As part of doing Thing 5, I must report that the subject of RSS feeds is still pretty murky to me, but I'm sure that exposure to Thing 6 will vastly improve everything! I guess if you're totally out of anything to do, then glancing over your "feed selections" could be entertaining, but it's nowhere as much fun as my usual day's activities. I'll share just one of my favorites with you today. My morning usually starts with one or both sets of the public entrance automatic double doors trying to close on patrons before they can escape the building, so I have to go reset them. Then, if somebody impatient wants out before they can both close & reopen for them automatically, they push open one of the doors & storm out, which means that they are then off-sinc and start to "eat" people again. Then, about 11:00, the school kids get out for lunch and come over here & start flipping the door control switches to "off" so everyone has to really push hard against the door hydraulics to get one side to open and then it tries to close on them.

Well, enough for today - I must attend to my desk duties. Join me on another day for more adventures - like, what I do when I find a kid (who isn't handicapped) popping wheelies in our public-use wheelchair outside the front door in the middle of the walkway. . .or, finding landscaping rocks inside the outside bookdrop. . .or . . . . .

Later!

My first blog

This is my first attempt to post something to my blog. Thinking about the 7 1/2 habits of lifelong learning, I guess my easiest habit is beginning with the end in mind. Often, that is the only thing that gives me the "will to carry on" - thinking ahead to how great it's going to be when I'm finally finished with something. The hardest habit for me is to have confidence in myself as a competent, effective learner - mostly because there is never enough time for habit 7 1/2 (playing) - and, either constant interruptions while I'm trying to learn something or a technical problem that stops me in my tracks and has to wait until another day to solve. I found the Charlotte/Mecklenburg tutorial helpful (except for the voice of the narrator, which was quite irritating after a while, so I turned the volume down and just read it instead). Well, I must return to my desk duties, so off I go.