Dan Scott @dbs@code4lib.social

Our son's bearded dragon, Char, suddenly started having seizures yesterday. She's been a feisty and active part of our family for 4 years, so to witness such a rapid decline was shocking. Over the last two days the vet hasn't been able to determine any cause for her symptoms, which look like her intestines have shut down, so I'll be giving her shots of calcium and doses of antibiotics in the hopes of a miracle. But the prognosis is grim. I've been shedding a lot of tears.

To be clear, filling in the seconds field with "00" does not resolve the error message.

Google Forms just doesn't want humans to say something took 90 minutes instead of 1 hour 30 minutes.

"Invalid duration"!?!

FU Google Forms!

Of course, our family is only as protected as the weakest link. I'm hoping our kids will consider upgrading as well.

My spouse, a college professor in a health & physical fitness program, will be a very tough sell though :/

Yesterday, I tried on my Dentec Nx400 elastomeric respirator (with N95 filters, the P100 filters should arrive soon).

For context, our entire family wears (K)N95 masks.

My son's reaction: "Wow you have a gas mask!"

Spouse's reaction: "Don't you think you're going a little overboard?"

Sadly, no, as the rest of the world stops wearing masks this is what those of us who want to protect ourselves have to do.

I'll wear it to help normalize it for others.

Elastomeric P100 mask has shipped. I will be ready for the fall term.

Thanks for the extra little push @victoria !

However it turns out that our University Librarian is *also* on vacation. (They hadn't created any entries on the Library & Archives absence calendar because why would they? They're above that sort of thing I guess.)

So I followed up with my colleagues to say "So unfortunately it seems that nobody with authority over circulation or ILL will be available until the 20th."

I guess this is what happens when a power-hungry clown runs your library.

I just wrote the sentence "librarians at Laurentian are not allowed to have any responsibility for circulation or ILL" in response to a question from colleagues at another university and they must think we live in bizarro land.

We do! It's unbelievable.

The non-librarian manager to whom those responsibilities have been transferred is on vacation, so I referred my colleagues to our University Librarian.

Successfully pulled off a surprise party for my wife tonight, and I am jazzed. She was surrounded by friends and love. She deserves it so much!

It was a heck of a 180 from the depths to which I had led her expectations, like "oh maybe we'll go out for dinner somewhere, and hopefully a few people feel by this week weekend".

Instead, as we were paddling back to the docks, there were an unusually large # of people gathered there who all started singing... It was an awesome night.