Ok – what a start of a week. Lunch with the boss, Library Dean John Unsworth, and 7 other
librarians, at his Pavilion 2 house
on the Lawn, very formal (Pearl Island (Caribbean) catering), served appetizers, salad, beef with potatoes, mushrooms,
and carrots, and for desert - raspberry truffles and sorbet, with much awkward conversation, but not from me,
except my comment on Thanksgiving – "we ate pea hen (peacock hen) for Thanksgiving in
India." (huh?) From 12 – 1:30 pm Monday, walking over and back in the rain. I printed and took two of my colored photos with John in them and gave to him – T-Shirt 2018 and Halloween at his Pavilion 2017. The other
librarians were Winston Barham, Amanda Visconti, Anthony Lindsay, Sean McCord,
Mark Witteman, Hanni Nabahe, Biao Sun, Robert D Smith, Phylissa Mitchel, John
Unsworth.
Then Tuesday was a
real doozy – under my new heated blanket, I drove and parked at Grady Ave, starting to run to
catch the bus, but went right back and pulled the blanket plug which was still lighted even with the engine off, and
then saw buses coming and ran to get the Outer Loop, which the regular driver
kindly waited an extra 25 seconds for me.
Main problem for
the day – my old belt ripped right
in two and I couldn’t figure out a good substitute – tried string (too puny) and
settled on a computer cord, still not great. Mainly had to hold up my pants
with one hand to go to lunch, and especially all the half-hour afternoon walk, which was
hard and tiring, had to switch hands every 10 minutes.
Spent about 20
minutes in the morning talking to Judy in Acquisitions about the 5 titles which the South Asian professor requested
Sunday – showing her his email, my Worldcat listing, my reply to books’ editor, her
response, my searching and finding 4 of the 5 titles for under $20, but one at
$212!, so tried and got India Exotica for $95. Sent it all in an email, which
Judy will ask Beth about and try to order, process.
Continued to work on
cataloging some other South Asia titles. And tried to connect the duo plug, unsuccessful.
Left work at 5
(earlier than usual) and went to the Old Navy store and bought a $20 belt. Clerks should not confuse
dyslexic people like me and ask “Credit or debit” Hmm what’s the difference,
and I thought debit, then realized credit, after she had put in debit for my
card and then had a hard time cancelling it! Finally got the receipt, but she
had put the belt aside – what?! So I said, might I have the belt? – oh, flustered
she said and put it in a bag.
At the Bed Bath and Beyond, found a
wonderful anti-splatter microwave cover, and a nice spoon, and a great dark blue
bath towel (Deej – why did you get that?), but could not find any decent 24-ounce
glass glasses. I was intrigued though, that they had a simple set of light
switch and plug for $90 which would automatically turn on and voice controlled – neat. But not today. Checking out those three things, the spoon kept jumping around on the counter, so the clerk had to grab it and put it in the bag. Didn’t want to leave the store?
At home, I found there were more Amazon packages – my new
blue-tooth radio clock, another India book, and a silent wall clock. I set up the
wall clock and Deej eventually saw it and liked it. We've been going crazy for the last 5 years with a wall clock going tick, tick, tic, tic, . . . Ah, silence. Also charged the radio
clock and put the book in my bag to take to work and donate to the library.
Also at home, the old outdoor’s indoor unit is giving off alarms
without us know why, so we take out batteries.
And, oh, yes, replaced the outdoor Netatmo batteries once
again. How long will it last?
The other thing at home is our plumbing, it is giving us
problems again, gurgling, backing up. What to do? Get them to clean it out
again ($200) or see about digging up and replacing the pipe ($2000 +)
Ah, the little things in life – nice to have a belt and
secure pants – and a beautiful silent wall clock in the kitchen. And great meals in the evening from Deej – the turkey arok
and her home made creamy mac and cheese.
