is that a marmot in your pants?

on thursday and friday of last week, i drove the 3.5 hours to grand junction for the annual marmot director's meeting. marmot is our shared online catalog. around 30 western slope colorado libraries are part of a consortium, administered by the marmot group, that provides us, among other things, increased buying power with library vendors and a shared cooperative online catalog (i.e. if we don't have it, mesa state college will and they'll send it to us).

it was a good time, and the librarians really cut loose. the dinner/cocktail hour on thursday night was at the marmot president's house, and it was a cinco de mayo theme. as a result, there was a piñata, which was tied up with a kite string, and the kite string was simply not cutting it. anytime someone would whack it, the string would break. finally, no one was willing to tie up the sad little piñata again, so...

we gave it a south central l.a. gang style beatdown on the ground. it was the funniest goddamn thing i've seen in awhile. 3 mild-mannered librarians (myself included) stomping and beating this orange horse like we were bloods and crips and it owed us money.

got back friday evening in time for big pants' second gig at braun's. we were much better this time, played 2.5 sets that lasted about three hours, and actually had about 15 people dancing at one point. good fun.

i'll keep writing if you keep reading. peace out!