OK….so they do want us to be safe. My Bad.

OK….just got the call. I don’t have to go to work. They decided that it was too dangerous. My Bad. All that talk about how the USPS doesn’t care….how they don’t want me to be safe….no matter how many safety … Continue reading

safety talk

At work, they give us “safety talks” ….to keep us safe. They tell us things like, “ice is slippery” or “don’t walk up stairs if they’re icy”. We listen….and then we initial the sheet to show that we internalized every … Continue reading

Pick a place….any place….

I got up really early today….after going to bed really early the night before. The power went out yesterday after a light dusting of snow. Someone must have hit a pole because the weather wasn’t the kind that would cause … Continue reading

a bunch of folks running around in Colorado

Here’s a video of a bunch of folks running around out in Colorado. That’s putting it lightly. And….here’s the answer to the Bizarro question “how you gonna keep them down on the farm….after they’ve seen Pareeeeeeeeeee”. My wife grew up … Continue reading

filling

I had a dream last night that the pond was filling up with water again. The property looked like a park….beautiful and green….and the pond had a clean, sandy bottom…..great for swimming….great for anything, really. The water was coming up…..and … Continue reading

I’ll Never Know

I’ll never know what it must have been like. I don’t have any battles to fight like that. I don’t really have anything to “overcome” ….or to change in my life. The changes that I might want to make are changes … Continue reading

window shopping

Checking Craigslist for guitars this morning. Again. That’s just about nuts. Another guitar is something that I don’t need….it’s just a weird habit. I guess I think I’ll see something amazing and cheap….and have the time and money to go … Continue reading

from a window

This is a picture that my daughter took from the window of our Dodge Caravan…..cruising down the highway at 70 miles an hour….out West….out West….out West. “From the window”….. Out the window….. What was I doing when she was taking the … Continue reading

Sourdough…..again.

I don’t get a whole lot of comments on this blog. I tend to fly under the radar……whispering into the wind…wondering where the words fall or if anybody reads them…. One of the posts that I wrote a while back … Continue reading

please amputate my size 16 foot

YouTube is pretty strange. Some mornings when I don’t feel terribly inspired, I’ll get on YouTube and pick out a video to feature and write a quick blog post about. This morning it was a toss-up between this video and … Continue reading