Blue screen of death

Our computer decided to die on Friday - we had what one IT person in Springwood called the "blue screen of death" - have left it at the computer hospital but it may be a while before it gets looked at, never mind fixed. (Can you believe there were heaps of pictures of the blue screen of death when I googled it!!!)

Meantime it'll be best if you send any emails to us at my work email address : hcolquhoun@bmcc.nsw.gov.au and any calls will have to be on the normal phone.

Ian update

Ian meanwhile has been to see the hand specialist today.

He's up for surgery.

The specialist is going to do an arthroscopy but fully expects to have to do some extensive work. He told Ian the radiologist/GP were so busy looking at and for fractures, they've failed to notice that the bones in the wrist are much further apart than they should be because the tendons are shot.

We are waiting for WorkCover to approve the surgery so we can find out when it will be. After that Ian will have his hand in a cast for two months.

Oh joy!

More scrapes

We were down at the hospital again yesterday.

This time it was Robbie's turn.

He was warming up for his soccer game when he walked into the goal post. He was closer than he thought when he turned around and clonked himself on the head. Lots of blood apparently (I was at RFS training). He said the other boys were very helpful though - once they'd stopped laughing.

Ian, who is banned from driving because of his hand, drove Rob to Nepean Hospital. I got the message when I got home from training. I then had to scrabble around to find someone to go to the hospital with me to bring Ian and Ishbel home while I waited until I could drive Robbie home.

I tried Karen first but, getting no answer, then rang Sharon and Janet. Janet had just gone out for a walk so I left a message for her to ring me when she got back (she finally called about 6:30pm). I was about to ring one of my RFS buddies, Steve, when Karen rang and agreed to come and get me. Thank you, Karen.

By the time we got to the hospital Robbie had been seen briefly, had the dressing changed but was out in the waiting room waiting to be seen for stitches. He'd been waiting about 2 1/2 hours by then. There were lots of people waiting, including lots of people in sports uniforms of varying codes! I settled down with my book telling Robbie that if we hadn't been seen in 2 hours we'd give up and go and see our GP in the morning.

It wasn't too long after that that he was called through and a lovely Nurse Practitioner put 4 stitches in his head. The wound is only about 2 cm long but was deep - all the way down to the wood. It took two vials of local anaesthetic to make his skin numb! but he was very brave.

On the way home Robbie was trying to make up a story that had him as the hero, not the klutz. Nothing he came up with was remotely convincing, I've yet to hear what he told his mates at school today (he's working tonight).

As we came back up the mountain I told him I'd missed going to ArtFest (at Jamie's school). He had the nerve to ask me why?!

Anyway, he's fine. At school. At work. Stitches will come out next Monday.

This is a Library Hotel for Library People

Next time you're in New York, how about checking in to The Library Hotel?

"Each of the ten guestroom floors at the Library Hotel in New York City is dedicated to one of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System: Social Sciences, Literature, Languages, History, Math & Science, General Knowledge, Technology, Philosophy, The Arts and Religion. Each of the sixty exquisitely appointed rooms have been individually adorned with a collection of art and books relevant to one distinctive topic within the category of the floor it belongs to".

Which floor suits you?

(I picked this up on the Kimbooktu blog).

Fraser

Jono and Nelly sent us these lovely pictures of Fraser:

Isn't he a hunny?

Torturing myself

I'm torturing myself with dreams of being able to visit this Henry VIII: Man and Monarch exhibition at the British Library . . . having to make do with listening to podcasts and watching snippets of video.

I've not long ago read David Starkey's excellent Henry: Virtuous Prince which I blogged about on the library blog. Trying to get our hands on the video for the library.

Zits was good this weekend

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Back to School

Putting the flags out because the kids have all gone back to school today. The teachers had monday off as the ANZAC Day public holiday which no one else got! Then Tuesday was a 'pupil free day' (wish we had Borrower-free days as often as teachers get Pupil-free days).

More validation

Love Letter to Libraries Part 2

Loving what I do

A couple of things I came across today that validate my work as a Librarian:


and a blog post, Love Letter to Libraries from one of my favourite blogs, Citizen Reader