• Mental Maintenance

    2016

    The new year is here. I am rather ambivalent about it. The most significant thing that has happened so far is that our new boss has arrived. Considering the administration’s schedule for her, I won’t see her until later this week. As it is the beginning of the semester, I have a dozen pressing things to complete over the next few weeks. Most of it is instruction preparation. Others are committee work and general librarianship. The usual trifecta. I still seek to discover the pattern in the chaos and  be able to develop a structure that keeps the chaos manageable. There’s not much more to say about 2016 yet. I…

  • Mental Maintenance,  Personal Thoughts

    New Year Coming

    It seems hard to believe, but the new year is almost upon us once again. This is not something unusual. Most of us think similar thoughts at this time of year. I always consider each year coming as a surprise. Whe I was a child I counted forward the years and discovered that the turn of the millenium would come in my lifetime. With a little more math, I realized that I would be twenty-seven. That little knowledge tidbit set me on my course and I don’t think that I ever recalculated. Year 2000 came and went. None of the appliances I had suffered any programming problems, and life went…