best medicine show

 in the evening i watched the fox TV show 'best medicine'. i was expecting 'the Simpsons' to be on after the pro football games but it wasn't. this show was pretty good, though. sometimes i say one episode is enough when what i saw wasn't that good, but i am willing to watch this one again. not sure if this was the typical time slot. in this cast, i mainly know Annie Potts, who has done plenty of notable roles over the years but i am most familiar with 'ghostbusters', and 'Young Sheldon'. the main storyline was a mermaid found clinging to a buoy, which led to mention of the movie 'splash'. another plot was about a woman who was told to stop smoking, as doing so around an oxygen tank would be hazardous. i think we all knew how it was going to end; she smokes anyway- and an explosion happens. not once, but twice. after the show was done i switched over to the Sunday night football game, colts-chiefs. the chiefs won in overtime. i sent a text to a friend in st. louis, saying i really like the hat i was sent earlier this year. i was asked who i might think will win the world series, and i said it was hard to predict with the expanded playoffs. i knew there were already five teams above 90 wins or close to it with a week left in the regular season. 

great gatsby play

 in the evening i went to see the play 'Great Gatsby' at the round theater in Minneapolis. i had been to this venue many times before but this was the first time seeing this story. i knew the book it was based on did not have stellar sales during the author's lifetime but i had also read how it became popular after copies were given to World War Two soldiers. i can relate well to nick carraway, the storyteller. i had said before when i was still in school how i play the supporting roles in life, and in this case the storyteller is the observer of Gatsby, the main character. it was a good story, but it is still a tragedy, nonetheless. when i was driving home from the show i heard on my car radio 'money for nothing' by dire straits. i still have the album it is on, 'brothers in arms', on cassette. later on, years after it became a hit, a learned the band's name is taken from a term meaning a 'challenging situation', usually a 'poor financial situation'. i did do some events even before getting to the venue. i also went to Mall of America around midday and had pizza at DeLeo, as i wanted airline miles. nearby in the rotunda was a metro transit event. it was nice seeing all of the displays there, including a van brought out for events like this one. it was painted with landmarks of the twin cities served by the transit system. i also got some Charlie Brown items at the American Eagle store, using a birthday gift certificate to reduce what i owed. it was some buttons as well as some socks. it paired well with the postcards i bought at Barnes and Noble. i got a sandwich and a Kool-Aid burst at Bobby and Steve's before the play. 

hit reply to all

 near the end of the workday, i was contacted by a branch employee about a check i had overnighted. this has happened before. i said i don't ask questions when i am asked to overnight a check, i just send it. sounds like the issue was the branch employee claims it was sent to the wrong branch or should have sent directly to the payee. i said i send wherever i am asked to send it. i gave the names or shared boxes for the business line that sends me the list each day, and when i saw it in the shared box she only replies to me with her question. i said 'hit reply to all' then the question goes to the business line as well. in the end i said 'i did my part'. our tax specialist was in, not typical for this day of the week. there were two check files to pick up, one was from the previous day. the other was two Canadian checks. there was some mention of those working from home can no longer print there, so this may have had something to do with it. i know i haven't seen courier pick-up for a while, and usually near the end of the week this is what happens to the tax checks. i tried two meat sticks from Walgreen, one of them was jack links. looks like they are locking up some of the doors in the refrigerated aisle again. at Hy-Vee in Eagan, i picked up two kinds of soap in addition to some food items. it was dish soap and bar soap. i don't have to buy either that often but was running low on both. when i was in the store i heard 'cruel summer' by Bananarama. i often pay attention to the music played inside stores. i knew this was a movie song, it was in 'karate kid'. 

it was for guardian

 i let my vacation replacement know there was one refund check to pick up. i said two other envelopes were left over, and one wasn't even for us. one of them was for a company called guardian in Pennsylvania, and i have no idea how we ended up getting it. the other one was about unclaimed property related to blue cross. i let him handle both. and we are now on box five of the returned checks from the special project, 'refund overbilling'. based on how many checks were sent out, this means close to half have been returned so i am not sure why we were asked to send them. there was an issue on getting into a system where i can order amazon gift cards from points. not sure what the solution is as i kept going around in circles when trying to log in. i was sent a text message with a code to send and it wasn't enough. this same thing happened back in March, based on the notes i had written down. 

where to apply it

i heard from a colleague i had overnighted a check to, as it was 'return to business line'. the question was where to apply it. i said i would have no knowledge of that. the colleague decided to make an educated guess based on the name on the check. it was a low amount, seven dollars, wouldn't even buy much. or actually, 'return to lockbox'. i said i have seen those before, but usually i send them to st. louis instead of Portland, Oregon. i did get the test checks i needed to print in the morning but still needed to wait a little to see they were ready. it was for the two Fargo files, five from one file and one from the other. there was plenty to wade through. i send the scans to my boss and to the I.T. colleague. there was over a hundred checks in the file for one and just 18 for the other. i am thankful i needed to print just six. as usual, i needed to cover up the credit card numbers on the checks in order to get them scanned and forwarded. i used the same stickie for all of them to cover it up.  

something we can do

 at work there was an instant message asking for a check copy, i said i prefer those requests be emailed to me. it was about a check set to be mailed out, and the requestor said she 'wanted to see if it's something we can do'. and it was, so it seemed a little odd to me. but on most days, this wouldn't even make the list of what is notable to me. there are times when i have to say that no check was found. a colleague in I.T. said it was fine to go into the test check system the next day, due to having to run to an appointment. it was late in the day and i prefer those kinds of things early in the day when there are less live check files to print. test checks aren't my most favorite thing to do when i have to switch to a system different from the live checks, and this means a different password. i often have to notify this same colleague about needing a password reset as i am not in that system near as often. 

it happened one night movie

 at work there was a 'cookies and connections' event in the afternoon on the main floor. i had been to this venue for an earlier networking event. i let the tax specialist know i was going to this 'shindig' and there was a Mississippi tax check expected. i guess there was a sense of urgency on getting it sent out, but it was agreed that it be picked up 'after the shindig'. the tax check file, if there are any checks to print, is not available until around that time anyway. there was also an Iowa check expected, but i said there was just one in the file. then we found out it was sent ACH so there was no check to pick up for that state. in the evening i went to see a movie at the Trylon, it was 'it happened one night', starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. this was the third and final movie i planned on seeing in this 'road movie' series and it is the one i liked best. it was called a 'screwball comedy'. i later read how it was an influence on many other movies after it. i sat in the front row like many times before and i did see the 'cub foods dude' and it was nice chatting with him about movies before this one began. then his Lyft car was ready shortly after the movie ended. i said my plans for my next visit to this theater would be a movie being screened more than a month from now.