team kudo board

an employee in another office, in Marshall, shared a plan to start a 'team kudo board'. it was in relation to being recognized by our colleagues. hard to say if i will participate, though. i do get these and sometimes my boss responds when i get them but i just want to get my work done. there was a response to a year-old email in the morning, saw it when i arrived for the day. then i was told to disregard it, okay. i did a quick dial-in meeting with the boss, who was working remotely. there was a question about the contact for the court file, i said it likely was someone in Arizona who has a cowboy hat on in his photo. a big shipment of envelopes arrived just minutes after a check was picked up. it was the full 27-box order instead of just the 14-box backorder. since it is the end of the month, i decided to order fewer boxes for April. all about ordering what i need, no more no less. an instant message from commercial customer service after i had left for the day, i responded on arrival. it was asking about payee names on checks. i said i had seen some long names and it should be fine to continue onto the second line. then i got the acknowledgement of my answer later in the day. i spoke to the manager that likes karaoke about alternate plans as i see the weather report for this week's St. Paul Saints baseball games. if a game is postponed, i would still like to see a game in the same series, if at all possible. near the end of the day, vacation replacement showed up to pick up some returned checks. i did hear the reason for being absent the previous day. something about how his cousin is getting divorced and wanting to advise him about it. getting an attorney is good advice. other things were related to finance, due to working in finance. seeing things like the other party cleaning out a joint account. in the evening i got an event invite through Facebook from a cousin. now i would like to figure out the logistics of attending.  

self-slap meme

at work there was an instant message asking me to disregard a check that been approved in the Cincinnati file. i said i could print it and just send it to the shred bin, and i did. i noticed there was a meme after this, and it was a yellow face slapping itself. it reminded me of a beer commercial from Amstel light, with a deadpan delivery. as a man in a lab coat at the brewery slapped himself. 'Sorry, we're from Amsterdam, we didn't know light beer was supposed to suck'. the commercial is still really funny to me and i like viewing it on YouTube. another payroll check was picked up. i decided to add myself to an email thread about sending returned checks to st. louis, but by the end of the day there was no response, even though i said 'please advise'. i also said the two main options were regular mail, or inter-office. i did a dial-in meeting mid-morning about work orders and it was mainly facility managers. i spoke of the unfinished work order i had created and was told i was the main contact for the department i am in. this is likely due to being the main employee in the check shop. it reminded me a little of an old sitcom. in the evening i went to perform. it did stories about the bank, attending a fish fry, seeing a play, seeing a movie, and two times i said i wasn't tech-savvy. 

scream 7 movie

 in the early afternoon i went to see 'scream 7', in Edina, at Southdale mall. i know i hadn't seen all of the previous movies in this franchise, i can only recall seeing 1,2, and 5. it is a reminder of how the movie industry has changed in the past 30 years. i have one of them on DVD, it is in a blockbuster case. and i saw '5' as a Redbox rental. both of those companies have ceased to exist as we know it. i watched my DVD copy of '1' in the morning, then went to have lunch at McDonald's. after lunch i headed to the movie. it was a good thing i re-watched that disc as movie franchises often copy things from earlier installments. it is what the fans expect, and often want, as it is familiar. i laughed a decent amount while watching it, so i enjoyed my time there. my only Halloween costume is the 'Ghostface' costume inspired by these movies, but i wasn't wearing it at this screening. it does remind me of where i was living when i saw '1' and '2', though, which was West Des Moines, Iowa. i paid my rent down the block in a costume shop and that shop sold the costume, but i didn't buy it there. i bought it after i had moved to suburban Chicago. some of the previews were of other horror movies, but the 'scream' franchise seems to be the only one i really like from that genre. after the movie i went to print two years of tax returns at a FedEx office. it worked just fine on printing with a release code as it was self-service. i found out the St. Paul Saints ticket i had ordered can be sent to google wallet, so one less thing that i needed to print. i had used that app just once so far, for the world junior hockey tournament. when i attend plenty of Saints games each season, this saves me some trips to the copy store to print those tickets out. after the copy store i got gas at a nearby speedway gas station and went inside for some snacks as well. i was getting annoyed with the clerk, though. he was flirting with the lady in front of me and then wanted to lecture me about still using the loyalty card and said i should be using the app. i didn't do much after getting home. i did the dishes, then hooked up my phone to recharge the battery. 

