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. 

furniture order

 i knew it was time to replace some of my furniture so i did an online search recently and decided to go to slumberland, in Eagan. i am familiar with the area that the store is located as i had been to the goodwill store next to it. i got a good look around and laid down on some beds and found one i liked. i placed the order and asked for delivery as well as hauling away the existing one. when i was done i went over to the goodwill and bought four DVDs. when i got home i found out i already had one of them, the baseball story called 'bang the drum slowly'. but it's quite likely that i don't have the other three. i watched one of them later in the day, a documentary about Mt. Rushmore and other tourist attractions in the state. i fell asleep in my easy chair near the end of it, but i knew i was tired. then i had the urge to get moving again, and this meant going to the Mall of America. i found two more Charlie Brown items at the 'Japan store', Ebisu. it was some popcorn as well as some mouthwash. i got a scoop of ice cream at the cookie place as well but still don't have the airline miles from the other visit, earlier this month. i watched some of the united football league game on ABC, Louisville won big on the road against Dallas. a small crowd at this one, and according to the attendance figures i am finding online this is all too common. twenty games played so far, halfway through the regular season, and more than half of them have had crowds below ten thousand. the future of this league? forecast is still 'cloudy', even after an off-season where three of their eight teams were 'relocated'. 

lorne michaels documentary

 in the afternoon i went to see the documentary about Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of 'Saturday night live', at the mall in Eden Prairie. the official title is 'Lorne'. i know full well that docs usually don't have a wide appeal so i said, 'i need to see it now'. only one screening per day at this and other theaters in the area, and i was just one of three attendees, so i made the right choice. i liked it more than the Jason Reitman-directed 'Saturday Night', which was about the first episode of the variety show back in 1975. it helps that the doc covers a much wider timeframe. i liked seeing familiar clips such as 'Wayne's World', and Lorne produced it when this became a movie. also liked seeing how David Spade was part of this doc. i guess it did make sense that Mr. Michaels tried other ventures after that first five-year stint, but i wasn't too familiar with those shows as they didn't last long. i knew that Lorne became SNL producer again after a five-year absence. knowing about his gigs before SNL such as being a writer on 'laugh-in' was a nice discovery. when i was leaving the theater i did hear from the IMAX auditorium a song from the Michael Jackson biopic, but i currently have no plans to see it. i am more of a fan of his sister, Janet, and i found out that Janet wanted nothing to do with the movie. i actually used two loyalty programs while at the mall, and one of those was the movie theater chain, AMC. the other was the Barnes and Noble book shop, and i found a Charlie Brown book in their discount section. and i found a Charlie Brown seat cushion, and stickers, at the Mini-so store before that. when i got home i watched some of the baseball game on fox, cubs-dodgers. then i went to get groceries at Aldi as i wanted to get there before closing time. i missed the big inning when the dodgers went ahead, and they won by a wide margin in this one. there was an interview with Rick Monday, honoring the 50th anniversary of his saving a flag during a game. in the morning i went to the post office and picked up two boxes. one was the amazon orders, a birthday gift for my niece in Iowa. the other was a gift sent by a friend in st. louis. for lunch i had a sandwich at Jersey Mike's. i liked how i found more to do besides just the DMV trip to renew my license plates. i got it done early, arriving shortly after the place had opened for the day. there was light rain but i didn't have to wait outside for long as the line moved along quick enough. i also got a snack and juice at the nearby holiday gas station when i was done. i wanted something light as i already had cereal for breakfast before i hit the road. 

string cheese after copies

 i went to the copy store to print an event ticket in the morning. i was more willing to order event tickets again after waiting a week due to issues with my Hotmail account. for whatever reason, i couldn't get in when trying to log in on my laptop. it meant logging in on my phone, which i don't like near as much since it is a much smaller screen and i am more likely to get kicked off, multiple times. then it was on to Walgreen. i bought string cheese there for the first time in a while as the refrigerated aisle doors are unlocked again. i also got cookies, and a drink. two checks for payroll printed and different employee names on them. i was told it was fine to have them lumped together and these will be held for pick-up on Monday. i got recognized by a colleague, just for sending check copies. it isn't my most favorite duty in my job description, but i still like any recognition for the work that i do. the boss mentioned a toner cartridge was delivered late in the day, except the mailroom didn't have one. i said i can't use it if it is a laser jet, as we use a different kind for check printing. in the evening i first went to a meetup event at a micro-brewery. i chatted the most with a dude who spoke of being a janitor at the mall of America. i spoke of the stores and exhibits and food outlets i go to the most at that mall. then it was off to Hy-Vee in Eagan for groceries, where i spoke to an employee that my only weekend plans were 'a boring trip to the DMV', sorry to disappoint.