Since my post yesterday was also a post from my Tumblr, which is apparently some kind of party foul, and since I am spending my morning in the children's room which means I am spending the morning alone at a computer, I thought I would try to write an actual blog post ( Read more... )

I don't know what it is, possibly the upstairs toilet that overflowed yesterday and sent nasty toilet water through the light fixtures, but I just don't know how much longer I can stay in this motherfucking job. I know I told myself that I would stay for a minimum of two years for resume purposes, but that seems more and more difficult each day ( Read more... )

On the subway this morning a guy decided to treat everyone to a lengthy one-man rendition of some play or other that seemed mostly to deal with the difficulties of getting daffodils to grow on a certain side of a hill because of all the lyme in the soil. Such was his dramatic training that he read aloud all the stage directions but skipped right ( Read more... )

I arrived at work today 20 minutes early, thinking maybe I'd go grab a donut or muffin and read the newspaper and have a nice leisurely morning, but the first words out of the first person I saw upon walking into the building were "Mr. Helling everybody called out, you need to call for help." So I tried to call the big boss to have him send some ( Read more... )

Onion article possibly funny only to people with a Kansas City connection: "KANSAS CITY, MO-After a long argument with his wife, roofer Frank Darby grabbed his shotgun and stormed out of the house, determined to find and kill his doppelgänger that lives across the river in Kansas City, Kansas ( Read more... )

A patron at 58th St. the other day asked me if our computers at Aguilar could open Quicktime files, so I told him to email me his video and I would try it. It was a video of him walking on a contraption that was basically a treadmill with a wheel at each corner, hooked up so that the wheels turned when you walked on the treadmill. The patron ( Read more... )

So the other day at the 125th St. library, which is a stone's throw from my library, somebody came in, walked up to one of the clerks, and cut his face open with a knife. This was evidently the result of some kind of fight the two had been in before at some club. I find this a little disconcerting. We've told the administration that we could use ( Read more... )

Today the big news in New York is that lower Manhattan smells really bad. Evidently some gas main in Chelsea or somewhere is broken and it is stinking all the way to New Jersey ( Read more... )

So 24 hours after Lloyd's misadventures with his Yahoo password (see previous post), he returns, once again locked out of his Yahoo email account. This time he's super pissed off because he's "been down at the public library for an hour and a half and those chuckleheads couldn't do anything," and each time I make a suggestion he interrupts me with ( Read more... )

Today I got asked one of the stereotypical dumb reference questions: "I can't remember the password to my Yahoo mail account. Do you have it ( Read more... )