cheerleader audition

 i went to perform at a contest tonight and there was a cheerleader audition near the venue. it was loud and hard to compete with the noise when in the bar area. but of course we didn't hear it once we entered the showroom. i was on early, random selection, and my set was much like the night before although a little shorter as i definitely wanted to stick to my time. i did not advance, not a big deal as i just wanted some stage time. i have yet to advance past the first round of a contest. nice seeing mason city there, who was mc. mention was made of how i like social distortion and lady gaga. at times i left the showroom so i could check the score of the basketball game in the bar area. the wolves won game two of their playoff series against phoenix. at work my vacation replacement dropped in and helped out even though i, as usual, had things covered. at the end of the day i was asked to put out three boxes going to energy park. i put them next to the cart that has the mail tubs on it. late in the evening i went on a walk and found 52 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when sheldon and raj were underground, for just eleven minutes. it was followed by the one where sheldon is stuck and goes to a ball pit, leonard is summoned to take care of him. 

direct to county

 late in the day at work there was a question about a check, wanting to know why it was sent directly to the county. this was saint croix, wis, so hudson. i looked at the check and sent a copy and said because there was no request to send it inter-office. i performed in the evening, went on fairly early as i prefer. i did bank stories as well as answering the comic i followed who did a lonely maytag repairman reference. as a native of newton, iowa, i had plenty of stories about that. later on i went on a walk and found 77 cents. the 'big bang theory' rerun was when we hear 'intruder alert', then sheldon decides to move to montana then moves back. 

art for everybody movie

 in the late afternoon i went to see the movie 'art for everybody' at st. Anthony main in minneapolis. this was at the MSP film-fest, my last visit to this festival was pre-covid. this was a documentary about artist thomas kinkade, i was unfamiliar with who he was before seeing this movie. i guess this is an artist that sold well for a while, had galleries in various cities, and was interviewed on shows like '60 minutes'. but then there was lawsuits, bankruptcy, depression, and alcoholism that lead to death at age 54. so this doesn't sound much different than the life story of many other artists. the movie also shows his daughters discovering paintings in a vault, that were way different than what was sold in galleries or on home shopping channels. thankful i saw the movie, as this was a story that needed to be told. before i went to the movie i found some things to do. as the saying goes, 'if i'm tired of looking at something, do something about it'. so i did. in this case it was the rug next to the laptop. i vacuumed it and moved some boxes on top of it to a closet. and i decided to swap out a poster from a frame. the one i got when seeing 'drive away dolls' in march was taken out in favor of a st. paul saints poster, from winning the league championship. made sense when that frame was next to another baseball poster, the iowa cubs. i watched part of 'the simpsons' after getting back from the movie, about an urn. later on i did the dishes, then went on a walk where i found 90 cents. 

dinnerware and lightsticks

 i went on a meetup walk this evening, it was in bloomington, a place i had done hikes at before. there is a ski jump that one sees on the way to the parking lot. i spoke with various people on the walk, although i was switching because some of them i found to be annoying. a more pleasant topic was when i spoke of the corelle plates and bowls i use, how they have lasted for a while. and the lady i spoke with said it was a 'dinnerware moment'. at the end of the walk was a campfire, and we roasted marshmallows. i did well on both of mine being golden brown and pulling them before they fell into the fire. there was trivia split into some teams, family feud style. and there was prizes given out at the end, i got a light stick. some others got dish rags. i had some chips as well as some cold cuts. there was some kind of dish in a plastic container but i didn't have it when i found out it was spicy. a man who didn't even bring it was trying to explain how it was spicy and i finally said 'you made your point' but i still didn't have any of it. it was nearly 10pm by then, when the park was about to close, so i left. i did plenty before this event. i went to the post office, picked up one order, it was a battlehawks football pennant. i had it in time for the game i started watching just before midday, st. louis beat memphis, 32-17. i went to drop off recycle near the capitol, and the copy store to print some things. then i got a cheeseburger and hash browns at the holiday gas station and went home to watch the game. after the game i got a nut roll out of a vending machine and went to get groceries at aldi. during my walks i found 60 cents. 

end of beginning, djo

 this week i heard on my car radio on the way to work a song i liked. it was 'end of beginning' by djo. it was inspired by this actor from 'stranger things' going to college in chicago, at depaul. this is why i like it, the lyric 'and when i am back in chicago, i feel it'. as it reminds me of my time living in the northwest suburbs near o'hare airport for six years. guess this is another song made popular on tiktok, much like sia's 'unstoppable'. at work it was nice that the overnight volume dropped to twenty-one, less than half the previous day. it meant i got out earlier and was able to watch part of 'young sheldon'- a rerun that is- when i got home. georgie went out on a date as mandy said she was fine with it but really wasn't. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when dermatologist emily meets penny and both say 'i hate her'. it was followed by the one where sheldon gets hulk hands from raj as raj wanted another date after going to a mixer. and penny said leonard was 'the most obnoxious guy on a double date that included howard'. it was in reference to belittling penny wanting to see a psychic. during my walks i found 1 dollar 87 cents. after the reruns i went for grocery shopping at hy-vee in eagan. 

doorbell and knocking

 at work i had a caller knock on the door and i guess they didn't see the doorbell. i answered it and i said i wasn't going to like the scene from 'wizard of oz'. this case it was a reverse of the movie, which was 'bell out of order, please knock'. i was asked if there was any chairs available, i said one of them was broken so i don't use it much. i said there was plenty of chairs in the breakroom though. i think they were i.t. people as sometimes there are personnel in our little server room. either way, my joke about the movie scene didn't land with them. there was plenty of overnight labels to do, sixty-four in all. from the PDF file some of them were going to the IRS. and i spent more of my morning than i really cared to on the phone with UPS trying to get a check re-directed in california. but it was at the behest of my boss. i drank the can of einstok with the evening meal and got two more beers from the liquor store, a coors light and a stella artois, so now five beers are waiting. 'young sheldon' was about the coopers getting a porta-pottie, and georgie and mandy moving in with mandy's parents. the former of course was too ridiculous, same as some other recent episodes. later on i went on a walk and found 13 cents. the 'big bang theory' rerun was when sheldon tried to teach penny about physics, while howard was jealous that bernadette was interested in Leonard's work. 

social media snoozing

 i was going through my news feed on facebook and saw a posting i didn't like at all. it was about somebody being discovered with their mistress, so i checked options available and snoozed that site, good for thirty days. usually, i am seeing sites compatible to my interests, such as the charlie brown comic strip. i don't know how this one slipped by. but i like knowing there is something i can do about it. i have said it many times before, how i didn't like having to take charge of my social media accounts but i am happier now that i did. sometimes unfriend, unfollow, and block buttons are my best friend there. at work the two fargo files were late, not ready until almost lunchtime. i got started on printing them right after lunch was done, as i did the overnight labels first. this was why i didn't know right away when they were ready. i hit print and then went over to pay for the oil change on my car. the volume was low enough, or at least the envelope stuffing machine was fast enough, that most still went out same day. just under three hundred i can do in the morning, and more than two thousand still went out same day. there was a long thread about a check to overnight and it looks like it was to be sent to another bank location instead of to the payee, discovered when confirmation was requested late in the day. i re-delivered a corporate card application to a colleague after it was found in the breakroom. i was pleased that 'the conners' had louise in this episode, first time in a while. she thinks dan is working too hard. later on i went on a walk and found 75 cents. the 'big bang theory' rerun was when howard sings for Bernadette at the cheescake factory. kripke sabotages sheldon's time on public radio.