Geekery and avoidance behaviors

Today, as you probably know, was my half day at work. Normally at least two other folks are there at the same time I am, even though the library is closed to the public. It's our time to make adjustments to equipment, clean things, rearrange furniture, change lightbulbs, and whatever else might be disruptive during open hours. I mostly use it for computer network stuff, like running backups and doing software patches or upgrades. Not today though. I was the only one there. I processed the interlibrary loan list, pulling books from the shelf and labeling them for delivery, because the delivery van comes to us pretty early in the morning. Then I sat down at my desk to start on some cataloging work. And the phone started ringing. And ringing, and ringing. It seemed like every time I'd hang up, it would ring again. Many were calls for the director, who is usually there on Thursday but wasn't today because she had a meeting elsewhere. I was tempted to quit answering, but that's not a good idea because the call could just as well be the mayor's office or the police department or someone else with something actually important. Or it could be the boss herself. ;p

It was nearly a wasted morning. When the phone would quiet for five minutes, then the back doorbell would go off for a delivery. Mail, UPS, bottled water, you name it and it was delivered this morning. Good thing I didn't have anything really critical to get done.

Came home, fed the dogs, put Tess out in the pasture in spite of a gloomy sky and forecasts of possible rain (it didn't.) Cleaned stalls, filled water buckets, still had some time before evening feeding and bringing Tess in. Should have worked on hemming up those towels, but instead I geeked out solving a small problem I've had with my CP/M notebook computer for several years.

( Computer geekery behind cut )