mrs. parker, mr. porter play

 in the evening i went to a play inside the loft literary center building in Minneapolis, called 'Mrs. parker, Mr. porter'. it was about writer Dorothy Parker, and musician Cole Porter. the staging reminded me of the round theater, just down the street a little. first time i recall being there for something that wasn't a loft event, an organization that i am a member of. there was plenty of music in it, and plenty of Dorothy quips. one of them was familiar from the movie i had seen where Jennifer Jason Leigh played her, the one ending with 'you might as well live'. at one point i could tell what happened likely wasn't in the script, it was when an actor had sat down in a chair at the edge of the 'stage' and a drink was spilled. good show, thankful i attended it. the card said it was a world premiere, through 'stage north'. i had seen it promoted at a venue i perform in. i did plenty of chores and errand running before heading to the play. there was going to the post office to mail two letters to family. while there i picked up a sheet of stamps of American revolution battlefields. i tried to print some things at FedEx office but it just wasn't happening, unable to get logged into Hotmail on one of their computers. i didn't like how an employee wasn't helpful at all, claiming it was due to 'caps lock' when it wasn't. i was able to get logged in at home, so i know it had nothing to do with the password i was typing in. i had lunch at Jersey Mike's and got groceries at Aldi. i tried another FedEx and was told, as expected, the issue was too much security that prevented me from getting logged in. i liked how an alternate idea was given- if PDF then send it to one of our printers and make a note of the code emailed to you when it is sent to get it released. after this i went to eat at chick-fil-a. it does remind me of what i have said before- 'don't get frustrated, get smarter' when i am trying to figure out technology issues. 

a different bridge traveled

 i went to another fish fry in the evening and this is a venue i had been to before. this time a different bridge was used to get there. i was going by the directions given by MapQuest, and it worked out just fine. it meant i wasn't going uphill to get to the church. this was St. Matt's in St. Paul. i liked not just the view of the river while on the bridge, but also of the skyline. there was music, and i decided to sit closer this time. but it also helped that i didn't have a cup of beer to carry on my food tray. my food was brought to me. recognized just one song played, it was 'pop goes the weasel'. now there is one more fish fry to attend during this season. then it was on to the Hy-Vee in Eagan. i did see the employee i sometimes chat with and was asked about weekend plans, i said it was to see a movie. at work i was sent some recognition for the check copy requests that i handle. near the end of the day i did acknowledge and respond to it, saying thank you. i asked vacation replacement about doing these and the response was the PDF files are not as fun to search as the other ones. i said i don't enjoy doing those as my understood marching orders are to get the live checks out. but i will admit it is nice to hear some appreciation from anyone for what i do. i also asked the supplier when the backorder on the envelopes would be arriving for the Fargo files. just half of the order had arrived this month. sounds like the rest of it should be delivered early next week. 

no color logos

 at work i was asked if there are any colors on the checks i print, and i said no. another issue on getting started in the morning, this time i saw weird characters on the checks instead of DDA digits. looks like we just had to wait until all of the software updates took place, even though i figured this would have happened overnight. another check was sent to the manager that likes karaoke, in the afternoon. this was a 'drop and leave' as she was in a meeting and i had other things i needed to get done. another check was printed for payroll, when i notified that department i was told to hold it until Monday. day four of the food events was donuts from cardigan again, this time i got an actual donut instead of donut holes. in the evening i had a can of natural ice with my meal. i also went to the nearby liquor store and got a can of toppling goliath, brewed in Decorah, Iowa. i still have four beers waiting. 

genuine legal tender bill

 i was surprised by what i received near the end of the workday. vacation replacement spoke of a gift, figured it was a joke in reference to being sent mail to be sent out. but it wasn't. it was a two-dollar bill, commemorative related to my 'animal year' with the Chinese New Year. i did say thank you and asked if there was anything i could do in return. day three of the food events was sandwiches from Jimmy John's. i had two small sandwiches, although i think one had no bread at all and was just wrapped in lettuce. notable about the morning was how long it took to get logged in. i knew something wasn't right as all i saw was a 'globe icon'. this means the wi-fi isn't working. i know things are fine if i see a 'fountain icon' as it means the wi-fi is up and running. eventually i asked for help by going to another floor and was advised to choose my own wi-fi system, something that i didn't have to do before. i was also on an email thread related to a check from the PDF file. i said it wasn't overnighted as i didn't see this word in the comment section. with another check, the newer Cincinnati file, there was too many questions after i said two checks going to the same place would go in the same envelope and which label wasn't being used. i say this as a courtesy in case there is questions about why there is no activity on one of the labels. it meant not only forwarding back one of the labels. but also sending a 'screen snip' to prove who the other requestor was.