Thing 3

Utilities

Uploading my library card to the Key Ring app was not as easy as I had hoped. Luckily I had  read Christy Walker's post about this one ahead of time, so I did what she did (i.e., just guessing which was the right bar code--none of them looked to me like they matched the one on my card). When I tried it with one of our self-checks, it didn't work, but it DID work on the other self-check in the children's department.

Just for kicks, I tried CardStar, which is the same idea. This seemed easier to set up--it skipped the step of asking you to choose the matching bar code, and it didn't add those confusing letters at the beginning and end of the card number. And it worked. So I deleted Key Ring and plan to add a bunch more cards to CardStar.

P.S. I also went back to Thing 1 and took some more time to set up this blog to make it prettier and include all that narcissistic profile info. I think I deserve extra credit for all my hard work!

Thing 2

Photos

New phone!

Up until this week, I was using an old Palm Pre II, running on WebOS. It was really cute but not really a smart phone, and I don't have nearly enough tech savvy to figure out how to make it smarter using its open source operating system. Not that I really know what that is. Anyway, it did the job for making phone calls and basic texts (but not sending or receiving texts w/ photos). BUT all support for WebOS is ending in March. So between that and the launching of 23 Mobile Things, I bit the bullet.

I did my homework and found a pretty good, affordable smart phone that works well with my prepaid service. It gave me fits all day yesterday with its inability to connect to the library's wifi--many thanks to Elizabeth, Marcus, Peter, and Katherine for spending so much time trying to figure it out! But then it worked fine at home, so I got myself an Instagram account. My kids were a big help, and as you can see, one of them offered to pose for my first shot:

(The theme of my blog is obviously my dog. Maybe also my kids.)

Of course, Gina has had to spend the past 20 minutes helping me figure out how to get photos to show up on my Instagram page. What is wrong with me?? Maybe I will just stick with Facebook for my own purposes, and use Instagram to spy on the kids.

Thing 1: Hi to all my techie co-workers!

Blogging

Thanks to a little help from Elizabeth, I'm going to end my week by getting my first Thing done. I want so badly to post a photo of my sweet old cat, but that's a cliche for a middle-aged librarian, so I will resist. How about my dog? A dangerous pit bull mix.

(Plus if you look really closely, you might see that sweet old cat too.)