serial number given

 i called in a ticket on the little printer used for UPS labels and it was annoying having to give it to the agent twice. once it was created, someone viewed the ticket and asked for it again. we need another toner cartridge; it is getting so faded that it is hard to read. for this reason, i have been printing those labels on one of the check printers. the boss left early due to having gout. plenty of returned checks have arrived from the recently completed special project. there is so many that we are putting them into copy paper boxes. the boss has called it 'ridiculous' and i agree. these boxes are in the office that the boss uses when in the shop. i let a former coworker know about plans to see a movie this weekend, but the message i sent went unanswered. not the first time this has happened. in the evening i went to see a St. Paul Saints baseball game. the Saints were playing Syracuse, the Mets team. the Saints lost 6-2. i went because it was Charlie Brown night. i already had two Charlie Brown jerseys from previous years and not a big deal that i didn't get one. it had a great pumpkin theme. there will be another game that i am seeing this weekend. 

door ding

 there was a delivery in the shop, it was the boxes or cartons of check stock. while there i noticed there was a door ding caused by the cart the delivery man was using. this led to the door not closing due to the metal part near the bottom that was sticking out. when i pointed this out we banged on it a little to get it moved back far enough for it to close. there was a check from the Cincinnati file where i was told not to send it out. i said it had already been approved so i knew i could print it and send it to the shredder. near the end of the day when i actually put it in the shred bin, i decided to make it official by saying it was completed. i call this the cleanup part of the day. there was also a request for check images for a credit card. i said i do print some checks that are refunds from credit cards, but it sounded like it wasn't this kind when i wasn't given a check number i was able to recognize or search for in the system i use. 

two lane blacktop movie

 in the evening i went to see the movie 'two lane blacktop' at the Trylon cinema. this was a road movie and a car racing movie. two musicians were in it, James Taylor as well as Dennis Wilson of the beach boys. despite this, neither one contributed music to the movie. go figure. most notable song to me in this movie was 'me and Bobby McGee', performed by the writer of the song, Kris Kristofferson. i saw the cub foods dude in the front row, a familiar face. this is who i sat next to during the screening. i spoke of plans to see another movie in this series in a week. at work, there was a visitor near the end of the day that wanted to do a door test. seemed odd to me but it didn't take long. and there was an escheat request in our shared box. when i spoke of it to vacation replacement, i was advised to send it to the business line in st. louis. when i did so i found out there was a shared box for that team. 

rebel queens show

 this was the final day of the Minnesota state fair. it is not too often that i do the last day, but this time i knew i was likely to see my meetup friend, the retired postal worker. near the end of the day, we were in the bazaar area and saw a band called rebel queens, doing a cover of poison's 'talk dirty to me'. i had seen poison in concert with my brother many years ago, Damn Yankees was part of the same show. earlier we were at a different stage and during a break in the action i heard Belinda Carlisle's 'heaven is a place on earth'. i know this one mainly from being in the movie 'Romy and Michele'. i called it a 'carefree day', the part after finding my meetup friend. it was mainly spent drinking beer and watching people sing. even said so in two text messages i sent to friends. i still wanted to get some chores and errand running done before getting on the bus to this event, and made it there fairly early, mid-morning. shortly after arrival i did two things that i also liked doing on day one. this was going to the 'all you can drink' milk booth and going on the giant slide. i also found a puppet show and found out meetup friend knew the performer. this shouldn't surprise me much, being a patron of many shows in the local arts scene. we also got a closer look at the crop art, aided by waiting until just minutes before closing time when the line is much shorter. i saw three Snoopy depictions and one Homer Simpson. and we saw the fireworks show as well, i know i usually don't stay late enough to see that. the bus ride home, it left a lot to be desired. there was a long wait for a bus, and when i got on it was crowded and i ended up standing. there was some arguing as well. 

best little whorehouse in texas

 i went to a screening of 'best little whorehouse in Texas' at the mall in Eden Prairie just before midday. this was one of two dolly parton movies re-released to theaters after dolly's passing. i had seen it before, but it had been a while. and as i recall, it was an 'edited for television' version. i understood the social commentary in it well. there was the power of the media, and the court of public opinion. the governor character is a reminder of how some things never change. this included seeing reporters shouting questions at a politician, as we see it all the time on TV. the other was the photo-ops. at times the movie seemed cartoonish to me but i am aware of how it was based on a play/musical so i would expect that the filmmakers wanted to stay true to the original 'source material'. after the movie i had a club melt sandwich from the nearby food court, as well as a blizzard treat from dairy queen. songs i heard from the car radio for the day included 'umbrella' by Rihanna, and 'Mr. jones' by counting crows. the former, it sounds good, period. i don't need much else of a reason to like it. although i am aware of the metaphor that an umbrella has here. and it is more likely that i was offered an umbrella than me offering one, in terms of the life i have led. the latter reminds me of being in college and how i played it in my head to stay grounded during an exam. and then hearing it at a bowling alley during a college break when i was visiting some shirt tail relatives in southern California. 

metropolis movie

 in the evening i went to see the movie 'metropolis', a century-old German silent film. this was screened in a fine arts auditorium at a congregational church in Minneapolis. it was a good movie, once it got started, but there was a long pre-show. the presenter wanted to tell us how it influenced many other movies, including 'Star Wars', as well as Tim Burton's 'batman'. after a while i was thinking to myself, 'just show the movie'. i understood some of the social commentary in it, the haves and have-nots. the son of the bossman spends time with the have-nots. then we see the leader of the laborers, who gets cloned and this turns into a disaster. the son loves the labor leader, and she speaks of the importance of finding a mediator between the working and ruling classes. eventually i found my way back to familiar territory after the movie ended, the Bobby and Steve's gas station. i bought some tea and fig newtons there, then went home. i stayed busy even before the movie. i had lunch at the cracker barrel in Lakeville, and i liked how there was just a minimal wait for a table. likely helped that i arrived around 1pm. i had the catfish and hash browns and green beans. and capped the meal with some ice cream. i bought a snoopy magnet from the general store part on the way out. then i went to Walmart and bought a chicken soup book with an america-250 theme, as well as a Charlie Brown huggable figurine and some pringles. next stop was the Aldi for groceries. i didn't do much after getting back from the movie. 

paper found on train

 i didn't have to buy the paper as i found a copy of the Minneapolis edition, all four sections, on the light rail that i take to work. i still made it over to Walgreen though, and picked up some tea, cookies, and cheese. at work, the manager of a business line said the Poland team was still going to be working on Monday, the Labor Day holiday. this business line gives us a list of what checks to overnight. i said it shouldn't affect the file much, we print the checks whenever we get them. i let my boss know about the inquiry as i don't get a question like that too often. i found out what i had said was accurate, good enough. at first i was thinking i had another check for the tax specialist as it said 'ad hoc' but it wasn't. sometimes the Marshall business line has a file marked as 'ad hoc' too. it helps to pay attention to what the check looks like before it gets moved on to anyone. there are still two checks to be picked up. i completed another online class at work in the morning. there was three due at the end of the month, and i do one per day early in the month it is due and they don't take long. in the evening i went to Hy-Vee in Eagan, 12 items were in my order.