Today has been one heck of a day! Started out this morning by unknowingly dropping my sweater in the crosswalk of 2nd Street and Boulder, needless to say no one felt the need to mention it until I traveled a block further to INCOG when a random lady drove by yelling at me that I had dropped my sweater. I'm pretty sure it had been ran over a couple times, wow...
Once safely inside INCOG I decided to scan the antique newspapers which had been loaned to me several weeks ago. I have been searching for a few weeks for a large enough scanner, so I wouldn't have to scan them in sections and paste them together in Photoshop. I had gotten approval from Kurt, in mapping, to use the large scanner at INCOG. He was not at work today and I had to solicit help from other employees in the area on instructions. After a little trial and error I thought it would be smooth sailing. Well, 80+ year old newspapers which have been laminated can also consist of large amounts of tape, tape + scanner = no bueno. After about two hours I had scanned half the stack of newspapers, when the scanner decided it needed to have cleaning/maintenance (too much tape). An hour later with the help of yet another employee the scanner was fixed and ready to go. I scanned a few more copies and left the remaining papers which were too large and consisted of too much tape to be scanned at a later date (in a smaller scanner). At least I've wiped out the majority of the stack and will only have to scan about four more papers the difficult way. I owe a lot to the mapping department and I'm sure they hope to avoid me for a few days. Thank you so much!
I had a nice break at lunch meeting with my friend Cayla. We went to Billy's in Downtown, somewhere I will most definitely go again. She surprised me with a late birthday gift, including a frame which will soon be adorning my desk. On the way out of Billy's I, not paying attention, caught my wedge heel on the edge of brick and nearly went down. My near disaster made for quite an entertaining afternoon break and a hilarious mental image of what everyone around me must have seen take place.
On my return from lunch I am studying the new CDGB State Plan for 2012 and also looking over some documents to help me further understand impediments to fair housing. The latter is a task which I will be working on in the next few weeks with INCOG for Tulsa County.
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