Libspryte

Rex Libris I, Librarian

2008-03-14T21:30:37Z

The following review is from Library Journal on Rex Libris Volume 1. I, Librarian:
Welcome to the Middleton Public Library, where the patrons are not always human, the telluric energy of the local ley point brings fictional characters to life, and the librarians are always heavily armed. Long-lived Head Librarian Rex Libris, whose first library job was at Alexandria, is a member of the Ordo Bibliotheca, which throughout history has protected human knowledge from menaces both natural and supernatural. His colleagues include the ancient witch Circe, the megalomaniacal talking bird Simonides, and newcomer Hypatia, already bored with circ desk work and yearning for action. Here, Rex travels to Benzine V, planet of sentient snowmen, to retrieve an overdue copy of the Principia Mathematica from the Supreme Warlord Vaglox. Rather than play it straight, Turner complicates this inventive romp by turning it into a comic-within-a-comic, complete with discussions between Rex and his publisher on storytelling. Turner's black-and-white artwork here is more realism-based than his highly abstract work in Nil: A Land Beyond Belief (LJ 9/15/04) but still quite angular and cartoony. Rex is already an icon for librarians on the order of Buffy's Giles or Read or Die's Yomiko Readman, but the lay public will enjoy his adventures as well; recommended for mid-teens and up.—S.R.

http://tinyurl.com/2y6guo

Sounds like an excellent RPG to me!

Valentines Day Craft at BUR

2008-01-07T21:17:59Z

The Valentines Day kids craft for the library this year will be friendship bracelets with bead messages like "Be Mine" and "Be My Valentines" and "Happy Valentines"!

Fun, fun, fun.

We have hemp string for the bracelets..I wish the beads were equally eco. I think they are the ones made from recycled plastic but I'm not sure.

My 50 Book Challenge...so far!!

2007-12-21T01:07:01Z

All year long I've been involved in an online reading exercise for fun called "The 50 book challenge!" The goal is to encourage reading and to challenge readers to expand their literary tastes into areas that they might not normally explore. They have to read 50 books in a year and the blog site encourages readers to share little blurbs and opinions about the books they've read.

The year is almost over and of course the deadline is fast approaching. I am reading at a furious pace to finish the remaining few books before the years end!!!

My own selection criteria for books was this:
-Must not be a graphic fiction of fewer than 300 pages.
-Must be appropriate for ages 10+.
-Must be a work of some length (150+ pages regular text).

Here is the list of some of books I read this year:
1-So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane.
2-Dragon Prince by Vicki Blum. (Silver birch nominee)
3-The Bonemender by Holly Bennett. (White pine nominee)
5-Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf.
6-Pathways to Bliss Joseph Campbell.
8-Evolutionary Witchcraft. T. Thorn Coyle.
9-Winter Rose Patricia A McKillip.
10-Kiss of Shadows Laurell K. Hamilton.
11-River of Gods Ian Macdonald.
12-Creative Storytelling: Choosing, Inventing, & Sharing Tales for Children by Jack Maguire.
13-Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson.
15-Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.
16-Fearless Loving by Rhonda Britten.
19-Introduction to Buddhism by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
20-The Complete Concrete Paul Chadwick.
21-How to Solve Our Human Problems by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
22-Loving What is by Byron Katie.
23-Mazes & Labyrinths: Their History & Development by W.H. Matthews.
24-In the Mood by Paul R. Robbins.
25-Library: An Unquiet history. Matthew Battles.
26-Tropic of Cancer by Arthur Miller.
27-How to Mend Your Broken Heart by Paul Mckenna Ph.D and Hugh Willbourn Ph.D.
28-Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven stages of Power and Healing by Caroline Myss Ph.D.
29-Book Crush by Nancy Pearl.
30-Coping with Romantic Breakup by Allen J. Ottens Ph.D.
31-Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rose of Raunch culture by Ariel Levy.
32-The Four Agreements: A practical guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz.
33-No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog. by Margaret Mason.
34-Talking to Fairies: What they are, where to find them and how they can help! by Sheila Jeffries.
36-The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman.
37-Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, consciousness and creativity. by David Lynch.
38-Thieves world: Book One by Robert Aspirin and Lynn Abbey.
39-Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker.
40-Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress by Shelley Mezzanoble.
41-Thieves world: Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn edited by Robert Aspirin and Lynn Abbey.
42-Healing with the Chakra Energy System by John Cross.
44-Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton.
45-The Sign of the Shapeshifter by Dale Donovan and Linda Johns.
46-The Warrior's Daughter by Holly Bennett. (White Pine nominee)

I think I'm going to do it again in the coming year ;) (If I survive!!)

