it’s a nice looking day out there. I sat on the balcony sipping my first coffee in my gonch chatting with my wife about waiting for the mail person to come along. Then I recalled how I had a chance to work for Canada Post back in the early 1970’s. This was before the Army and Navy hob and while I was living downtown New Westminster. I recall how there were about a 100 of us sitting down about to take an exam. I showed up late just as they were handing out the exams. I recall vividly ho someone had said from somewhere, “Some letter carrier.” Remark because I showed up late but I took the exam. I just wasn’t smart enough. But here in Canada if you can get a letter carrier’s job, then you’ve got it made for life. Sure there’s lots of walking. It means your up every morning around 5am to sort mail before you head out there. But the pay is pretty good. I recall Chris and Wendy in my old Amyway group 10 years ago (that’s another column for what it’s worth) But Chris was in my group and he was one of the top senior people there at Canada Post. I was lucky to have sponsored them but they didn’t stay very long. But Canada Post is recession proof. They function yer round and your obligated to take paid vacations. Plus going to and from work you get free transit rides from ETS. Plus your Unionized and that’s a huge factor. You can’t get laid off because there is no downturn. You don’t need a degree to get onto Canada Post. When people get these jobs they stay with them for life. Plus if you’re a letter carrier there’s no evening or weekend work and toy get all the holidays paid for. I think working for Canada Post is the best job anyone can get in Canada. So if you’re a young person reading this here in Canada (and reasonably healthy and like the outdoors) and haven’t figured out what you want to do in life yet, get thee to a Canada post job and do whatever you can to get a job opening. Canada Post is probably one of the most job stable industries in all of Canada.

Now that that is out of my system, Anne’s off to her job at 2:45. No gst cheaque in. That’s another thing about working for Canada Post, you’re to high up the food chain to get a gst cheaque. The above is probably the same as well with US mail. My job is more or less rescission proof as well or my industry. The only thing with my industry to take advantage of the high pay you’ve got to work long hours. I get a weekly vacation pay deduction, which is a percentage of my overall gross earnings. Right now I’m high up the food chain at a whopping 8%. Usually this is about $12 week that goes into my accrued vacation pay account. If I worked more hours, which I will do when my vision clears up I’ll be getting a larger amount/week added to my vacation pay account. At the end of the year I want to get a black Ipod 80Gb player. But I’m also striving to work more hours at least 31 hours week. This gets me onto the medical plan and I can have my weekends off. Except for lodge nights.

Last night for “lunch” Anne made me a nice pasta and bun. Great stuff. I love ravioli but it doesn’t like me. This morning I got up at around 7am and I did the cbi thing and something I rarely do because I was so tired I took an early bsl reading. I just about shit myself at 24.3. I couldn’t figure out why it was so high. Then the lights came on. The pasta dish I had late last night. Pasta converts into sugars and that accounted for my high bsl reading. I had taken my insulin just before I ate my cereal and I tested again and it jumped all the way down to 10. Now I’m sitting at a comfortable 7.7. I think what I’m going to do after lunch at night is to go out for a midnight walk and that will bring my bsl down. I’m even going to go for a walk from Bay Station where Anne get s off work and walk from there and I’m also going to walk home as well, now that the good weather is here.

e, Jim