hot dog at brewery

 this evening i went to a meetup event at a micro-brewery, bear-cave in Hopkins. it was my third event at this venue, first event in this group that i had just joined. most people seemed to be ordering pizza there, i ordered a hot dog as i prefer single servings. i did see one other attendee order a hot dog as well, near the end of my time at the event. i was there for a little over an hour and spoke with both of the event coordinators. upon arrival i first spoke with a man that recognized me from another group, i said i had left that group as i wasn't enjoying their events enough. i still like this venue as one can pour your own beer after getting a card from the front desk. we were outside on the patio, first time there. on my previous visits we were on the upper level, but a small poster i found said a harry potter movie was being shown there. since there was no cheese available for the hot dog i still wanted cheese and found some string cheese at a holiday gas station as i was on my way home. i also got an ice cream sandwich and a small can of pineapple juice. i drank some of the juice and the rest was dumped into the snoopy tumbler with a lid that i have when i got home. at work there was just over thirty overnights to do. i tried to get all of them into the box at the same time but it looks like i had just missed the pick-up time so i guess they will be delayed on going out. the check stock order arrived in the morning, during the time when vacation replacement was in the shop. 

nacho cheese dip

 just before midday i went to the convenience store on the main floor and got some nacho cheese dip as well as a bottle of tea. the cheese dip was enough to finish off the chipotle chips from the previous day. at the outset there was just one meeting scheduled for the day, a team huddle in the morning. not long after it a supply order arrived, most of the envelopes. purchase order was sent and i guess the check stock will be arriving soon enough. in the afternoon my boss said there would be another one, from a business line in st. louis. not the best time of day for me, so i decided to move up sending some of the checks through the inserter machine, nearly five hundred. when i asked my question about special handling i found out the volume likely won't be changing, and apparently the main change is splitting the file into three. a little over a thousand checks were left over from the Fargo file and will be run through the next morning. 'Night Court' had its season finale, with 'Howard' from 'big bang' as the main character's husband. it said, 'to be continued'. guess there was two episodes according to Wikipedia, missed the first one as i was watching the news on another channel. after 'night court' i switched to the twins-orioles game. twins were way ahead and i laid down and fell asleep. during my walks i found 2 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when Sheldon gets on a train, a season finale, while the comic bookstore is destroyed by fire. it was followed by the one where penny is injured in the shower and Sheldon drives her to the hospital. 

chipotle chips and guac

 in the afternoon i went to the skyway level and claimed a bag of chipotle chips and some guacamole as it was part of the building's Cinco de Mayo celebration. it was one of those events where one must register for it, and i did so shortly after it was announced last week. i went back to the shop shortly after the bag was picked up as i still had plenty to do, especially more overnight labels to create. there was an all-company dial-in meeting in the morning, the new CEO moderated it. some of the questions submitted sound familiar from being in the corporate world for a while. one of them was about layoffs, well i am familiar with how most people care a lot about job security. mention of risk management was a good one as there were warnings given about companies who didn't do this. vacation replacement was in the shop for the day, and three checks that i scanned to a shared box last week were claimed. i had time for the dial-in meeting as the Fargo check files were late, those arrived at midday. those were a low enough volume that i still had the time to complete them by my lunchtime. it was nice getting caught up on things when i got home, it helped that i delayed checking email for a little while. the remaining laundry that was hung up to dry was put away, and i did the dishes and recycle as well. during my walks i found 4 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when penny and leonard get engaged after penny gets fired from a movie. it was when penny called leonard a 'stupid pop tart'. it was followed by the one where leonard and penny had a fight about a houseguest and sheldon gets a comic book and a robot. 

bonjour tristesse movie

 just before midday i went to see the movie 'bonjour tristesse' at the mall in Eden Prairie. this was based on a French novel, meaning 'hello sadness'. there is another film adaptation from 1958, apparently. this movie was actually mostly in English. a little of it was in French with subtitles but not a lot. one drawing card for me was having Chloe Sevigny in it, who was in 'last days of disco', a movie i saw in suburban Chicago shortly after moving there from Iowa. it is about a family spending the summer at a seaside home, far from Paris. Chloe plays one of the love interests of the main character's dad. the main character is Cecile, who is in love with Cyril. it wasn't the best movie i had seen, but not the worst either. i liked how i got the logistics figured out for the day. i woke up kind of early, for the weekend anyway. this helped with getting started early enough on the laundry that i had it done a little under an hour before the movie began. having advance tickets bought me some time as well. i just needed to enter the confirmation number at the kiosk and it printed. first time using the gift card given by Yemen native a few months ago, easier to use when ordering advance tickets online. after the movie i had some pizza and a Caesar salad at the nearby food court. when i was leaving the mall i heard a song i liked, so i stayed until it was done. it was concrete blonde's 'joey'. guess it met my standard for what i like in a song, as i often say how i like the passion in a song. i wasn't home for long after the movie, wanting to get to a bar to see a basketball game. the Indiana fever was playing the Brazil national team, in Iowa city, on ESPN. i arrived midway through the first quarter. the fever was way ahead at the half, and went on to win, 108-44. this was never much of a contest. i had two bottles of grain belt beer there and some cheese curds with marinara. when i left the bar i got a Lunch-able and a Bismarck donut at the nearby speedway gas station. after the game i went to perform at an open mic and did some bank stories as usual, along with a story about dad and funny words to him. i was tired when i got home again, i laid down and doing dishes will have to be moved back a day. during my walks i found 52 cents. 