Only 4 books to go!! Wish me luck!!!!

Vocational Guidance Video: The Librarian

2007-10-26T13:04:24Z

[scoffed from sexxylibrarians]

http://www.archive.org/details/Libraria1947

RSS/Pageflakes weirdness?

2007-10-25T17:42:47Z

[cross posted everywhere]
My Online news feed aggregator is acting weird. Before you say the obvious yes I have done the following:

I have made sure all links are valid.

I have reloaded and marked all Feeds as "Read".

Most mainstream feeds are working swell and Library link of the Day, Librarian Avengers, Booklust, the LitBlog Co-op are all fine. Hmmmm.

All my LJ feeds seem to be behaving weirdly so does Beatrix, ArtsJournal and a couple smaller blogs.

I am using Pageflakes and their internal RSS reader. It's a bit slower but versatile and visual. It's also easier to use and I can make it pretty and pink :)

Is Pageflakes being flakey for anyone else?

Anyone have any advice?

DEwey/LC on the Go!

2007-10-05T14:56:17Z

[cross-posted in library_grrls and elsewhere]
I'm such a geek.
Do any of my computing or library geek friends know of a simple Dewey/LC table that I can down load and keep handy for use with a Palm OS?

I have an old Palm that I have repurposed as a e-book reader and hopefully now a portable Dewey table (it shouldn't take much space if it's a simple text+ based file).

I don't need it to catalogue or identify MARC details (like some of the programs available) just a simple Dewey/LC table structure down to say the 10's is fine.

I know a simple database could do this. I just don't have time to build it.

My first Havenwood Storytime of the season!

2007-10-04T22:12:54Z

I'm back at Havenwood for another school year and a new class of Preschool students.

Here are the books and stories I plan on telling and the songs.

Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney. http://tinyurl.com/ywxbrq

This one I did at the branch this summer for the drop-in storytime and I performed it with drums and shakers. It was a big hit.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems. http://tinyurl.com/2d8s95

This is an interactive story in where I like to role-play the pigeon who is pleasding, begging, crying and whining to drive the bus after the bus driver leaves. The children shout "NO!" everytime the pigeon asks. His pleas get more and more desperate and humorous. Mo Willems is a genius and one of my favs.

Fantastic Daisy Articoke by Quentin Blake. http://tinyurl.com/26lxme

A silly rhyming story.

Song: Still undecided...

All Aboard the Dinotrain! by Deb Lund. http://tinyurl.com/yqyddb

Also a funny rhyming tale with a characterful train crew.

Song: I am H.A.P.P.Y.

The classic closing song I usually do.

This months book display

2007-10-04T20:01:58Z

I chose Chick Lit, next time will do "Deepest Africa" novels about Africa.

