I read The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King. In it, King says that the crew often played pranks on Mr. Rogers. During one entrance, when Rogers went to his closet to get his coat, he found one crew member standing inside completely naked.

Sometimes I joke about getting MLA4 LIFE tattooed across my knuckles. This usually takes place when I'm in a surly mood from having taught an APA documentation class.

I watched Fight Club at the exact right time in my life when I needed it. The narrator talks about how he's living a lie, desperately trying to acquire things that are meaningless. I was, too, and knew that I needed to break out. I thus found Fight Club helpful to me at that time.

My guess is that the original owner passed a Whataburger and decided to make a better choice than eating an In-N-Out burger.

I remember literally trembling as I walked out of the theater.

As a college faculty member, these are familiar arguments. Language changes and evolves over time for different genres, audiences, registers, and codes. But, at a practical level, they create excuses to not hold students accountable for the quality of their writing. Because aggregate grades and graduation rates are so highly prized, the excuse yearns for this argument.
But then we find that the students aren't simply switching codes between casual internet language and formal writing. They just can't do formal writing. We see this in their formal writing in college, which causes writing assignments to be re-designed to avoid formal writing. We avoid gathering evidence that would indicate that the students haven't learned formal writing.
Then the student graduates. S/he sends out resumes, cover letters, and business emails. These are commonly written in casual, sloppy, internet speak not because the student has forgotten to switch codes, but because the student hasn't actually learned formal writing.
There's a great line at the end of the Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror." Spock explains that the mirror universe crew members were unable to conceal themselves because, "It was far easier for you as civilized men to behave like barbarians than it was for them as barbarians to behave as civilized men."
This is not to say that people who can't write well are barbarians. But people who have learned the rules of formal writing can break them artfully. They actually can switch codes or registers. But people who haven't learned formal writing can't suddenly begin writing according to the formal rules.
Tom Scott says that people who type in all lower case are actually carefully making a deliberate statement, using lower case to rhetorical effect. I've read far too many student papers to believe this to be true.

I have worked telephone reference before, but I've never worked in a library that kept verbatim records of reference questions.

This is similar to my own thinking. In a way, the episodes of my life have been out of order. I was not able to go on adventures in my youth, but I have in middle age. It's done well for me.
One observation I've had from watching elderly people in the past few years: not being socially engaged can have terrible consequences. Standing still can lead to social isolation. As a consequence, I've learned to be very socially aggressive by seeking out and taking up new opportunities to meet new people, make new friends, and try new things.

I really like this idea.
Another fun activity while traveling: visiting small town libraries--the smaller, the better.