secret mall apartment movie

 in the evening i went to see a movie, 'secret mall apartment', at St. Anthony main in Minneapolis. it had been on my radar for a few weeks, after spotting it on fandango. all a matter of if screenings would make it to the twin cities. i knew in advance how it ends, they get found out after living at the mall for four years. but i was still intrigued about it enough to go see it. this takes place in Providence, Rhode Island. i liked how it was about more than just the mall, though. there was plenty about the artist living there, too. guess he had done masking tape art at a children's hospital, at the Oklahoma City bombing memorial, and on New York streets related to 9/11. there was a decent crowd at this screening, i like seeing this. all too often, the crowds are small at the movies i attend. i ate before getting there, having a sandwich at the Bobby and Steve's as there were no little godfather's pizzas when i got there. i didn't do much after the movie, but it was no doubt an active day before it. there was going to the post office, two orders picked up. then i went to the French alliance and bought an anniversary shirt. there was no one staffing the boutique, just saw two kids playing with toys. i went to the front desk and that is who helped me ring it up. it replaced the France shirt I've had for decades, showing the tricolor flag, the words 'La Marseillaise' meaning the national anthem, and 'Marianne', who personifies France as a republic. then i went to Eagan and printed event tickets, four in all. two were baseball games, two were live theater or plays. then i had lunch at the nearby chick-fil-a, down the road a little. next stop was downtown St. Paul and a college baseball game at the Saints stadium. i arrived shortly after the game began, Hamline playing Augsburg. Hamline won, 10-2, in game one of a double-header. i left after the first game ended. i was tired so i decided that doing laundry can be moved back a day. i went to get groceries at Aldi before heading out to the movie. during my walks i found 1 dollar 85 cents. 

johnny horizon

 i had to look up johnny horizon after seeing a 'charlie brown and snoopy' cartoon in an online article that mentioned this character. i found an article from the american historical association, an organization that i happen to be a member of, and it spoke of an 'environmental test kit' made by parker brothers, the famous board-game makers. and mention was made of burl ives, who was in the christmas special 'rudolph' being a spokesman on an ad campaign. but what caught my eye, without a doubt, was one of the links in the article being about snoopy being signed on as well. the 'collect peanuts' site was the link, and i saw promotional materials and giveaways such as a 'pounce on pollution' bookmark and an 'environmental honor roll' poster. another article did say that fictional character johnny horizon, a mascot for the government's 'bureau of land management', looked a lot like the marlboro man. i hadn't heard of this kind of public service announcement before. the wikipedia article said the copyright protection was not renewed in 1982, so this explains why it faded into obscurity. i am familiar with smokey bear, as well as woodsy owl, though. in fact, i recently picked up a smokey bear postcard when i was at the science center to see a movie. the article was from 2023, and it was under the 'everything has a history' section in 'perspectives'. at work i was asked to find more foreign ACH-PDF statements, but from more than a week earlier. i went by the payees listed in the thread and i found some that i scanned. i was also told that techs would be arriving in the afternoon to work on the HVAC equipment, except no one did and i reported this back on the thread. the two check files handled in poland did not send anything, so fewer overnights to do. there were just fifteen overnights, until the second i-pay which had eleven more in it. in the morning, it was odd that someone rang the doorbell to the shop and asked about picking up a package. i got out into the hall and pointed out where the mailroom is. for the second straight day, i had a slice of pizza from the refrigerator in the breakroom. i had it a little earlier than my typical lunchtime as i knew i would have less competition for it then. in the evening i went to get groceries at the hy-vee in eagan, and i picked up three boxes of cereal. one of them had caitlin clark on the box, a hy-vee exclusive. i started off the visit by going to the nearby liquor store and got another can of bell IPA, so there are four beers waiting. when i got home from grocery shopping i watched the end of a UFL game. the st. louis battlehawks were leading, 9-0, in the third quarter and went on to beat arlington, 12-6. during my walks i found 1 dollar 68 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when the friends celebrated May 4, 'Star Wars Day', it was also when bob newhart was a guest star as professor proton had just passed. it was followed by the one where the friends fly kites, and leonard tries to watch football with penny's friends but decides to go back to kite flying at halftime. 

flyer for rapper found

 when i was taking the light rail home after work i saw flyers left on the seats, and i claimed one. it was about a local rapper. QR codes are given for his site on YouTube. i do like finding music on that platform, but this seems to be an odd way to advertise the music. at work the boss dropped in to the shop and asked about the ACH-PDF statements going to foreign lands. i said we don't have that many, and i was asked to find some. all were in the foreign mail pile by then, and the boss decided to send a copy by fax to who was handling trying to move them to the top. it is not a big deal to me to flip through once in sealed envelopes as it doesn't take long to find all of them. another notable thing about the day was the file carried over from the previous day was the only one from that business line, and a smaller one than typical as well. i got those overnights out of the way in the morning before more checks were ready to print. there were some delays, but i did make it to the monthly popcorn social at the skyway level. this time i saw someone i knew, it was a senior leader. it led to me sending an i.m. to the branch manager at the building i was assigned to until December. i said this is a standout for me in terms of how things are different now that i am assigned to a downtown office. i was also spotted by someone who recognized me from performing, it was the first time i had spoken about stand-up at work and i preferred that. i have been there just under five years and i know it works well to keep those two things separate. i drank the can of Budweiser with the evening meal so now there are three beers waiting. during my walks i found 75 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when penny and Sheldon see a psychic. it was followed by the one where we meet Bernadette, who was fixed up with Howard.