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e larue april 17 2026 last week i did a full upgrade and something about the kernel crashed my elementaryos 8 1 installation that s a problem i don t want an unreliable computer so i had a cd from a recent linux magazine with linux mint it installed well found the broadcom wifi and all was well then i got to dinking around with making it look more maclike installed the white sur theme with icons so now i have the rounded corners the red yellow and blue dots on the left of a window and a maclike logo for the program launcher i installed plank a maclike dock and fiddled with it then for no reason i can discover plank just disappeared i uninstalled and reinstalled it and no dice it s there it has preferences but i couldn t make it show up on the screen but it s ok linux mint on a mac is pretty easy to use firefox emacs pandoc upnote all work fine without the dock i can run everything from a minimal panel in a way that s a little calmer i don t need thi share get link facebook x pinterest email other apps post a comment read more garfield county libraries explore mill levy extension by jamie larue march 19 2026 a famous wyoming bumper sticker reads lord please give me one more boom this time i promise not to p ss it away boom and bust defines the west some of us get caught on the wrong side of each end of the cycle the smarter ones learn from it they hedge their bets they invest their money in things they can sustain i ve been a library administrator for almost 45 years this is the first time i ve worked in a district that got 50 or more of its revenue from the natural gas sector it makes you cautious it encourages you to save in 2026 library revenues fell by over 830 000 all due to a decrease in natural gas valuation in 2006 garfield county voters approved a 1 0 mill levy for libraries its purpose was to build or renovate branches in each of the county s six municipalities the money also provided some operational support that s why we have six beautiful libraries one in every town in the county we keep them up too in 2027 those bonds basically mortgages for pub share get link facebook x pinterest email other apps post a comment read more why are people so mean by jamie larue february 19 2026 in my last job i took a required workshop on diversity equity and inclusion one of the exercises paired me up with a young woman whose parents were born in india although she d been born and raised in the states we were supposed to talk about where we d grown up who did we feel comfortable around and who not so much she grew up in dallas texas at first she lived in a neighborhood with a bunch of other brown children she liked it then her parents moved her to a better school she was the only kid with brown skin there so she said she felt most comfortable with people who looked like her she felt least comfortable with looking at me old white guys i said i totally got that i d grown up north of chicago on the shore of lake michigan my mother was consistently kind and competent my father was often mean and drunk i was raised on the dividing line between the black and white parts of town so was definitely aware of race i m comfortable with people who are kind i m share get link facebook x pinterest email other apps post a comment read more library director begins new chapter by jamie larue january 15 2026 before i came to garfield county i lived in two big cities chicago and denver i was surprised to learn that i did a lot more walking and biking there than i did in the more rural and suburban settings i d lived in before cars are a hassle in the city in the country you have to have one that means you spend more time sitting foolishly i did a little too much biking in denver despite the wildfire smoke trapped in the heat inversion it led to adult onset asthma since starting my job here too much driving and sitting behind a computer edged me over into type 2 diabetes i d been borderline most of my life but kept it under control through exercise my siblings all younger than me slipped over years ago let s not even get into sleep apnea or dental issues the story is old as time because it is time i m getting old last may i started thinking about retirement i m just one year younger than my father when he died four of my six best friends have died in the last coupl share get link facebook x pinterest email other apps post a comment read more reading and riding the rails by jamie larue december 18 2025 recently i took a train trip from chicago to glenwood springs i sprung for a roomette with a fold out bunk bed for the night and sleeping on a train was just as much fun as i hoped it would be as i left chicago there was a winter storm coming but the train just shrugged that weather aside during the over thousand mile trip amtrak passed right through the heart of many downtowns i caught a glimpse of many libraries that s not surprising since there are more than 16 000 public libraries across the nation more than there are mcdonald s or starbucks isn t that good news in almost every town across the great plains there are those earmarks of place a library a post office a school a town hall these spaces represent something we don t think about too often a public investment in knowledge and civic participation these are the pillars upon which our nation stands as i sat in my little room and watched the miles fly by i also listened to an audiobook b share get link facebook x pinterest email other apps post a comment read more deep state or mob rule the lessons of history by jamie larue december 18 2025 when my grandfather died i inherited his collection of the story of civilization by will and ariel durant this 11 volume series 50 years in the making stretches from our oriental heritage volume 1 to the age of napoleon the prose is magisterial the durants were shrewd probing superbly balanced in diction and idea they did more than sum up the past they sought wisdom i confess i have not read the whole thing but i have flipped through the thousands of pages to consider what my grandfather underlined or commented on and i did read the companion volume the lessons of history it only has 118 pages two big lessons stick with me one of them is the wry observation that human beings are reliably violent and crazy to try to rein in our more destructive influences we create institutions the family religion work nations but institutions founded by human beings take on human flaws one in three women and one in four men have been physically abused by an intima share get link facebook x pinterest email other apps post a comment read more more posts archive june 1 april 1 march 1 february 1 january 1 december 4 november 1 october 2 september 3 august 3 july 2 june 4 may 1 april 2 march 2 february 3 january 2 december 2 november 2 october 4 september 2 august 2 july 1 june 1 october 3 november 1 august 1 may 1 march 1 april 1 march 1 april 2 march 2 january 1 november 1 september 8 august 2 august 1 june 1 april 1 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