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. 

sent link to citrix

at work my boss spoke of wanting to get access for more people on the team. it meant sending a link to a system i use called citrix, this was sent as an instant message. sounds like it is meant for the boss and team lead. there was a dial-in meeting in the morning, third quarter finance town hall. as usual i did my best to get work done during that time as there were checks to print. i was pleased that the work order was handled right away on the check shop doorbell. sounds like a tech arrived to swap out batteries after i had left for the day. i was sent an email and asked to test it, and it was fine. i said i preferred to be there when it was done as i could test it right away. at the same time, no complaining at all that it was done fairly quickly. the last time i did a work order for the same thing, it took a month. it was odd that the tax specialist still wanted to test it after it was proven to be working, so i got into the hall and tested it again. it might make a difference as to what part of the button is pushed. 

no refund checks until afternoon

at work i had more visitors than usual since vacation replacement was on vacation. one of them was a lady that i hadn't worked with much. she picked up the returned checks for our internal business line. in the afternoon there was another colleague, asking for refund checks. there weren't any until i sent the regular mail tubs to the mailroom. along with more returned checks, and most of those returned checks are still from the special project that wrapped up weeks ago. the boss was ill so the team lead was notified that i would be out of the office for one day next week, as i had made an appointment. tax specialist notified me about the doorbell to the shop so i put in a work order near the end of the day. 

keep profile safe

at work there was an email about keeping profiles safe on UPS, a place where i create plenty of overnight labels each day. i finally went to our internal team about it and was told no action was needed. something about how there will be another step of verification soon. the boss asked me to do another MICR ruler test on checks in the morning. i was pleased that the inter-office envelopes arrived as there was plenty to use again. i decided to put the tub these arrived in into the rotation of the regular mail tubs. it meant taking the sign taped onto another one and moving it. that one was taken out of the rotation as a metal rod in the door was missing and i knew it wouldn't function properly. 

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.