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Christine woke with a migraine again this morning. Poor love. Not sure if having me up and moving at o'dark thirty has any part in that: is she carrying that pain for me?

Meanwhile, my laptop seems to continue to struggle along. I think it's some combination of the indexing engine for spotlight (mds) and memory performance. The activity monitor says mds is taking ~2 GB virtual memory

Processes: 107 total, 2 running, 1 stuck, 104 sleeping, 571 threads                                                      06:51:54
Load Avg: 0.74, 0.60, 0.65  CPU usage: 8.71% user, 23.39% sys, 67.88% idle   SharedLibs: 2856K resident, 3460K data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 21016 total, 939M resident, 30M private, 321M shared.
PhysMem: 626M wired, 943M active, 467M inactive, 2036M used, 11M free.
VM: 214G vsize, 1043M framework vsize, 25372513(0) pageins, 3727560(0) pageouts.
Networks: packets: 2992451/2086M in, 2657773/388M out. Disks: 14819193/199G read, 9932781/278G written.

The struggling cuts into my morning efficiency. The email client is part of the problem, too. I do like the UX but the performance is terrible.

In other debugging activities, Northern California Digital Library (http://ncdl.lib.overdrive.com/) isn't functional on Chrome, but looks great in firefox. [Spends time finding an effective way to browse available titles that will run on the EVO. Barbara Kingsolver looks interesting. Eventually, i'll see about adding myself to the wait lists.]

Today i am going to do my best to blow through the remaining performance appraisals. I'm planning on taking Thursday and Friday off, but i'll go in on Thursday to meet with one of my staff. I'll make stopping at Edgewood Nature Reserve to look for early wildflowers part of that trip.

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Do you feel like your library's ebook titles are pretty good? I think Overdrive tailors what you get to what kind of subscription you purchase. Our PL's is so-so, pretty good on new stuff, not great on less recent stuff. Oh, well, I guess I could actually click and look for myself. XD

Just from skimming through SF and Fantasy, i'd say there's a strong new stuff, series focus. There were a very few eBooks that were classics (and i was all "Sheesh, i'd get that from Gutenberg so i'd have as long as i want to read it"). Many of the books in the speculative fiction section were "book N of whatever" and had a wait list of 10 or 20 folks.

The subscription is a consortial purchase, but it seems there are little indicators that my library has purchased additional copies of certain books.

Yeah, I think they can do that. It's all sort of baffling to me, but I think it can be tweaked by system if not branch.