training vacation replacement

 this morning i re-started the training on a vacation replacement. i will have to get used to it as it will be for most of the month, although i am not enjoying it. i know i have to answer questions but when the talk was about non-work subjects it was less positive. i found it easier to get the work done once the colleague left to handle normal duties on another floor. i will have to figure out what i learned from all of it when i don't have a lot of experience teaching others. i didn't mind having a night of doing nothing off-site as sometimes one just needs to rest. late in the evening i went on a walk and found 35 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when bob newhart was a guest star along with bill nye, and bob said 'back off bowtie.' it was followed by the one where sheldon's texas friend, tam, visits.

dreaming wild movie

 mid-morning i went to see a movie, 'dreaming wild', at southdale in edina. i recognized casey affleck and beau bridges in it. this was about music that was re-discovered 30 years later. i liked the scenery in it as it was filmed in washington state, seeing a logging truck and the wide-open countryside with some dirt roads. even noticed a spokane 74 shirt in one scene, the world's fair that was in the area. the story shifted between the 1970s, when the album was made, and the present time. sometimes they seemed to be presented together, where casey shares a scene with his younger self. i am used to seeing the disclaimer in the credits that said 'some scenes and characters were invented for dramatic effect' so no surprise seeing it here. with the music that wasn't done by the brothers the standout was bob dylan's 'hard rain', likely because it was in another movie i had seen. 'born on the fourth of july'. it was raining when i got out of the movie, good thing i brought my rain jacket. i went home and had lunch there, then laid down for a while. i liked how there was less that i had booked compared to the previous day. then i ate before i went to perform at an open-mic. liked seeing a performer i hadn't seen in a while, his grandpa had played gopher hockey. i was wearing the fringe volunteer shirt and did a story about it, along with some about the bank. then i did dishes and capped the night with another fringe show, the third of the festival. it was 'five prisoners', five vignettes. some worked better than others, the final scene worked best for me. it was a debate about rehab and justice, also memorable as the alien was wearing  green costume. during my walks i found 51 cents.

bingo cards, bathrooms

 there was two festivals to attend. in the afternoon and evening it was the fringe festival. i attended two shows and ushered at two others. with the second i gave out one bingo card and pointed out where the bathrooms were, this was at the round theater. the first shift was at mixed blood. i recognized a performer from an open mic i once did. the first show i attended was the one man show about heroes, followed by the musical improv show. it is an 11-day festival so i have 8 more days to see the other three shows of interest to me. i said 'what were the odds' on seeing a performer twice in one day, at the first show i attended and the second show i ushered. i ate at bobby and steve's between the shows i attended and ushered. i was pleased that they brought back godfathers pizza. also had some lady baltimore cake. drank a PBR beer at a venue i once performed at between ushering shifts. in the morning i went to canadian days in little canada. there was the pancake breakfast, the bagpipe band and the car show. WCCO was there, the segment went fast. if i was in it then i was in one of the crowd scenes. i am on metal bleachers wearing a blue st. paul saints hat. this was while the bagpipe band was performing. for lunch i had a super sandwich at jersey mikes. during my walks i found 61 cents.

button swapped out

after work i went to canadian days in little canada. when i bought the festival button i was recognized for having so many of the buttons. i ate the corn on the cob and registered the button. then i noticed the plastic wasn't crimped all the way over so i asked them to swap it out and i got another one. i hadn't seen anything like it before but liked how there was a simple solution. also had some pizza, two slices, and a can of a and w root beer. then some ice cream, i chose the raspberry cheesecake flavor. also recognized by who had once delivered envelopes, he was there with his grandkids as his son lives nearby. late in the evening i went on a walk and found 26 cents. when i was at hy-vee for groceries i also went to their liquor store and got a can of alaskan beer and this week drank the bottle of coors light so there still are four beers waiting. at work near the end of the day i was asked to help with swapping out a toner cartridge from the copier in the branch manager office, although it was a different model than what i use.

pencil sharpened, both ends

 first night at fringe festival, i was fine with clearing out any trash from the seating area. as usual, there was not a lot at both shows i was ushering. some show cards and a pencil that was sharpened at both ends. i hadn't seen anything like this before. there was 26 people at the first one and 23 at the second, which was about star trek. i found out i have five credits on my volunteer card so i can see five shows in this festival. this was at u of m, rarig venue. the article about the charlie brown exhibit was sent to me and i saw it during my lunch. surprised at how many pics there were of me, but the candids work as well as the posed ones. haven't seen the reaction on facebook yet. at work i was asked to send more test checks to oregon. and there was some requests on checks for a business line i did not recognize, before i had started there over three years ago. my boss sent them to customer service. late in the evening i went on a walk and found 28 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when sheldon reacted the same way to stimuli as the monkey did when he showed up at amy's lab. it was followed by the one where sheldon and amy go on a scavenger hunt about a wedding gift that had been re-gifted more than once before.

training began, sort of

 in the morning the training began for another vacation replacement, sort of. we didn't get very far along, only two files printed. i didn't like it because there were too many people, i was one of four in the shop. my boss and the group leader as well. entered a vacation day request for day one of the state fair before this training began. i probably should have entered it before i found out my colleague had quit. since i am told that i will be training for much of the month, at least on the days when this cohort is in the office. it took a while to get caught up on things after everyone left. but thankfully the overnight checks were a lower volume. there was one for 13 million going to new york. tech showed up for the envelope stuffer and changed the sealing settings, slowing it down a little. late in the evening i went on a walk and found 54 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when amy pointed out plot holes in 'indiana jones' then sheldon does the same on 'little house'. it was followed by the one where sheldon and amy are on their honeymoon and wake up next to lego-land. amy's dad is a mousey little man, trying to avoid his domineering wife.

automated checks sent

 the fargo files are the highest volume, and one of these sent nearly 30,000. contacted the business line and was told many of those check requests were automated, unable to send advance notice about it. of course not all can go out same-day, but just under 10 percent of them did. any check over $50 was printed. this was proof of how most of those checks are small amounts. i typed up revisions to the written procedure in the morning then went to the team huddle. we found out a colleague will be leaving the company, one of the two who had trained me for check printing. she had been on the 'absent list' quite often lately. so it means hiring a replacement and showing somebody my role to be my back-up becomes even more important. looks like that training will be moved back a day. late in the evening i went on a walk and found 35 cents. the 'big bnng theory' rerun was when sheldon and amy were married.