And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

I think that the dam that is known as the post office is going to burst soon and unfortunately noone will ever realize that management is what has caused the problems. Some fool from the media will just tell the public that a person from the p.o. just went "postal". If anything that I've been reading online is only half true then there are quite a few carriers that have had enough of losing money every year. We are the only craft that makes money. Our routes are bigger than the city routes and we get them done faster. I'm not the one going "postal", all they did to me is turn it into another job, just like the last one that I left and just like the next one I'll probably be looking for when they go out of business. Yes, I do think that something major is going on at work, I'm just not sure how they'll stick it to us next!

It's another busy week down here. We still aren't caught up yet from the mail count we just went through. Of course, if they had delivered the mail to us so that we could deliver to our customers, we wouldn't be so backed up now. I think what they're trying to do is slip it through by making Monday's crazy and blaming it on having Sunday's off. What they don't seem to understand is that most of us have been on the routes a little longer than a day or two. Whatever.

Well, I do have a problem, I love strategy games and card games and there's all kinds of them. Some are too easy and the others, (that's where I've been) it's too bad I didn't learn about this instead of you know what. It's a lot easier to just play regular games and not get so involved. Although I do spend a whole bunch of time on Neopia right now. I'm sure that'll change with time. Well gotta go, time to feed Park.

OK, I went and got myself a Neopet. Never, I repeat NEVER, should have done it! Sorry to all the rest of you but I'm totally addicted, there are too many different games to play and things to do. My little Lupe and I spent the whole day discovering different things to do and haven't even covered half of it. Uh oh, I think that I'm going to have a serious problem here. I hope not, maybe within a few days I'll get bored and go looking for something else (somehow I don't think so). Blog more later, I think he might be hungry.

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You're upbeat, insightful, effervescent and imaginative.

Sometimes a little too imaginative... You're all about the subtext, about what's going on between the lines. You very rarely take anything at face-value.

You also have a tendancy to be a little neurotic and self-absorbed, and fall for guys who are either (for the most part) emotionally unattainable or completely wrong for you.

That's okay, though, everyone loves you anyway. You're very well-liked. You always have a shoulder for your friends to cry on or an ear for them to gossip in. High-profile and fun, you're the life of the party.

Carrie quotes:
"You can't make friends with a squirrel. Squirrels are just rats with cuter outfits."

"I'm thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It's just a little bag but we'd feel naked in public without it."

"The only thing I've ever successfully made in the kitchen is a mess. And several small fires."

I was in the middle of a post and msn just decided to shut down, Oh well, I'm not redoing it. Let's just say that it's hot down here and just going to get hotter.

Tried to find someone in chat last nite, when are you all on? Probably when I'm stuck at work. Well, I just wanted to say hi and hope everyone's well. Hopefully chat soon.

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At least I'm still alive!

Crazy week, it's almost over. Today I'm going to try and clean everything. My dad's on his way down and I haven't seen him in 7 years. We talk on the phone and online so at least we keep in touch. It's going to seem really weird with him and my mom here at the same time. They've been divorced for over 10 years and both of them in Florida at the same time is strange. I'm taking a few days off from work to spend some time with him. He's staying at Fort Myers beach. What a place to be during spring break! I guess I'll go spend some time there with him.

Well, better go, too much to do and not enough time to do it.

I was wandering around Yahoo and found a link to the Majestic front page. Now, thinking back it had been a long time since I've looked at anything having to do with the "game". So I clicked on it, imagine my surprise when there was a message for us beta testers that our mailing list has finally been removed and that we were "saved" from getting the virus they sent us by them replacing it with a harmless attachment. Whatever. The list should have been deleted forever ago and we shouldn't have recieved anything more from them.

This is copied from them.

Earlier this week an internal client system at Electronic Arts became infected with the "Hi" email virus. As a result, the virus sent emails from the client machine to every distribution list that existed on the infected machine, including the majongoingclosedbeta@ea.com list. The Electronic Arts email servers did their job and successfully removed the virus and replaced it with a harmless "alert.txt" attachment message. If you were a member of the majongoingclosedbeta@ea.com list, you probably received the "Hi" email message, but you did not receive the virus itself.

