New door

The month of November has so far been rather mild. It's not freezing here yet. I didn't notice that much of the Halloween weekend. No one asked for candy. It was cheap at the Coop grocery store so I contributed to the candy bowl at work (which is permanently placed on a table in the stacks). We need sugar to make it through the day sometimes. This week we got a large amount of books (5 moving boxes plus some extra parcels) from the Economics library. They had a weeding project and ended up with these books that they thought we wanted. Many of them we did want because our copy was missing but a large part of it we discarded (after checking our collections, of course).

The biggest event this week included a new apartment door this Wednesday. I had to stay at home that morning while the workers installed it. It's a heavy security door which is airtight. The installation took longer than expected because they made mistakes. They not only brought the wrong door, they also put the hinges on the wrong side of the frame. There are 40 apartments that will get new doors, all different colors and models. Things got a little mixed up. Finally, after five hours, they were done (right door, right hinges) and I could drive to work to attend a meeting in the afternoon. In the evening I had to vacuum the entire apartment. There was a lot of dust everywhere. I'm very happy about the new door, it shuts out the sound from the other apartments and the stairs.