a strike through means it's been done.
1) Adoption (The Patron Saint of Liars, The Crossley Baby, The Lucky gourd shop)
2) Africa (Out of Africa, The Lost world of the Kalahari)
3) Animals are the stars! (Life of Pi, Animal Farm)
4) The Bronte sisters (Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The tenant of Wildfield hall)
5) Child prodigies (Searching for Bobby Fisher,
6) The Revolutionary Era (The Sharpe novels, Master and Commander)
7) Fractured fairy tales (Gregory Macguire etc.)
8) Books about books or the love of books
9) Teen love
10) Fishing Stories (The Valley of Light etc.)
11) Gender benders
12) Digging up the past books about archaeology
13) Deepest India
14) Books with an Italian flavour
15) Gen X/Slacker fic (J Pod, A Heartbr. work of Staggering Genius, High Fidelity)
16) Books about librarians (The Archivist, The case of the Missing Books)
17) Lesbian and Gay (Oranges are not the only fruit, Lucky in the Corner,
18) Space Operas
19) Crime solving grannies (Agatha Christie, Agatha Raisin and so many more..)
20) Cooking up a good mystery, murder with food and cooking
21) The World wars (The Wars, Blood Winter, Over There etc….)
22) Science and Scientists
23) Sisters
24) The Sixties
25) Chinese voices
26) Brave Heroines
27) ~~Chick Lit (Bridgett Jones Diary, Six Weeks to Toxic, Helen Fileding books)~~
28) Marriage Lit
29) Fine art Fiction
30) Cuba
31) Elvis is the King
32) Eco-fiction
33) The Cold war
34) Dinosaurs and Lost worlds
35) Psychology and psychiatrists
36) Stories of the sea
37) King Arthur (Morte d’Arthur, Sword at Sunset, The Crystal cave, Uther etc…)
38) Mother’s and Daughters
39) Doctors and Physicians
40) Irish Fiction
41) Lady Travellers
42) Robots and Mechanical men (Frankenstein, I Robot)
43) Mexican Fiction
44) 9/11
45) Primates and Humans
46) Magical Realms
47) Russian Flavour
48) Sports stories
49) Truly sad tales
50) Railroads
51) Fiction about Real people
52) Vietnam and the war
53) Stories about teachers
54) Music and Musicians
55) New Orleans
56) Bird Brained books about birds
57) Boys coming of age (Huckleberry Finn, Tuck Everlasting)
58) Girls coming of age
59) Gothic tales
60) Families in trouble
61) Grissly Horror
62) Just a bit of Magic
63) Civil Rights fights
64) The Seventies
65) Snowbird Fiction
66) Small-town life
67) The Roaring Twenties
68) Changing Bodies
69) Cheating husbands and wayward wives
70) Funny Fiction
71) Southern U.S. Fiction
72) Time travel
73) Poets
74) Strange catastrophies and mysterious apocalypses (Oryx and Crake)
75) Legal Fiction
76) The Ancient world (Hippopotamus Marsh, Year of the Hyena’s)
77) Toronto life
78) Genetic alteration
79) Black Canadian writers
80) Cats
81) Growing old
82) Chilly locales
83) Spy novels
84) Dogs (King, As Good as it gets, Marley and Me, Dogs Dreams and Men etc…)
85) Ghost stories
86) The Civil War
87) College life
88) Japanese Fiction
89) Political happenings
90) Victorian times
91) Based on a true adventure!
92) International crime
93) Friends are forever
94) Dragons
95) Historical fiction
96) Painters and Artists (Girl with a Pearl earring style)
97) What if? Fiction about history and what if things were different
98) Asian North Americans
99) Fish and scaly friends
100) Technology is not our friend
101) Alien worlds

Many of these are from my own head, my fellow co-worker's ideas or come from Reader's Advisory websites of Nancy Pearl's recommendations for genre fiction.

Sample day continued.

2007-10-03T23:15:52Z

2:20 Still off desk so I looked up the camp song Catalina Magdalena Hoppensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan to learn for storytime. Gave up after ten minutes of trying to find the tune (not just the words).

2:39 Looked at other materials and reviewed them for next weeks storytime. Found a song and decided to also do H.A.P.P.Y. again (a trademark song).

2:45 Promoted the Queer Xposure event on my LJ (for friends interest) and added it to my calendar. Thought about emailing TBN and other places about the event (closer to the date would be more effective I think).

3:00 On the floor again!

3:12 Had a talk with a youth patron about Dragon ball, Ranma, Drawing Manga,Hikaru no Go and Full metal Alchemist.

3:21 Slow period so I worked on my Teen graphic fiction workshop wiki and visit Library Link of the Day (a common routine that usually gets some interesting or humorous stories or anecdotes).

3:42 Helped a patron with a question about Robert Louis Stevenson. (I wasn't even on reference but we all help out!)

4:01 The desk picks up a bit. I show a senior how to open an e-mail account and use e-mail. Then make new library cards for some youth and some new comers.

4:25 Foiled some youth and their change making chocolate fund raising scheme.

4:25 Read my work e-mail spent time thinking about the 101 book display ideas e-mail I wrote in response to my manager.

All this doesn't even include the hundreds of regular customer service exchanges, the check-in and check-out duties regularly performed and mint card payments and other transactions.