We regret any confusion that the email virus caused and have deleted the distribution list to avoid any further confusion.

They seem to be the only ones confused, we already know that they can't figure out how to run a good game, except into the ground.

Upgraded to Netstat. Love the info that it gives. Sitemeter was nice but this tells more. I'm going to blog more later, the b/f wants to check his email and I've held him off as long as I can.

All hell is breaking out at work, we've got the head of the union filing greivances and the carriers all saying that they aren't signing their count sheets. Now, I know this doesn't mean much to you all but it means a much smaller paycheck for me and the rest of the rural carriers in the post office. We're having what the post office calls a "count". It's where we count every piece of mail,(letters, packages, magazines, etc.) That's how we get paid. Basically. Now somehow, over the last week, a lot of mail has disappeared. The amount that we usually get is cut in half. Routes that used to be way too big are not staying that way. Our count period ends on Thursday. When that happens everyone is going to find their mailboxes stuffed full from everything that magically reappears.
Now, most people are used to dealing with city carriers, they are paid by the hour, we are not. We are paid by evaluated time, whether we get the route done in that amount of time or not. The only time we get paid hourly is if we go over 40 hours for the week and believe me, they do everything they can to make sure that doesn't happen. If a route is underevaluated we work for free. And by not giving us the volume of mail that we should normally be getting, the routes will be underevaluated.
There are other ways for them to short change us as well and they are also trying those.

Sorry about the rant but it was necessary after finding out how bad we are being cheated.

This is a skin from blogger. I think I like, I'll let you know in a few days. Until then, let me know what you think.

I think I'm going to have a good ending to a bad week. I won't know for sure until 9:30 tomorrow, (friday) morning but I'm supposed to have the day off. Yay, I get to stay home and clean my house. As long as I stay away from this da** thing. Somehow time just slips away when I'm online and nothing gets done that needs to. If any of you happen to see me online just IM me and tell me that you're coming over, to me there's nothing worse than having people over when my house is trashed. That should get me moving,I know it's not for real but, I need that little kick to get started.

My grandma's coming down this weekend. She'll be staying at my mom's new place. Sometimes I find so hard to believe that she's 86 years old. Wow, what a life she's had and is still having.

I'm so glad that this Monday is over. First, I get to do a route that I really don't like, it's over 5 hours on the street which makes for a really long day. And it's getting colder out, so I stop and get a cup of hot chocolate, no more coffee, 3 cups are definitely enough when I have to sit in my car for 5 hours in the middle of nowhere and deliver mail. I only delivered to 5 mail boxes and crash, my cupholder falls. There goes my whole cup of hot chocolate, didn't even get a sip. Ok, nothing to clean it up with and no more places to get more. It finally soaks through my carpet and drains out the floor. It's an old car. I keep delivering and all of a sudden, BAM, ROAR! wtf? My muffler blows a hole and being an 8 cylinder, it isn't quiet. So for the next 4 hours I get to sound like a teenage with glasspacs, trying to make my Grand Marquis sound ike a race car. What fun!

Then when I finally get home, my youngest son tells me that one of my other sons want to move back down here and wants me to buy his ticket. Now I love my children, but what does he intend to do once he gets here? He'll have no car, no job and a couch to sleep on. I live at least 3 miles from the nearest busstop and even further from any where he could work. It seems to me that this would be worse for him. At least where he's at, he can catch rides to work and he is working. He's the one that was just here on vacation and I think he had a little too much fun. He used to live here and hated it. He couldn't wait to move away. Well, nothing's really changed here. It's still the same and always will be.He's changed, only because he's older now. Sorry, I just really neede to get this off my chest. And that's what this blog is supposed to be about, I guess.
I have all kinds of stuff to continue to write about but I'm tired and Tomorrow's another day.

Just thought I'd stop in to say Happy March, let's all hope it's better than February.