From last night’s post: Tomorrow starts an abridged work week. And, while I’m not sure how things will be with the number of cities whose mail we process, this has the potential to be a more-or-less slow week. I will admit that I would not mind tomorrow being slow – that would increase the chances of getting out of there early. That comes under the heading of “good thing.”

WRONG!!!

The mail was so heavy that they were calling mandatory overtime for everyone – meaning we’d be there up to 12 hours. This call was made at 14:30… just 2-1/2 hours into my shift.

::: braincramp :::

They finally amended that decision and only made the non-career employees and the career employees on the Overtime Desire List stay. Providence, Grace and Mercy smiled down upon us. Even so, they had everyone hold their lunches until six hours into their shift. This wasn’t a problem: I had scheduled my lunches this way back in N.C., so it was a return to an old (and favored) habit. After that, the last two hours were cake.

After work, I headed to Sandi and Jim’s. Everyone, but me, had Christmas Eve dinner there this evening. Had I gotten out of work earlier, I would have as well. So, I was relegated to post-everyone-else Christmas Eve dinner. Then we sat around and talked for a while. We’re heading back there for a while tomorrow before Jess goes to work.

Thus ends the “How I Spent My Day” portion of this entry.

“Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.”
May it be both happy and safe for you, your families and your friends.

There may be more later…
Stay tuned.

Peace.