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On the road again

Greetings from the Iowa State Library in Des Moines. I was going to blog yesterday but it turns out that even though I can get wireless access within DIA, it costs $9.99 for 24 hours of access and that’s the cheapest it gets. (Never mind that none of the signs all over the airport that say “Get your wireless access here” mention the fact that they’re charging an arm and a leg for it.) I must say that it was nice to boot up the laptop and see “wireless connection available” but it wasn’t worth the cost to surf for just the hour before my flight.

Other things I learned yesterday

  • Air Tran Airlines and ATA are two different airlines and, of course, their ticket counters are on opposite ends of DIA.
  • If you’re flying ATA out of Chicago Midway, you’re going to have to take a shuttle bus to a completely different terminal on the other side of the runways. This for some reason seemed to confuse half of the people on my flight since we had to get our tickets taken from us, then wait in another lounge for the shuttle bus that would take us to the hanger where our plane was.
  • According to one guy on the plane selling the Bible is different from selling other books for several reasons. The main one being that there “isn’t any author personality issues that need to be dealt with.”
  • If you forget to put the O-ring back into your coffee mug, the lid will leak.

And no, I didn’t do any writing yesterday. Ten pages is now on the schedule for this evening.

Published by Michael Sauers

Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.

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