Turned out to be an interesting afternoon. ON my way out to lunch with my friend Barbara I pressed the button to lower the rear driver’s-side window in my car. (A button which I don’t believe has been pressed in years.) The window went down but I heard an awful thunk. Well, Barbara followed me to the Saturn dealership and it turned out that yes, the window was broken. In fact, you could now raise and lower it with your hand. I left the car and Barbara drove me home. I then figured that I’d use this as an excuse to get back on my bike and drop some books off at the Tattered Cover for a signing I’ll be missing next week. Distance: six miles by city streets. Finishing that errand I decided to take some trails back home. Distance: 15 miles. Near home, I got the call that my car was ready so I just continued on my bike to pick it up. The total cost of the repair, $315+tax. Ouch!
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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