I got off to a good start but life like to give us the unexpected. I should have expected it. I knew we were going to have to deal with a ton of boxes from my husband’s work, I knew it was coming soon, yet when it arrived it derailed everything. He had to prep computers for something like 300 students? It might have been more. So all the computers arrived and all the computer bags arrived… at our house which is just a regular house, where we live and do stuff. I think we have 1700 square feet for the five of us which is normally ok. The boxes took over. There’s an office-type space in the kitchen and it was full, floor to almost ceiling, with big red boxes. I wish I’d snapped a pic but I didn’t. Here’s the point I remembered:
This is when there were only 8 boxes left. You can see the windows and everything!
So each red box contains a bunch of little boxes containing a laptop and assorted cords. We have other boxes that contain laptop bags. We unbox a red box of laptop boxes, unbox each laptop, scan it, label it, etc etc, and put it in a laptop bag which gets labeled, then re-box the laptops in their bags by dorm assignment. Then we tape up the big box, label it, and get it to the school. As we do this we are left with all the individual laptop boxes which must be saved to mail them back in like 3 years, so the amount of clutter grows and expands and takes over everything… until we box up the little boxes and get them to the school too. I have a pic, again not taken at peak-boxage:
The boxes are on top of the dog crate and they were, again, up to the ceiling. There are more on the shelf there and there were even more taking over the counter in the laundry room and on top of the pantry cupboards.
At the point that I took this picture we had sent back over 100 of these little boxes already. Also, as we fill the big boxes with laptops we move them into the front hall until we can’t safely put any more in there, then we have them picked up ASAP.
We can squeeze by the boxes so it’s ok! The lighter boxes at the back are the boxes full of boxes. It gets pretty hilarious at certain points, like when I tried to bring groceries in.
A small sample of the recycling. We went twice a week to drop off cardboard and that was pretty much ONLY the boxes the laptop bags came in because we reuse the others to send the computers to the school.
We’re almost done at this point, I hope, so I can stop treading water and get back to making some progress again. I’m reviewing Sink Reflections; by Marla Cilley in the meantime, trying to keep my mojo alive. Soon the last of the boxes will be gone and I will restart my decluttering efforts and get this place in shape.
I just looked over at one of my very latest purchases, online purchases, I haven’t been inside a store since early March, and I was struck by the feeling of peace it gave me just to look on it. It’s a cellophane package containing, I think, 240 little skeins of embroidery floss in what I am calling “Every Color” with capital letters. I think there are 2 of each color so, really, there are many more colors in the world than in this little package, but it is honestly beautiful and I feel like I could make any design my heart could desire with this lovely collection of thread. It only cost about $15 which makes me happy because I love good prices. I’d be happier if I’d found it used, like if I’d stumbled on it at a tag sale or in a charity shop, I prefer second hand things. Second hand purchases save things from the landfill and can be had for pennies on the dollar of their original price. Awesome all the way around.
Anyway, The feeling I get looking at this colorful bundle was striking because I’ve been feeling so stressed lately what with the global pandemic and the failure of our leadership to contain or manage it and so forth. That peaceful feeling made me pause to think about it and I realised what I feel when I look at my packet of embroidery thread is wealth. I feel a great feeling of “enough,” of satiety, I feel content and confident that whatever I need to do with this thread I have got it covered. To me that is wealth. It’s the same feeling I have when my cupboards and fridge are full and their contents are varied. It’s that same feeling I have when my TBR (to be read) pile is vast, deep, and partially unknown, & when I know there are several books lurking there that I am positively hungry for. And it is the same feeling I have when I have several unpainted canvases, tons of paint, a bag of colorful yarn, or a drawer full of clean undies and socks. Oh! And empty notebooks and pens!
I feel so wildly, undeservedly lucky when I can look and see that any of these things are true, but I have realized that the truest wealth is time, is self-determination, getting to actually choose how you spend your time. I mean, we all probably know this, that time is the most precious resource. We have what we have and we cannot make any more of it. We can’t save time we can only spend it. I think the lockdown, and having to go back to work, made me see it clearly, undeniably, and deeply for the first time. For a few months, I got to decide when I worked, when I rested, when I ate, etc. It was disturbing and difficult at first, I made myself get up and go to bed on my normal schedule. I scheduled work activities each day, 2-3 hours per day to get the same number of hours in as usual but never having to work 7 in a row as I had at my job. That felt nice at first but wore on me terribly over time. Instead I worked about 4 hours 3 times a week and found that better, better still when I clumped those days together, though I was still able to be flexible to accommodate webinars and such. I finally found a wonderful rhythm, a way to order my life so I felt less stressed, had time to relax and pursue art, crafts, reading, journaling and other writing. I felt better than I had in a long time.
