Yesterday, after days of idling and lounging in which the height of my productivity involved purchasing then ingesting food wrestling with plastic wrap,

a long awaited set of packages arrived!

Three guesses as to their contents?  Do you really need that many?

Plastic pockets of air!  Oh, right, and the latest Idiots’Books book obscured beneath them, of course.  [Photo of the book itself withheld to maximize your surprise when that precious envelope lands on your doorstep.]

I immediately enlisted my blurriest friends to help me put together the mailing.

It was very difficult to convince the camera that it should focus on gummy bears.  Everyone should focus on gummy bears, but try telling a camera that.

The bears helped peel and place the appropriate denominations of stamps.

They stuffed the envelops with your books-to-be…

Alden’s favorite green bears pushed with all their might…

Until finally, we completed as many as we could stand for the day.  Admittedly, I didn’t pick the most industrious of workers…

It doesn’t look like that much from this angle, but it’s a good start.

Don’t get too excited — these guys won’t get put in the post until the Alaska crew are back.