Another Lazy Sunday

The first Sunday is June, this year known as "June 1st", is upon us. After a week of moderate temperatures and sunshine, our day off comes crashing in with gray clouds, cooler temperatures and a big threat of rain. Any chance of actually getting a bike ride in today? At 8:00 AM in the morning, my answer is a definite "I don't know!"

I've been complaining for a long time that Valerie is a workaholic, and have felt bitter at times that she got stuck working every day off she had... leaving only Sunday as a catch-up-on-chores and rest-up-from-the-week day. Then a friend of mine (from the Post Office) wound up getting a ticket for "driving under the influence"... and lost his license for a month.

I wound up taking him to work daily (in his truck), splitting both of our mail routes up so we could work them together from my postal vehicle and then in the evenings we'd go mow lawns (hence driving his truck to work in the morning... complete with trailer for lawn equipment).

This wouldn't have been such a bad deal except that when we started doing this (which negated my days off in favor of mowing lawns), the Post Office decided that the "overtime" people would no longer be used on their scheduled days off. After all my whining about Valerie never being around to do things with, suddenly she was free and available on her day off -- and suddenly I wasn't! Think that's funny, don't you? Well, read this:

I have completed my "month of service" and am now looking forward to my time off again. The Post Office has now changed direction and has scheduled Valerie to work on our next day off! Irony? Misery? Whatever it is... it ain't fair!