miscellaneous monday

-It wasn’t that hot on the route today, but the 179 percent humidity made it feel like I was delivering mail in a bowl of soup. Got done pretty early for a Monday, which was good. This gave me time to…

– …start working on the three articles I have to write. Which has its own challenges as none of the prospective interviewees seem to want to call me back, or email me either.

– Fellow substitute carrier Ann was back to work today. She was on vacation with her family in the Outer Banks. She looked like a different person. I think my jaw may have dropped when she came over to my case this morning. I didn’t need to ask if she had a good week, but I did anyway. “Very!” she said. Well, it’s good to have her back. She was missed, that’s for sure. It was nice to have only one route to do today.

– My wife and kids went to Long Beach Island today. Everybody’s getting vacation and I still haven’t found out about my leave request yet.

– My nano is awesome. I think I may even solved the shuffle riddle. Did you know (well, you probably did, but anyway) that you can shuffle songs in iTunes playlists before syncing them to the pod? You just click the top of the play order column with the shuffle button clicked on. Click that column again and it will (I think) reverse the shuffle order, giving you the option of two shuffles for the price of one. Don’t like the shuffle it gives you? Click the shuffle button off and on again and try one more time…. or reload with all new tunes, there’s always that.

– So here’s some random tuneage…

• Mack the Knife (Bobby Darin)
• How High the Moon (Les Paul  & Mary Ford)
• Eminence Front (The Who) … I thought I might never hear this song. I loaded it on like the day after I bought the pod.
• The Dead Heart (Midnight Oil)
• Bye Bye Love (The Cars)
• Two Gunslingers (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
• Lead Me to the Cross (Hillsong United) … we just did this song in Worship on Sunday. I think the crowd (we actually had a crowd, too) liked it.
• Innocent Man (Tony Congi… produced by moi).
• Heart of Glass (Blondie)
• Coyote (Yo-Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin)