My first job was as a library page.  I think that maybe I should have pursued this as my career but I went off in another direction.  I still use the library like crazy even with the web’s availability.

 The reason that I did not become a librarian was that despite my admiration for them, I think that intuitively I knew that I could never be one.  I could not be one because they had to supervise pages and in those instances when there was an epidemic and the pages did not show up for work they had to do page stuff. 

 The supervision of a page is darned difficult.  Pages are so similar to slaves in so many ways.  I had this insight about the dynamic between pages and librarians that I think helps define what ‘librarian core values are’.  I wanted to get all those damned books back on the shelves so I could go do fun librarian stuff.  The librarian wanted all the books to be off the shelves and into the hands of people who they felt should be able to earn a living by reading books.  This was like Sisyphus a conflict that could never be resolved.  I did not want to be a slave driver.  The librarian has to be one as being a librarian is their reason for being. 

Librarianism is predestined!

 Anyway, I rely a lot on your docs as they are more helpful than those written by ‘programmers’.  I like computer language but it is not my native one.  My real problem is that I know the explanation for my issue is there…. right under my eyes… and I know that it is there and I am just not seeing it.  And that is so very frustrating.

 I am also single minded in some areas.  I can not ‘move on’ and do other things until an earlier piece or frustration is dealt with.  My blog is now moving forward.  My problem with navigation links had me stuck. 

 You unstuck me.  You rule.