Now that I am back at work coving my usual schedule, quite honestly, I hate it. I work Monday and Friday evenings and all day every-other Saturday. It isn’t the number of hours that’s the problem, not at all, it’s 8 hours one week 15 the next repeat indefinitely, no problem. It’s being locked into the days and times. It eats me up, it destroys my ability to relax on any day I have to work and makes me feel rushed, pressured, and stressed. I’m back to 2-3 days per week where I am not home to make dinner and 2 days where I don’t get to eat dinner with my family. And the evening hours are not great for me to be working during. I am not at my best then, I am mostly spent by about 5:30 PM, just biorhythm-wise. My body wants me to recline and relax in the evening, or stroll, maybe. My body communicated this quite clearly to me when I was the master of how my hours were spent. I can get a LOT done in a day if I know that once dinner is done I am “off the clock.” Without work taking me away from my home I was able to use my clothesline much more frequently, I got into a habit of foraging berries and making breakfast smoothies, I started walking again for exercise.
It doesn’t help that no one else in my house is leaving it for work yet. My husband is locked into just brutal hours of work, stressed to the max and completely burned out with his job. I am not saying I envy that, I feel horrible for him, what is expected of him by his job (I.T. Professional) at this point is ridiculous and cruel. He is expected to do it almost completely during work hours but of course he can’t confine all that he has to do to those hours, there is just way, way too much. I need to be more grateful that I have as much lingering self-determination as I do, I am going to work on that. BUT, I think it is insane that most people live by the clock, serve corporate or other masters, and are expected to give SO MUCH for SO LITTLE in return. And, shockingly, people are expected to be grateful for even the worst, crappiest, most slavish, dehumanizing jobs. That isn’t me, but it is a LOT of people. Chained to clocks, having to work through illness, injury, at jobs that actually cause them considerable hardship. That is messed up!
Everyone deserves to work a reasonable number of hours and still make a living, have a life worth living, with a schedule that makes sense. Maybe we can’t have the ideal life where we determine what we do with each hour, but we should all have a good, satisfying, and dignified life. We all deserve time to relax, to seek entertainment & education, to spend time with family and friends creating memories. My husband was set to take a week off in March, instead he’s been working his ass off, straight through, at a very stressful job, since New Years Day. He’s got a good job, one that grants him 3 or 4 weeks “vacation” a year. So far he’s only been able to take a day here or there, I think he’s only taken 1 or maybe 2 off honestly, July 4th, the Friday before it was just off for everyone at his job, that’s the only day. There is no way he can take time off now, everything is a mad scramble getting ready to open the school for the fall, with no actual plan for NOT opening… which will likely be forced upon them at the last minute. It’s insane. And he can’t take time in the fall, of course, or likely anything like a week off until Christmas. He will get a few days at Thanksgiving though. They had damn well better let him save all the vacation time he is unable to take now. Gods, I hope so. He needs to take at least a month straight off just to recover from this.
I’m doing ok. My attempts to keep my work more separate seem to be working. My stress level is going down. I can tell because my heart isn’t racing all the time anymore, sometimes sure, but not all the time. Plus I can focus and READ again, much more than I was able to even a week ago. I finished The Serpent of Venice; by Christopher Moore, an awesome, quirky, book. Now I’m waiting for the next one to come out, Shakespeare for Squirrels. I preordered it with the gift card my sweet husband and kids gave me for Mother’s Day. Thanks you guys!!!! Currently reading Heroine Complex; by Sarah Kuhn
I worked most of today, well 4 hours, but I’m a beast about what I will count so it covered about 6 hours of the day because I take breaks to keep a little sanity, plus I get interrupted and have other things I’m supposed to do as well. I’m trying to learn about how to find and acquire grants for the library and learn more about best practices and that for Teen Services. My library wide Pet Month art gallery is being promoted on Facebook and such and hopefully we’ll get some submissions. The Pathfinder game is going well, we had 3 kids this past session and I think we can expect 4-5 at the next, which would be AWESOME. I have loads of ideas for online/virtual programs but I’m not sure which ones to pursue. I’m trying to populate May with a few activities and pull together a lot more for June & July. Summer Reading is going to be so weird this year.
