What are you doing today?

I have nothing on my agenda today. It’s a wonderful feeling! I think I’ll spend some significant time in a nice hot tub.
 
Complications at the library, as signalled by my online account which informed me that a book that had been marked "in transit" until last night, is now due in January. The problem is that someone else checked it out, not I.

Anyway, I am now back in the queue to receive it, whenever it does fall due.
 
Huh, SS, that should not have happened..... In the system my library uses, everything is managed digitally and the reserved/hold item is associated directly with the patron's library card number; I don't believe that the transaction would go through if someone else with a different library card number attempted to check it out. Must've been a glitch somewhere!! Glad you discovered it and that you're now back in the queue to get it next time!

My big plans for the day? Run software updates on my various machines and devices.....
 
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Huh, SS, that should not have happened..... In the system my library uses, everything is managed digitally and the reserved/hold item is associated directly with the patron's library card number; I don't believe that the transaction would go through if someone else with a different library card number attempted to check it out. Must've been a glitch somewhere!! Glad you discovered it and that you're now back in the queue to get it next time!

My big plans for the day? Run software updates on my various machines and devices.....
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A phone call today - very polite (even laughing) with the library, confirmed that this had happened in a different branch in a different region; the librarian with whom I spoke today thought that Covid complications might have been an issue, as, uniquely, that book was 'in transit' immeediately before the most recent lockdown, - whereas the other books "in transit" only kicked in once libraries re-opened, but seems to have been intercepted somewhere.

Anyway, apologies were tendered; I shall receive it reasonably soon - mine is the next hold, and I shall have plenty else to read in the meantime.
 
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A few very pleasant phone calls; one with my Other Brother, another with one of my mother's closest friends (the sort of person with whom she laughed endlessly, and helplessly - a lovely, warm generous, supportive, friendship on both sides), and another with The Cheesemonger, who is a very good friend of mine.
 
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After reading various comments on the success or nonsuccess that people were having with doing the latest Big Sur update, I decided not to attempt it today and did some other things instead, along with shooting a few photos, a bit of housekeeping, etc., etc. Dealt with a few emails along the way as well, including a request from one of the people responsible for our community newsletter to check things over, proofread, before the thing is sent off to the printer. Unsurprisingly, I found a couple of minor errors plus a rather big one where one of the editors had apparently tried to do some rewording and shortening of a submitted article and only managed to really mangle a sentence, probably in an effort to connect two of them together, which didn't work. I reworded that, pointed out where the typos were that I'd seen, and returned the document back to the newsletter staff for them to handle..... The thing is already late in being published, as it should've been out earlier in the autumn.
 
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the latest Big Sur update
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Have taken a pass on Big Sur so far. It's becoming problematic though since some of the other app updates I permitted to run quit immediately with notification they need Big Sur before can be applied. Don't really care since they are for stuff like iMovie that I don't use. Just annoying because they are listed as available the same as some other app updates that will run for Catalina. Up to me to keep a list or else put up with the notices or just go ahead and run the OS upgrade. Ugh. My response so far is ignore the rising badge count on Software Update icon in the dock.

Mark said:
sometimes you feel like a nut. sometimes you don't.
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Hah, where is the "groan..." emoticon, sometimes the one for "wow" is insufficient. :p


Among chores today: rounding up my serious winter outdoor clothes and walking stick for trips to the mailbox. Looks like the weather gods will soon run a beta test of "here's winter!"

Aside from that, was just hanging out today still trying to wind down from four years of wondering what that guy in the WH was up to every morning upon waking. I will like returning to feeling that that's an optional concern. These last weeks of TF guy in there now are not helping me get there, but that's on me for reading the papers before mid-afternoon!
 
Almost got hit my a car on my bike commute hope tonight. it was raining some too and dark. but I have very good lights a 900 lumin's headlight and the same flashing light you cant miss it at all. I always watch cars closely that are pulling out of a driveway or a road I am crossing. going about 18 I have very good brakes and just stopped with my front tire in front of the car. the woman kinda of smiled at me and her kids were smiling and I was screaming cuss words at her. she stopped and then just started to go I had to back up so she did not hit my front wheel.
 
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Complications at the library, as signalled by my online account which informed me that a book that had been marked "in transit" until last night, is now due in January. The problem is that someone else checked it out, not I.

