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June Chats - 2021

1Carol420
Mai 22, 2021, 1:56 pm



Talk about anything you'd like. We'll listen.

2threadnsong
Mai 30, 2021, 7:49 pm

How glorious the setting sun is on the leaves, and how much I have enjoyed visiting with friends, going to the Renaissance Festival (twice!), and eating at restaurants.

3Carol420
Mai 31, 2021, 7:23 am

>2 threadnsong: Life is returning to normal...and just in time for some beautiful summer days. Hope it lasts.

4aspirit
Jun. 3, 2021, 1:05 am

Life is resembling what was considered normal in early 2019. And, in my opinion, that sucks.

By the way, my latest post in my tracking thread is as polite as I could make it, but it was written in supressed anger. Fair warning. No matter how grateful I am to be vaccinated and housed and all the ways I'm privileged, I'm angry that communities like the one I'm physically stuck in the middle of exists.

It could be worse. Just, it could-- and should-- be better.

Grr.

Uhr.

Sigh.

Our weather isn't too bad. We've only had to shelter once so far this season. Some (surviving) wildlife adjusted to the rising heat after I figured out we can provide more water.

I feel as if we're watering beetles every day. Fortunately, I like beetles. We have a type that's rainbow-colored.

5Carol420
Bearbeitet: Jun. 3, 2021, 10:24 am

>4 aspirit: While we all have hope and longing for "normal" it's still scary and will be for a long time. My husband and I are still wearing masks when we go to restaurants, the library and other places that we would never have thought we would ever being doing this at all. We're going to a concert tonight in Indiana and we will go with masks even though the venue says it's not necessary. It's necessary as far as we are concerned. No one knows who or what is really "safe". It's a different country we live in now and that's not entirely the fault of the virus...and it is also a very different world. I just hope all my friends here as well as in my neighborhood, stay safe, well and alive.

6BookConcierge
Jun. 3, 2021, 9:52 am

My community has a very high rate of fully vaccinated (85%, last time I checked) but I still wear my mask. Still, I am going out more, and right now am hosting my niece and her boyfriend (both fully vaccinated) for a 2-day visit. We all wore our masks going into/out of the restaurant last night, and removed them only when we were eating. We removed them when at home as well.

7Carol420
Jun. 3, 2021, 10:27 am

>6 BookConcierge: I see more people wearing them yet than I do without them. There is an idiot in our neighborhood with a sign out in her yard that says "Thanks to the Governor my son graduated a year late". I told my husband there should be a sign that said "Thanks to the Governor my son is alive a year later to graduate." Stupid people.

8Carol420
Jun. 3, 2021, 11:30 am

I'm off to Indiana to see the Kingston Trio tonight. See everyone tomorrow. (Friday)

9Sergeirocks
Bearbeitet: Jun. 3, 2021, 12:28 pm

>7 Carol420: 👍 Well Said, Carol.

10JulieLill
Jun. 3, 2021, 12:47 pm

11Carol420
Jun. 4, 2021, 9:36 am

I'm back. Missed all of you.

12aspirit
Jun. 4, 2021, 10:26 am

Hi! Welcome back.

13aspirit
Bearbeitet: Jun. 4, 2021, 10:58 am

>6 BookConcierge: We have a low percentage of vaccinated people, currently about 25% of the population with at least one shot, and my area is heavy on anti-maskers. I was the only patron I saw in the library wearing a mask. The employees had theirs on only part of the time.

I'm trying to convince myself that has nothing to do with why I've felt ill the past two days, but who knows. Maybe it's stress from knowing people are careless (among other social flaws). Maybe it's from the reduced safety at my spouse's workplace. Possibly, it's the weather or something sprayed in the air outside by neighbors... or any other reason.

Rain fell. That's nice for the yard.

14aspirit
Jun. 21, 2021, 7:44 pm

I'm refusing to enter the libraries while there's still viral spread and crummy options for medical care locally, but my spouse, who has to be exposed to people at work anyway, has been delighting library staff with his presence.

They found new ways to be strange with our books, though. Holds have been bouncing around between cities as libraries try to be "helpful" instead of calling to confirm we want to pick the holds up where I'd requested them to be, and some of the holds have been repeating, which is making me nervous about fines. In the past, it seems that when they couldn't keep track of their choices and actually talk to me before changing something in our accounts, then I'd end up with late fines. That's not how I enjoy supporting public libraries.

So, ebook loans. Is isn't lovely when those (mostly) function as promised?

15aspirit
Jun. 21, 2021, 7:55 pm

Oh, oh, I remember a question I was going to ask. How many holds do y'all see for digital library materials?

I don't add myself to the waitlist if there's more than a few others waiting, but I've been seeing up to 17 holds for one copy of an ebook. To me, that seems high.

16Carol420
Jun. 21, 2021, 9:05 pm

>15 aspirit: Hoopla only allows 10 books a month. I can read 10 books in 3 days so I'm really careful. The other service that my library pays for is Midwest Collaborative/Overdrive they also only allow 10. If the book is just out or extremely popular it easily could easily have 17 or more holds on it. I've only asked for a few books with long waiting list and I usually get them before the estimated wait time. One problem is there usually is only one or two copies of the book. Seems like they would get more. I just wait if it's going to be more than 2 weeks. My library is very good about ordering books for me if they can get them from their supplier. Of course I have my two "book bringing buddies". I have no idea how many people take advantage of digital books.

17daxxh
Jun. 27, 2021, 9:38 am

>15 aspirit: I am #47 for one book and #34 for another. I don't remember what I was originally as I put these books on hold almost two months ago.

18aspirit
Jun. 27, 2021, 6:16 pm

>17 daxxh: Wow. You could easily be on each waitlist for over a year. Under 20 people no longer looks too long.

>16 Carol420: We have Overdrive. I've hit the maximum for recommendations (ten, for all time?) but haven't seen a monthly loan limit. My child maxes out on the ten loans allowed at one time, but then she's allowed to borrow more as soon as she returns some books. (She's maxed out on recommendations, too. None of what we've asked for has been added to the offerings.)

Each loan may last up to three weeks, so we usually ignore waitlists that have more than a couple people on it to avoid a mismatched bunch of books coming available all at once months later.

19aspirit
Jun. 27, 2021, 6:18 pm

For the books I know I'll try to read whenever they're available, I should just join the waitlists.

20Carol420
Jun. 28, 2021, 8:23 am

>19 aspirit: I make a huge number of recommendations also but none are ever added. I think they are just humoring us:)