michigan-iowa game canceled

 i get the paper, as i normally do on fridays, and found out the michigan-iowa football game had been canceled. it appears it was canceled on an earlier date though, on tuesday. the indiana-purdue game was also canceled that day, so the contest for the old oaken bucket trophy will not take place. friday's paper said the michigan state-maryland game was canceled as well, as of thursday. so it leaves just four games taking place in the big ten this week. according to the standings, just three schools had played eight games. besides iowa, so had penn state and rutgers. so most of the big ten, all but now two of the fourteen schools, had at least one game canceled due to the pandemic. of course this has been a crazy season. there was mention of this when a schedule was released for a third time, in september. there was the original schedule with 12 games, including non-conference games. then there was one revealed in early august with ten games, conference-only, which was scrapped a week later. i hadn't seen any of iowa's games on local TV this season, but i did listen to the game against minnesota on the radio. hard to say what games i might watch on TV this weekend. and it remains to be seen what kind of bowl game schedule will happen as well. 

    i went to hy-vee in eagan for my weekly visit for groceries in the evening. i also went on a walk, albeit a shorter one due to light rain, and found 6 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when the quiz bowl happened, sheldon tried to beat his friends on his own. it was followed by the one where howard goes into space, and the story of his wedding to bernadette is told in flashback. how it was moved up, and was going to take place at the courthouse, but it was done on a rooftop instead. and amy was still taking it seriously on being a maid of honor. at work there a request to pull just over a hundred checks out of a file of more than two thousand. it would have been really helpful had i been notified of it much earlier, such as when the file was ready to print. most of the checks had been printed and run through the envelope stuffer by then. i found the time to pull out about 40 of them, including one that was slated to go to italy, so it still leaves about 70 to find. some still went out, as i was confident based on the list being put in number order that those going out had no duplicates in them. the rest will need to go out on monday of course.