Odds and Ends on Saturday

• Just spent a wonderful evening with two friends of mine who live about an hour away. We hung out in Millenium Park and watched the fountains. They also pointed out to me the many aspects of the Chicago Tribune building. There are several pieces of artifacts from all over the world on the facade of the building, including a brick from Yale University, a rock from Yellowstone, a piece from the House of Commons, a piece of the Taj Mahal (hidden by tents for an art festival), a piece from the Petrified Forest, and the Great Pyramid.
• I had lunch today with our Ingram rep., Cathy along with some other librarians from Massachusetts, including a Somerville librarian, the director of the Ipswich Library, and the directors of CLAMS and CWMars (two library networks). We all had talks about the differences between our places of work.
• I met a librarian from the Cleveland Public Library, today. She's a branch manager (and from my mother's hometown I later found out!). She and her staff don't have any off desk time. We talked a lot about what we do, and she really seemed to enjoy her library. I liked talking with her very much.
• My hotel room was still not made up when I returned at 5:15 which I thought was odd (and not relevant to anything). In better news, the Red Sox are now two games ahead of the Yankees.