With work done for the day I am now working on laundry and came up with a plan for dinner. Yay. Almost forgot to do that! We will be having grilled cheese sandwiches, some squash soup, a salad, and assorted leftovers as well. Tomorrow will be more coherent. I am currently ahead on grocery ordering and we’re set to get an order on Thursday. I view my instacart picks as suggestions or wishes at this point. I think I’m getting about 50% of the things I pick out, another 25% substitutions and about 20-25% is just not available in any form. Last week I did not get: Raspberry tea, flour, chocolate chips, baking powder, chicken thighs, or frozen chicken patties. They replaced whatever chips I’d tried to order with jalapeno chips, hilarious, and other substitutions were all brand substitutions … I think. I have been able to get toilet paper, no problem, I got maybe a 12 pack a couple of weeks ago. Oh, I also wasn’t able to get sanitizing wipes. Not a one to be had, apparently. Meat prices are climbing pretty hard now too. We’re just lucky to still be working at this point, as stressful as it is to be navigating working from home, I know I am damned lucky to be able to.
How are you all holding up? What are you doing to keep busy and distracted?
Look at me, I’m taking the next 2 days off from working. Ok, I just spent a little time creating a BUJO (bullet journal) page of ideas in my new journal that I transferred from my old one… and they were mostly ideas relating to my job… but the intent was just to not lose track of good ideas not to actually do work so I think it’s ok.
My plan for today involves spending time on the deck in my hammock reading, a second attempt to make a first skull motif for a project for my son, laundry, decluttering, probably some video gaming, possibly some painting, maybe some writing, (in addition to blogging) and too much cooking which is the new normal.
So far I’m sticking with the BUJO write along. I’m doing it about once a day, catching up on the posted videos. There aren’t many, it’s a weekly exercise, I think, so I’ll be caught up soon and can follow along like a normal person. I have trouble sticking to things, to habits, routines and that, it’s good I’ve made it like 4 or 5 days so far.
Tomorrow I have no plan for yet. That feels kind of nice.
We started isolating in early March, we’ve been at this a while, but April is the first full month we’ve spent in lockdown. Every day, beginning to end, all of us were here at home. We’re in isolation but not alone we have each other. March felt more normal than April. I’d been ill, hubby was ill, the boy had his wisdom teeth out. Once I recovered I was home taking care of my husband and son as they convalesced. It felt like something we were choosing to do. It was nice to have excuses to stay home because we were highly concerned about the virus. We were even worried my husband had the virus, he was really ill. The doctors wouldn’t see him, just called every day to check on him, let him know they had no tests, and ask if he needed more meds. It was scary, maybe it was something about all that fear, and the immediacy of my husband’s illness that made March seem less strange. We just weren’t’ focused on that.
April seemed to be more defined by what we couldn’t do. Stuck home, can’t visit people, go to the movies, can’t go out to a restaurant, can’t go to work, stop by a bookstore, get a haircut, kids can’t go to school or see their friends… there are a whole lot of “can’ts.” What we did do was adapt, at least somewhat, to our new circumstances.
We binge-watched lots of stuff. My favorite new show was recommended by my 17 year old son: “Overlord” on Hulu. It’s an anime’ about a guy that somehow gets stuck in some kind of ultra-immersive, futuristic, holodeck-y version of an online multi-player game. It’s for mature audiences and it’s hella cool. It raises a lot of questions and pushes a lot of buttons, it almost lost me a couple of times because of the actions of the main character. It’s complicated, it’s layered, and it really makes me think. On the surface it’s just some dorky anime’ but … watch it and let me know what you think, what you get from it. I hope they come out with a fourth season, I really want to see where it goes, and hopefully find out more about what is actually going on. We also watched a lot of old favorite shows, my comfort watches are likely getting worn out at this point.
