Beware the Ides of March

[dr4b]

I got to work a little late this morning, partially from the whole late-plane-late-sleep thing, partially because I stopped by the library to clear my good name with the overdue book folks. It was sort of funny, because I knew I'd returned that Jim Bunning biography the day it was due. So I go up to the 8th floor, and sure enough, the book is exactly where it should be on the shelf. I take it downstairs to the check-in desk and explain to them that I was told I had an overdue book -- namely, the book I'm holding in my hands -- except that I just got it from the 8th floor book shelf. Surprisingly, the clerk just asked for my library card and the book and rescanned both of them and cleared my account. The annoying thing, to me, is that in theory, I really could have just brought it back 3 weeks late, or not, and the same thing may have happened. Though you'd think, since they re-shelved the book, it's got to be in their system somewhere that it was actually IN the library after the supposed day I didn't return it, right? Oi.

Anyway, work was sort of funny. Beyond the usual welcome-home confusion, I accidentally blew away my entire home directory on our development Tandem machine, which would suck, if not for the fact that I discovered a pretty nasty bug in one of our file manipulation scripts in doing so. So, I feel good about finding a bug! On the other hand, I sure hope there was nothing important in all those files I lost. Hmm.

After work I went to Oren's house, ostensibly to watch the Japan-Mexico baseball game in the WBC, except that ESPN SUUUUUUUUUUUCKS and got all their schedules wrong... so all the Dominican-Venezuela-etc games were broadcast at the advertised time but the Japan games were not. Grrrr. So instead we re-watched Sunday's Japan-USA game, and yet again I felt myself wanting to smack the umpires for making that idiotic ruling. Oddly, both Nick and Drew called my cell to wish me a happy Pi Day while we were watching the game, and I whined at both of them about it.

We also watched the first episode of Gokusen 2. Akanishi Jin is no Matsumoto Jun, but I think this second generation of obnoxious 3-D guys will work out okay. Plus, it has Hayami Mokomichi (what, is he following me around? This is like the 6th show I've seen him in), and all of the Yakuza people from the first show, and the practically-a-living-cartoon-character Otoha, and of course, the same head teacher Sawatari. So, we'll see. Unfortunately, this one is currently in the midst of subtitling, so we'll probably have to put it off or watch it raw, so I suggested GTO in the interim.

Comments

[cobrani.livejournal.com]

You'd be surprised about the library late book thing. We get that all the time. Basically, we scan in thousands of books a day, and if we get a chunk of books in and we scan them, one might not get scanned for whatever reason. If you don't scan one book in a hundred, then you don't scan one hundred books in a thousand. For the most part, people will just say, "Oh, I turned that in," and we'll take it off their account and then look for the book on the shelf at a later time. Though, half the time the person still has the book, the other half we have it. It's human error all the way though. Sorry you had to go through it! Least they didn't fine you for it.

[the2belo.livejournal.com]

Japan ruled, 6-1. Matsuzaka was well-nigh outstanding. Bring on Korea!

[orangey.livejournal.com]

My main duty my senior year working at Hunt was to go up to the stacks and look for books people claimed they had returned. If a patron brought the book "down from the stacks" they had to pay the fine. I'd say we found about 25% of books people had claimed to return. I was horrible- I returned books late all the time, but I had the override code so I used to just clear the fine.

[random-boy.livejournal.com]

Just one of many library rules you violated.... (=

[dr4b]

Yeah, that's the problem, I wasn't sure whether to bring the book down or not... on the one case I wanted to prove it was really there, on the other hand...

[dr4b]

Yeah, and you know what? ESPN doesn't seem to have shown the game at ALL over here. I'm pretty pissed off about that. I guess I can watch part of it on the tiny little mlb.com TV, but...

I really want to see Korea and Japan advance from this pool. Sigh.