A customer the other day asked how long I'd been working at the library. When I replied, "Nine years," he exclaimed, "Oh! So you started when you were ten ( Read more... )

Man, 70ish, approaches the service desk: Well, hello! You don't look any older than when you where over there!
*pointing in the direction of our old building, which we moved out of 4 years ago*

Me: Why, thank you!

(he could have stopped there, but alas)

Man: Have you always looked like a child?
Me, at a loss for words: Um...I guess so!He was ( Read more... )

I puttered around the house in the morning and played Baldur's Gate until the midday sun was shining too bright through the window for me to see the monitor well enough. (Yes, I've started the game again for probably the fifth time. Somewhere along the way I always lose interest so I've never gotten to the end. However, I feel newly inspired, ( Read more... )

Yahoo, it's Wednesday so I'm off work. I'm feeling fairly productive already this morning. I've made some phonecalls, sent off a few emails, and I have plans to get the rent paid and tidy up the place a bit. Most impressive of all, I got up at 8:30! That's gotta be a first on my day off ( Read more... )

We didn't do anything really exciting for NYE. We decided to go out to dinner to the Timber Lodge Steakhouse, and of course ended up waiting a long while for a table. Jonas had a beer and we just waited around talking in the meantime. When we finally got called, the hostess girl who was to show us to our table took a quick glance at me and asked if ( Read more... )