The Christmas Staff Party

Today they had a Christmas Staff Party at the Archives.  Art the Archiver arranged for us to order out some Chinese Food from the Lucky Garden in Hallowell.  Since we did not know what we were looking at, we just chose something from the menu.  Art went down to Hallowell to pick it up and when it came it was a real surprise package to be sure.  I thought I was ordering pot stickers (gyoza in Japan) and instead these doughy blobs with overcooked meat in them showed up.  Bill ordered broccoli beef with noodles - it was not so good either.  People have raved to us about the Lucky Garden food so we thought it would be wonderful....but it was less than.  Of all the Chinese places here in the Augusta Area, we like the  one over by the Fairfield Inn called The Great Wall Restaurant.
This morning we were instructed in the DcamX all over again.  Manuel also tried to get the engineers to find the tif image that we were supposed to fix.  Three images were mentioned in the rework but each of them is numbered as being 10 or so further on than what was in the original folder.  No one seems to know how or why the images were checked - especially seeing that they do not exist in the first place.
We finished off yesterday's book and did a whole new book today.  The highlight of the day was hearing from SLC that all 13 of our folders submitted last week passed.  That is what I call a Christmas Present to surpass all Christmas Presents.  However, we may not be so lucky next week.
During the late morning it began to rain here and quickly turned to icy rain and everything got coated with ice.  We heard of people caught unawares on the roads and there were loads of fender benders.  We even had a short blip in the electric supply for the building and people's computers had to be re-booted.  Ours is plugged into a continuous power supply box so my computer was not affected.
We are getting better at doing the single page capture on top of the cradle.  The books are 16 1/2 inches tall and they do not fit.  The quality of the paper is not so grand either so we have to be extra careful not to tear the paper when we turn a page.  Had a few accidents like that already.
Our landlord came by and refunded the money I lost in the washer down in the Laundry room.  This particular washer is the most cantankerous thing I have ever used.  Sometimes it works but mostly it doesn't.  One week I put in $6 in an effort to get it to work.  He returned the money to me and said he had the technician out to fix it.  But it was not fixed and still ate money with no laundry done in return.  So, tonight he came and he took out the part that was giving problems and told me to go down to the laundry room and do my laundry for free.  With the timing mechanism out of the machine, all you have to do is to push the button and it works and I got to do my laundry for free.  Free is Good!