supply order day

 it will be back to work after one day off. one thing on the docket will be to get the supply order in for the month. will see what else is waiting for me when i get there. 

9 to 5 movie

 i watched my DVD copy of '9 to 5' in the afternoon. i had a day off from work for an appointment in Burnsville in the morning. i do look at this movie differently compared to when i first saw it, as i was a kid then. i have spent plenty of time in corporate America and i found out i was saying what others said when Jane Fonda is using the copier that went haywire- just turn it off. it is a nice time capsule since the office workers are using typewriters and rolodexes. but it looks a little dated when the airline shown in it is TWA, now defunct. matter of fact, i was watching 'jeopardy' this was one of the clues in the category called 'receding airlines'. then i went to a member/friend event at the loft literary center and was one of the readers in their open mic. 

shared box access

 at work the team lead said there were issues with shared box access. the tax specialist picked up two envelopes, wanting some checks to go out same day. i watched some of the pro football game but fell asleep. bears played the eagles; bears led at halftime and i laid down early in the second half and found out the bears went on to win it. 

you had to be there movie

 before midday i went to see a movie, 'you had to be there', in Eden Prairie. it was a documentary about the cast of the Toronto production of 'Godspell', and how some of them went on to 'second city' and 'Saturday night live'. plenty of clips and interviews of course. i knew to get to it soon as docs usually don't have a wide appeal. for lunch i went to the nearby food court and ate from Leeann Chin. also bought a blizzard treat from dairy queen. watched some of the pro football games when i got home. the evening game was rams-broncos. 

waiting for godot play

 went to see the play 'waiting for Godot' at the Guthrie theater in Minneapolis in the evening. a drawing card was knowing character actor David Strathairn would be in it, seen many of the movies he's been in. i knew the play was about waiting for someone that never shows up. i correctly guessed it was mentioned in a sitcom i had seen, and during intermission i googled it and it was on an episode of 'home improvement'. went to Aldi early for groceries, shortly after they opened for the day. two e-bay orders were picked up from the post office, and for lunch i had a sandwich at Jersey Mike's. 

late files, deferred request

 near the end of the workday i was asked to pull a check. i said the file it was in was late and i would print the file the next business day. actually, three files were late, all of them from the fraud department. i get these requests all the time, in this case it was due to being the wrong amount. the courier picking up tax checks was the only visitor of the day. there was a Canadian tax check file, and it printed before the courier arrived so two more were in the envelope, three in all. the regular ad-hoc file arrived in the afternoon and those will be held for pick-up on Monday. the business line in st. louis notified me that their file would be late, but i said i still had time to send it out same day. there were no overnight labels for the second Marshall file of the day. i did make it to Walgreen, but it was moved up. i went to a different location, and before i went to work. in the evening i watched a college football game on fox, Indiana beat northwestern. the Indiana head coach had some commercials for State Farm Insurance airing during this game. 

second chair massage

 at work i had a chair massage appointment mid-morning. it can be hard to snag an appointment when those fill up quickly, it was just the second for me since i had moved to this building nearly two years ago. there are some paid appointments but like most people i prefer the complimentary ones. this is now being offered once a week onsite. i spoke a lot with the massage therapist during the fifteen minutes, some of it was about baseball and how there were two teams known as the sox. i knew there would be a courier for the tax checks but said i needed to get to the appointment. i later found out the courier wasn't there yet. when the courier arrived, it was with a mailroom employee, he was late and one i hadn't seen before, likely new. for lunch i had some pizza, as the boss had gone to a place called Broadway and i got the second half of a meat lovers pizza. i had been there before but usually get a single slice and this was likely equal to more than that when it came in a box. a colleague who had picked up checks this week asked me to return them to the boss. there was some confusion, though. these were not from the special project. i do sorting and those from the special project say so in the window of the envelope. those are not opened at all, and those envelopes go into some former copy paper boxes in the shop. we have currently filled seven of them. i am still wondering when the returned check volume will slow down. this colleague said most of the checks from the special project were low dollar amounts. when i opened one that was sent back in a different envelope, i said it wouldn't buy a meal at my favorite sandwich shop.