Happy Fourth of July!

I may not say it that often, but I think that it’s a wonderful privilege to live in a country where we are free to be different from each other and where that difference is recognized and appreciated. I’m not an idealist – I know that there are a number of closed-minded people in America (and the world), but I respect their right to be entitled to their own opinions – whether I agree with them or not. One of the things that I think that makes us great (ok, a little idealism here) is: We are all the same and yet we are different enough that we can all bring different ideas to the table and agree, disagree, or even agree to disagree about an issue… and at the end of the day, we can sit around the same table and at ourselves with our friends, neighbors and compatriots.

So once again, Happy Fourth of July and Happy Birthday, America. “God shed His Grace on thee.”

And now, back to our regularly scheduled LiveJournal…

Today at work was pretty smooth until the last few hours. We had more mail than we were expecting, so we had to call O.T. on everyone whose shift ended after 11:30pm. Although there was the requisite bitching and moaning, they were pretty good about it. AND, they keyed a helluva lot of mail… quickly and efficiently! We were able to cancel O.T. at 1am. And there was much rejoicing.

I came home and watched DS9. I know: it’s SO out of character for me to do that. It was one of my all-time favorite episodes “Trials and Tribble-ations.” In it, the DS9 crew goes old school and meets Kirk and the original crew – It’s a blast! Lots of in-jokes and other silliness. As usual, I watched it and chatted on IRC with a friend of mine; he hadn’t seen this episode before. I think that this made it even more fun because he’s a Kirk fan and I’m a Sisko fan (actually, I’m an Avery Brooks fan… but I won’t split hairs here). I think that they should package both episodes (“The Trouble with Tribbles” from the original series and “Trials and Tribble-ations” from DS9) together.

I guess that this is the point where I openly admit: I’m a Star Trek geek. It’s not like you couldn’t have pieced that together from my previous posts. I’m an overgrown Toys ‘R’ Us kid, too. Go figure.

Special Note To the Goddess of Victory: Everything will be fine. Just take your time and don’t try to rush things – enjoy the process even though it is difficult and may not always go just the way you want. You can bend my ear anytime you need someone to listen or to give non-critical feedback. As Sting said: “If I ever lose my faith in you…”

Well, it’s early and I have to get up later… I know what you’re probably thinking: “Isn’t the Post Office closed on the Fourth?”

  • The short answer: No.
  • The long answer: Customer service operations (your local station or branch and carrier service) do not operate on holidays and Sundays, but the USPS works 24/7/365… or 366 on a Leap Year. Just because your mail isn’t delivered on a given day doesn’t mean that mail isn’t processed on that day – that’s how we can make sure that it’s delivered the next day. And, as one of the people “behind the scenes,” I get to go to work tomorrow… um…. today.

I guess that means that I should at least make an effort to get some sleep.

More later.

Peace.