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Since I haven't felt much like sharing lately, here is a picture to get me started. My friend has two kayaks and we try to go off on adventures whenever we can, but it's not easy since we both are working hard, he just started a new job this summer and I, a new position.
This is a view from the Cedar River Flow, in the heart of the Adirondacks. I am in love with the place, and have more pictures on my Flickr if anyone is interested www.flickr.com/photos/96987549@N00/with/6042150325/ I'm too lazy to look up how to do a cool hidden link.
My job has been in transition. As you have heard, the postal service is in serious trouble. The office where I went to work at 3 am to run mail sorting machines lost it's work to Albany, because the mail volume is so low. I have been working long enough (23 years!) that I'm not in danger of losing my job, but I just can't stand to be around when there isn't enough work to go around, so I volunteered to go wherever I was needed, within reason. I was so lucky to get to fill in as postmaster of Cherry Valley NY, the cutest little town in the area, nestled in the hills and lost in time. When I catch up with myself I'll have to take some pictures. It has about 600 residents, and a nice artistic community.
After being there less than a week, with minimal training, I had a good problem thrown at me. Our front-end computers were developed in 1988 and were obsolete. My little office doesn't make enough money to rate new computers, so I have to do all transactions by hand, using a calculator and keeping track of what I sell on a pad of paper! Then at the end of the night I do the accounting on the office computer in the back. Well, math makes my brain angry, and for the last two weeks my head has felt like a nest of snakes writhing around making sense of all I had to figure out. Friday was the day of truth, and Saturday showed that all was well. What a sense of accomplishment! I LOVE working at my new position! Time will tell if I can have it permanently, unfortunately, with so many small offices closing, I could easily get bumped out by a displaced postmaster. I'm just going to hang on for as long as I can and enjoy it.
Oh, and not waking up at 1:30 am is pretty sweet!