I haven’t had a library card for a little while and when I mentioned this to Jim he was kind of astonished. I countered that I had a library in my house and he said that only emphasized it.<\/p>\n
This conversation came about because I decided to get a card at the local library – which in turn came about from killing time at a library recently and reading a book that I might have liked to take with me and continue.<\/p>\n
I think that was a run-on sentence, but you get the idea – I hope.<\/p>\n
So, after work and a haircut, I headed to the local library to get a card and some books.<\/p>\n
I went up to the front desk and got started with the process. There was a little form to fill out while they entered my information from my driver’s license. The form said (over) at the bottom and I turned it over and read it and signed. \u00a0I always look for “your immortal soul” – just in case.<\/p>\n
I turned the form to the front and passed it\u00a0back. \u00a0The clerk looked it over – then flipped it over and raised an eyebrow.<\/p>\n
“You signed the back. No one ever knows to do that,”<\/p>\n
I shrugged and made some comment about reading directions. This is also why I never have problems at the BMV.<\/p>\n
I have my shit together.<\/em><\/p>\n Anyway, they gave me the provisional card good for 2 weeks and only letting me check out 5 items at a time. If everything is good at the end of the two weeks, then I can upgrade to a regular card. \u00a0I guess I looked shifty.<\/p>\n Card in hand, I got directions to Fiction and headed over.<\/p>\n And while I perused the books, I realized how – in some ways – I’m really old fashioned.<\/p>\n For me, a library (or even a bookstore), should be a place of quiet respect. In those pages on the shelves are countless stories and worlds without end. Adventures and epic sagas. The ancient past and the far distant future.<\/p>\n How could anyone be in a place with all that wonder – and be noisy?<\/p>\n And it was noisy. Loud conversations, music, and kids running around through the whole building. You expect that in the kids section – even appreciate that – but in Fiction?<\/p>\n I got my books and returned to the front desk to check out. Then home for some dinner and reading. I’ll be back – likely many times – but it doesn’t quite feel like a library to me.<\/p>\n Maybe I am old fashioned. Or maybe a book snob. But those books – all those wonderful books… Well, I’m quieted by them, even if that’s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t had a library card for a little while and when I mentioned this to Jim he was kind of astonished. I countered that I had a library in my house and he said that only emphasized it. This conversation came about because I decided to get a card at the local library – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}