Let it never be said that public library workers don't get anything done in a day.

Phew!!!

A Sample Day at My work.

2007-10-03T17:29:52Z

For those dying to know what I do here is a sample day at work.

8:50 I'm the first here so I open the branch and do the typical duties of computers, hold lists and lights. Ms. L arrives soon after and helps me with the above as well. She is fast and super helpful and reminds me of many things when I forget them. I am less a "specifics of process" person and more of a general abstract thinker so it's good to have someone pick out details for you.

9:53 Check my Gmail and search to see if the particular Librarian lists I want to ask questions on are still active.

10:00 Opened the doors to the library

10:15 Tranship arrives

10:19 Put a hold on the World without Us cause it sounds appealing to my eco-politik. It's finiding books like this in the tranship that really make me enthusiastic about unpacking boxes even when the work is labourious.

10:50 Ms. L, the volunteer and I finish the tranship.

11:15 Break. I check G-mail, Livejournal and Facebook. I accept a bunch of invites.

11:35 I type out an e-mail to all regarding a holds matter and something that might confuse people if they aren't careful.

11:35 Start AV holds.

11:46 Assist Ms. A on finding print materials on the BMI (Body Mass Index) for a patron.

12:20 Have a fascinating discussion with a young patron about cats, bumblebees and pumpkin costumes. Yay!!!

12:26 Ponder if there is another way to do holds that means less paper?

12:40 Finish the AV holds (77 items roughly).

12:50 Assist Ms. A on finding periodicals in the OPAC.

12:56 Call a patron who left a CD-R of their own behind in returned material. Arrange for them to pick it up.

1:00 Lunch. I check g-mail, respond to invites, Livejournal (post this) and Facebook. I strap my Mp3 player on and bop to my own musak today. I finally get to eat my beloved Tuna sandwiches with onion and cucumber.

Havenwood storytimes

2007-09-17T18:24:50Z

Yay!! I just arranged scheduled all my Havenwood storytimes from October til January.

Article on Gaming in libraries

2007-08-24T21:32:08Z

Here is a link farm to a bunch of articles on gaming on libraries (now considered a Hot topic!) http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/a-quick-guide-to-gaming-in-libraries/

March Break programming

2007-08-24T14:49:11Z

So it looks that coming March break I will be super busy!

Tuesday the 11th of March I will be doing my Pirate Adventure (the one where kids look for treasure and clues among the stacks) workshop for South Common Branch.

Wednesday March 12th is an illustrated storytime (like the one I didn't get to do at KG _grumble

and the Thursday the 13th will be my Graphic Fiction for teens workshop at Central branch...busy, busy!

Book Crush

2007-08-20T18:28:03Z

My holds copy of Nancy Pearl's Book Crush just came in Yay!!!! Time to commit it to memory.

The Burnhamthorpe Theatre

2007-08-18T18:50:01Z

My Library is home to the Burnhamthorpe Library Theatre. http://www.mississaugatheatre.ca/burnhamthorpe.htm

During the year and especually now during the busy season they put on quite a few small community theatre and small theatre company shows. Most of the actors are students or budding young talents.

A children's theatre company also does some shows as well here called Cow over the Moon productions. http://cowovermoon.ca/web/news/index.php

The theatre has 201 seats and is also used for large community and ethnic events which are relivant to this local community.

I took drama throughout high school up to the OAC level (they still had OAC when I was in school). I enjoy theatre quite a bit. Yet I have only ever seen one show here even though I work here daily. The shows are cheap as can be most of the time and I believe in community support for this sorta thing. I think I will try to catch a couple more this year.

Just a 411 on a bit more of where I work.

Games Night August 30th

2007-08-15T19:55:37Z

[cross posted everywhere]
Burnhampthorpe Library Games Night. Thursday August 30th!
We hold it between 6 and 8 ish.

We are at:
Burnhamthorpe Public Library
1350 Burnhamthorpe Rd E (corner of Dixie and Burnhamthorpe Roads)
Mississauga ON L4Y 3V9
905-615-4635

We have tons of games available and will have roughly the same selection every month. It's a bit of a way for people in downtown T.O. but those in the West end can take the Route 26 from Islington (it takes about 20 minutes). I run Games Night myself but will switch off with others here at the branch occasionally. We are looking for interested volunteers who can host once a month.

