Flat tire. That is just how today was. I got up early and went right out to add air and get to the warehouse. The tire was flat, and my little pump was dead, so I changed from the flat tire to the tinny tiny spare-donut thing on and took the car to a gas station to fill the tire. After adding air, I found the nail, and it hissed air all the way to the warehouse. I went to see what was going out and if there weren’t much, I would take them with me to Walmart to have the tire fixed. There were 48 packages for 41 stops so that plan was a no go. I left the route and went to Walmart getting there around 5:40 am (EST) the automotive department opened at 7am, so I had some time to stop and think about just how much time I was wasting. When they opened, they said the nail was too close to the sidewall so they couldn’t fix it. $70 later I was back on the road. Back at the warehouse, 8 of the packages going to one stop turned out not to be a part of my route. I had 40 packages for 40 stops and what turned out to be a good route and wonderful weather. I mean today is the epitome of good weather, sunny warm but not too warm with a nice breeze. The tire thing cost me more than money, it cost me time. I was four hours behind what I should have been if I didn’t have the tire thing happen. Now for three days off…...
 
I posted the last part of chapter twelve earlier today. I will also post a correction to a part in chapter one to reflect on how this chapter ended. I hope to get some work on this all weekend long (around grass cutting, laundry and unknown). I hope to work on this in what will act as my closed-door typing room (my bedroom), so I can get away from the TV and all the distractions. By the end of this weekend, I should be well on my way to finishing this story (just not my June 1st) with more to come……...
 
Thank you for your time.  

Warning: Rubber tires filled with air don’t like nails Alert
 
Today started off strange but kind of nice. The weather was rainy and dark, but the rain didn’t stay around, and the day turned nice. I had only 37 stops, and with an early start, I was going to finish early……... WAS being the operative word. My low-pressure tire light came on. I checked and found one tire was low (back passenger side). I stopped and checked for a problem then using my pump tire filler thing I added air and was on my way. Then the light came back on. This went on all the way home. I hope it's just a fixable hole rather than something expensive (no money for new tires). I know it will be flat when I get up in the morning. Part of me want s to call off Friday so I can easily take care of this, but another part is saying how many people are taking off because of the Memorial Day weekend. Tomorrow I’m (darn it) going to add air, get my packages, add air then drive to Walmart to see if they can fix the tire. This could end badly.
 
Speaking of ending, I am working on the last part of chapter twelve. In working on it, I realized I made a mistake in an earlier chapter, and for this to work, I must tweak one paragraph. I hope to post this on Friday and spend this weekend working on the next chapter. I don’t know if I’m (darn it) on track to finish before the end of the month but no matter what I’m (darn it) going to keep going with more to come………
 
Thank you for your time. 

Warning: Another in a series of short messages Alert
 
Today was a beautiful day with a shortish route (not that many packages but spread across the county). I got home and started to work on the story where I was just was when I realized I didn’t make the daily post. I posted the fourth part of chapter twelve earlier today, and as of right now, I should have the last part ready for Friday. The original ending, I had planned changed so that the end of this chapter will bleed into the next picking up where the last one ended from a different angle with more to come……...
 
Thank you for your time.
 

Warning: Yet another short message alert
 
Today went well with a good route and just OK weather. I say just OK because on my last two stops it started to rain (well sprinkle) despite how it wasn’t supposed to rain.  I’m (darn it) well on my way to having the next part ready for Wednesday and will all luck the final part of the chapter by Friday. I’m (Darn it) tying in the first part of the chapter into the last making a loop and going just past it. This chapter will be echoed in the last chapter (three to four chapters from now). I hope to wrap this story up by the end of the month and go back to either another story, reworking my crappy work or something new with more to come…….
 
Thank you for your time. 

Warning: Another short, shorty short dare I say tiny message alert
 
This turned into what was a very nice delivery day with plenty of packages and good weather. A good start with everything ready to go and no real issues beyond the typical unlisted streets. Not much to say.
 
I’m (darn it) posting the next part on the site at 5pm (most likely already posted as of typing this). I hope to have something ready to post for Wednesday and the final part of the chapter by Friday. I hope to keep going posting on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday with the story and other works with more to come………
 
Thank you for your time.

Warning: this will be an extremely short message alert
 
 
This will be short. I spent the day working on the story while fighting the noise and setting up the fans in the house. I wrote a good chunk of the chapter, but it will need a  lot of editing. I posted the second part of chapter twelve, and hopefully, I will have another part on Monday and a part every two days (going forward). I want to keep going and try to get back to the volume of work I had before with more to come………..., and I did say this will be short.
 
Thank you for your time.

