sanity break

I heard two people in my department arguing at the office so I announced to my 'work spouse' that I was taking a walk, normally I don't announce it. I considered it to be a 'sanity break', hopeful that it would be over before I got back, and it seemed to be as it looked like my boss intervened. I don't know what it was about, I don't care either. another colleague, who is on maternity leave, brought in her kid and I saw it during this break and even spoke of what I was trying to avoid. I was on  my own covering the payoff report and new titles as my cohort was out of the office. but I found a way to get it all done close to my normal leave time.
   I saw the attorney when I was riding the bus home, she spoke of having strep throat last week. and how movies in a park are one thing that fills the void since there aren't many drive-in movie theaters left. in the evening I went out to eat as I didn't have much food left at my home and didn't feel like going to the grocery store. I went past a comedy venue first and it was no surprise seeing somebody I knew, it was Maryland. we hugged and I said I needed to go eat. so I found a pizza place and had one slice, along with those little potatoes. I was pleased to see something about a nearby baseball exhibit, so I will have to go to it soon.
   I made it to the performance venue eventually, went on near the end. some stories were about what had happened earlier today, like the arguing at the office or even what I saw at the mall.

right back at you, babe

after I performed tonight I had somebody blow me a kiss as they liked my set, and I said 'right back at you, babe'. I was thinking of the line from the movie 'look who's talking'. many of the jokes were like the ones from the previous day.
   I said 'it was shock waves' when there was an announcement by email saying our i.t. man was not retained. I saw the Filipino man and said I had bought a travel guide over the weekend about his native land, and he was impressed to hear about this. I am hopeful to get plenty read from it soon  when at my hotel room.

hula hoop dancer

tonight I was waiting for our show to begin and liked seeing what appeared to be a burlesque how. I got  a picture of the hula hoop dancer. after a while we didn't wait for this show to end and had ours on a different stage. the presidential debate was on the TV monitors in the bar area, and once it was over it went back to showing Monday night football and music videos.

small town politics

I called my dad tonight, and at first he wanted to talk about small town politics. it was something that I know very little about, especially when I no longer live in a small town. he invited me to call in a letter he sent recently. sounds like he got the card from fringe festival, and the postcard fro new York city, both sent last month. I said I may have bought something at midway books, though I was there to see if they had any emerson hough books and it looks like they didn't. for some reason I am thinking I still bought one, about Abraham Lincoln, by carl sandburg.
    I liked how I got my chores and errand running done early today, all but taking out the trash, before going to perform this afternoon. I thought about going to a 'booya' soup serving at a church but knew I wasn't going to make it in time. I stayed in and got more items into souvenir binders, some were comedy-related and some weren't. it meant going through two bags of items I saved from my travels, knowing that I did some performing out of town. so I found items like a beer coaster from karaoke in suburban st. louis, and a show announcement flyer from new York city.
   performing went fine, I was near the end of the lineup. I started off with one about how I had been to Michigan, in reference to international falls making up fake credits about a Michigan magazine voting me some kind of honor. she was doing this for all of the comics.
  

paris je t'aime

I needed another photo album for my postcards and went to Walmart to get one. I chose the one that said 'paris je t'aime' as it reminded me of French class in high school. it was one a few places where I stopped for shopping today. barnes and noble was another, to get a travel guide about the Philippines. and to target, where I returned a DVD from last week and got a big poster frame for an e-bay order, an 'up in the air' movie poster in german.
   I performed tonight in arden hills as I knew the headliner, chalm-skinn. I arrived more than a 30  minutes early as I read the facebook invite as 8:30, so I arrived just after 8pm and found out the show started at 9pm.

bachelor party at concert

I went to a bachelor party tonight at triple rock in Minneapolis. opera singer was the guest of honor, and I arrived before he did. I spoke with a man wearing a Minneapolis Moline before then, as it reminded me of going to tractor shows with my dad. the first band was all right, I liked their song about being on the same page. the second band had a frontman who  was wearing a trench coat, and his guitar was shiny blue. it said 'minneapolis' and had the area code, 612, on it as well, under the strings. I was getting tired so I left in the intermission. the guest of honor admitted to being drunk, as a way of explaining why he kept hugging me. I said I don't mind, as i would have liked being hugged more often when I was young.
   I was double booked tonight. the first show I attended was a comedy show at a micro-brewery, and I got stage time there. first time I had been there in a while.
   I have been monitoring the news about the flooding in iowa.

lodge at crooked lake

tonight I took a long walk around the neighborhood and I saw some clothing on the pavement. when I found a safe time to pick it up, I did. this was a hoodie that said 'the lodge at crooked lake', in siren, WI. I've never been there, but I found out this place is about 100 miles northeast of the twin cities. the Wikipedia entry spoke of a town, and a village, called siren. both had a listed population of under a thousand. the website described it as 'rustic' and with a north woods theme. why this clothing was left on the road, I don't know. but I got a picture of it and then threw it in a trash bin near a traffic light, it stank. I had to turn it inside out to see what was on the front of it.
   as expected, most of what I found was the typical food and drink containers. this is why I bring a plastic shopping bag with me. I also found some coins, 18 cents in all, a dime and 8 pennies. most was found at the car wash. I started off the night finding one penny at the taco bell. I had dinner there, I had dozed off for about 30 minutes and then knew it was time to eat. i fell asleep shortly after the syndicated rerun of 'big bang theory' had ended. it was when penny ruined a valentines day dinner. Sheldon made amy his emergency contact.
   at work i did some special requests for the first time in a while, as my 'work spouse' has other duties now. not too hard for me when there wasn't that many, two in all. one was already logged out as a settlement, so it meant finding the printout and i only needed to close the request. the other was a copy of a title request. there was an advisory board meeting in the afternoon, looks like we may actually be getting around to our mission now after just discussing things for a while. i also took some time to look through my desk drawers for the first time in a while, and found some headphones. so i sent them home tonight to see how they work for my portable CD player, and they work fine. these are the ones put inside the ear instead of resting outside on top. i had those but the pads were either missing or worn, so it was no longer comfortable.
   i am starting to get annoyed with a colleague that recently moved into my area, as i keep getting unsolicited advice about things like how to eat, and my 'at a meeting' and 'out of office' signs. i did say 'can't believe i am being challenged about this' and 'i live my life my way'.