As ginormous geeks we gamed a lot. We have a family Pathfinder game, a library Pathfinder game, another Pathfinder game we just started with far-flung friends, a GURPS game, and we’ve played 2 sessions of D&D with some people from our most recent, in-person gaming group. That last one is problematic, sadly, it’s the only one that isn’t being run by either my husband or myself, the only one we are playing in together, and it just isn’t working. The GM is inexperienced and she opted to create her own world and adventure. Her write up about the world was pretty cool, had some interesting politics and history, but the plot of the adventure is, well, weak. She had us make 3rd level characters and we were sent to a tower to remove some bandits, who turned out to be goblins, and to recover items stolen from the townspeople. It was pretty much a cake walk, of course, and therefore it got a little boring. I get it, she’s new to this, it’s tough to know exactly how much to throw at your players to challenge them, but that’s why you start them at first level and follow the DM guide and challenge ratings of the monsters. If fledgling DM issues were the main problem that would actually be fine, everyone starts out there, we all have to learn. But we have a player who is just, quite frankly, awful to play with. He monopolizes the spotlight, rules-lawyers Everything, and just generally bogs down the game and syphons out all the fun. We also rolled up our characters at home and his ranger has a 19 STR, 18 DEX, and 18 WIS… that I know of. I’ve rolled really well sometimes but never that well. I don’t know if I’ll find the time for that game again, it just isn’t fun.
We’ve also cooked a lot, eaten a lot, ordered things online occasionally, had a couple of board games delivered from our local game store. We’re read a bit, worked a lot, taken some classes, crafted a little bit. April was a weird mix of working through structured classes and meandering aimlessly, without focus through everything else. I feel sort of adrift, if that makes any sense. I think we’re all struggling a bit because the world is so uncertain.
But here we are in May, a new month with a cloak of real springtime around her shoulders, and it’s time to take the reins in hand. My library is closed completely for at least the next 18 days and pretty likely through the month and beyond so I’m planning for that. My boss offered to pay for a course we can take as part of a libraries and autism grant and I’ve offered to take it. It will last all month and I have no idea what the course load will be like, but it will count as work so while I’m learning I’ll be getting paid. I’m working on my Pet Month stuff, and planning for a virtual Summer Reading Program, and that sums up work. On the homefront I’m realizing I need to make a schedule for MY chores, I have been falling behind. I used to do all the housework when I was home alone so part of my brain just doesn’t accept that it’s ever time to do that stuff right now: There Are People Here! I’ve also just started getting ahead on my grocery orders. I had been waiting to put together the next orders until after the current ones arrived and we were having some gaps. Right now we’ve got one coming today or tomorrow and one already scheduled for next Thursday, so YAY! no gap!
So, for May, for my own little brain, I will be:
Taking a month long class for our LSTA grant
Creating and running programs for May
Working on our SRP
Making and keeping a schedule of chores for myself
Planning ahead more effectively for groceries etc.
Finding time for Art and Reading to de-stress
Finding a way to schedule in more activities as a family because we are all needing it even though we are tired at the end of the day.
So, onward! Into the merry month of May we go. Happy Beltane, Everyone!
Day 54 of isolation, here we are, we’re hanging in there. My husband and I are struggling through working from home. He struggles with the mountain of work he has to do, technical glitches, higher-ups who think just because they want something to happen means that something is possible, etc. I struggle with trying to find way to actually DO my job, alternate between excitement over Summer Reading and anxiety that we won’t find a way to make it work, and worry that my job might go the way of the Dodo. I worry about the vendors I’ve contracted with for in-person programs this summer, how are they doing now? What the heck are they living on? I also worry that if, as is mostlikely, we won’t be able to have them come to our library they will insist that we have breached the contracts and expect to be paid out of a budget that has likely evaporated. I don’t know what will happen with all that, I suspect it is above my paygrade and something my Director will handle.
Focus on the positive bits: what is making me excited about Summer Reading? A demo of some cool software we might use to run our programs virtually. I could completely customize it for our teen patrons, give them the option to leave their thoughts on books they read, allow options for them to see what their friends are reading, (that they want to share) and add little mini games that can be unlocked as they read through the summer. I’m also excited about the Fairy Tale Writing Contest I’ll be running. I’m hoping big to get some submissions on that. Besides upcoming SRP May is national pet month so we’re having people submit art pieces, writing, photos etc of/about their pets. I was thinking of the whole thing as a community wide exhibit on our website, but I think the Director is leaning toward some sort of contest. I’m doing everything I can to connect with the teens and keep programming going, that’s all I can do so I might as well relax and let the rest go.
Everything is still up in the air. We’re all, all of us in the world, sort of holding our breath and waiting to see what happens next. There is no real notion of when we can leave isolation safely and the news out of the places in the world where restrictions have lifted or were never put in place is not good. Sweden is experiencing a very high death rate, other places tried to go back to normal and got savage resurgence of the virus. We need to be so careful no matter how impatient we are for some kind of normalcy.
