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I can't wait for spring.  I've already purchased seeds and some stuff to start seeds.  Once the snow melts, I'm going to rake the garden beds and remove the straw I put over one part of the vegetable garden.  The forseeable forecast is much warmer than what we've seen in a good long while.

Once he is settled, I think I'll see if I'm allowed to buy and bring wireless headphones and some sort of ipad thing to Scott.  He's a big Doctor Who fan and I don't think he's ever listened to the audio plays.  I think he'd enjoy that.

The annoying vendor woman didn't show up yesterday like she said she would, thankfully.  And the microfilm machine is fixed.  Yay!

The flower shop owner down the street from work told me she would order my favorite flowers for me for my birthday.  That'll be a nice treat.

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 So I talked with the librarian who worked with the repair guys for the microfilm reader.

Two repairmen came yesterday an hour and a half late.  The spent two hours.  They did not fix the microfilm reader.  They couldn't figure out what wasn't working.  Despite it being agreed (and we being charged for) a "full service appointment" they did nothing beyond attempting and failing to fix it, so other things like cleaning the very dirty camera to the reader were not done.  We were charged $500+.  One of our campus IT guys who was present during all this fixed it on his own after they left.  Also, they spent a great amount of the time they were here attempting to get us to sign up for a $750/year service contract.

I am not a happy library director.