The hurrieder I go

[altivo]

...the behinder I get.

That's how it felt today anyway.

Why does it take five hours to run a map update on a Garmin GPS unit?

Expecting a slow day, I started the update on my desktop machine at work this morning. Of course two large book shipmets arrived immediately after that and I had to scrounge another machine to do cataloging work on.

Meanwhile Gary was baking cookies. All day! That's a heckuva lot of cookies. Most will be given away, but still...

Unseasonably warm, all the snow is gone. Chances of more by Christmas seem slim, though it is supposed to get unpleasantly cold again by tomorrow.

Just about all the shopping that will get done has been done. Hope the stuff that I ordered will arrive in time. One more trip needed, but shouldn't be too difficult. But for now, to bed, I think.

Oh, one other interesting thing. A book requested through interlibrary loan arrived today. Scott Trostel's history of the Detroit Toledo & Ironton Railroad, supplied by Indiana State University and not required back until the end of January. Fascinating, almost 400 pages of text and photographs telling how a small railroad in a limited territory was nonetheless an innovator and leader in many respects, and particularly so under the administration of Henry Ford (who ran it in the 1920s.) Looking forward to reading most of it if not all.

Comments

[baphnedia]

I do like your inference, "The more one hurries, the less they get done." Or somesuch. :) I find it to be very true.

[altivo]

Yep, that was the message. Though sometimes it also means that the more you do, the more you're asked to do.

[moonhare]

Interlibrary Loan is one of those often overlooked benefits of the public library. Glad you were able to get the book!

[altivo]

I'm glad too. It was published in 1988 or so, and is scarce enough that used copies are running about $75. While I'm not unwilling to pay that much for a book I really want, I'd rather be sure I want it that badly, and this lets me decide. Four holding libraries declined to send it for the usual "too expensive" or "too rare" reasons, but my last choice (because I thought them least likely to send) came through and mailed it to me.