Happy Moonday!

Today was pretty eventful, as I got to deliver downtown--a solid route on any given day. Being able to deliver mail to businesses and talk to people is always a plus--as I mentioned to a business proprietor, I'm usually talking to animals and myself if I'm not delivering to businesses so the change is always welcome!

Being downtown, there are always sights to behold--also numerous places for coffee purchasing and consumption. I discovered a couple of weeks ago a way to hold flats (magazines, non-envelope-sized mail), letters, and coffee all in one arm. Precarious, yes, but quite practical for the coffee drinker.

Anyways, I met up with Tom, another carrier who took the week off, who was downtown biking. I chatted with him for a few minutes and we were approached by a crazy homeless man who claimed to be Jesus. He then told Tom to hit him because he was obviously the son of God and thus impervious to harm. We kind of look at him for a moment and he starts to grow hostile in voice. I'd write what he said in verbatim, but that would require me to be fluent in crazy-homeless-man speech, a course that was not offered to me in my schooling. Fortunately, he left us alone and preceded to spout nonsense dribble so some people enjoying a lunch outside of a cafe on the sidewalk. It was then Tom and I decided we should part ways, just in case the "second-coming" came back to make us feel uncomfortable.

Back to work, I noticed that the old post office that was downtown was getting demolished.

                                  

Now I knew this was happening a few days ago, but I didn't see it till today. Such carnage--all that history being smashed to rubble. Meh. Sometimes change isn't a bad thing--sure it depends on the change--but that building was derelict and abandoned by the USPS for quite some time. Hopefully Bloomington builds something worthy in its spot the next year or so.

With little rain and sunshine, the day was looking out to be pretty good. Well as good as mail delivery can be on a Monday. Mondays you are usually looking at a two days-worth of mail I never expect to be home early. Man, and if we get rid of Saturday delivery.... ugh, don't want to think of that for now.

Anyways, the day was looking aight. What could make it better? Cookies of course.

Shower's Inn in Bloomington almost always has home-baked chocolate-chip cookies with almonds. So good!!!! Plus they keep em in a glass jar so they are always relatively fresh. And yes, I am allowed as a mail carrier to take one or two as I deliver the mail to the inn.

Of course, being a Monday, I had much more mail to carry after my assigned route, but hey, that was expected. End result was a 10.75 hour day, not too shabby for a Monday. My record is about 11.75 hours so far.