Today turned into quite a busy day for a Saturday. We finally straightened out the problems with a bank account. I started my laundry, did some shopping and other lame crap. We cooked out last night, and the grilling was the last for my poor grill. After four years of cooking the part of the grill, the charcoal is on rusted into a crumble rendering it unusable. I still have my smaller grill, and it works just as well as the fancy one. I grilled some chicken for dinner and…. OK enough food talk. I’m working on cleaning my room so I can use it for working on the stories. I hope it will help me by getting away from the big black hole in the living room a.k.a. The television.
 
I posted the first part of chapter twelve, and I hope to keep going with it and have more for tomorrow. I’m (darn it) trying this thing Stephen King did in the Gunslinger. I started the chapter in the present and slowly told the story in reverse going back to four months before the start of the chapter with the last part of the chapter being the resolution to the beginning of that chapter. Given my sporadic work on the story, this might be hard to keep straight, but I will do my best and have more to come………...
 
And no, in no way am I stupidly trying to compare my crappy typing to one of the greatest writers of the 20th/21st centuries. I just like the story structure.

The rain stayed away today turning the day I dreaded to a wonderful workday. I had 46 packages for 46 stops spread across the county but zero problems (except one wrong address). I like days like this with an early start and almost happy people (a few places, in the beginning, had coffee being delivered and I swear to god I heard someone’s voice pick up on the word coffee). To be safe, I bagged all the packages delivered to places where there was no cover (better safe than soggy). In a way, this was a strange day. For a very long time, I have never slept through the night. I sleep for an hour then lay in bed for about half-an-hour, sleep for thirty minutes lather, rinse repeat never really sleeping more than two hours at a time. Last night I fell asleep and (from what I can remember) didn’t wake until 3:35 am (I get up at 4am work weekdays). It felt strange to have slept the entire night. I felt what I guess being awake feels like and it was well, strange. After work, I stopped at the store then came home and made dinner. Pork ribs, charcoal baked potatoes and baked beans (bacon cooked out on the grill).
 
Tomorrow I need to take someone to the bank to straighten out her online banking, but after that, I have not much to do (clean smaller grill). I will get up early (unless I actually sleep again) and work on the story. I know what I want to do I just don’t want to rush it and mess it up (even more than usual). Having typed that I won’t have anything to post tonight. I hope to set myself up with a place where I can get away from all the noise and get back to typing every day again. I miss that work. With that, there will be more to come……...
 
Thank you for your time.

Warning: Nostalgia for a place I don’t remember Alert
 
Today didn’t turn out like I thought it would. Usually, Thursdays are lighter than most other days, and on those weeks with lighter loads, it is usually the lightest day. I had 56 packages for 55 stops. With this cold, I decided not to take two packages going to a daycare and one package was in my files but not in person (or in the car) when I left. My route took me all over the county including my Thursday run to Brunswick. The weather was perfect. Sunny but not too sunny with a nice cool breeze. I was in Chippewa Lake (the city not the lake), and it reminded me of this little village near the Chesapeake back in Maryland. There was this restaurant way back in what felt like the middle of nowhere with the best seafood, including crab cakes. If I can find out the name, I’ll post it tomorrow, but they had some of the best seafood I can remember (or just maybe its just nostalgia). It also reminded me of Lakemore with houses all close together, small and random. I almost felt like I was home. The route was long, but on days like this, I don’t mind the drive. This is the kind of day that makes me happy to be doing this job. So of course, it’s going to rain on Friday. I got home and cut the grass then cleaned and fired up the grill for the first time this year.
 
I’m (darn it) working on the next chapter but today was a busy day outside. I have a little bit of it, but after thinking about it, I had mentioned in a throwaway story that I want to expand with this chapter being a turning point in Willie’s story. Or in other words, she’s going to kill a lot of people by the end of this chapter. With that in mind, I won’t have anything to post tonight. Depending on what’s happening tomorrow I might have something then and for sure this weekend (rainy weekend) with nothing planned. I hope to get stuff done with more to come……….
 
Thank you for your time.

Warning: Bitching about having a nice day Alert
 
This should have been a nice day. Great weather and a good route (41-stops with 42 packages no apartments and only one business) but this cold just won’t go away. Rough throat, draining sinuses, headache, and sore joints took all the fun out of it. I had what could have been a good day. The next part of the day was set for helping ##### recover her access to her online bank. I picked her up, and we went to the bank only to find our branch was closed for the day. I did find out that 400 packages of fig bars at Save-A-Lot would cost 1198 dollars. I bought one package, but a scanner error tried to charge me for 399 extra packages. I would say that the Save-A-Lot brand fig bars are better than the well-known name brand (more fig flavor and not as crumbly), but I wouldn’t buy so many all at once (or even in a year).
 
I sat down and worked out (in my head) how this next chapter will go, and I hope to keep the rest of this story away from the over-the-top storytelling of a second civil war involving Mexico. I don’t have enough to post tonight, but I hope to keep going and have more to come………
 
Thank you for your time.