NO BITS & NO PIECES, BUT A NOD TO ASSISTANT LIBRARIANS EVERYWHERE

Normally, I write the BITS & PIECES post on Sundays and sometimes carry it over to Monday morning if conditions warrant.  The major exception is the INCOMING sections, where I list the books that have purchased or have been given; I list this as they come in, ahead of time.  This week, I also begaan writing ahead of time one of my birthday tributes, listing various people from throughout history who were born on that specific Monday; it's a deep rabbit hole I enjoy goong down...

I have mentioned that my computer hates me, and that hatred seems to have grown.  Beisdes borken cursors, refusal to be properly formatted, and missing puncutation, it also has a recent habit of sddeny changing the screen size without warning -- often to 500%.  It also jumps from rpogram to program without prompting,and has alos decided to display willy-nilly screens from the past seeral weeks.  Lately the AI gods have added a notice for me that says something on the order of "do you need help writing this?"  I doesn't really care if Ineed help (I don't) or if I want it (I definitely do not), but what it has been doing lately is erasing everything I have written up to that time, with no possibility of my retreiving what I had written.  That happened on Friday, sending over five hours work into the ether, irrevocably lost.  Some of what was lost was my draft of INCOMING books, a bit over two dozen of them.  Once I had imputted those books, they became merge with my general library and I have no idea (with some exceptions) of their specific titles.  The information is gone, gone, gone.

This weekend the Pensacola Friends of the Library held their bi-annual three-day massive book sale and I picked up 37 additional books.  (Yes, I plan to read them all because I  am immortal.)  Without listing the titles and decriptions, here are the authors:  Maddie Day, John Farris, Jasper Fforde, Chrisotpher Golden, Carolym Graham, Donald Hamilton, Robert P. Hansen, Joan Hess, Tim holt, Peter Lovesey Dan J. Marlowe, Stephen Marlowe, Ngaio Msarch, Graham Masterton, Margaret Millar, David Morrell, Patricia Moyes, Hugh Pentecosr, Helen Reilly, J. D. Robb, Mickey Spillane, Domini Taylor, Arthur W. Upfield, and Roger Zalezny.  A otm of great books here.  

And here's a homage to Assistant Librarians:

Today's Poem:

The Library Assistant's Oath

Among the remotest stacks,

Or near the periodical stand,

No talking will

Escape reprimand.

Let discourteous readers

Throughout the land

Beware our power,

'Cause we are the man!

-- Danny Nod, Library Assistant

[from Bill Willingham's "The Further Adventures of Danny Nod, Heroic Library Assistant!"]

Reminder:  Today is National Poisoned Blackberries Day.  Spend it wisely.