Thursday, January 28, 2010

Huzzah and hooray!

One of my favoritest people is back at the library, Jana! She's back, and here, and helping, and everything! Considering how much fun she has here, I don't know why she ever left, but into every beaver's life a few leaves must fall.

Speaking of fall and seasons and weather and spring, I think the clouds sprung a leak! Whoever was working the snow making machine things broke something, cause it was raining like crazy! So much of the snow melted, there were little rivers in the streets; I was tempted to go out and dam one of them up, but that would have made it really hard for all the cars and buses and trucks and big ol' sport thingies. Instead, I just played in the yard, made a little dam on the walkway to the library, then put it all away. Just like I put away my galoshes. It's one thing for a beaver to go swimming, but in the rain, even I need to wear my rubber boots.

But now it's snowing again, and the spring is over, back to winter and completely skipping summer and fall. Oh well, there'll be another spring soon enough, and that's soon enough for me. Once I tried off and snuggled down in front of the fireplace, it was pretty watching the snow fall in big wispy, wiffy, cotton balls.

Isn't weather fun?

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Put the Book Right in, Take the DVD Out...

Stuff's here, then there, it's like a shuffle-palooza!

They've been writing down the titles of all the DVDs, and books, and scanning everything at the front counter. All day long, all you can hear is 'beep....beep....beep'! Carts of stuff go by, I'm really lucky, they just barely missed my tail this morning. Course, my tail just kind of drags behind me, Mouse's tail actually moves around and quivers and whips. I wonder what it would be like to have a different tail...

How about a monkey tail? I could hang from the lights! Or, or, or, how about a big ol' kangaroo tail, I could lean back on it with my tummy up in the air! Maybe a curly-cute piggy tail, or big feathery peacock's tail?

Do any of you ever wonder what it would be like to be different, to change a little something about yourself?

Mouse says, if he could change anything about himself, it would be his fur; he wants softer, fluffier fur so he can be cuddly-comfy-cosy all the time. That would be neat, it would be like having a fuzzy fleece blanket with you all the time. Then you could sit by the fire and read with your friends.

All this talk of blankets is making me sleepy. I think I'll take a nap until they stop moving things. That's one thing my tail is really good for, it's like carrying a little mattress with me wherever I go. I think I do like it, after all.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Mmm...sparkle-icious...

It's soooo pretty!! Having a working computer is a pretty big deal for a library. Don't get me wrong, the card catalogues they used to use were incredible...the crisp smell of ink when a new card was filled out and added to the stack, the beautiful sleek cabinets all the cards would go into, dozens of little drawers, a piece of art polished and shiny...looking so beautiful...so delicious...whoops, my tummy started to grumble there.

But, well, what was I saying before I started talking about those cabinets...the polished feel...the smell. Mouse says I have to stop that, it's not my fault, they just look so incredible. Give me a sec to read back...right, computers!

That's what's so pretty and shiny, they got a new computer here, or at least new enough that hopefully nothing else will explode for a while. For a while they were talking about evergreen trees, but I don't know why, I never liked them cause when you start chewing through them, the sap gets all gummy and caught in my teeth, but not in a good way. It's like gnawing on a big wad of toffee at Halloween, but not nearly as sweet.

So, yeah, new computer for the library to work on, yay! It sounded like they wanted to get new ones for everybody to use, too, as well as a bunch of new books and other stuff, but some budgie wasn't big enough? They're pretty small birds, so I can understand that, although I've never seen one around the library. Sometimes I see chickadees outside the windows, or hear geese flying by, maybe even a bluejay if I'm lucky...what's that Mouse? That doesn't make any sense, even if they have to give pieces of paper to people to get stuff, we're in a library, remember? There's paper everywhere! Wait...but we don't want to wreck the books...hmm...maybe I could get them some trees and they could make their own paper, that might work! I love the library, and I love to help out!

Friday, January 8, 2010

Crash-Bang-Boom!

*cough*

Don't mind the smoke, it'll clear out in a minute or two. Wow, my coat's all dirty now...I'll have to clean up before I go to bed.

Did it ever get crazy-crashy-system-smashy!

I don't know what those librarians did, but one minute everything was calm and quiet, going along like a nice, gentle river. Then all of a sudden...click, whirrr, beeep, beeep, click...

Something happened, and now the computer has amnesia! It doesn't remember anything that's happened in the past few months!! Luckily, it still remembered me, or no one would have read another word from yours truly and Mouse. Mouse was worried for a while, he said sometimes computers get cold...no I think it was 'colds', like a bug, or was it a virus. A virus, that's what it was! Or what he said. Or what he thought might have happened. He said he had a virus once, it made him do everything backwards. So, if he wanted to go forward, he had to go backwards, and to go backwards, he had to walk forwards. Left was right, up was down, black was white! Well, no, black was still black and white was still white, like a clean sheet of paper. But Mouse said it was hard to walk around for a while.

Mouse says that sometimes computers just get old, or little pieces wear out...tiny pieces we can't even see! I trust him, though. Mouse is smaller than me, so he knows a lot about small things. But now the librarians have to teach the computer everything it forgot, so I'm helping too. I'm re-reading all the old books I read to Mouse, so the computer can listen in. Mouse thought we should make some soup, and I agreed. The computer didn't want it though, so we had it ourselves. I love chicken noodle soup!

This was definitely a fun time, getting ready to read all my old, favorite books again. Maybe this is what people mean about starting the year off with a bang. What? What was all that smoke from? Well...I'm not very good in the kitchen. I should have asked for help when I was making our soup, now I have a mess to clean up. Oops!

Happy New Year from Bupl and Library Mouse!!!