We got some groceries delivered yesterday. Weirdness has been staved off another while. I’m not hearing from too many people right now, I seriously don’t know how people are doing, it feels weird. Also, I like to help people and it’s super hard to do right now.
My handsome hubby is kicking so much ass at his job right now. It helps that he is kind of the single point of failure and that much seems to have become clear to his boss at last. He’s finally getting some real recognition for what he does. He’s working so much it’s crazy. He’s exhausted. Now he’s talking about running a virtual RPG for the kids at my library… to make me look good. What did I ever do to deserve this amazing, wonderful guy? Seriously.
I pulled together some little prizes and got the word out as best I could about the next round of my “would you rather” card design contest. We’ll see if I can rustle up a few more entries this time. I’ve been brainstorming ideas, going to webinars about virtual programming, checking out other libraries to see what others are putting out there for teens. There isn’t a whole lot in our area. I think if I hit upon a good idea I will get a decent response.
Prizes I scrounged up from my stash of hidden wonders. I hope they will interest enough of the teens.
How much longer are things going to stay this way? No idea, no one can know, there is no safe day to come out of this that we can just pick. It sucks. I’m hearing that rural areas are starting to see spikes in covid 19 cases in the states without shelter in place orders. That’s scary. Services are thin in places like that and it is going to SUCK for those who get this thing. I just want to escape all the time now, just live in video games or whatever, I can’t, but I want to. I want to go hide in Ferelden where I can vent my anxiety on darkspawn and hang out with Alistair and let him tell me I’m pretty even when I’m covered in gore or I just slaughtered like 11 bandits or something. Or I could go hide in Skyrim and hunt down vampires, dragons, and giant spiders, while scraping up gold to make a pretty cool house out in the woods and adopting random orphans and pets. Mostly I actually just go coal mining and building in Minecraft. I breed vast flocks of chickens and run around dyeing sheep in a rainbow of hues so I can call them Pride Flock.
I watched a girl use boxed mac & cheese to make 3 different dishes and now I need ingredients so I can try out her recipes. I miss going to the store and picking out the things I wanted and needed. I like wandering the aisles and picking and choosing and comparing prices. I ordered a new journal today because my current one is almost full and I am relying heavily on it to keep track of all my classes and webinars and tracking my work etc. It was painful to have to choose one without handling 20 -40 and weighing my options when I could clearly see what my options actually are. I ordered one and I hope it’s the right size, with decent paper and all that. I mean, obviously I can make-do with whatever comes and it is the very definition of a first world problem. Gods, I must be so freaking spoiled. Honestly, there are people out there dying, people out there risking their lives trying to save lives, there are people who have real actual problems. I don’t mean to sound like I think my “problems” are such a big deal, I know they aren’t. I just miss the good parts of the way things were just a few weeks ago.
Time for me to get back to laundry, meal prep, cleaning, and knitting. How are you all handling the stress of confinement? How are things going for you and yours?
So, life continues, quarantine continues, the virus seems to be spreading slower so that’s good. Now we just need to stay inside for a really long time and try to keep everything from spiraling out of control again.
Keeping Busy: I’ve been working hard in online classes relating to my work. I’m learning so much about how I should have been doing my job all along making my anxiety PEAK but keeping me humble. We’ve been gaming. I started my GURPS game and my hubby continues to run Pathfinder. We’ve had a couple of Cards Against Humanity games online with friends and my husband is playing Axis & Allies online with his brother who’s quarantined hundreds of miles from us.
Family keeps being family: my mother continues to drive me nuts asking “when do you think you’ll go back to normal?” “Has hubby gone back to work yet?” Mom, WTF? On the first question: How the heck do I know when things will be anything like normal again??? And what is with the phrasing? Like this is some weird thing I’m doing… I just decided to stay inside for unknown reasons that affect only me or my family somehow? (OK Boomer.) Is she not getting what’s going on? Is she not staying inside too? I think she is because she claims to be going mad stuck with her husband playing scrabble and monopoly and making jigsaw puzzles. She’s baking up a storm too. She made herself 3 cakes for her birthday. I don’t know what that’s about if she isn’t giving them away or having people over or something. On the second question: What part of “Hubby doesn’t plan to leave the house till, conservatively September or later.” sounds like he might have gone back to work since our conversation 2 day ago? And was I unclear the dozen times I said “This virus will KILL him with his horrific asthma.”?
ART. I need to Art. I need to create. I want to knit, paint, I’ve been writing a little, I want to sew too, not that I’m good at it but I like making things. I need to get back on track with my Knitting through the Harry Potter knitting book at the very least.
