boxing at shrine auditorium

 i liked watching some boxing matches on fox tonight, held at the shrine auditorium in los angeles. i am thankful i was paying attention to the brief segment about the history of the venue, as they covered some of the music shows that happened there over the years, including the grateful dead. it spurred me to look up the venue further on wikipedia. it is called 'shrine' because of the fraternal organization known as 'the shriners'. many award shows have been held there over the years, and two versions of the movie 'star is born' have been filmed there (including the 2018 version). and i liked reading how this venue is on the national register of historic places. as for the boxing tonight, all four matches shown ended in knockouts. one of them was in the first round, as a fighter was knocked down three times. another match ended between rounds. the fourth match of the night, the main event, was won by a fighter from the twin cities. he was wearing trunks that said 'armory' on them, referring to the minneapolis armory, now a boxing venue. i saw some matches at the minneapolis armory 2 years ago. 

this was an errand running day, and i was pleased with how much i got done. it started with going to pick up packages, although just one of the two i was expecting was at a UPS retail location. two e-bay orders were at the post office. then the other places on my list were food-related. i found plenty of discounted christmas candy at a walgreen, as well as at hy-vee. so i am good on snack items for a while, probably a month. as i now have two boxes of little debbie snack cakes, 21 pieces of candy (mostly russell stover) and one little box of keebler cookies that included a storybook. the candy find at hy-vee was unexpected, but it became part of my weekly order. i went to cub foods twice, first to get a winter carnival button. i returned after finding out hy-vee was out of egg nog. i like it so i got two quarts at cub, along with a snoopy popcorn tin. before i got started on the errand running, waiting for places to open, i had breakfast and then watched a christmas special on DVD, 'the grinch', and its companion 'horton hears a who'. although the latter wasn't a christmas story. when i got home it was time for lunch, so i had the steak and egg burrito from the holiday gas station that i had bought the previous day. i watched some of the first responder bowl, a college football bowl game. it was Louisiana-Lafayette vs. Texas-San Antonio, from Dallas, and the Ragin' Cajuns from Louisiana won. in the early evening i went to aldi for my weekly order, and later on i went on a walk and found 1 cent. i am aware it might be harder to see coins to pick up when there is snow on the ground.