Wordless Wednesday

Purrs,

Tober

Back by Popular Demand!

Dear World,

I have been Terribly Neglected by my staff. Now, when I think about it, my Blogging Friends (that's you) look forward to my posts and hang on my every word--so YOU have been Neglected by my staff, too.

Well. SHAME ON YOU Assistant Assistant Boss Blog Helper! Now you've gone and gotten the whole Internets worried about me! (Well, okay, just a little bit of the Internets--but a very Important segment, I must say.)

We have (according to my staff) had a Busy last few weeks. It wouldn't have been so bad, but everyone rushes off to their Unauthorized Vacations, and they leave me to manage the library during the holidays. Oh, and they get distracted by the cookies and chocolate and other goodies that make it in the building, so it's hard to get them to do anything important like help me blog.

So, I'm going to make a (Belated) New Year's Resolution:

I, Tober the Cat, Boss of Thorntown Public Library (and all lands visible from Library windows), do hereby resolve to make one (1) new Blog Post, complete with handsome/cute/funny/interesting photos, each week during the rest of 2012.

Wow.

Wish me luck, guys.

Purrs, and headbutts, and nose-touches,

Tober

PS---


(It would have been bad to forget the first picture on the very first post!)

14 Days Later

It has been fourteen (14) days (that's TWO WHOLE WEEKS) since my last post! We have been busy busy bees around here. In recognition of our Busyness, I will blog about 14 things that have happened here in the last 14 days:

Thing 1: Mr. Mike Spear refinished two of the wood desks. One of them is not too old, but needed to be prettied up a bit, but the other desk is positively ancient--nearly 100 years old! In cat years, that's. . . that's. . . really old. Ancient!

So to fix up the old old desk, the staff had to uncover it and move all of their junk very important work things to book carts and other places. So it looked like this:


Yes, it looks like a crime scene.

Thing 2: Refinishing the old old desk (and the new one) made it Stink to High Heaven. This was a Stink to End All Stinks. Because of the Stink, the staff opened a few windows. I got to smell the Outside while safely Inside!


This was a wonderful thing, since I only get to smell the Outside when (a) a People-Counter mistakenly puts me Out twice or (b) I'm being carried to the V-E-T.

Thing 3: AAB Ritchie labeled the tool/"miscellaneous" drawers in the Storage Room.


See all those little stickers? Those are the labels. What you can't see is that of the 23 labels, 11 of them say "& MISC." What is Miscellaneous? No one knows. But if we ever need any, we know right where to look!

Thing 4: AAB Photographer took a picture of me with huge paws.


Thing 5: The desk got done Stinking, and now we have to be all careful about eating Treats off of it. I'm forced to use a plate:


Also, if you want to make AAB Becki crazy, leave a coffee cup on the corner of the desk. It will drive her nuts!

Thing 6: The staff made Fun of AAB Ritchie for his labeling job by labeling his desk for him one evening.


You probably can't see, but each sticker says something-or-other & MISC. (!) on it.

Thing 7: Mark Twain came to visit the Library! Dave Ehlert, an impressionist who does shows in Branson, MO, performed and 90-minute show about Mark Twain and his interesting life. I hear it was big Fun, although I was NOT invited to show and spent the night feeling quite Neglected.


Thing 8: I am such an Important Library Boss that even the contractors who do work at the Library ask after my well-being. John from Precision Control Systems very thoughtfully asked how I was when he last visited. Knowing that I am happy and well-fed helps him to get a good night's sleep.

Thing 9: (At this point I'm realizing maybe it wasn't that exciting around here over the last two weeks.) I have learned that the quickest way to motivate my Staff is to approach the Automatic Doors when they are wide Open. This makes them yell "Tober!" and "NO!" and then they lecture me and pet me and give me treats. I have been told Never Never Ever do I go Outside. But since they give me treats when I twitch in the general direction of an open door, I think I'll keep up the ruse.

Thing 10: Ooooh, we've had rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, a sunshine, rain, rain, and rain here. And Thunderboomers. Here's how I look during Thunderboomers (which are Terrifying despite my brave Mancatliness):


I sit on the landing on the stairs during storms, so that I can be almost Upstairs and almost Downstairs at the same time. That way I'm close to all of my staff at the same time.

Thing 11: AAB Photographer took a picture of me being Annoyed.


Thing 12: I was encouraged to participate in an Apple Trick photo shoot. The only reason I agreed to this is because I think it's funny watching my Photographer crawl around on the floor to take pictures of me.


Thing 13: I was accosted by a wooden Duckie.


AB Karen thought that the Duckie and I would be friends. (She was wrong.) But I was entertained as I got to watch first Karen, then AABs Christine and Britta, take turns pushing a flapping, waddling wooden Duck across the office while getting weird looks from Library customers.

Thing 14: In lieu of a 14 Thing, I'm going to cross my paws and hit the Publish Post button and hope that all of my Handsome photos and evidence of Busyness don't blow up the Blogger site.

Hoping for (slightly) less Busy times ahead,

But realizing that I'm not going to get my wish,

Tober, Busy Boss of TPL

Brought to you by the letter "B"

Last week I was a Busy B(ee) at the library.

On Tuesday nights I usually make it a point to supervise AB Karen and AAB Christine when they work Downstairs. They do not usually work Downstairs with the little ones, so I have to keep a close eye on them to make sure they do it right.

Last Tuesday when I visited I found that Miss Myrtle had put up a bulletin board for me! I really liked the last one, with the bows and jingle bells, and I was happy to see that my new bulletin board has hearts on it! And leaves and FLOWERS! Leaves and flowers--the fake kind--are especially nice to chomp on.

Here I am Busy trying to reach some tasty, crunchy roses. See how tall I can be?


After I was done inspecting my new bulletin board, I had to keep an eye on AB Karen's Very Important Papers. (These are Papers she drags all over the library with her. I don't know what they are, but they must be Important, since they follow her around everywhere.)

See how Busy!?


After that I Busied myself in one of the many nooks & crannies. I discovered a heart-shaped paper that was very nice to munch on:


Last but not least, earlier this week I was Very Busy Being MAD. My AB Karen decided that because she put Nasty Flea Stuff on her Cats and Dogs at her house, she should go ahead and put Nasty Flea Stuff on me, too. I knew something was wrong because AAB Traitor Christine was holding me and AB Traitor Karen was trying to give me a treat--this has NEVER EVER happened before, so I was suspicious.

Then I thought AB Traitor Karen petted me between the shoulder blades, but it was really her putting the Nasty Stuff on me and I don't like it because it makes my neck furs look stupid and so I fired her. She cried a lot, and I didn't want to do the State Report all by myself, so I re-hired her on the condition that she give me a few treats.

Here I was Busy being Mad.



One Busy B(oss),

Tober