I am an experienced gamer who wants to bring gamers new and old together for a night of fun at the library to attract people and make the library a fun and exciting place to gather again!

Last month we had a record breaking 15 players.

Ages vary there are usualy a few adults or teens and in rare cases they are the majority. The young people seem to be growing in numbers so get ready for bedlam!

An alphebetical listing of games:
-Alhambra (with optional Gates of Alhambra expansion)
-Apples to Apples
-Chess and Checkers
-CSI: The Boardgame
-Decks of Cards
-Fluxx
-The Hobbit (The version by Fantasy Flight)
-FlipQuest
-Lord of the Rings-The Confrontation
-Lord of the Rings (This version also by Fantasy Flight)
-Lord of the Rings Risk
-Monopoly-Star Wars
-Munchkin 1,2 and 3
-Risk
-Risk 2210
-Scrabble
-Settlers of Catan
-Sword & Skull
-Super Scrabble
-Talisman (3rd edition)
-Trivial pursuit
-Zombies (1,2 and 3 expansions)

If you have young ones to look after or coming with you we have a few games they can play as well like:
-Calling all Care bears
-Candyland
-Guess Who?
-Harry Potter Trivia Game
-Trivial Pursuit for Kids (Nickelodeon edition)

If you have a request for a game I may own it. Post it here and I will bring it along. Bring your games along as well.

CCG Update: We have a few Yu-Gi-Oh! fans looking for games and I have had a suggestion that we could start Magic the Gathering games if we get enough interest. I have a whack of cards I can keep on hand.

Just Added!~ We now have a copy of Spank the Monkey available this is a really fun card game for up to 4 players.

Games Nights are the last Thursday of every month.

Venezuela's Book Mules!

2007-08-10T20:55:53Z

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6929404.stm

E-Book Readers

2007-08-10T15:06:45Z

[cross posted elsewhere]
Anyone have any experience with e-book readers and specifically e-book readers which enable larger text so I'm not squinting like mad to read the text? Also that aren't the size of a freakin' textbook? Any suggestions? brands or stories of woe or weel?

Norse times crafts at the library!

2007-08-08T20:34:11Z

Today Mr. J and I made an outline for a norse runes workshop where kids make a rune tablet on a block of wood with either a) Their Name in Ruic alphabet or b) a combination of Power runes!

My sample came out rockin'! Tomorrow at 2pm and part of the Lost worlds summer program! For kids Ages 6+

Yo, Yo! Tonight is Games Night Boyz and Grrlz!

2007-07-26T20:50:46Z

[cross posted everywhere]
A friendly neighbourhood reminder.

Tonight!

Burnhampthorpe Library Games Night. July 26th!
We hold it between 6 and 8 ish (8:30 is a firm stop time).

We are at:
Burnhamthorpe Public Library
1350 Burnhamthorpe Rd E (corner of Dixie and Burnhamthorpe Roads)
Mississauga ON L4Y 3V9
905-615-4635

You probably know the drill already. We get together we play games. There are many games to play but you can also bring some long if you wish. CCG's are exceptable as well.

OMG!!!!

2007-07-24T15:56:19Z

No word of a lie.....we just had a kid running around the library screaming "I'm tired, I'm tired!!!" loudly as he was running full tilt *ROFL!*

Hindi Storytime and other July and August storytimes

2007-07-20T19:20:07Z

I partipated and got to watch our branches special Hindi storytime today. It was fun and we got to use the Hindi version of Head and Shoulders, knees and toes that I learned from my Multicultural storytelling course.

The storytime was fantastic we heard three hindi tales had some conventional "non-lingual" books (just pictures basically) about colours, shapes and animals spoken in Hindi and we danced and did a "percussion round" with shakers, tiny cymbals, clappers and noise sticks.

I am really enjoying the diversity and types of storytimes and programs that happen here.

This month alone I have participated or run a program on Heraldry and Making a Shield, A Draw Manga and Anime program (twice! Here and at South Common Branch) a teddy bears oriented storytime and a Pirate Treasure adventure program.

