cisco pike movie

 i liked how i didn't have that much booked for the day. the main thing was getting to a movie at the Trylon, it was 'cisco pike', starring Kris Kristofferson and Gene Hackman, in the afternoon. the former was a musician, blackmailed by the latter, a dirty cop, into selling weed to have a charge dropped. i recognized a few other actors in it, but not too many. there was Roscoe Lee Browne, as a pawnbroker, in the early part of the movie. i did some research leading up to seeing it and i found out musicians have been in movies pretty much as long as there have been movies. i had seen the ones with Elvis Presley, and the Beatles, but it goes back even farther than that. one article spoke of Frank Sinatra, as well as Bing Crosby, doing movies in the 1940s. i had seen Sinatra in 'cannonball run', but not those earlier ones. with Crosby i had heard of the 'road movies' done with Bob Hope, guess i could likely find some of them on amazon. as usual, there were promos for upcoming film series at this venue. one of them was the 'road movie' series for the summer. there are three in that series that interest me. i bought a ticket for another movie at this venue over the weekend, but in a different series, a month from now. around midday i went to a park and had a cup of booya soup. i am used to this kind of event being just in the fall. before the booya i watched a DVD, a recent purchase, 'vacation'. since both movies seem to play just fine on this disc, i am fine with junking the other one as one of them on the earlier disc did not. after the movie i had some pizza at home and then went to perform at an open mic where the friend is the show runner. i got some more ideas for places to perform at, since another mic is in transition and i don't like the show runner that just took over. i didn't do much else in the evening, besides call my dad, who has a birthday coming up soon. 

two-dollar beers

 in the afternoon i went to the twins-cardinals baseball game in Minneapolis. i had heard there was two-dollar beers at those games, from gates open until first pitch. i made it there early enough to get one. i found out it was for just three kinds of 12-ounce beers in cans, i chose bud light. i waited in line for a beer on the main level, then went to my seat on the upper level and found out i could have bought one there. you live, you learn, i guess. i also got the giveaway item, a pack of Topps baseball cards. the company is marking 75 years in business. i got a bag of peanuts with the beer, but as expected not all of the nuts were eaten there. about half of them were taken home as that is a lot to eat all by myself. as for the game, the cardinals won, 9-6, and never trailed in this one. although a relief pitcher walked the bases loaded in the ninth but gave up just one run in that inning. i got some things done in the morning. there was going to the post office and i picked up an amazon order, a DVD. i also got some stamps, profiling historical figures from the American Revolution. after the game, i went home and rested a little, then went to a meetup event in downtown St. Paul near the Saints baseball stadium. in the morning, i went to Aldi for groceries, then got on the light rail to the baseball game. 

mailroom at lunch

 sometimes mailroom employees can be weird. i was at lunch and one of them finds me in the breakroom, and leaves before i can even get up. then the same one returns a few minutes later and i am asked to sign for something. not a big deal, I've done it before. then whatever i am given i put inside the shop and go back to lunch. vacation replacement heard about it and said this is why he'd stay in the shop for lunch. well i said it wasn't the hill i wanted to die on, as the saying goes. sometimes i get a sorry but not every time. also at work, i noticed a UPS envelope going to Wisconsin, from the Marshall file, had just one check for ten dollars instead of two checks for five each. i let the business line know that i was sending all of it in just one envelope, and the second UPS envelope i used for something else. when i was flipping through envelopes in the Fargo file before getting them in the regular mail tub, i found three that were refund checks. i set them aside, no need to send them out as they would eventually be sent to us when it is the same address. in the evening i bought a few items at a speedway gas station, as well as the Aldi. one of them from the latter was an america-250 themed product, Rice Krispies. 

became hot chicken

when i saw vacation replacement in the shop, i spoke of how some dairy queen locations have closed in the area. i had to look up one of them, haven't been there since it was 'repurposed' as it became a hot chicken place. i said i am more of the kind that gets chicken at Kentucky fried, popeye's, chick-fil-a, and cane's, pretty much in that order of appeal to me. this stems from Kentucky being the only option when i was growing up in small-town Iowa. i heard from the i.t. person and did test check printing in the morning. it was postponed from the previous day as i had more time for it in the morning. i am trying to get overnighted checks out the door late in the day. the boss was out of the office, but the boss was still copied when i sent the ten scanned copies that i had. i heard from the Marshall office, their UPS app was down and asked if i could do a label for a CarMax check. i said i had plenty of other labels to create, and hopefully i get that label the next day. looks like the light rail line that i take to work will be unavailable again later this month. last year it was for two weeks, but this time it will be longer. i will find a way to manage to get to work during that 'interim period'. i learned what works best for me when it happened last year.  

carolina caroline movie

 in the evening i went to see a movie, 'Carolina Caroline', in Inver grove heights. first time in a while at that venue. this was an independent film in limited release so i didn't want to wait too long to see it. this movie can be filed under various genres- a thriller, crime drama, romance, and road movie. i didn't recognize many of the actors in it, but i just care about if it's a good story. Kyra Sedgwick was in it, but in a small role as the mom. plenty of scenes were in bars, and in the south, so this explains why there was plenty of country music. this included a song by Loretta Lynn. i recognized a rock song in it as well, it was 'shooting star' by bad company. it was about a couple that went on a bank robbing spree. i was sold a discounted ticket, likely since it was on a weeknight. when i was already pretty much booked for the weekend, i figured it was best to 'move it up'. it wasn't the only event i did after work, though. i did one at the loft literary center, it was a member/friend event. i had hoped to be one of the readers like many times before but i guess they ran out of time. i can save what i wrote for the next one. i had enough to eat there that i didn't need anything at the movie theater. at work, an i.t. person called about the 'red line' on the dashboard left over from the Fargo file on Monday. i said all checks had been printed and positive paid. there was a PDF check for the manager that likes karaoke. i was told to expect one and when i checked the file i said 'we got one!' much like the secretary in 'ghostbusters'. sounds like i was offered a bobblehead but not sure when that might be arriving. i entered a vacation day for next month and notified vacation replacement about it. in the morning there was a team huddle. i had to say that we got just five sample envelopes from the supplier. i ran them through the machine, using copy paper to test it, but that was not enough for an accurate test. i also saw the tax specialist, twice. first time was shortly after the team huddle. then again in the afternoon as i was told those checks needed to go out same day. 

overnighting costs

 there was a question about overnighting costs from an instant message. i said it usually isn't that much unless it is going to a foreign land. sounds like doing a wire transfer is even more, but i haven't done any of those. and it sounds like we don't charge back to a business line when we overnight checks. i ended up overnighting three checks from a fraud file to a bank on Staten Island. a payroll check was picked up by the manager, usually it is picked up by their aide. but i don't care who picks it up. there was an e-invoice request from a different payroll manager, it was found by vacation replacement. it was more like an ACH statement and not a check when it was forwarded on. 

where's my phone, mitski

 when i was driving to a performance venue in the evening, i had the radio on as usual. i liked one song in particular, it was 'where's my phone' by Mitski. first song i heard by this artist was 'bug like an angel', on the same radio station, 89.3 the current. this one has a more frantic pace to it, but it still works for me. watched the video on YouTube and both have a choir in it. there was a change in the show runner and i am not pleased with who it is, but i performed tonight anyway. but i do have plans ready to use where i end up performing at alternate shows and venues. i did stories about a movie at the Trylon, an art exhibit, a play, and the bank. at work, vacation replacement said there was a server issue and i was able to print the PDF checks right away but not the ones in the older system. there was a delay on the two Fargo files, i was able to import them before leaving for the day but printing them will be done the next day.