Anyway, I am now back in the queue to receive it, whenever it does fall due.
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This is so annoying. When I first moved to Queens I still had my Brooklyn Library account and would travel a long distance to pick up from the Brooklyn Central branch, to only be told that the item was checked out. There was an honor system and someone was checking out my holds. 3rd time that happened I was livid, informing the staff that the New York system didn't allow checkouts on items reserved for patrons. A couple trips later I actually witnessed someone trying to check out my hold and being informed that it wasn't available for checkout as it had someone else's name and number on the slip (IIRC, the first three letters of the patron's last name and the last four digits of the account number). Took a great deal of restraint to not confront the jackass. Soon afterwards they put holds behind the staff to prevent patrons from checking out reserved items. It would be a couple more years before the system caught to the NYPL system.

After being closed for several weeks, Queens Library had select branches offer To-Go pickups for reserved items. Of course for my first two reserved notices, the items were not at my local branch and no one could understand what caused the hiccup. And no one could assist me in being put at the front of the queue. I stopped reservations for a few months because I didn't want the hassle of going to pick up and not knowing if the damn items would be there. Luckily I receive a free ebook and audiobook monthly through the hubby's Wall Street Journal subscription. That has helped keep me reading the last several months. Thanks to all the stay at home orders and the WSJ freebies I should complete my Goodreads Reading Challenge (52 books for 2020) next week, if not this weekend.
 
At my local library system we are using the patron-help-himself-to-the-holds-on-the-shelf-for him/her, but.....yeah, after reading SS's post and now this latest one, I wouldn't be surprised if occasionally that does fail to work as intended and someone else grabs a tempting book from the "holds" shelf and attempts to check it out. Ugh!

During the period when our library was closed altogether I made do with reading my way through a stockpile of books I'd accumulated by buying them in bookstores on impulse or ordering from Amazon..... Now those very books will eventually be donated to the library system once they are ready to receive gifts again. In the meantime I've picked up a few more books just on the off-chance that we'll have another shutdown and the library will once again not be available to me.... I won't be surprised if that happens either in the next few weeks or pretty soon after the holiday season......
 
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At my local library system we are using the patron-help-himself-to-the-holds-on-the-shelf-for him/her, but.....yeah, after reading SS's post and now this latest one, I wouldn't be surprised if occasionally that does fail to work as intended and someone else grabs a tempting book from the "holds" shelf and attempts to check it out. Ugh!

During the period when our library was closed altogether I made do with reading my way through a stockpile of books I'd accumulated by buying them in bookstores on impulse or ordering from Amazon..... Now those very books will eventually be donated to the library system once they are ready to receive gifts again. In the meantime I've picked up a few more books just on the off-chance that we'll have another shutdown and the library will once again not be available to me.... I won't be surprised if that happens either in the next few weeks or pretty soon after the holiday season......
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I'm almost embarrassed by the amount of books on my "To Be Read" pile. Most were highly anticipated, but often I would impulse buy at local bookstores. Staff recommendations, occasional new reads by authors in attendance and on a few rare occasions, I would tell the staff to toss in a recommendation.
 
During the shutdown in the spring I worked my way through most of my stockpile and now here I am starting a new one! If we have a second shutdown I'm prepared! :D

I try not to buy books which I can check out from the library -- however, some interesting titles aren't available there or they are something I want to read immediately and there's a long queue in the Holds/Reserves, so I'll just go ahead and buy anyway.
 
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During the shutdown in the spring I worked my way through most of my stockpile and now here I am starting a new one! If we have a second shutdown I'm prepared! :D

I try not to buy books which I can check out from the library -- however, some interesting titles aren't available there or they are something I want to read immediately and there's a long queue in the Holds/Reserves, so I'll just go ahead and buy anyway.
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I've read about a dozen books from my TBR pile. Unfortunately, I've added at least 20 to it since the Pandemic. Plan to only read from the pile weekends for the foreseeable future. Given the coming 2nd wave, I think I'll have plenty of time to read. The approaching storm is putting a damper on my speed walking for the next 2-3 days as well.
 
As I think it almost inevitable that further lock-downs will occur, it makes sense to have some (several) books set aside to read.

For me, that is not a problem; I always have books to hand, and love losing myself in a book.
 
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