adobe apps

 i still find some annoying things at work. around midday i find out i can't print PDF files and my boss said i need to call i.t. about it. now i guess i need to log into each PDF file through a new adobe app, even though before i just hit 'open' and then 'print' for those check files. it meant vacation replacement had to print those files for me. i can still print anything from the main app that we had before some checks went PDF. it meant getting a sandwich and bottle of juice and chips from the convenience store on the main floor as i didn't feel like heating up a can of soup. and sadly, these i.t. issues left me behind on all of my other duties such as the overnight labels. i went to another floor to deliver part of a supply order. our team lead had ordered some letter openers, but not the kind i use which look like knives or i call those the 'stabbing kind'. the ones just ordered are smaller ones, and mostly plastic. i had a check returned by UPS to deliver to that floor to the customer service boss as well. in the evening i got a look at the amazon wish list for a birthday party that my niece invited me to. i ordered two items, no surprise how one of them is a book. i figured i should order fairly early to allow for delivery time as i would like to be the one that puts all gifts into one box. since i had a gift card balance it took care of most of the price of the order. 'The conners' was about trying to convince dan to file a lawsuit against the drug companies over Roseanne's death. i am still watching mainly due to liking this character, as i like john goodman. i have been getting a steady stream of Facebook friend requests in the past week, some are from the same hometown as me. except i haven't accepted any of them yet. i have cut back on the friend list over the years, now down to less than two hundred. during my walks i found 91 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when Bob Newhart made his first appearance as professor proton, then asks Sheldon to be his fill-in while still in the hospital. it was followed by the one where we hear the song 'be my Yoko Ono' as Sheldon gets an admirer, Ramona. 

validate or verify?

 the Fargo business line asked me to pull another check and send it to the email thread. did they say it was to validate or verify? either way, i said i was holding all checks until a got a green light. thankful it was just one check i had to do a 'twin copy' for as i didn't want to black out credit card numbers on a live check. i got the green light i wanted, but it still meant not all checks went out same day. the backlog from the previous day, a little over a thousand, was done in the morning. one big file went out same-day, as usual i print and run through the smaller one first. but it meant the larger one, over two thousand, will be carryover to the next day. if i get started early enough on it then it won't take long at all. as expected, with the first of the month the ach-pdf file was a big one due to rent payments, nearly a thousand pages. although some were overflows so that meant it was actually a little lower. i got one idea for a show i would like to attend next month, it would be to see a preview as it is cheaper. as usual, i am often trying to plan things out fairly well in advance. 'Night Court' was a weird one, a big inheritance going to a horse. i liked how dermatologist Emily from 'big bang' was in it, of course this would be Laura Spencer. during my walks i found 1 dollar 26 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when Sheldon had delayed closure on things like dominoes. it was followed by the one where the friends have an 'intervention', saying Sheldon needs to learn to drive. 

fresh popcorn, candyland

i am looking at this empty box and it says, 'fresh popcorn'. i went to Candyland this evening after finding out there was no open mic to perform at. i knew this was possible, even said so to the bartender, as there was no Facebook invite. much like the previous day, i had already paid for parking in downtown St. Paul so i decided to walk around a little and get my money's worth. although after about thirty minutes, i got back into my car and went home. there wasn't much open aside from bars and restaurants, and i had already eaten. but i like popcorn, and i have been to Candyland before to get popcorn so that is why i went there. i got a larger box this time, usually i get the smallest. at work, vacation replacement was in the shop. there was an email request for a tracking number, except there was no check number given. after doing an 'alpha search' i found out it was a check that we didn't have yet, it would be ready to print later in the day. i liked how there weren't that many overnights to do, just over twenty. most of the Fargo checks did not go out as i was asked to pull one percent of them. guess the business line had made some changes and wanted to see what the checks looked like. i had to do 'twin copies' as i needed to black out the credit card numbers since the system won't let us send copies with credit card numbers on them. it was late enough in the day when we got the 'green light' that i just decided to let the Fargo checks carry over to the next day, a little over a thousand. it won't take long to run them through the inserter machine. during my walks i found 37 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when Sheldon organized Howard and Bernadette's closet, and it led to finding a letter from Howard's dad. it was followed by the one where raj did a people magazine photo shoot. 

cuba movie, science center

 plans at the outset were to attend the St. Paul Saints baseball game, although i knew the weather didn't look promising. i was wearing a winter coat, after all. i made it to the venue an hour before first pitch and the gates were locked. two men were also there and checked their phone, it said the game was already called off. it means i have a rain check, and i will have to figure out when i will be using it. already have a ticket for a game about a month from now. i decided to stay downtown as i had already paid for parking and went to the science center. there were two movies of interest to me at this place, and i was able to see one of them this afternoon, the documentary about Cuba. it appears to have been produced by the BBC back in 2018. a big part of the story was a ballerina, along with searching for answers from the coral on this island. i ended up at the landmark center after i bought the movie ticket as i had some time to fill as the start of the movie was over an hour away. there was a free event about Guatemala, and in one room there was art from some young artists from local high schools if i am not mistaken. some of it was pretty good, i got pictures of the ones of a young lady holding a parasol as well as a red-haired girl looking into a mirror. plans are to make it back to the science center in less than a week to see the other movie, i bought that ticket already. and i got a good look around in the souvenir shop. four items bought, one of them was a smokey bear postcard. the other three were 'Charlie Brown and Snoopy' items. one was a small bag of candy, then there was a beagle scout button, then a magnet of Snoopy and Woodstock in space. i didn't do much when i got home, watched part of the college basketball game. Auburn beat Michigan State so now the final four is set. in the evening it was 'the Simpsons', Homer and Flanders feuded, and it led to couples counseling. later on, i did the dishes. during my walks i found 27 cents. 