In the second Thursday in August I get to do a Drumming workshop and teach kids to make a drum out of a coffee tin and decorate it.

Phew! *sigh* Work has been busy.

You can send me your old coffee tins if you have them (big or small).

Burnhamthorpe Games Night July 26th

2007-07-11T15:01:13Z

[cross posted everywhere]
Burnhampthorpe Library Games Night. July 26th!
We hold it between 6 and 8 ish (8:30 is a firm stop time).

We are at:
Burnhamthorpe Public Library
1350 Burnhamthorpe Rd E (corner of Dixie and Burnhamthorpe Roads)
Mississauga ON L4Y 3V9
905-615-4635

We have tons of games available and will have roughly the same selection every month. It's a bit of a way for people in downtown T.O. but those in the West end can take the Route 26 from Islington (it takes about 20 minutes). I run Games Night myself but will switch off with others here at the branch occasionally. We are looking for interested volunteers who can host once a month.

I am an experienced gamer who wants to bring gamers new and old together for a night of fun at the library to attract people and make the library a fun and exciting place to gather again!

Last month we had 13! YES!

Ages vary there are usualy a few adults or teens and in rare cases they are the majority.

An alphebetical listing of games:
-Alhambra (with optional Gates of Alhambra expansion)
-Apples to Apples
-Chess and Checkers
-CSI: The Boardgame
-Decks of Cards
-Fluxx
-The Hobbit (The version by Fantasy Flight)
-FlipQuest
-Lord of the Rings-The Confrontation
-Lord of the Rings (This version also by Fantasy Flight)
-Lord of the Rings Risk
-Monopoly-Star Wars
-Munchkin 1,2 and 3
-Risk
-Risk 2210
-Scrabble
-Settlers of Catan
-Sword & Skull
-Super Scrabble
-Talisman (3rd edition)
-Trivial pursuit
-Zombies (1,2 and 3 expansions)

If you have young ones to look after or coming with you we have a few games they can play as well like:
-Calling all Care bears
-Candyland
-Guess Who?
-Harry Potter Trivia Game
-Trivial Pursuit for Kids (Nickelodeon edition)

If you have a request for a game I may own it. Post it here and I will bring it along. Bring your games along as well.

CCG Update: We have a few Yu-Gi-Oh! fans looking for games and I have had a suggestion that we could start Magic the Gathering games if we get enough interest. I have a whack of cards I can keep on hand.

Games Nights are the last Thursday of every month. Help keep 'em alive!!!

Pirate Staff Appreciation Day @ work!

2007-06-28T16:42:49Z

[cross-posted to libspryte]
I am having a great, great day.

I'm at work today payed to dress like a pirate. I walked down the streets of my neighbourhood coming to work asking kids and adults alike questions like: "Have you seen a ship?" and making mad statements like "It's my gold...it's NOT STOLEN!". There have been laughter, many smiles and a few strange glances but Oh well their loss!

Three kids almost followed me all the way to the library.

I showed kids and co-workers my bits of flair like my lucky piece of eight (NOT STOLEN!) and my parrot pete who doesn't move like he used to (insert dead parrot jokes). A co-worker coveted my gold so I asked her if she had something to trade for it and told her promptly NOT STOLEN!

I made long hangy yarn bits and ribbon for my hair and painted a scar on my face.

No I have not gone mad. Today is Staff appreciation day and this years theme is pirates. We are having a big lunch at a golf course and many of us will be dressed as such. Contests and prizes and merriment will follow. I love my job!

I plan to repeat this for my Pirate Treasure hunt program in a couple weeks.

What a great day

2007-06-27T15:37:52Z

[cross posted to my journal]...at work. My pirate program materials and planning is well underway. It will be really fun. The kids basically getb to follow us around the library following hints, reading them aloud, collecting treasure coins and learning to use the library at the same time.

I cut out 15 cardboard shields for next weeks craft program. I also finished the photocopies for the Draw Anime and Manga program. I love how creative my job can be.

I am almost finished the trace list in record time and I feel ahead of the game.

Tomorrow is a Pirate themed staff appreciation day at work. I will be dressing up as a pirate and representing the good ship Burnhamthorpe and Games Night is at night. What a great day it will be.