Reconnection: I am connecting with friends more the last couple of weeks. We’re gaming online, holding virtual dinners together, skyping or whatever to see each other’s kids or pets. I connected with an amazing artist friend of mine just in time to get to buy her fantastic embroidered portrait of a plague doctor. Wow wow wow. It’s GORGEOUS. I think you can see more of her work by searching for “Tapestry of the Geek” on facebook and Etsy.
We’ve been holed up for quite a while now. We are very lucky in that both my husband and I can work from home so far. I’ve never had a job where that was possible, or a boss that would fight for staff to be able to do so, before. We’re also lucky that my daughter and son are able to continue their classes from home and hopefully get full credit for everything so they can graduate and/or advance. We’ve also been lucky enough to get a few orders of groceries through Instacart. I can’t tell you how disgusted I am in the people who are abusing Instacart drivers by offering big tips then revoking them. Those delivery drivers are risking their health and their lives and it is utterly cruel to steal from them like that.
Anyway, we’re very lucky, but we’re also stressed. Our house isn’t huge and having everyone home and not having friends over is wearing on us. I am sure you know what I mean. The underlying annoyances between the kids seem much bigger, it gets weirdly tense, my husband’s issues with the my daughters … there’s just no breaks, no nights off. He gets moody and tense. I sit here in the middle of it all feeling nervous and stressed. Good times. I don’t want to make it seem like things are bad, they aren’t, things are medium which is pretty good these days. We’re all able to game together and mostly keep things mellow, mostly.
I am trying and failing, so far, to get anything off the ground with the young adults from my library. I suggested gaming online and a virtual book club and got 1 response to each, not enough, so I am trying a quick, creative contest: design your own “Would you Rather” card. I sent the email 2 days ago and I have… 1 response so far. I’m really hoping I can get just a handful of entries. I would love to be able to tell my boss at least one program attempt was successful. Yeah, our library is so small and rural that 3-4 teens participating is considered successful. Maybe I will mail the contest rules to the school librarian so she can send the idea to a wider audience. Or I could actually send the info to my boss to post on the website. Gosh it’s fun having such a sluggish brain lately. I blame the pandemic. ~_^
my example card. sorry the image is so big and sideways I can’t find where to change that!
So many people are now working from home it’s astonishing. Most of what I’m hearing suggests that it’s working really well for people and a good deal for their employers because, despite fears of employees goofing off and very real distractions, people are finding they are more productive this way. I am dead-sure there are exceptions, total layabouts bilking bosses somewhere, but I haven’t heard from any of them. I’m getting tons done at home and my husband is accomplishing so much it’s absolutely staggering. Working from home seems to have revealed his super-powers. He’s amazing.
I normally work in a library serving the public face to face and running programming for teens and tweens. It’s fun. I help people find books, dvds, audiobooks, and the like, run craft workshops, host role-playing games, help folks with technology, order books for the collection, and so on. Now I’m working from home and not seeing anyone face to face at all. I’m taking webinars on how libraries can serve the public through this pandemic crisis, concocting ways to run some teen programs over the web, sending emails to the groups I run trying to check in with all the isolated, learning from home kids I’ve come to know and love, and I continue to work on Summer Reading hoping at least some of it will happen somehow. Will we be back working at the library by then? I don’t know. I do know I have ideas on how to run at least some of the programs I have planned through email, posts, or online chat platforms. Oh, and I order ebooks now! My boss used to handle it because it was a tiny little bit but now it’s half the budget.
So I broke down and got an ereader, got a Nook from Barnes and Noble. I’ve downloaded a couple of books onto it and I’m hoping I can sort out getting Libby/Overdrive onto it. That’s the library app where you can check out virtual books and it’s really cool. I have it on my phone but my phone is tiny, plus I want to learn how to do it so I can help patrons figure it out. I bought Serpent of Venice; by Christopher Moore. The first few pages are great. ^_^
Oh, and I won a physical book on goodreads.com an awesome site for readers. There are a lot of contests to win free books, I think I’ve won 3 or 4 over the years and it’s lovely. You can track your reading there if you like, stock a virtual bookshelf with books you own, books you’ve read, or books you want to read. You can post and read reviews and sometimes chat with authors. Yes, I am a huge book nerd.
this is the book I “won” in a free drawing. Can’t wait to read it.
How are you all staying sane while confined at home? Let me know in the comments.
Gen-Xer Remix 