Lavender sky

[altivo]

Just watching the library start to clear out prior to closing time. Looking out the glass wall to the north, over the park and adjacent corn field, and the sky is lavender. Honest. Not even sunset yet, but must be some trick of the light and the density of cloud cover. Or I'm gone loopy and seeing things, which is always possible I guess.

Managed to get data imported into MySQL but the results are not yet satisfactory. Because Microsoft SQL Server exports the dates and booleans in a form not understood by MySQL, it looks as if I'll have to do some editing on the exported file first. Otherwise, it's looking hopeful. This time I can normalize the data and eliminate some redundant junk and unused fields too, since it's no longer being used by any code other than what I'm writing myself.

I really hate doing original cataloging for videos, but there's no one else to do it. It's worse when the video is a "gift" from someone we aren't supposed to offend and it's a homemade production to push a smarmy religious message. I so want to put subject headings on like "garbage films" and "timewaster videos."

Scheduled the first full week of May off, yay!

And in other news, folks going to FCN, have fun and stay safe.

Comments

[altivo.livejournal.com]

She's not willing to brush off personal friends or people who give money to the library, but she's definitely not a pansy. She was a high school teacher before she became a librarian. That is not a job for pansies or pussycats.

She is, however, a politician or a diplomat. I have no patience with this stuff, and she will pick her way through it to avoid causing damage in some unexpected place.

[silver-kiden.livejournal.com]

what about instituting a new policy, that says no homemade videos. something about copyright infringement.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

This is more like a self-published book. It's obviously amateurish, but they're trying to look professional. Wouldn't work.