alto knights movie

 in the afternoon i saw the movie 'alto knights' in Eagan. i wanted to use the second of two birthday offers for popcorn, and this was it. i don't go to the Emagine chain as often as AMC though, but i like how their loyalty card has a quote from the movie 'up in the air'. notable about this one was seeing Robert DeNiro playing two roles. this movie covers plenty of gangster history, including mention of what was later known as the 'black sox scandal'. one scene does have the radio broadcast of the 1957 world series in a barber shop, i guessed that one after hearing mention of some Braves players such as Hank Aaron and Yankees players such as Yogi Berra. and they covered the music of the time as well, including Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti'. a big part of the story was the upstate New York 'gangster meeting' during that same year as the aforementioned world series. i was wondering about that, in terms of if it would be there, as i recall it being mentioned in the Billy Joel song 'we didn't start the fire'. it was the climax, as there wasn't much left in the movie after this was depicted. i got a shamrock shake at McDonald's after the movie and then i headed home. there as a steady rain by then so i knew i had to be careful on getting everything inside. besides the popcorn tub, i also had the cup with some Pepsi in it from having a sandwich for lunch at Jersey Mike's. and there were the two e-bay orders picked up from the post office. i printed an event ticket, and an invite, at the copy store before i went to the sandwich shop. in the morning i got a good look at the schedule for an upcoming film festival and ordered a ticket for a screening at the Edina theater. i was pleased to find out this was one of the venues as it is easier parking than St. Anthony main. considering the ticket prices are a little more at a festival, it is probably just as well that i plan on seeing only one during this twelve-day event. i am hopeful that some others of interest get a wider release outside of the festival. this includes a Minnesota-filmed movie that has Amy Madigan from 'field of dreams' in it. three screenings, two of them are sold out and the third is in Rochester. after getting back from the movie, i watched part of a united football league game on fox. i would say the long-term outlook for this spring football league is still 'cloudy'. i noticed a sparse crowd when i watched a game on the same network the day before, opening weekend for this season. then i watched the local news on WCCO and then got groceries at Aldi. when i got back i watched baseball on fox, Astros beat the Mets 2-1. during my walks i found 74 cents. 

violin player, fish fry

 i went to a fish fry at a catholic school this evening after work. notable was seeing a violin player on the stage. hard to tell what the other instrument was, but probably a 'concertina' since it looked like a small accordion. while waiting in line i saw someone pouring beer out of a pitcher to some patrons. i got plenty with what i paid for, including a breadstick. the one thing i would have preferred is the jugs being labeled so one wouldn't have to guess what drink was in it. there was three, and i wanted water and it was on the left. another patron said try that one if i wanted water. i didn't stay long, after i got food i was out the door in ten minutes. i wanted to get to the science center and see a movie in the omni-theater but i didn't make it in time as i knew part of being there was finding parking first. i learned a valuable lesson and will try again next week. what i wrote down was 'do not turn on TV when i get home or go directly to the fish fry and do not go home at all'. considering the wait in line for food, this would have given me the ten extra minutes or so that i needed to find parking in downtown St. Paul. it was a 'young Sheldon' rerun, where the mom is mistaken for a student at Sheldon's college orientation. pastor jeff gets a motorcycle ride from the dad as the episode ends. during the college campus scenes, the song 'two princes' by spin doctors is playing. this show did have music playing way more often than 'big bang theory' ever did. anyway, after the science center was a no-go i just went to the Hy-Vee in Eagan for groceries. cashier thought it was a little odd that i wanted the paper, i said i still like reading it once a week. and i pay attention to the music while there. two songs i heard were Demi Lovato's 'heart attack' and then 'my city was gone' by the pretenders. at work there was two notable things. tech arrived in the morning, and we found out the problem with the inserter machine, was told it was 'hot product' after seeing the error message. this means just let it cool down a little between pulling it off the check printer and then running it through the machine. during that same time my boss tried to call me. it was about the ACH-PDF file. i did find two statements going to foreign lands but those did not 'go to the top'. during my walks i found 30 cents. 

march madness pizza party

 yet another food event at work during employee appreciation week, probably the final one for this week. it was the march madness pizza party. i went around midday to the main floor and showed my ticket as i had to register for it in advance. i had two slices of pepperoni, as well as some pink lemonade. i did shoot some hoops but it took a while to get two in. i chose a foldable frisbee with the bank's logo on it, along with the name of the building management company that co-sponsored the event. also notable about the day was the inserter machine. it threw the same error message nearly ninety times in the morning, then i shut it off and went to the pizza party. and much like many other days, i turn it on again a few hours later to 'close out the day' and it hums along just fine. over a hundred checks left over from the morning were run through in the afternoon. when i reported it to the tech, who is due back the next day, i said it was 'baffling to say the least'. after work i went over to a building i had visited for a member event last week and got a look at a limited-run exhibit that is closing in a few days. i got three pictures from the exhibit, one mentioned the Yellowstone River. my head hurt after being there as i wanted to read all of what i was seeing, as usual take a good look around. i am used to art exhibits being mostly pictures instead of words. not sure why this one was the opposite unless it's because book publishing is done there. i have already changed my weekend plans, but it was no big deal to do so as it was an event that i hadn't bought a ticket for just yet. i wanted to see a college baseball game at the u of m, but due to the weather report the schedule of the three-game series has been shifted, moved up. it became a single game today and a doubleheader on the next day, not important enough to me to knock off work for it. i will just go see a movie instead. after the exhibit i went to eat at the nearby Bobby and Steve's, a chicken dinner, likely the first time doing so there. usually, i just get a little godfather's pizza or a burger. then i went home on the light rail. during my walks i found 1 dollar 10 cents.