Misc.

Got Mud?

Today was a good day all and all 😀 . We did not get a lot of sleep last night because the noise level on Friday and Saturday nights is set on “loud”. The helicopter was buzzing around midnight looking for someone who fled after a vehicle pursuit. So we had the sirens of the chase and then the bird in the air making announcements every so often – oh happy joy joy.

I loaded up the bike and headed away from here. Parked at my friends home and headed out from there. I found a few muddy areas that were not posted no trespassing – I ask you how can I turn my wheels away from perfectly good fields full of mud?

The new tires totally SUCK in the mud. No bite the back wheel kind of spins like a truck when mired in the mud – round and round with very little progress. I did not ride far through the fields as the energy cranking through the slop with the tires spinning wore me out fast! Put life is good. It has been along time since I have had to carefully sneak the Bat Bike upstairs after knocking off clumps of mud. I like to let it dry out, shake what I can off and then go for the cleaning. I am lazy at heart I guess. Put when it is dry I can vacuum it off with a brush first and then clean the chain etc.

Snapped a few shots with the cell phone (click on pics to see larger) after I got back to my friends.

Video for today:


Another day

Just an old pic of Catfish and his friend Buddy when they were around 2 years old.

Got up went to PE. Came home. Took a nap. Loaded the bike into the truck. Drove to my pals house. Road with him to the store and around a bit. Loaded up the bike. Drove home. Took a nap. Ate dinner. Watched a bit of television. Came up here read some blogs. Typed this. Off to sleep now.

Nite

Death of the Porcupines and the USPS Sucks

The past few days has been full of USPS BS, lots of helicopter noise, a few shots going off outside on the street in front of our living room window, and – well I guess the usual.

Today I called the supervisor at the USPS branch as asked. We had a short nice conversation she said she had talked to the carrier and our mail would be delivered and I promised to check the box more often. I hung up and went out to the box to get the mail. Guess what?

Ok I will tell you our box was full of someone elses mail – only one piece a junk mailer for a drug store was addressed to us. WTF!! Augh! So I called back and nicely – yes I was very nice at this point – well any way I explained we had a box full of the mail addressed to another unit – that so happens to be empty and none of our own mail. Now I am thinking this kind of proves my point that it was another unit empty and the dude messed up right? Wrong. I got transferred to another supervisor, had to explain the whole deal all over again. This supervisor so could not grasp that hello – you all made a mistake not us.

I was doing Ok until she said well, that is all past. HUH? No you don’t understand the wrong mail came today – I got no mail today – where is my mail? Answer – I don’t know.  So what box did my mail go into or did you send it back again? I dunno. Oh for goodness sakes. She then again says well this all past and we are working . .. I said No it is today where is my MAIL!!! Oh I won’t know until I talk with the carrier tomorrow.  I will try and find where the problem is. I said it is in the difference of one number xxx1 an xxx2!

Then I asked her to put a 10 day vacation hold on all our mail and we would pick it up there. She refused because guess what she knows we are not on vacation! I very rudely said – well since you don’t think we live here anyways whats the difference – umm the line got disconnected and they closed in one minute so they did not pick up when I called back.

So we are getting up early and will be at the main office door across town when they open. So I can turn in the mail that is not mine and find someone higher up who might agree that it is not a good thing that our mail is lost again in who knows whoms box and the folks that moved two months ago sure are not getting their mail either LOL this is past the point of finding any humor in.

Well on the lighter side here is a video on the death of my red porcupines (not live animals ok) . Curious? Here is the video:


The USPS Bites

Yes I know with all the turmoil going around this is probably not a big deal but then again …

March 3rd KRP checked the mail box to see if there was a card from my dad. Not an easy date to forget because she was checking on my birthday in disbelief I had not received one. I assure you the mail was checked on the  3rd.

We got a new mailman apparently. So, after living in the same place, same address, since 1982 somewhere before this Friday the 12th he placed a card in our box that said the box was empty, no one lived at this address and it has lines for the new occupants to fill in their names etc so the mail can be delivered. SAY WHAT!! Ok, no one went out and got the mail for emm lets see 12-3=9 do nine days – our bad but we have had such practices for like over 10 years.

Moving on, after phone tag and finally reaching our local branch KRP was told that the mail was not picked up for 10 days and the postman took it back to the post office and left a note in the box and then Friday they sent it all back – yes sir ee all of it stamped moved no forwarding address given. Bet VISA is gonna like that one LOL! Well now when it was pointed out the no way you held it that long we were called liars and the woman went into a repeat we have procedures — we have procedures — yah ones you did not follow for starts and no way we cleared the box on the 3rd – well I personally authorized it and we looked at all the mail to verify that it had been there over 10 days> WTF round and round with someone who eventually hung up on us. Where is our mail? AUGH!!  Apparently the other neighbors have noticed our new mailman and are not exactly impressed with him.

So whip me with a wet noodle we let our mail sit in the box for 9 days and you decided to send it back but  _ DO NOT LIE TO ME!!!!

Maybe I am wrong but why would  a brand new carrier on this route to not at least wait the 10 days or gosh maybe find out if someone still lived there??? After reading the USPS complaints and horror stories on the consumer sites I find that there really is no one to complain to other than those your are complaining about and it is highly suggested that we get a PO Box in a different zip code because apparently our postal workers are a tad vindictive. I ask how else you suppose to get your mail?

So Monday will be spent finding a PO Box and calling all the companies to give them the new mailing address with a simple they sent it back by accident so we are getting a PO Box now.  I hope we can get one where our friend has one as the UPS store manager is most awesome and will even ring if she gets a large parcel or forgets to pick up her mail.

Bet you can not guess who is suppose to remember to get the mail –  :-0

From the USPS web site:

Full Mailbox

If a letter carrier notices that a mailbox has filled up to the extent that no more mail will fit in the mailbox and it is apparent that the dwelling unit is vacant, the mail is brought back to the office and returned to sender identified as “vacant property”.

If a mail receptacle is deemed by the carrier to be full and the letter carrier knows that customers still live at that location, the mail is brought back to the office and handled as “Hold” mail.  This mail will be held for 30 days. A PS Form 3849 (Delivery Attempt Notice) is left in the mail receptacle.