Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
Update 11:53 a.m. Cable will be installed tomorrow. Line run in the morning, cable installed in the house between 3 and 5 p.m.
Update 11:14 a.m It looks like we’ll be getting cable tomorrow!
Stephanie got a call from Comcast last night.…
Update: it’s in interesting tale, so feel free to read. Issues resolved, thanks Benny and Kirk and whoever else was involved for their quick work on this. Hopefully this situation won’t happen to anybody else.
So Stephanie and I got our new house built and we finally moved in in April.…
Hodges Library no longer has a reference desk. We had a wake for it yesterday afternoon. Day to day reference questions have been moved upstairs to the Commons desk.
In fact Hodges no longer has a reference department. It’s been split into Integrated User Services, Research Services, and Research Collections.…
I’m realizing that Twitter has given my blog a new lease on life. Making my tweets display on the front page definitely keeps the blog more on my mind since I use Twitter and Twitterrific heavily these days. Pondering a Library Monk redesign now, but I have lots of other projects on the to-do list ahead of that.…
Doug Raber, a friend and former advisor of mine at both Tennessee and Missouri, is leaving academia to be the public library director in Ferndale, Michigan.
Best of luck Doug, dress warmly. :-)…
The house is creeping along. The finishing foundation work is mostly done. I’ll be interested to see what the finished product looks like. Right now I’m not that happy but I’m reserving judgement at this point.
We’ve had to hire a lawyer to help us through this last part of the process.…
Well technically my new house does. The floors are done and the electricity is on and working.
The wood floors look nice. I’m really pleased with how the floors turned out.
The library reorg picked up steam yesterday, some new appointments have been made and searches are starting.…
Well it has taken me almost to the end on January to post anything. Been buried at work, been ill a bit and trying to keep up with my whirlwind of an almost 2 year old daughter. Blogging is but a distant memory.…
The Knoxville News Sentinel has a story on Hoskins Library. The damage over there is pretty serious. If you ask me they should just tear down the Kefauver wing instead of trying to fix the foundation (which has been tried before).…
Added March 4, 2026: I lost my CDs at some point in the last (almost) two decades. iTunes is now called Apple Music. Amazingly that link to Amazon Music still works. Added for good measure, a link to Spaced Out on Spotify.…