josie and the pussycats movie

 in the morning i watched a DVD movie, a recent purchase from goodwill, 'josie and the pussycats'. this was one i had heard about recently as it was part of the 'bad company' series through the Trylon cinema. i lucked out that i found a copy so quickly after that. i still have the mock timecard from the series, where it is listed. plenty of satire and social commentary in it, which i liked. and it was campy as well. the funniest character had to be melody the drummer, who was cartoonishly dumb. but when this is based on archie comics, it makes sense to stay a little authentic to the source material. then after having lunch at home, i headed to the stadium for another Saints baseball game. this was a closer game, as the Saints won, 8-7, over the Iowa Cubs. there was a 9th inning rally, and the game ended on a swinging strikeout on a full count with the bases loaded. one doesn't see that scenario too often. after the game i walked around the downtown area a little and ended up at Candyland where i got a small box of popcorn. i also saw displays about upcoming shows at a nearby venue that i will want to research. i stayed downtown a little longer as i went to perform. it was nice to see the show runner, who had been absent from some of my recent appearances at this mic. i did stories about the bank, a furniture delivery, and attending two baseball games. 

furniture delivery

plans had to be changed a little, as i knew there would be a furniture delivery in the afternoon. in the morning i made it to the post office. as expected, hadn't ordered anything lately so no orders to pick up. i did pay for my box, the six-month fee, though. then i got pizza at a nearby convenience store. when i got home i watched a united football league game on TV, Dallas at DC. the game was nearly over when i was called that the delivery would be arriving soon. it was earlier than i was originally told, but i didn't mind. it was done fairly quickly, i signed for it, then i was on to the St. Paul Saints baseball game. i missed the first two innings but i like how i still got to see more than half of the game. i bought two small items inside the souvenir shop, a mascot magnet and some decals from their theme nights including Crooks Haven. the saints won big against the Iowa Cubs, 16-2, and fans got to see plenty of the long ball. during the game i heard a song but what i found when searching it at home likely wasn't the same one. the lyric i recalled was 'cry me a river'. the most hits when googling it was a Justin Timberlake song. i still liked what i heard, though. it resonated with me as i once said it to a match from internet dating. i made it to Aldi in the early evening and got groceries, then watched the baseball game on fox. it was dodgers-cardinals in st. louis, and the cardinals won a close one, 3-2. 

soup and oyster crackers

 i did my customary visit to Hy-Vee in Eagan and picked up another close-out item near the checkout lanes. it was a bag of soup and oyster crackers. why not try it when it was for just a dollar? i did see the employee i have chatted with before and spoke of families a little more. i have way fewer cousins. the team lead did a swap on workdays in the office due to furniture delivery the previous day. it meant i didn't have to go to that floor to pick up the reject fax, but i still went there to get some refund checks in a 'blue company envelope' moved. actually, there was two of them as the mailroom did deliver a second envelope, the first was left over from the previous day as vacation replacement didn't show up for it after i notified. i left the second one under a box of Avery address labels, i guess my colleague was at lunch at the time. the screen saver spoke of 'employee banking' but i said i was at a loss for what other services i could get from the bank when i already have my checking account and ATM card there. another check copy was found, per request by the boss, from the Cincinnati file. it was a sub-file that i last printed over a year ago. it was the tenth copy i had sent on, and it means just half of those Cincinnati files have ever had checks for me to print. when the tax specialist sent an instant message and said, 'out of office', and to hold any tax checks i get, i said 'copy that'. there were some in the afternoon. 

facility manager meeting

 in the early afternoon i joined a dial-in meeting, i was invited by the facility manager. the boss asked was unsure why i was invited and said i didn't have to attend. i said i have sent some work orders for the shop, and i find it helpful to follow along. it was slated for thirty minutes but it ended early as there wasn't much to discuss in the Q and A part. i did learn some things from it. facility manager said recycling does happen onsite, and even the paper towels in the bathrooms are composted. i let payroll know just after i returned from lunch how a check had printed and is ready for pick-up. no surprise how it was picked up right away, since it is the last day of the month and likely needed to go out right away. the colleague said the envelope was not needed so i will use it for a later check that is held for pick-up. the boss is handling a request from the shared box as it was a check i am not familiar with, related to unclaimed property. it is apparently found in a system that i don't use. there might be more check copies to find. a rep in i.t. asked about Cincinnati files, and we had already sent nine check samples for that business line. some were set up and may not have had any checks sent to us, though. but we still need to do a sweep of what is found on dashboard to see that we have covered all the kinds of checks that we print. the boss said it was fine to go back 2-3 years, except some of them were created fairly recently. it was already confirmed for i.t. how one business line, based in Kansas City, has four different files. three have the same DDA and the fourth is different as it is a Canadian file. i drank a can of blue moon with the evening meal and got another can of blue moon from the nearby liquor store so there still are four beers waiting. i did more searching about the much-ballyhooed green day movie and it looks like it may finally have a release date. two different articles found online say this would be released in august. one of those is a theater chain and this tells me it includes a release to theaters. i like hearing this as i don't do streaming. earlier this month an article said it had found a distributor and the movie had been retitled. 

one-day file transfer

the boss said early in the day how there was a power outage in another office, and their check files would be transferred to us for the day. both were in the afternoon; these were equipment finance checks. some were overnighted, but some will have to wait to be sent out. the second file arrived just after i have to send the mail tubs to the mailroom. i want to see that things are done right, so not a big deal to have it carried over to the next morning. we were given some forms to match up with some checks. it was under a hundred checks in all, sent PDF to us. i was also asked to pull out a 'zero check'. not a big deal, as i have done 'pull and shred' requests on other check files. a blue company envelope arrived, three refund checks were in it. a colleague that places supply orders for me asked about a contact for a business line in st. louis. i said i was familiar with two, and the name i was given was one i had never heard of. i was sent an excel spreadsheet related to UPS labels i had created. it was something about address corrections. the list went back to January, but it wasn't that many compared to the volume i send out each day. i also said that it is all about the address i am given by the business line.  

least used cart

vacation replacement said a toner cartridge arrived in the mailroom, and i was advised to get a cart for picking it up as the empty mail tubs were there as well. i decided to use the collapsible red cart. it is least used cart since we moved to this site over a year ago. there are four. but i am still thankful to have it as sometimes the others are occupied or don't serve the purpose as well as this one does. i still brought the cartridge back to the shop even though it is laser jet and we can't use it for check printing. the boss was in the shop and asked about the doorbell, i said it was fixed a few weeks ago, but it took a month for the solution. there was a weird email asking about tracking on regular mail, i said there wasn't any. i said that if tracking is being requested, i said the check needs to be overnighted. more payroll checks were picked up; this time it was three. all are for different recipients. i was in contact with one of them this morning to see if it was fine to be lumped together with the other two, and it was. it was confirmed by the business line that the special project is done, i found the thread to respond to and ask about it. 

refund checks finished?

 at work we saw the Jacksonville file return after no checks were sent on Friday. it was just over a hundred for the day, which makes me think we reached the end of the line on this special project of refund checks. fine with me. if that is the case, then we still have a decent number of envelopes left over. one box is not yet opened, and we have a partial as well. the final total was just over fourteen thousand checks in the past two weeks. a payroll check was picked up. in the evening i went to perform. i did stories about the bank, refrigerators, a meetup event, a DMV trip, seeing a movie, and making a find at goodwill. there was an announcement by the showrunner at the end of the night how the show might be ending soon. possibly a bombshell, unless someone else takes over. but it won't be me as i don't see myself as a leader.