chatter from the Library Monkey

between the books

I have found myself at the Toledo Library again…. I would like to have my own computer to write this on, and post, but posting would be a bonus. I am not so comfortable writing on an unknown computer, but it is hardly impossible. But it is the little things like the auto-formating that always makes an ‘I’ a capital.

The Mighty Tigers have lost two games to Kansas since I have been here, the second being the one I was at yesterday…. Nate Robertson pitched well, but lost and Curtis Granderson made an amazing play in center field. (I didn’t bring all the link to players, so I will not be linking thoses.)  Well they are still in first place.

Hoping to see a Mudhens game tomorrow — on Thursday they will be playing againt Curt Schilling. So I have the choice of watching Boston against Cleveland — on the way home — or staying and watching Schilling. I will have to check with my friends.

Weather is nice here, though it rain most the way here. It’s funny—- I always thought the weather that the hometown got was just a day after what Toledo go. That would be wrong. Hometown — and all the Adirondacks — has had a lot of rain, but the Toledo area has been experiencing a drought.

I am always amazed at how popular the library computers are. I guess I expect kids to be here, doing what they can’t do at home or don’t want to do at home (looking at personals). I guess I never expect to see so many adults to be here. Perhaps doing what they don’t want to do at home (looking at personals).

I get the sense that there are a lot of teenagers sitting across from each other doing similar things on the itner net. Like either playing games (where they might be playing with each other) and of course personals.

I need to make an effort to exercise today. After the long trip here my body is often stiff, as if I did a really big work out. I have my bike, though I am always afraid to ride on the roads here and I can do pushups anywhere.

I gues the hardest thing about the library to me is the air conditioning that is right over the computers. It is a bit cool, but just the draft on me is annoying. Another reason it would be nice to have my own computer to type on, then I couldjust come here and up load. That would help with the time issue, I’m down to 34 minutes of typing left.

It’s amazing how little I have to say. I am tired and will likely head back for a nap on the living room floor so I can breathe in a ton of cat hair. I have no play to go back, but I will likely leave before Friday.

One of the things that I end up doing when I am a — this library and in Toledo in general — is buy some books. Even if they are books I plan to read, in the back of my mind I am thinking of putting them in my library. I like knowing who the kids are and the fact that I can buy books that I know certain students will read. I should call my school see if any of my book orders have come in.

Now that I am down to 15 minutes I guess I better move on.

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