Downtown Library — Attraction in Palo Alto

I used to enjoy sitting outside on the patio with my laptop on the West side. There are two outdoor electric sockets. Recently I noticed they put little padlocks on each one so you can't plug 🔌 in outdoors. What was the reason for that ? Is there any good policy to support this or was it just another additional restriction for POWER & CONTROL purposes? --++ What's the freaking deal with Brightview Landscaping😡⁉️👎 at downtown Palo Alto Library . I pulled in one morning around 10:00 a.m. and they're doing their omnipresent ubiquitous leaf blowing thing, as they always freakin do, and then the chubby girl blowing the leaves not only does she try to blow a patch of dirt, unnecessarily kicking up dust -you can't blow dirt off dirt unless you're trying to dig a hole or something. Some things you just can't blow. You need to get out a rake or something.Use your muscles if you have any.

But the main freakin problem was that she was aiming everything towards my vehicle and I'm sitting in the vehicle with Windows partially open. And she doesn't even stop despite apparently knowing that I'm in the vehicle. And all the dust and debris going all over my vehicle.

So I finally get out of my freakin car and I say what's going on ? STOP. And she tries to say in broken English " I'm blowing I'm blowing" like she's an innocent Little Red Riding Hood or something. I know you're blowing little lady, but you need to stop if you're getting it all over my car or any other car and if my windows are open all the more so! She pretends or maybe she actually can't speak any English.

Doesn't Brightview do any training I mean it's not like this is brain surgery or rocket science to blow leaves but you have to have a LITTLE COMMON SENSE () not to blow the debris onto vehicles and cover their vehicles with debris (& care , not apathy; or Worse -getting stoned & then blowing leaves).

Furthermore they blow this stuff over to the side by the fence and then THEY DON'T EVEN THEY DON'T EVEN SWEEP it up. And they don't even pick up the paper and trash that's on the side.

They're very LAZY- all they seem willing to do is leaf blowing. I don't think this girl even had the dexterity to to bend over. It's lazy work really it really is lazy work leaf blowing & combined with apathy it's just a terrible operation.

Brightview 👎😡 needs to be fired and they need to get somebody new a new operation at the library or the city if the city is...

I used to enjoy sitting outside on the patio with my laptop on the West side. There are two outdoor electric sockets. Recently I noticed they put little padlocks on each one so you can't plug 🔌 in outdoors. What was the reason for that ? Is there any good policy to support this or was it just another additional restriction for power & control purposes?

Some days are better than others. Periodically new characters arrive & set up camp for a while. Some are okay. Some not so much. One new fellow is now setting up camp in the same spot every day. He puts up his laptop & coffee thermos & even a crutch which I've never seen him use. Seems like an ornament. Then he disappears with the stuff sitting there on the table. Not sure what's up with that? He's there every day now. See how long he stays around.

Today a gal showed up wearing ski clothes like she just came off the slopes in Tahoe. She was okay at first , then she started laughing extremely loud like she wanted attention. It was too loud and obnoxious to ignore. I finally yelled shut up and made a complaint about her. Apparently the desk workers know about her bad behavior. They talked to her about it but I had left by that time.

I noticed she had a bunch of Stanford stuff, and she seems like college age, so why is she over here? There's plenty of places to study on the campus. Maybe she got kicked out. She seems like the type that might.

Most of the time now if I want good library time I go other places. Downtown is just too unpredictable but it is the closest so I still...

Recently, I was informed about the New York Times digital access as provided by the Palo Alto library, and I wanted to commend the team for making this content available to patrons. In my opinion, this is a great way to invest public funds and contribute to a free press which has proven to be critical in recent years. My hope is that more municipalities will follow course and see the benefit of such online resources. Besides the digital content, my main feedback for the Palo Alto downtown library is to consider opening the branch on Sundays similar to most libraries in the Santa Clara...