A tale of two libraries
So I haven't updated for quite some.
This week, the major library downtown finally opened back up after a season long strike. They gave until sometime next week, originally, as a grace period for returns, before extending it to early November.
After sitting on an entire box of books for the past four months, I just wanted to drop all the ones I didn't need to scan or reference something from straightaway, so I did this first thing heading out this afternoon.
Turns out I should have waited until tomorrow, because this was also the last day of another library system's book sale, which I got back from dropping off at downtown just slightly too late for, and kicked myself for missing.
Not only would I have liked to support that library in some way other than by incurring overdue fines, I'd left a book on the table during their last sale which I wanted, and wanted to see if it would be there this time around for me to buy.
And as it turns out, they were giving the multilingual books away for free, and I really kicked myself after learning that.
A little under half an hour too late, which could have been entirely avoided if I'd just made them my first trip (though considering the number of books I had to drop off downtown, that would have been unwieldy) or even left home an hour earlier, which I certainly could have if I weren't lazy and wanted to finish up some stuff and eat breakfast before leaving, or just plain checked their website to see what the actual sale times were.
I'd assumed that since it was a 3-day sale, it would happen Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, as are the usual times for the other libraries to hold their booksales, and I could go on Sunday if I got there too late today.
In any case, it seems they may or may not have still had books left over and they apparently hold this twice a year, so perhaps sometime in March I'll be able to pick up that book I wanted that no one else seemed to last time around, or in the meantime whoever may have gotten it got bored with it and donated it back to the booksale either there or elsewhere.
Today wasn't entirely wasted, though. Unusually for the increasing lateness of the local service, I made all my connections on time and didn't have to spend ages waiting for the next bus, so I was able to complete my rounds and get home early.
And also, I helped a guy out on the outbound bus, who was looking for a historical section of the downtown area which is fairly easy to miss.
I gave him one of those free tourist maps that they have of the city and he was quite grateful.
While it was really nice to have helped him, I still can't help but wish I'd either taken the earlier bus or the other route, which would have missed him, but would have made it to the library booksale on time.
This week, the major library downtown finally opened back up after a season long strike. They gave until sometime next week, originally, as a grace period for returns, before extending it to early November.
After sitting on an entire box of books for the past four months, I just wanted to drop all the ones I didn't need to scan or reference something from straightaway, so I did this first thing heading out this afternoon.
Turns out I should have waited until tomorrow, because this was also the last day of another library system's book sale, which I got back from dropping off at downtown just slightly too late for, and kicked myself for missing.
Not only would I have liked to support that library in some way other than by incurring overdue fines, I'd left a book on the table during their last sale which I wanted, and wanted to see if it would be there this time around for me to buy.
And as it turns out, they were giving the multilingual books away for free, and I really kicked myself after learning that.
A little under half an hour too late, which could have been entirely avoided if I'd just made them my first trip (though considering the number of books I had to drop off downtown, that would have been unwieldy) or even left home an hour earlier, which I certainly could have if I weren't lazy and wanted to finish up some stuff and eat breakfast before leaving, or just plain checked their website to see what the actual sale times were.
I'd assumed that since it was a 3-day sale, it would happen Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, as are the usual times for the other libraries to hold their booksales, and I could go on Sunday if I got there too late today.
In any case, it seems they may or may not have still had books left over and they apparently hold this twice a year, so perhaps sometime in March I'll be able to pick up that book I wanted that no one else seemed to last time around, or in the meantime whoever may have gotten it got bored with it and donated it back to the booksale either there or elsewhere.
Today wasn't entirely wasted, though. Unusually for the increasing lateness of the local service, I made all my connections on time and didn't have to spend ages waiting for the next bus, so I was able to complete my rounds and get home early.
And also, I helped a guy out on the outbound bus, who was looking for a historical section of the downtown area which is fairly easy to miss.
I gave him one of those free tourist maps that they have of the city and he was quite grateful.
While it was really nice to have helped him, I still can't help but wish I'd either taken the earlier bus or the other route, which would have missed him, but would have made it to the library booksale on time.
posted by Alexander the Drake at 5:26 pm
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