I made a last-minute decision to contribute to an IRA last night. At 7pm, I headed out for the first time to Austin’s main post office. It’s in a suburban office park off 290 on CrossPark Drive. Three or four postal employees stood in the grassy median strip of the office park drive near a few industrial size postal bins, in the balmy, still-light daylight savings pre-sunset, and took envelopes as cars made a slow u-turn around the median strip.
\nNo traffic, no parking, no lines. Wonder if it was that mellow at a quarter to midnight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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