Pace looked rather “gangsta” on the way to the bank to deposit a bunch of money we’d accumulated as people paid us for fishing trips, birthday gifts, garage sale items and a few other things recently.
It was a highlight of my young career as a librarian to get to spend a year and a half working in RPL’s Outreach Unit serving visually impaired, homebound, and other special needs patrons across Regina.
Here’s a pic I snapped when our monthly book club (the group listened to audio books but otherwise operated like any other book club you’ve heard of) was meeting in a back corner of the library.
(Normally the group met in the Outreach Unit but I think had to be bumped because we were in the midst of a big makeover in the Outreach Unit, ironically to ultimately make it more open, accessible and welcoming!) 😉
5. Your son saying “Hey dad, try to keep this bottle standing up!” then looking over to see he’s left his bottle of root beer standing precariously on the edge of the picnic blanket without a lid. (Needless to say, it didn’t stay standing up.)
4. Your daughter wandering into the running water of the various splash pad nozzles with half the sandwich you brought for a picnic lunch, clutched tightly in her hand.
3. Your son pushing the button on one of the strongest spray nozzles right after saying “Hey dad, come stand here!” 😉
2. Your daughter falling on her butt as she slips down the small incline on the side of the splash pad.
1. Your daughter’s legs in the air after she does a face plant into a pebbled culvert which drains the water away from the splash pad. (Seriously, who designed this splash pad? A hospital supplies salesman?)
I saw all of the above things tonight. Luckily, Sasha’s worst injury is a goose egg on her forehead and a small scratch on her nose instead of anything worse!
I’m seeing lots of discussion (and some hand-wringing) about the threat to libraries after Amazon announces the “Kindle Unlimited” plan which gives you access to 600,000 e-books plus thousands of audiobooks for a Netflix-like $9.99/month subscription.
I mean, if this unlimited Kindle subscription can not only lend us books, but provide safe places for our kids, educate us, help close the digital divide, provide specialized research assistance, help us in natural disasters, find us jobs, help the homeless population AND lend us free Kindles, then, well damn. I, for one, welcome our Amazon overlords.
