Liberries and such

I stopped by my local branch library on my way home from work today, as they were having an orientation session regarding the new website. I found out about it this morning via an email from the Friends of the Library. I hadn't seen any flyers for it when I was there yesterday (and I always check the literature rack) nor was there any announcement in the neighborhood newspaper. All of which may explain why I was the only person there! So I had a private hands-on tutoring session. ;-)) I griped about not being notified when my holds came in, made a couple of suggestions, touted LibraryThing, and discovered that their events calendar has a link that allows you to download info about an event to your personal calendar (iCal, in my case, but also Outlook, GoogleCalendar, etc.) which is a very nice feature.

I also stopped at Target to buy a new hair dryer. Day before yesterday, as I was drying my hair, sparks started flying! Fortunately, nothing caught fire, but, as you can imagine, that dryer was binned immediately! I really don't need that sort of excitement at 6:00 a.m.

And in weather irony, it's the first day of spring and there's a winter storm watch.