My Day.
I kind of wasted today after I got up and sorted out my brother and cleaned up his house, put the washing on the line etc and then went home and played games on my computer all morning and afternoon ( Read more... )

The first library exhibit I ever went to was in Dublin at the National Library of Ireland, it was an exhibit on the poet Yeats and I went to it for two reasons, the main one was that it was free and because of circumstances I'm only a little embarrassed about(I forgot the PIN for my cards and had no money for a week while I waited for new ones to ( Read more... )

When I travel I used to travel with a lot of gear, two years ago I learned the hard way that a lot of gear weighs a lot and thus I learnt to cut what I'm carrying down to practically nothing. The one issue I do have is the number of books I like to travel with ( Read more... )

The State Library is seventeen kilometres away from my brothers house by bike. That means it is forty-five minutes away if I cycle or about the same amount of time if I catch a train(which was a startling fact to realise). The difference between the two transportation methods is that one is slightly healthier for me and the other means I get into ( Read more... )

The G20 came and went in a surprising hurry considering how long we'd been told about it and how much effort went into it. At the state library there was as much security work done as anywhere else in the cultural precinct, we had a few evacuation drills, the alarm went of a few times to everyone's sarcastic delight ( Read more... )

The ludicrous level of killing required to make a library in Minecraft.
I've been playing Minecraft since it came out back in 2009 more or less and one thing I love about the game is basically digging a huge hole, finding a ton of resources and then eventually building a library inside a stupidly huge castle. Although I've recently started to go ( Read more... )

Short Story Sunday: No Pink About It. Bright Lights Forwards. By A.H.

We were challenged in my writing club to write a short story without using the letter E. So I did it, I had to literally remove the E key from the keyboard to do it because I kept forgetting and using words with E in them without realising it..It wasn't difficult to talk to God ( Read more... )

My Day.
I didn't get up to much today. Just stayed at home, played a ton of Command And Conquer:Red Alert 3, went shopping for dinner and some snacks for afterwards at my mates place where I was going to go to play some games and generally catch up ( Read more... )

Finding volunteer opportunities.
It wasn't easy to actually get a volunteer position, it is kind of weird that giving yourself away as a worker for free can be difficult to do but it is. Of the three volunteer positions I'm currently in(with a fourth one looking possible in the coming months) two of them are from connections from family and friends ( Read more... )

Managing Volunteers.
I've been volunteering now for about a year or so in three different libraries and organisations and I've found it interesting how each organisation manages its volunteers ( Read more... )