People get really judgemental out here - the kids are playing games - my need to send spam to everyone on my email list is more important. For the first three or four months - we had no management of computers - but no one wanted to share. part of our problenm - management doesn't think people should get off the computers unless someone else wants it - so there was negotiation. bad plan. ( empty computers mean we don't need as much money - a poor use of resouces ( whatever) ) . and we have 34 on the adult side and 6 on the kid side. and then management is very ALA and anti patriot act - which is good, but it means you don't use library cards to log in, but other numbers - which we give out. and evry day after three - we go to resevation. - which invovles more staff time. It is annoying. but the manual system - basicly hadus being computer hostests - urg.
'Conversations with Dead People'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Skipping ahead while catching up on a week's worth of posts:
Ailleann - I'm so sorry about your friend Robert. I knew him only by his voice - I'm a regular listener to the IU public radio station and heard him often. Aww, and Ether Game! I'm terribly fond of WFIU and its denizens. I'm so sorry for your shock and sorrow. In case you haven't seen it, the WFIU homepage is dedicated to him. [link] He is clearly missed. They are soliciting memories to share with his family. Your story about his chocolate bunny piece is touching and so funny - what a tragedy to lose a mind like his.
Thinking of you, and all his friends and loved ones.
management doesn't think people should get off the computers unless someone else wants it
Oh yeah, that's a recipe for trouble. The branches I've been to here just have a sign-up sheet at the desk, by computer, in 15 or 30 minute increments (I forget which). No log in of any kind. Really just the honor/peer pressure system.
Yeah, that's ridiculous. Guess what? Parents do have to be the "bad guy" sometimes.It is totally ridiculous but for parents like my sister who just can't seem to stick by her limits and enforce boundaries for the nephlet? I can see it being useful. Not as useful as a parenting course, but less likely to cause a(nother) family meltdown.
Yeah, that's ridiculous. Guess what? Parents do have to be the "bad guy" sometimes.
See, I don't know. YOu're being the "bad guy" or at any rate setting the boundaries when you decide and communicate what the time limits are. Avoiding having to have the argument each time, though? I can see that being kind of helpful.
There are birds singing outside my window.
Why?
I don't mind being the bad guy. That device might be useful though, just because sometimes, I get caught up in what I'm doing, and don't realize how long someone has been on the PS2, because it lives in the spare room.
If all three kids are home, they police each other down to the minute about PS2 time limits. If just Chris and I are home, I try to shower, and do the chores in other parts of the house (like laundry in the basement, etc., or really scrubbing down the baths, because I like to do that, uninterrupted) while he's playing, and I do lose track of how long he's been on. He does too, because there's no clock in the room.
There are birds singing outside my window.
Why?
They long to be close to you.
Dear Mr. Earworm,
I see you looking at me, trying to figure out a way in.
You should know, I will cut you if you try anything.
OKTHNXBYE,
Me
Morning, all! I'm hoping to be able to get online today some more. And get some housework done, and go to the library, get some gardening done, finish the scarf I'm knitting on, and so on.
I would also like a pony.