The Magical Destiny Tour

Sage and Silver and the White Tornado were first in line for the Magical Destiny Tour, tickets in hand, eager to see the wonders of Destiny. Also present were the Lime Green Knight, some folks from Follay, Bookstore Guy, 2 Librarians, HighTech Guy, some folks from TS, and some Desert Tribesmen. It's a very popular tour and very, very interesting. All kinds of int-ter-resting information. Silver thought the Lime Green Knight would be the tour guide, but he seemed to be more interested in concealing information than dispensing it. Follay asked when the Destiny servers would be delivered. The Lime Green Knight said he didn't know. Follay asked what district wide library policies we had. The Lime Green Knight said "We'll discuss that later." Follay asked who was in charge of textbooks for the district. The Lime Green Knight said "We'll have to talk about that later." Follay asked which central office bought the textbooks. Uh, none. Which central office receives the textbooks and distributes them to the schools? Uh, none. Who is responsible for the textbooks? Uh, nobody. Follay said, "Well, the ultimate goal will be to handle textbooks centrally in order to save money." (Quick now, how many people have heard both the Black Queen and the White Queen say, "All of the budgets are going to the sites in the future and this will never change. The budgets will never come back to central.") Follay stopped short of asking why we bought this sucker when we apparently don't ever plan to use it the way it was intended to be used. In the meantime, Bookstore Guy is calmly explaining why Destiny won't work for them and besides Pooh Bear Software is working wonderfully already. (Wait a minute. I thought Bookstore Guy wanted Destiny. Oops, guess not.) Then we moved on to the question of student records. This was the Desert Tribes turn. Silver has been asking White Tornado for weeks if the Desert Tribes had been part of the decision making process. This was news to the Desert Tribe. They said, "Wait a minute, no one told us that WE had anything to do with this. We can't do anything. Our schedule is completely booked. We have caravans scheduled for every day from know until the Harvest Moon. We can't help in ANY WAY." Then the Desert Tribe went back to their tent. Bookstore Guy and HighTech Guy had both been listening to the negotiation with the Desert Tribe and they said "Wait a minute, this means that Destiny won't do what the Finance Offices want either." Hmmmmmm. Has someone bought a pig in a poke? The Desert Tribe did come back and say that they would help with some basic things, nothing too complicated. After that things moved on to library issues which were much less interesting. After all the library folks have already opened the poke and examined the pig as thoroughly as possible what with the Lime Green Knight trying to keep the poke closed and the pig out of sight.
In other news, the Job Beast is a chameleon - or maybe a chimera. This morning it was of the Library Services species. Tonight it's of the CITI species. (Isn't CITI some sleazy offshore banking operation?)