Feh.

On Monday I worked a twelve hour day. I didn’t carry any parts of other routes. That was all on my route. Midway through the day I took a wrong step and my right knee kindly informed me that it wasn’t enjoying itself anymore. The pain was … manageable … and I didn’t want to stick any other carriers with having to finish my route so I kept going.

I woke up Tuesday, got out of bed and my knee informed me that going to work would be a really bad idea. I called in. I went to my regular Urgent Care to get the knee looked at and was informed that, since this was a work related injury and since USPS self funds its work insurance, I would need to get paperwork from the Post Office and see my regular physician.

The earliest I could get an appointment is today. So I’ve been off work the rest of this week. For seven years I didn’t use my sick days. I’ve used a lot of them this year – covid quarantine, my back – and it doesn’t make me happy. I’m a creature of habits. I schedule my life around my day job. I know that’s kind of toxic but I’m used to it. When I have an unplanned day off I feel discomfort. I try to get things done that I’d otherwise planned to do later in the week but I still spend a lot of time feeling like I’m just goofing off. I also feel like I’m letting down my fellow carriers. We’re short staffed. Somebody who didn’t want overtime is being told they have to work past sunset.

The leg doesn’t bother me much when I’m sitting still. When I stand? Then it expresses its displeasure. As much as I feel like I should be delivering the mail, my body won’t tolerate it.

Other than catching up on chores I’ve been using the “extra” time to work out new designs for my stores. I’ve also been cleaning out spam comments on my website and transferring over newsletters from tinyletter.com. I’ve got all but two of them reposted to skookworks.com. For some reason those two don’t include the images when I copy them so I’ll have to add those images individually. Sometime down the line I’ll need to update some of newsletter images that transferred poorly. And I’ll need to add tags to each post so they are more easily searchable. And so on.

Am I complaining? I’m don’t mean to be complaining. My mind is kind of fuzzy. I don’t think I’m getting enough sleep.

How about a process gif of the Mighty Nizz contemplating a stone spiral?

Much better.

The above image can be found on schtuff in my Redbubble store.

That image and 11 others can be found in the Mighty Nizz 2022 Calendar available through my Zazzle store.

Thank you for reading. See you next week!