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Here's my thing
Sunday May 11, 2008
As promised, here's some pics from yesterday's USPS Food drive. I've got pics of some of the more fun placements of donations, some shots from my couple of apartment buildings, a few larger than most donations, and the sequence of my truck filling up through the course of the day. Don't know what the temp was down here, but it was freekin' hot and humid. Constantly re-packing the truck had me drenched with sweat by the end of the day.
I hung around after my shift to help load the trailer and get some shots for our local union paper of other carriers coming in. That's the trailer in the last pics, loaded front to back with food. Very cool!
Again this year, I brought back more food than anyone else in my office. I say that, not to brag, but to say thanks to my most excellent customers. Their generosity always amazes me, especially with everyone feeling the pinch this year. I'll post the collection totals as they come in.
For all my brothers and sisters, I say thank you very much for helping out those in need!
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Friday May 9, 2008
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Just in case you hadn't figured it out from my blog-name, yes, I'm a letter carrier for the US Postal Service. And tomorrow is our annual food drive to fill food banks around the country. As such, here's a few bits I'd like to pass on to everyone:
1) The purpose of this drive is to help fill food banks that distribute to the needy in various cites. So use some common sense in what you donate. The gourmet escargot and quails egg breadsticks with tuscan mustard are less useful than a couple of cans of beef-a-roni. I know food's food, but come on don't be ridiculous in your generosity.
2) Customers on my route are the best. Many of them actually go shopping for this drive and leave bags of stuff at their mailbox. This is fantastic. But if you're going to leave thirty pounds of canned foods, please put them in bags/containers that can handle the weight. You've no idea how dropping a dozen cans of tomato puree on one's foot can really put a crimp in your day.
3) If you've already left food out for your carrier to pick up earlier in the week, stand still while I kick you in the shins. Saturday is the food drive day! Not yesterday or any other day in the week. If you're leaving town, fine, I get it. Thanks. But if you just didn't feel like leaving it out tomorrow, please bear in mind that the USPS is not a pantry. We don't have any place to store this stuff. The carriers don't have extra tubs in their trucks to hold the food. We plan this for one day because of the logistics involved. We appreciate the generosity, but try and donate on Saturday only.
4) Despite what management says, we are Civil Service. We provide a service to the citizens of this country. As customer service workers, we carriers try and maintain a good attitude at all times. Sadly, postal management makes this quite difficult. Despite the fact that we will be picking up tons of food tomorrow, management will expect carriers not to use any extra time. We will be expected to do our usual duties, plus pick up hundreds of pounds of food, stack and re-stack that food in our trucks, and still get done at the same time as if we were only doing a normal delivery day. It can get a bit exasperating as a carrier and in the heat (down here anyway), sometimes we can get a little short. For all my brothers and sisters, I ask for a little patience with us tomorrow. We're doing the best we can.
I'll take my camera with me and get some shots of my truck as it fills up to give you an idea of how much we pick up.
From all of us at the USPS and everyone who benefits from your generosity -- Thank you. | | Posted by postaldog at 6:22 PM - | |
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Tuesday May 6, 2008
The Sox won again 5-0, behind eight magical innings from Wake as the knuckler was definetly floating tonight. Back to back homers from Papi and Manny sealed the deal. Nice to see Wake settling in with the new catcher.
Meant to post about last night's win, especially a little bit in the later innings. The reliever Hanson was starting to get roughed up a bit after a 1-2-3 inning before. Orel mentioned that the kid was tipping his pitches, the slider particularly, and since he wasn't throwing it for strikes, batters were just sitting on it and making him throw meat over the plate. I love it when announcers bring little goodies like that into the game. Chris Berman-style euphamisms are always good for a laugh, but the insider info is better.
The Rays squeeked by the Jays tonite, 5-4, giving me a win-win night for my teams. Andy Sonnenstine continues to show that he deserves to be in the rotation despite not-overwhelming stuff. The kid pitches with heart and determination. Nice to see some payoff for that.
Now despite my disappointment with the Ashley's (Simpson/Tisdale) decision to alter their cute noses, I'm actually okay with plastic surgery. My feeling is if it makes you feel better about yourself, then go for it. With the exception of the women who want to look like their cat or have 75 triple Z breasts, I say what the heck.
My ex had a best friend whose husband was one of those -- That's the body God gave you, how dare you alter it types. Then he bitched about her mid-thirties two child body and how it wasn't the 20 year old model he married. Ass!
