The December

These Days …

The year winds down. The holiday season winds up. With it come many, many more parcels to deliver. In the rain and wind. Hopefully not in snow. My current route has lots of steep streets and driveways. Snow and ice would make attempting to deliver on them very dangerous. I’m hoping I won’t have to deal with that sort of weather.

I’ve now had days where I’ve had to deliver more than 200 parcels. I never had that many on my West Seattle route. One of the guys who had my current route in the past says he had days with more than 250 parcels.

Yay.

However many packages I have to deliver, I still consider myself lucky. I have great views of Puget Sound. There are lots of trees. I get waves and smiles from people walking their dogs. I live on my route so going home for lunch is easy. If all goes well, this is the route I’ll have until I retire.

This will be the last monthly newsletter. Next year, starting on the 1st, I’ll be posting weekly. I’ve got a lot of projects in the works and I think the best way for me to make progress on them will be to report how little progress I make each week. I’m only sort of kidding. By knowing I’m going to be publicly charting my progress I know I’ll spend less time getting distracted by interesting youtubes and substack rants.

I will have a list of the projects I’m tracking in the first newsletter of 2026.

Nine Panels – People to Avoid in Dark Alleys and Bright Thoroughfares