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This season [of SOA, not Boardwalk] seemed unfinished---nothing was really resolved. A lot of fans didn't like the CIA twist but it was probably the best way to get them out of that situation since Sutter isn't ready to end the series. From reading his blog it does sound like it was a last...

So approximately 100 years later, I finally decide to poke my head in the door....I'm sure I was greatly missed. Got shitcanned from the accounting job later that summer, still looking for my next job, hoping to hear something tomorrow about an interview I had last week. Going to try to...

Checked out BURNING IN WATER, DROWNING IN FLAME from my college library....this was in 1990. I'd read about Bukowski in music magazines but that was my first chance to read him.

Mother's Day is actually busier than Christmas, but it's for a shorter time period. I didn't work with letters much, so it didn't affect me, but the single busiest mailing day of the year for letters is right before Mother's Day.

All post office people HATE Christmas! I still hate it, and I've been quit for going on 6 years now. I didn't envy the people who had to do the loading and unloading---their only advantage was that they could move around a little more throughout the building and could occasionally find a...

Seeing as how Norm was an accountant, I guess I'm like Cliff and Norm rolled into one.

The funny thing is, I knew a ton of people who fit the gun-toting postal worker stereotype, although I was living in a gun-friendly area at the time where it wasn't uncommon for the average person to own a gun. Think it's because the USPS gives preference to vets, a lot of whom tend to be gun...

I don't remember the last CD I bought. Just finished THE TURNAROUND by George Pelecanos. Working on his THE NIGHT GARDENER. Hate that I don't have a lot of time to read right now due to work. The wife and I just got a big Amazon gift certificate by cashing in a bunch of coins at a Coinstar...

The characters were a little more interesting at the Post Office. Here it's mainly young kids [22-23] nice enough...just not that colorful. They're into things like snowboarding. I'm older and generally keep to myself--guess I'm still a postal worker at heart.

Heh heh....I think I was kinda like Buk near the end of his tenure. I just wore street clothes to work. I worked at the mail sorting facility, feeding magazines and flats into a big machine that sorted and/or shredded them. Ah shit, I guess I better get back to work.

I find myself going back to his letters quite a bit. LIVING ON LUCK is probably my favorite. Not letters, but I also like THE CAPTAIN IS OUT TO LUNCH AND THE SAILORS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE SHIP.

Longtime Buk fan here---first heard of him in high school, started reading him in college. I'm a former postal worker myself---did 7 years there, went back to school, now struggling as an accountant and feeling like the biggest impostor in the world. Probably will lurk here...