Aaron the Librarian

Did I mention today is the last day before Fall Break?  Yuppers, it is. I’m told I don’t *have* to be back until Wednesday.  We’ll see if I can hold out that long… and I’m out de door… Sayonara!

Alrighty, did an open show-n-tell on how to work the Microdax MF Scanner (this is the tech we should have gotten at M[f]POW!).  Quick, easy, painless, and - dare I say it again - fun!

Forgot to mention, after I got back to Clinton (from Springfield, MA) I showed off my brandy new headlight and my ticket was fixed (well, sorta fixed, I have to wait a few months to not hear back , then all will be fine)

*Whew* managed _not_ to volunteer or get volunteered for anything.  Thankfully, since my plate are piling pretty high at the moment.

Went to the Access Queries session (which had good points, but I didn’t really pick up much new stuff - I need to really get into the documentation to get it - already new about inner and outer joins from long ago.  Should have gone to the circulation tricks session, but at least I got the handouts.

This is another fun bunch of people, hope to see a bunch again at EndUser.

Remembered I forgot to arange for hotel space, decided to zip over to my parents place after dinner (a mere 4 hour drive). Enroute to dinner, got pulled over by a nice police officer who informed me I had a headlight out (I was a padiddle according to an old college driving game - the driver’s-side headlight was out). Got a ticket for the officer’s troubles (my PA tag is so new it is not in the NY database yet (same with my new PA license), so I almost got arrested for his trouble too) as well as directions to the nearest parts store.

Fixed headlight - wow, I can see much better now! - missed dinner with all the f@rting around and drove the four hours anyway (got in at 11pm). Hung around with Dad for a goodly bit (Mom woke up long enough to say hi & chatt briefly) then took a three hour nap. Got up at oh dark early and boogaloo’d four hours back.

Wow,  learned about four super cool thingies to do with our web interface:

• Spell Check / Did you mean?
• More like this
• RSS feeds for new books (and by subjects if we want)
• er.. this was cool too, but I forgot what it is

Nice folks, only three PASSHE / KLN types were there (Mary Lou, Krista, and moiself)

Got back from Cali last Thursday morning, worked Th, Fr, Sa, Su, and just got out of my car after a 6 hour trip to Hamilton College, in Clinton NY *not Clinton College, in lower Manhattan like I thought I was going to* (that would have been a fun error to try to explain to my travel budget oversight folks).

Hey, I’m the Systems Librarian (so I oughta know a little about the system I admin) for an Endeavor Voyager installation.  So what better way to really get into it tahn go to the regional Users Group meeting.  Oh, wait, I’m on the cusp of two User Groups.  Which to choose?  The Regionals are two weeks apart, so I’ll go to the first one.  Endeavor Middle Atlantic users group.

*Poof* I’m here.