i am big brother

I have a little sister…we’re both adults now (or at least old enough to be considered adults)…so I have always been the “big brother”. It’s something I’ve always been. It’s something I’ll always be. You can’t change birth order. But … Continue reading

awake

I was having a dream last night. It was a dream I remembered when I woke up.  It was a dream I remembered when I woke up relieved. In my dream, I was delivering the mail.  I was delivering out … Continue reading

the chihuahua proof fence

There’s a house on my route that caught fire a couple of years ago. In the fire, it was gutted… but since the house could be reclaimed, they repaired it and the folks who lived there have since moved back … Continue reading

fear the quiet

I worked at a radio station for a while right before Jenny and I were married. We had a phrase for what happened when we weren’t paying attention ( or we ran out of song when we put “Low Spark … Continue reading

YouTube days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX_7HwVa-0A “With a head as full of nothing as a head could be!” That sounds like the perfect jingle for an amazing undeveloped product. I wish I could think of something to pump out into the marketplace. We’d all be … Continue reading

saving face, saving the USPS

We got word yesterday that the proposed stop to Saturday first class mail delivery has been shelved for now. Here’s one version of the story here. I guess that for all the hard language and bluster, when it came down … Continue reading

where’s my cameraman?

I was never this tan…or this fit…or this adventurous…but this video makes me wonder…”where’s my cameraman?”. That’s the thing about these videos…we never celebrate the guy behind the camera…chasing the tan guy up the mountain. He doesn’t get any props. … Continue reading

“they” only talk about the weather

I think mailmen must be like farmers. My life is becoming more and more ruled by the weather. It’s not a case of bad weather ever stopping me from getting out and sliding around on the roads…it’s just a matter … Continue reading

there’ll be knock-offs at the flea market

“Say…have you heard anything about five day delivery?” That’s my new running joke that I ask customers out on the mail route these days.  It’s pretty hilarious. We (Postal workers) are always the last to know.  I have to watch … Continue reading

my Mail Jeep update

(this isn’t a picture of my jeep…it just made me wonder  how big a tire I could put on mine if I chopped some stuff and put a lift kit on it?  I could be a stylin’ mailman, for sure….) … Continue reading