It’s supposed to snow tonight through a bit in the AM. I’m working 4 hours comp. time to help because one of our scheduled people had to lose in the family. The other person scheduled drive from NJ where the weather is normally worse and she’s no spring chicken to dig her out fast. So it might be fun times here tomorrow. I think this is at least the 3rd time someone can on their scheduled free day to help out. I know some places are slow and they can get by with little staff but here between 12-… Continue

Is everyone as frantically busy as I've been, or is the apprehension leading to paralysis?

Ok, so for anyone not in the know, my cat Molly was recently diagnosed with OCD... yep that wasnt a typo. The vet actually looked me square in the eye and said my cat has OCD. Of course, it only took a few seconds for this diagnosis to entirely explain almost every behavior my cat engages in from cannibalising herself, to chasing her own tail, to her mood swings.

Now of course my wife has gone into a state of semi-depression condemning herself as a a bad mother (which she's not

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I spent last week in North Carolina for computer training. Whenever I go away for conferences or vacation I always return with this compulsion to absorb everything that happened in my absence...AT ONCE. The time of being away is over, and I must unload and unpack...AT ONCE. Then I must get my mail from the post office and plow through it all (say it with me)...AT ONCE. Then there are emails. And now there are blogs. Like Basil Fawlty I wave my fist at heaven while I jump up and down. "Thank y

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Okay, this is my third blog. My NYPL blog has an identity crisis: the folks who I hoped would read it for work info ignore it (much as they ignore my emails, memos and bulletin board posts), yet several good folks not known to me before have responded to my late-in-the-day babble about cocktails and playing games on my cell phone. My personal blog lies wasting away (due to lack of personality?).

And now here is this. Well I'm glad its here, and I hope that others join in.