Anyway, the point of all this is that I saw some pics of Heidi Montag the other day and I was struck by just how pretty she is now, after the plastic surgery. According to various blogs and magazines, she's a talentless publicity whore, but golly, she is seriously pretty. And that's not a word you hear thrown around much anymore. I don't know who her surgeon is, but he should have pics of her on his office walls to pimp his success:
(before pic upper left)
 
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Monday May 5, 2008
. . . but I was watching the never-ending Stars/Sharks game.
The Sox completed the revenge sweep with a 7-3 win over the Rays in the afternoon. After I predicted a pitcher's duel, Kazmir came out looking like he hadn't thrown a pitch in six months and paid the price for it. Jon Lester started slowly but settled in and got the win with a quality six inning start. Nice homer from Youk subbing for the still creaky Papi.
Rays have a off day, then a series in/against Toronto. Hopefully they can get back on track in the Great White North.
Hat tip to Paula Creamer as she shook off the spectre of doom and won in a playoff over Julie Inkster. After losing in a playoff last week to Annika, it looked like a repeat as Paula gagged on the 18th to let Julie tie her. But she played two solid holes and came away with the victory.
Kid's only 21, she's won over $4 million and 7 tournaments, and still rocks the pink on the course. Very cool! My girl Morgan took the week off, so hopefully I'll get to see her play next week. | | Posted by postaldog at 8:19 PM - | |
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Sunday May 4, 2008
Norm Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel has posted an open letter to environmentalists on his blog. He says, once again and very politely, what I and others have been screaming for quite a while -- GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX!
Read it for yourself:
[emphasis added is mine]
OPEN LETTER TO ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Thank you for your dedication to protecting our environment. Clean air and clean water are essential to preserving life on planet Earth. Protecting all species and natural lands and forests are admirable priorities. Recycling and a green lifestyle are wonderful. Making the environment the most important thing in your life is a good thing, not a problem. I support you.
But we do have a problem. You have vigorously embraced the Global Warming predictions of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and are using the warning of uncontrollable warming and a resulting environmental calamity to campaign for elimination of fossil fuels. Your environmentally conscious friends in politics and in the media have united with you to create a barrage of news reports, documentaries, TV feature reports, movies, books, concerts and protest events to build support for your goals. The war against fossil fuels has become a massive scare campaign that is giving children nightmares.
Here's what's wrong with that: the science is not valid. There is no Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is wrong. Dead wrong.
I know many scientists are part of your movement and they have tried hard to give your uncontrollable climate change panic a scientific basis. The UN Climate Change Panel has a large staff, a big budget, a headquarters in Geneva and a strong champion in Al Gore to lead the charge. And thousands of well-intentioned politicians and the media of the world have supported your movement. It must seem to you that there can be no doubt: fossil fuels are destroying the environment and will lead to uncontrollable global warming unless we act now. With all that powerful support for your anti-fossil fuel movement, and with the worthy goal of saving the planet from the disastrous consequences of runaway Global Warming, how can you fail?
Here's how: The science behind your global warming scare is bad and no anthropogenic global warming is happening. Dissenting scientists have now produced convincing evidence that the cornerstone of your scientific argument, increased atmospheric carbon dioxide forcing a rapid, irreversible rise in temperature, is invalid. All of the various "signs of global warming" you have so widely publicized have been proven wrong. They are normal variations in climate that result mostly from the cycles of the Sun. As the Sun cycle has changed in the last three or four years, they have reversed themselves. Arctic ice melting and polar bears dying, shrinkage of glaciers and the rise of ocean levels, increased intensity and number of hurricanes and intensified droughts have all been touted as signs of global warming. They are not. They are part of this natural variation in climate. The intensified hurricane claim never happened. Katrina was an isolated, random event. The droughts are part of the natural cycle and are reversing at this time. Glaciers are stabilizing. The Arctic ice cap is already back to normal.
Here is what I am suggesting you do. Campaign for your environmental goals on the basis of their own merit. Let go of the global warming frenzy before it leaves you discredited and embarrassed. Stop screaming, "The sky is falling." It is not.
Do your good work. Devote your lives to our environment. In many ways you will succeed. We are all grateful for your love of the planet. But, don't use scare tactics.
Most of all I urge you not to become extremists. And, may I encourage you to live your lives in a loving way, love your fellow human beings and our wonderful advanced standard of living and way of life as much as you love the Earth.
My very best regards,
John Coleman
P.s. - If you will read my briefs on the science that debunks the global warming frenzy and follow the links there, you will begin to realize the folly of Global Warming.
Go to ICECAP.us for a starter.
JC
fabulous! | | Posted by postaldog at 4:12 PM - | |
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