So coffee is awesome.
Chocolate is awesome.
And they had a baby together -Mocha.
It's chocolate with a kick,
It's coffee but mellow, -Mocha.
It's great when hot,
kinda okay when gone cold, -Mocha.
I just pulled off a Dawn-till-Dusk today. Not for lack of trying, it was the best I could do. I misdelivered on a parallel street -I had to go retrieve it and correctly redeliver. Five occasions I had to invoke the "if you can't find the parcel in 5 minutes -move on to the next delivery, you'll find it when van is empty."
The highlight was a daily (an address that gets a parcel or more every single day). Lately the parcels have been accumulating and the front porch is overflowing with unopened Spotlight, Amazon, and Temu packs. I dreaded going there just to add to the pile. But just as I was pulling up, there were cops at the front. I stopped and asked the constable if there was trouble? She asked if I was the postie that was there this morning, I said no but I delivered there yesterday. Then she said that the resident was deceased, she won't be needing any parcels. I said that I don't think we have that as a select option in the REASON FOR FAILED DELIVERY.
So I took a breath. Restarted the van and reframed the situation: Looks like two less parcels to deliver today, let's move on to the next address on the runsheet. The weather was nice today.
Also today I had a chat with a childhood friend over voicelink. I always admired his physical agility, strength and general physicality as we played as wild crazy boys. We'd be playing basketball or sipa , marbles, chess, table tennis, fencing with sticks, flicking tansan at each other like shuriken, running, biking, all of it until we grew up and went our separate ways. The beauty of voice (no video) is that the image of him I use in my head is of our youth -I would guess because we spent so little time with each other as adults my mind was biased. It was great to reconnect.
Then I got confirmation I have Daddy-Daughter date with number One next weekend. Life's great.
I've already prepped banana and dark chocolate mocha muffins for tomorrow.
