You know how Daylight Saving Time is supposed to be for farmers or whatever? Yeah that’s not true. Daylight Saving Time wasn’t for farmers ever at any point. The history of DST is long and apparently some version of it goes back thousands of years longer than it’s been in standard effect. There’s evidence of […]
This Public Service Announcement brought to you by painful personal experience that lost today’s intended post and so much more to a corrupted driver that required reformating. Always remember to eject your flash drive before removing it… I can’t say for sure that’s what happened that made me lose everything on my usb drive, but […]
I am well aware that the election is long over, Trump is our president now. It might seem silly to even bring up why people voted for him, but I think it’s important to understand why he was elected. He spoke to enough people on some level that they decided they wanted him to be […]
So I’m a public servant, what with working for the library and all that, so I get a certain amount of time off every year. A couple years back we switched from one payroll program to another payroll program and at the time of the switch I had a very difficult time parsing out how […]
It’s time we looked again at the only certain thing in life… What? No, not the death thing, taxes. It’s a confusing, seemingly (and sometimes actually) overly complicated mess with lots of numbers and lots of forms with numbers. As a public library employee I have weathered several tax seasons before so I’m here to […]
I don’t want to be happy. Or more accurately I want to stop striving to be happy. I have nothing against being happy and I’m sure I’ll be happy many times in my life. But there’s this persistent lie we’re told and often believe in, especially in the good ol’ USA. That the key to […]
2016 is over and done and I was more than happy to see it go. It was a tough year for a great many people that I know; generally disappointing, heartbreaking and downright scary for some. A lot of the problems that came up in 2016 aren’t going to magically disappear in 2017 and there are […]
