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I am almost a month complete at my new job.  I really like it here.  My co-workers are great and I am learning a lot.  The patrons have been pretty great too.  With any public job there has been a couple upset or mean people.  And of course annoying or at least trying to be annoying. 
The teenagers must be getting bored around here.  I had one come up to the desk last week while his two buddies were hiding in the non-fiction shelves.  He asked, very very loudly, if we had the book titled “Penis”.  Just about every head in the adult section turned to watch.  I stared him down for a moment and asked if he knew who the author was.  The teenager thought about it for a few seconds and said, “Martin Gay”.  I asked him if he was sure that was the author’s name.  “It’s a real book, I swear!” he said.  While I typed the author’s name in the catalog he stood there trying very hard not to start laughing, his lips slipping into a smile a few times.
“Well,” I told him ”there does happen to be an author out there named Martin Gay.  But he wrote books on the different wars, not on the title you asked.” 
I don’t know if he expected me to freak out or chew him out, and the fact that Martin Gay actually existed threw him off, because all he did was clear his throat, say thank you and walk back to his friends.  I think I was a disappointment to him and his friends.  They left pretty quickly after that.

What I had really started this blog post for was to talk about SAM.  SAM is the software the library uses to manage the internet computers.  At my last job, they used PC Reservation, which I like so much more than SAM.  PC Reservation does all of the same things as SAM, but it is so much simpler to use.  I think the most annoying thing about SAM is the pin.  Patrons have to make up a pin and use it each time they log on.  They are always forgetting what it is.  And sometimes SAM doesn’t accept a pin even though it is the patrons first time using it.  I have to go in and delete the pin that is not even there, and then it works.  It is just plain annoying.