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Trying to get back into work mode.

Ya ever notice I tend to blog more when I'm depressed?

I'm not depressed today- I just saw an article on a genre of blog and thought to m'self, "Hey! I am being a bad blog owner."

Let's fix that.

What's new 'round here? Hmm. Well, for one, I had a narrow escape in my job lately.

I do not drive... and it says in our employee manual that all employees must have a "valid [State]'s driver's license."
UNFAIR!
SO I just ignored it. It's not like I drive in the day-to-day course of my job, and I actually walk to/fro work sometimes, so what's the big deal?

Well, they called me on it.
They "temporarily" transferred me to another branch about a half hour (over the interstate) drive away.
Grrrr....

However, with the assistance of friends and family, I was able to get back and forth for the two weeks.
Hooray.

But I'm not doing it again, mind you. Bah, humbug to that. They'll have to fire me.

BTW- We're weeding the stacks at the library- I'm actually using a dolly-handcart to wheel off the weeded books from my section of the stacks. You see, books that haven't been checked out since 1999 are being submitted to the Branch Manager for inspection. If we sorely need that book in the system, it goes back onto the shelf. If not, it gets withdrawn from the POLARIS system, discard-statused, and given to the Friends for their booksale.

Next up- Mission: SPACE at EPCOT.

ROCKS!!!!!!! OH, man, it is so very very very cool. I now know how a blood sample feels after it has been in the centrifuge.

WHEEEEEEEEEEE

Mr. BAM gave me some pointers before I went off to ride it: look straight ahead, don't turn your head to the side, and don't close your eyes.
Check, check, and so very check.

I was the Commander in my Pod. I pushed my lighted buttons when Mission Control told me to do so and whoooooo that was fun.

But I don't think I could ride it more than once a day. I did have a headache that evening and the next day. And I wouldn't recommend it if "Body Wars" or "Star Tours" makes you ill.

BLAST! is stopping over in New Orleans for a while in October and I am going to go see them. They were fun in CA's Hyperion Theater and I'm anxious to see the whole show. Jaclyn and 'Nette want to go, too- and I hope other people decide to see the fun.

Obligatory Barrage update here:

1. Wish they would go to New Orleans, dangit.

2. Lost opportunity to go to Naples, FL for that show due to leave restrictions at work, so am banking on Dallas show.

3. Matt McD is back in the show- WHOO-HOO!!!!!!!

4. WHY WON'T THEY BOOK IN NEW ORLEANS??????

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