Library.

Feb. 21st, 2004 11:11 am
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Didn't mention yesterday, but I was posting from the Library here at Lake Forest Park, in the same building as JoAnn Fabrics.

This is, in fact, a Big Freakin' Deal. See, using their computers requires a library card, and, ummm, I haven't had a library card in well over a decade.

.... See, there was this book I checked out once. A book about Attention Deficit Disorder. I returned overdue. About a year overdue. I kept meaning to bring it back, but I just kept getting distracted .... Yeah, so anyway, I returned it in the middle of the night and came home and cut up my library card like a bad credit card.

But I've been reading more books lately, and more importantly, I've really wanted to use their free 'Net access, so here I am.

It's a little strange, using these terminals. I can't telnet out, so I can't use my command-line LJ client .... I can't even use Notepad or the like to compose my posts first, so I'm a little worried about typing all this stuff into the web browser and hoping nothing goes wrong when I submit.

I imagine I'll get using to working without a safety net, though, so I might back to posting a little more regularly. We shall see.

Wow

Date: 2004-02-21 12:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] staxxy.livejournal.com
I am on Library Card restriction. I have about 40$ in fines I need to pay from overdue books. I suffer from something else. I suffer from media junkie syndrome, so I have difficulty with the concept of giving books back to the library. I am much better at returning books to actual *people*. So I only borrow books from friends these days.

Date: 2004-02-21 02:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kespernorth.livejournal.com
Tried telnet:// ? It works sometimes.

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Date: 2004-02-21 05:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icebluenothing.livejournal.com
Yup, first thing I did try. :) The Library apparently has Clever Monkeys working for them.

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Date: 2004-02-21 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kespernorth.livejournal.com
So what are you up to tonight? Allyson and I are trying to find non-21+ things to do.

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Date: 2004-02-21 05:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icebluenothing.livejournal.com
Rats. Murfle. I'm going to a birthday party for someone you don't know; someone I don't know well, really, it's a noblesse oblige sort of thing. Sorry.

Date: 2004-02-22 09:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ayeshadream.livejournal.com
Wow, I didn't know you were up here in the great white north too. I guess I'm used to feeling so isolated that it's a happiness when I run across others in the general Lynnwood area. :)

Date: 2004-02-23 03:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mspurplepearl.livejournal.com
At the King County Public Libraries where I sometimes take my daughter to play Neopets.com, you can use MS Word to compose your messages before you post them. Of course then you have to go edit out the strange formatting Word applies.
But still, it might help you. :)

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Date: 2004-02-23 05:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icebluenothing.livejournal.com
Aha! Thanks much, I'll try it.

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Date: 2004-02-23 10:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wendolen.livejournal.com
You could also highlight-copy your post in the webform before clicking submit.

BTW, want a semi-funtional-yet-malformed keyboard to make art out of? If not, it goes in the dumpster, but I could send it back up with Shawn this weekend.

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Date: 2004-02-24 10:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mspurplepearl.livejournal.com
You're welcome!

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