Had a Good Idea for a Journal Entry
Jul. 12th, 2024 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anonymoose_au10:20pm: Earlier today...but do you think I can remember what is was now? LOL fail.
Oh wait, maybe it was about the GINORMOUS order file I had to upload into our Library Management System? Basically, the library doesn't order any items in May and June because of the end of financial year. I'm not sure if this is what other council's do, but probably. So yeah, for about two months no orders have been made, but finally the selectors got the go ahead so put their lists through.
Which lead to over one thousand titles being ordered! The Library Management System can't take that many in one upload, so I had to split the file. I didn't actually know how many items were on the list - because I'm not gonna count it manually, but I split the file into 100s (which is pretty much the limit of the LMS) and ended up with 11, so yeah more than a thousand.
What was weird though, was previously when we a large order file, it would time out when we tried to upload it, thus alerting us. This time though, no warning at all! I didn't even know it was an issue until one of the selectors messaged me wondering why some of the books she was putting holds on for patrons weren't showing up. Good thing she did, because it would have been a huge pain in the ass to figure it out from emails or whatever.
I'm happy to report that I've arranged to see Inside Out 2 with my friends, not this weekend, but next - this weekend I'm going down to Wollongong on Sunday with the parental units and will catch a train back (more train-ing) Monday morning to get to work in the afternoon. Which is also the day of my Yearly review thing, which I think I've got done, mostly. Fingers crossed it won't suck, those things are always a pain in the ass, basically it's checking to see if you're doing your job...the answer to which is...yes I am, except when I've got to screw around typing into the system about how I'm doing my job. LOL.
I'm hoping I can get some writing done this weekend, we'll be 2 weeks into July and I've done a grand total of zero fics for McFly July! Tsk! The fics don't need to be super long or anything and I think I've got a few ideas for the prompts, so bring it on.
It's past 10:30pm now, so I better get a move on, I want to do some stuff tomorrow morning so I don't want to oversleep.
Before that though...
The Friday Five
12/7/24
1. Are you good at fixing things? Hmmm...not sure to be honest, probably not, although I AM going to try and darn my favourite jumper, so I guess we'll see!
2. What kinds of things can you fix?
See above.
3. Is there anyone in your family who is good at fixing things?
Grandpa is, although at 93 he doesn't fix as much stuff as he used to, although he did fix the toilet lid at my parent's house a few months back and last year he was fixing the compost thing at his unit in the retirement village, not sure if he did end up fixing it, but he probably did.
4. Has anyone ever taught you how to fix things?
Nah, or if they offered I didn't take up the offer, probably a poor idea in retrospect.
5. What was the last thing that broke in your home?
The soap dish in my shower, it just fell off the pipe! I tried to put it back on, even waiting for the shower to cool down because I thought maybe that's why it wasn't going back on. But nope, when I tried again the thing broke! This spurred me to finally buy a new shower holder thingy though, it looks quite nice, although that does mean I needed to take off the shower holder that has a dolphin shape in it. That was kind of broken too though, so...
Although I'm reminded of one last thing, because of the headache yesterday, I went to bed on time for once and would you believe it? I missed an interview with Phil Ligget (aka "The Voice of Cycling"). Boo-urns what are the chances?
Mum recorded it though, so hopefully I'll get a chance to see it.
But for now, I'm off!
Oh wait, maybe it was about the GINORMOUS order file I had to upload into our Library Management System? Basically, the library doesn't order any items in May and June because of the end of financial year. I'm not sure if this is what other council's do, but probably. So yeah, for about two months no orders have been made, but finally the selectors got the go ahead so put their lists through.
Which lead to over one thousand titles being ordered! The Library Management System can't take that many in one upload, so I had to split the file. I didn't actually know how many items were on the list - because I'm not gonna count it manually, but I split the file into 100s (which is pretty much the limit of the LMS) and ended up with 11, so yeah more than a thousand.
What was weird though, was previously when we a large order file, it would time out when we tried to upload it, thus alerting us. This time though, no warning at all! I didn't even know it was an issue until one of the selectors messaged me wondering why some of the books she was putting holds on for patrons weren't showing up. Good thing she did, because it would have been a huge pain in the ass to figure it out from emails or whatever.
I'm happy to report that I've arranged to see Inside Out 2 with my friends, not this weekend, but next - this weekend I'm going down to Wollongong on Sunday with the parental units and will catch a train back (more train-ing) Monday morning to get to work in the afternoon. Which is also the day of my Yearly review thing, which I think I've got done, mostly. Fingers crossed it won't suck, those things are always a pain in the ass, basically it's checking to see if you're doing your job...the answer to which is...yes I am, except when I've got to screw around typing into the system about how I'm doing my job. LOL.
I'm hoping I can get some writing done this weekend, we'll be 2 weeks into July and I've done a grand total of zero fics for McFly July! Tsk! The fics don't need to be super long or anything and I think I've got a few ideas for the prompts, so bring it on.
It's past 10:30pm now, so I better get a move on, I want to do some stuff tomorrow morning so I don't want to oversleep.
Before that though...
The Friday Five
12/7/24
1. Are you good at fixing things? Hmmm...not sure to be honest, probably not, although I AM going to try and darn my favourite jumper, so I guess we'll see!
2. What kinds of things can you fix?
See above.
3. Is there anyone in your family who is good at fixing things?
Grandpa is, although at 93 he doesn't fix as much stuff as he used to, although he did fix the toilet lid at my parent's house a few months back and last year he was fixing the compost thing at his unit in the retirement village, not sure if he did end up fixing it, but he probably did.
4. Has anyone ever taught you how to fix things?
Nah, or if they offered I didn't take up the offer, probably a poor idea in retrospect.
5. What was the last thing that broke in your home?
The soap dish in my shower, it just fell off the pipe! I tried to put it back on, even waiting for the shower to cool down because I thought maybe that's why it wasn't going back on. But nope, when I tried again the thing broke! This spurred me to finally buy a new shower holder thingy though, it looks quite nice, although that does mean I needed to take off the shower holder that has a dolphin shape in it. That was kind of broken too though, so...
Although I'm reminded of one last thing, because of the headache yesterday, I went to bed on time for once and would you believe it? I missed an interview with Phil Ligget (aka "The Voice of Cycling"). Boo-urns what are the chances?
Mum recorded it though, so hopefully I'll get a chance to see it.
But for now, I'm off!
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