11 February - birthday information

--- Diem Marshall <diem DeleteThis @diemnothiszone.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:10:40 +0000 (GMT),
> Jackie DeleteThis @Bookaholics.mbl
> wrote:
>
> >
> >--- Diem Marshall <diem DeleteThis @diemnothiszone.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:11:28 +0000 (GMT), Roger
> >> Burton West
> >> <roger DeleteThis @nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> >And as the sands of Time are being washed by the
> >> tide of Eternity, it's
> >> >time to decide whether it's kinder on coloured
> >> fabrics than our usual
> >> >brand... it's time to wish a happy birthday to
> >> Jackie the Librarian, on
> >> >February 11th.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'm sure I've missed some birthdays, belated good
> >> wishes to Jackie and
> >> any others.
> >>
> >> I'm finally up and running with my internet
> access
> >> (Blessings Upon the
> >> House of Demon! Curses upon the House of They Who
> >> Shall Not Be Named)
> >> I feel like Sam at the end of LOTR when he sits
> >> down, looks round and
> >> says, "Well, I'm back."
> >>
> >> What's happenin' dudes?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Welcome back, we've missed you. Personally, I'm
> >living in the deep freeze, outside anyway. We've
> had
> >snow and sleet and other fun stuff. Dug out the
> >driveway only to have the plow block it up again
> and
> >other fun stuff. I'm just glad I don't have school
> >age kids--second snow day or is it the third and
> it's
> >below freezing so most parents can't/won't send the
> >kids out for long.
> >
>
>
> I've got grandchildren with chicken pox and everyone
> seems to have a
> cold they can't get rid of (me included). We could
> do with a bit of
> your freeze just to get rid of a few bugs. I had to
> wait three months
> to chop down a tree because the 'winter' was so mild
> the damned thing
> went dormant.
>
> <thinks> What else have I got to moan about? Dear
> me, not a lot. Have
> to go back to being annoyingly ecstatic about my
> restored connection.
>
> Do you get a lot more people in the library when
> it's freezing outside
> - or fewer people venturing out from their homes?
> And do the books
> help insulate the place? I keep telling my husband
> that he needs to
> build more shelves as an energy-saving measure. I'd
> hate him to find
> out it doesn't work.
>
>
Sorry about the chickenpox.

Number of people in the library varies amazingly. We
had over 300 on the Sunday it stormed, we had almost
90 signed up for a concert but only 30 came. But some
people will go out not matter what the weather. It
was quiet Tuesday, when they announced the building
was closing early but there were still people there in
spite of the fact the it was sleeting outside and
roads were getting slick.

I can't say anything about books as insulation. I've
seen it written about in novels but to the best of my
knowledge no-one has ever proved that books make good
insulators.

Jackie




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In <20070215211253.261373903210373 DeleteThis @firedrake.org> Jackie the Librarian wrote:

>I can't say anything about books as insulation. I've
>seen it written about in novels but to the best of my
>knowledge no-one has ever proved that books make good
>insulators.

Newspaper is certainly good insulation -- ask any tramp -- so I should
think the paper in books would be too.

Beetle

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> I've seen it written about in novels but to the best of my
> knowledge no-one has ever proved that books make good
> insulators.
Insulation from boredom, the real world, yes. Cold? Not sure.
Au Res.,
Paul
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--- Paul Bines
<p.a.binesspam.RemoveThis@trapbtwhurdleinternet.com> wrote:

> > I've seen it written about in novels but to the
> best of my
> > knowledge no-one has ever proved that books make
> good
> > insulators.
> Insulation from boredom, the real world, yes. Cold?
> Not sure.

I hope "Hammered" by Elizabeth Bear can do double duty
today. It's a tad nippy and I have to finish my
re-read (about 270 pages) today and write up
tomorrow's discussion questions. It'll be an easy
job, I enjoyed it the first time I read it and the
second time I was breezing along until my son nabbed
my copy because he had misplaced his. I didn't get it
back til last night but I shall prevail.

If anyone has read it and wants to send pearls of
wisdom along....But I think this will be a better
choice than last month's title. We did the 4th book
of a series and there was too much to try and pick up
so no one who had not already read the book and the
entire series enjoyed it.

Jackie




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