Jasonisms

Below is an email I had to send to the senior librarian for the Denver public library system. It's long and not worth the read, but it needed to be said. Shirley,  I regret to say this email is not being sent as acknowledgement for superior service or as a compliment in other areas. This email finds you as a complaint of experiences I've had at the Hampden Branch over the recent past. First, allow me to describe myself. I am an avid fan, and user, of the library system here in Denver. A member since the early 2000s, I have used the library nearly exclusively for books, movies and magazines for the past eight years. I visit the Hampden Branch approximately once a week, sometimes more depending on my schedule and have been known to spend time at University-Hills, Montbello, Smiley, Park Hill and Central as well. When I need to be have a nice quiet place to work I find a nearby library in lieu of a coffee shop for other restaurant. Since it's close to home, I usually ...

On the Friday after Thankgiving The Denver Public Library's City Life organized a brief bell concert with the Castle Rock Ringers, a volunteer bell choir out of Caste Rock, Colorado. Instead of fighting with Black Friday shoppers I decided to drag my laptop on down to the library, get some writing done, and listen to the bells with their renditions of traditional (Christmas) holiday music. The view from my perch wasn't ideal, but other's had taken up better seats on the second balcony. As it worked out, I ended up talking with the wife of the conductor for the better part of the concert.  The below video was taken by my Note II with no additional microphones or tuning. I only took video of the one song to provide an example of the music from that evening. And while I will never encourage people to visit Facebook, this is their Facebook Page  which seems to their only web presence for more information.  Or Click This Link

I had to make  library run today to return a few items and pick up a few that were being held "On Hold" for me. I currently had 11 items out: 10 DVDs (or the maximum allowed out at once) and one music CD I mistakenly ordered On Hold. Unfortunately, over the week I barely had time to watch all the DVDs and took most of them back unwatched, intending to re-check the ones I didn't get a chance to see.  When I arrived I placed the returning items in the RETURNS drop box and went to the HOLDs shelf to get the new items waiting for me. I then took the remaining un-returned items and new hold shelf items to the checkout stand and explained I'd like to re-check batch one and check out for the first time, this other batch. For the most part it was fairly straight forward. Until ... The lady behind the counter told me I had a $5 fine.  Um, what? What was so late that I incurred a fine much less a $5 one? She then goes on to explain how, sometime a few mont...

In my (feeble) attempt to blog more often, I give you, my fans, this: My Pick-Ups From the Library 10-16-2012 From Reserve: Random Pickups: and one CD set: Leonard Cohen

I went to the library (because, I do that sort of thing) to pick up an item I had placed on hold. It wasn't anything special, just a CD of pop-music. As I park and walk up to the front doors I see a woman holding a clipboard. Great, I thought, someone taking a poll or trying to save the Earth. DOn't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to saving the Earth, I just don't have any money and they all seem to want donations in the form of cash, credit or check and not in the form of time, experience or skill-set. I walk up -- she's looking at me and I'm looking at her. "Are you registered to vote," she asks. Yes, I am actually. Well, I'm not sure, to be honest, I didn't vote in the mid-term election last year because I wasn't in town and I think Colorado has a program where if you don't vote they take you off the rolls. Just to be safe, she advises, let's fill out another voter registration form. Okay. Then she proceeds to treat me like...

So I had an eMedia snaffu with the Denver Public Library system today. Yesterday, I receive an email stating one of the items I had on hold with the DPL was now available for download and use. This item, a WMA file of the audiobook (the very first audiobook I would be partaking of -- ever!) Mistborn: The Allow of Law . Dear Denver Public Library patron, The following title is now available for check out and will be held for you for 5 days (120 hours) from the time this email was sent:   The Alloy of Law: Mistborn Series, Book 4   by: Brandon Sanderson   WMA Audio eBook Please visit the Denver Public Library website  http://downloadmedia. denverlibrary.org  and select the 'My Holds' link from the 'My eAccount' page.  From there, you'll be able to add this title to your eCart and proceed to check out.  If you do not check this title out within 5 days (120 hours), the hold on this title will expire. Thank you for your interest in digital media! ...

The Runaways Daybreakers She's Out of My League (seriously, I know I say this a lot, but I'm going to try and blog more often. Thank the gods for iGoogle, now if only I can remember to launch it instead of GMail all day long.)