My meds are making me feel barfy so granted that... but ... Does it really take literally 7 people to test out the new shredder that they have positioned in the cubicle next to mine?

I get how new equipment can be fun and shiney but they are over there putting DVD's, paper clips, padded envelopes, car keys, hands, through the thing and partying with it like its 1999.

And, no, BTW, just cause you paged me I'm not going to drop what I'm doing so I can come help you do your job.

TGIF!

(After everyone leaves, I'll probably go try to fit my phone in the new shredder. Should be good times. Looking forward!)

We just got a new library toy today, too (Kindle).  It's been making the rounds, but we only have the Wall St. Journal and some SEC blog on there so far.  It's going to the partner retreat with our library director in two weeks for a big pitch. 

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

I considered getting a Kindle. I read A LOT, but as I've said before, I freaking love the library. And I'd be so nervous about losing the thing, I'm not sure it's worth it.

I'm thinking of getting one now.  E-books from Amazon are cheaper than real bookstore books (not library, obviously) and you can highlight, add notes, dog-ear pages, do text searches and store like 1,500 books in it.  I like to keep my books and mark 'em up with stuff for future reference (non-fiction) and the library frowns on that. 

I think that over the course of maybe 30-40 books, it will pay for itself.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

I thought the Kindle was all but dead.

Are you saying it's been...rekindled?

(I'll slap myself for that one)

I covet the kindle.

I want one too. I can see the benefit to having so many books in one place and being able to take them all with me.

Amazon won't sell them in Canada for some reason, so we have the poor man's Kindle - just a pocket PC with bookreading software on it. While there will always be books that I purchase as BOOKS, because I love the way that books feel and smell and everything, it's very convenient for travelling.

Oh and I just got an electric pencil sharpener in my classroom. In one day, I usually teach give or take 150 kids. On the day I got the sharpener, about 140 kids coincidentally really needed to sharpen their pencils. Bider, I feel your pain!

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They don't? Well, for heaven's sake. I wonder why not.

 

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LOL @ Bider "I get how new equipment can be fun and shiney but they are over there putting DVD's, paper clips, padded envelopes, car keys, hands, through the thing and partying with it like its 1999. "

Walking through my train car on the way to work this morning I counted a total of three kindles in that one car alone and I wasn't even making a serious effort to look at what people were doing. I'm starting to see a lot of them lately.

Oh and back to shredders... a few months ago we had a temp receptionist in our office who decided she would do some neatening up and some dusting. For some odd reason we have (had) a feather duster in our office that she spotted and decided to put to use. Among other things that she dusted she decided to dust the top of our shredder. So what would you think if you were a powered-on shredder and felt some feathers in your sensitive area. Yup. That's what our shredder thought too. First it grabbed the thing out of her hand and made some nice feather shreds, and then it ate its way up to the wooden handle and decided she wanted that shredded too. It made a cool loud grinding thump thump thump sound (accompanied by little shrieks from our temp) and then it died. RIP old shredder. You were just trying to do your job.

The shreader in my office is a piece of crap. It gets stuck if you feed it more than 1 sheet of paper at a time.

Well, come to my office.

Remember, I think I posted our office break in(?), we had a break in. they took what they could get in the dark. Plus they( I still think it was one person) took our safe which contained all of our employee records.

So, even though I have suggested that we bolt the new safe to the floor, we have acquired a new paper shredder.

Please come and test. Apparently, it will shred the newest cadillac. Even though we seldom have anything pertinent to shred, and the new safe is still unbolted.

Which means, if it gets stolen again, I WANT DIBS! Not that any of us hard working eastern montanans have anything to give. You Meth user!

"Ta Friggin da"

We have a shredder company come and shred stuff in the parking lot. A company that goes around to other companies shredding paper in the back of a truck. Why can't I come up with ideas like this? Boy did I miss my calling.