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If the cookies are ginger snaps, they do. I’m eating some right now and loving each bite.
Ah, ginger snaps. My favorite are Stauffer’s in the brown plastic bag that’s made to look like it’s paper. You can order them online!
Think I’ll have another… gotta go!
Why?
Yesterday the supervisor gave me a verbal approval on my leave request.
That’s good, but I’m not getting excited until I see it in writing. Which, since it looks like I have the day off, won’t happen for a couple of days.
For a series of tubes, the internet is gosh darned amazing!
In the past few months two long dormant but important connections have been renewed via the tubes that end in my living room.
A while back a friend from college contacted me out of nowhere. She invited me to join her network on LinkedIn. It was the second such invitation I received. I hadn’t even heard of LinkedIn before.
About a week or so ago another friend from way back contacted me. We had lost touch a few years ago. He now lives in the Twin Cities area (he moved there from Kansas City). He found me by googling my name.
In both cases, we’ve been emailing back and forth since that initial contact.
This touches on an aspect of my character that I’ve never been particularly proud of. I am a terrible long distance friend! Or I was, until I acquired a few friends of the virtual variety. The point is, I have let a great number of once significant friendships go only because I moved away from those particular people. It’s happened every time I’ve moved, too. Reconnecting with these two people from completely different time periods in my life has reminded me how important they once were to me. Yeesh, I even attended my Senior Ball with the college friend (she’s a she, obviously).
Now because of email I can almost be with them. My college friend sends me pictures. She just sent me a set the other day. My friend from the Twin Cities, Craig, with whom I have shared some of the most significant ministry experiences of my life, emailed me the other night just to tell me that Joel Hanson (late of PFR, and resident of the Twin Cities area) performed in worship at his church the other day.
So the internet is allowing me to be a better friend than I really am. Is that good or bad? I’m thinking good, so far.
-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)
I used to like Thursdays. Once upon a time, I led a bible study on Thursday morning. It was fun.
Now I deliver marriage mail on Thursday, if I have to work. Lately I’ve had to work every day.
Every Thursday as I’m pulling my bundles of marriage mail together and numbering them (because now they are addressed… that is a recent development), I say to myself, “It’s not going to be so bad.”
And every Thursday when I come back, hours later, from delivering the stuff, I say, “I hate friggin’ marriage mail!” while clenching my teeth.
Marriage mail is evil.
*Image borrowed/appropriated/stolen from the Greener Miami blog.
Jimmy tagged me for this meme, in which I am to ‘mark’ certain spots in Texas. Jimmy knows that I am am a closet Texan. I’ve actually visited that most excellent state only twice, spending just a couple of days within its borders on each occasion. This means there are relatively few places I’ve been in Texas and a whole ranchload a places I ain’t been ta yet. (That there is an easterner’s way of typing in a Texas accent).
So here goes.
Been there…
1. Cowtown Pattie‘s house in Fort Worth. Seriously! She and the K-man are two of the finest hosts a fella could ever hope to meet. Their house is gorgeous, artsy (in the best possible way), and comfortable. Plus their backyard alone merits inclusion as an item on the list.
2. I forget the name of the restaurant in Midland, but I’m sure the guys I’d like to meet there would remember. Great Italian food (in Texas no less, whodathunk?) and an even greater group of friends: Jimmy, Jeff, and Eric.
3. Browsing the shelves at Booked Up. Larry McMurtry’s book store to end all book stores in his hometown of Archer City. Worth a multi-day visit all by itself.
4. Hangin’ out with Pastor Randy Frazee and the folks from the student ministry at Pantego Bible Church in Fort Worth.
5. Giving Abbye a behind the ear scratch, if she’d let me.
6. Uh…. little help?
Not yet…
1. Big Bend National Park. Jimmy and Cowtown Pattie just about threatened my life if I didn’t go there last year. Okay, not threatened really but strongly encouraged. And from what they told me and the pictures they’ve both posted, I probably shoulda made time for it.
2. The River Walk in San Antonio.
3. Galveston Island. Because, why not?
4. Padre Island. Because I like Islands.
5. Guadalupe Peak. The highest point in Texas at 8,749 feet. Because I also like mountains. And Jimmy picked it too, so it’s probably cool.
6. On a scissor lift in the parking lot of the Midland HEB. I hear it’s the new thing.
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