hit reply to all

 near the end of the workday, i was contacted by a branch employee about a check i had overnighted. this has happened before. i said i don't ask questions when i am asked to overnight a check, i just send it. sounds like the issue was the branch employee claims it was sent to the wrong branch or should have sent directly to the payee. i said i send wherever i am asked to send it. i gave the names or shared boxes for the business line that sends me the list each day, and when i saw it in the shared box she only replies to me with her question. i said 'hit reply to all' then the question goes to the business line as well. in the end i said 'i did my part'. our tax specialist was in, not typical for this day of the week. there were two check files to pick up, one was from the previous day. the other was two Canadian checks. there was some mention of those working from home can no longer print there, so this may have had something to do with it. i know i haven't seen courier pick-up for a while, and usually near the end of the week this is what happens to the tax checks. i tried two meat sticks from Walgreen, one of them was jack links. looks like they are locking up some of the doors in the refrigerated aisle again. at Hy-Vee in Eagan, i picked up two kinds of soap in addition to some food items. it was dish soap and bar soap. i don't have to buy either that often but was running low on both. 

it was for guardian

 i let my vacation replacement know there was one refund check to pick up. i said two other envelopes were left over, and one wasn't even for us. one of them was for a company called guardian in Pennsylvania, and i have no idea how we ended up getting it. the other one was about unclaimed property related to blue cross. i let him handle both. and we are now on box five of the returned checks from the special project, 'refund overbilling'. based on how many checks were sent out, this means close to half have been returned so i am not sure why we were asked to send them. there was an issue on getting into a system where i can order amazon gift cards from points. not sure what the solution is as i kept going around in circles when trying to log in. i was sent a text message with a code to send and it wasn't enough. this same thing happened back in March, based on the notes i had written down. 

where to apply it

i heard from a colleague i had overnighted a check to, as it was 'return to business line'. the question was where to apply it. i said i would have no knowledge of that. the colleague decided to make an educated guess based on the name on the check. it was a low amount, seven dollars, wouldn't even buy much. or actually, 'return to lockbox'. i said i have seen those before, but usually i send them to st. louis instead of Portland, Oregon. i did get the test checks i needed to print in the morning but still needed to wait a little to see they were ready. it was for the two Fargo files, five from one file and one from the other. there was plenty to wade through. i send the scans to my boss and to the I.T. colleague. there was over a hundred checks in the file for one and just 18 for the other. i am thankful i needed to print just six. as usual, i needed to cover up the credit card numbers on the checks in order to get them scanned and forwarded. i used the same stickie for all of them to cover it up.  

something we can do

 at work there was an instant message asking for a check copy, i said i prefer those requests be emailed to me. it was about a check set to be mailed out, and the requestor said she 'wanted to see if it's something we can do'. and it was, so it seemed a little odd to me. but on most days, this wouldn't even make the list of what is notable to me. there are times when i have to say that no check was found. a colleague in I.T. said it was fine to go into the test check system the next day, due to having to run to an appointment. it was late in the day and i prefer those kinds of things early in the day when there are less live check files to print. test checks aren't my most favorite thing to do when i have to switch to a system different from the live checks, and this means a different password. i often have to notify this same colleague about needing a password reset as i am not in that system near as often. 

it happened one night movie

 at work there was a 'cookies and connections' event in the afternoon on the main floor. i had been to this venue for an earlier networking event. i let the tax specialist know i was going to this 'shindig' and there was a Mississippi tax check expected. i guess there was a sense of urgency on getting it sent out, but it was agreed that it be picked up 'after the shindig'. the tax check file, if there are any checks to print, is not available until around that time anyway. there was also an Iowa check expected, but i said there was just one in the file. then we found out it was sent ACH so there was no check to pick up for that state. in the evening i went to see a movie at the Trylon, it was 'it happened one night', starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. this was the third and final movie i planned on seeing in this 'road movie' series and it is the one i liked best. it was called a 'screwball comedy'. i later read how it was an influence on many other movies after it. i sat in the front row like many times before and i did see the 'cub foods dude' and it was nice chatting with him about movies before this one began. then his Lyft car was ready shortly after the movie ended. i said my plans for my next visit to this theater would be a movie being screened more than a month from now. 

filipinana movie

 in the afternoon i went to see the movie 'filipinana', at St. Anthony main in Minneapolis. i had seen a trailer for this film on YouTube and searched for screenings nearby. at first, there weren't any, the closest one listed on the film's website was in Chicago. i had to wait a little and then found out just one twin city theater would be showing it, information gleaned from fandango. midway through watching it, i had to ask myself, 'why am i thinking of Caddyshack?' even though both movies have a setting at a country club, otherwise they have very little in common. this one, as the title suggests, takes place in the Philippines. all of the movie was subtitled, even the dialogue that was in English. i did understand how this was a study of the haves and have nots. the main character takes us on a tour of most of the country club, in search of the club's boss. also, a part of the story was a young lady, golfing with her uncle. she had been studying in New York City, and her uncle wanted her to move back. i liked the movie, a good story. it is also a reminder of why i stay for the closing credits. some of the credits started to roll even before the story faded to black. some people leave this early, but i know sometimes there is more of a story to tell. in this case, it was the main character calling for help and no one responded. there were plenty of previews, and as usual most don't appeal to me. but one of them did, it was 'digger', starring tom cruise. i had seen the posters for a while and said 'meh' as all i knew was tom in a cowboy hat. i found out john goodman is in it, too, an actor i like more than tom. i think this movie just made my list. i know this is a black comedy, sounds like it is due out next month. after the movie i stopped at Rosedale mall in Roseville and had some ice cream at dairy queen. it was just before i made it to the mall where i heard Lewis Capaldi's 'before you go', which is tough to listen to. probably good that i don't hear it that often. the performer said it was inspired by the suicide of his aunt. before the movie i got a sandwich at a gas station near the Vikings stadium, hours before the game began. it was weird how i followed the Packers-Vikings game three different ways. on the radio, then at home, finally at a bar where i was performing. the Vikings won with a big fourth quarter. the open mic started once the game ended, as it would have been hard to compete with the cheering about the game. 

pickup truck opera

i was double booked for the day. first event to attend was a 'pickup truck opera'. i was able to google it based on a few key words given by my meetup friend. it was at swede hollow in St. Paul, a park i hadn't been to before. my friend was there filming it with two different cameras and i was able to sit in his lawn chair nearby. i recognized most of the modern music in it as the genre was 1990s grunge. this included violin versions in the opening segment, one was 'hey jealousy' by the gin blossoms, and 'only happy when it rains' by garbage. i had seen both bands in concert. some songs of the day i had heard more than once. nirvana's 'heart shaped box' i not only heard when having a sandwich for lunch at Jersey Mike's, but also at the opera. dolly parton's '9 to 5' was heard at the opera, and at the event i did after the opera was done- a baseball game. the opera ran longer than expected and i went to the St. Paul Saints game right after it was done. the saints lost to Syracuse, 9-7. it was game number 11 for me this season, actually 12 as one night in July was a double-header. this was food truck night, and i had an egg roll from a Vietnamese place. the converted ambulance was absent. then there were fireworks after the food trucks. and the dolly parton song was one of those played during the fireworks show. next visit to this stadium will likely be for the holiday lights, which are normally between thanksgiving and New Year's Day.  i bought one final souvenir for the season, it was a blue ball with both the Twins and Saints logos on it.