Maybe they're Canadian!