digger movie

 just after midday i went to see the movie 'digger', at Southdale mall in Edina. i got a hot dog and some bottled water as well as i was running a little late and didn't have lunch at home. john goodman was why i saw this one, who is in it as the president. there was some social commentary in it, most notably when tom cruise's character gives a speech to the assembly. early on i said his character was an 'inept, tone-deaf idiot'. later on, when it was revealed, there was a 'story within the story' more terms i had been using were heard in the movie- farce, and satire. this was a weird movie to say the least, but i kind of expected it to be when my research before heading to the venue said it was a 'black comedy'. it was called a 'flop' on the opening weekend so i knew i couldn't wait much longer to see it. i can think of two reasons why it was a flop. one, it was expensive to make, even before marketing costs. it is hard to understand why so many movies lately have exceeded $100M in production costs. this makes it harder to make a profit. two, people tend to prefer a 'feel-good' movie. a satire can do well, but not if the message or the jokes are hard to follow. after the movie i went to a grocery store inside the mall, Kowalski's. i knew i could eat a little more for lunch than what i had at the movie. i bought cheese curds, a slice of classic spam, and some pumpkin bars. then i went to another mall, Rosedale in Roseville, to use a coupon that was sent to me in the mail by JC Penney. i bought two Charlie Brown items, a star-shaped pillow and a 'claw clip', snoopy was on both. the latter i can use as a 'chip clip'. in the evening i watched some of the baseball playoffs, dodgers-brewers, game one of the league championship series. the brewers won it. i also watched a DVD, 'eight men out', about the black sox scandal, in the morning. the movie itself wasn't all that long, but i watched some of the special features and this led to me having virtually no time for lunch at home if i wanted to be on time for the movie in Edina. 

kiki's delivery service

 i made it to a morning screening of a movie in Columbia Heights, starting just before midday. it was 'Kiki's delivery service', a Japanese animated film dubbed in English. it was part of the month's 'witch series' that its sister theater, the Trylon cinema, is doing. Phil Hartman voicing the cat made the movie for me, but i know Janeane Garofalo was voicing a character in this movie as well. i went to Aldi for groceries before the movie, shortly after the store opened for the day. when i picked up orders at the post office, it meant going to the counter when it is too big for my box. this led to me seeing some 'freedom 250' items. i bought three of these. two were stickers or decals, and the third was a magnet. then it was on to the movie. after it i picked up a lunch at a nearby gas station. it included a ham Swiss and rye sandwich as well as a Smucker's Un-crustable. it meant my customary visit for a sandwich at Jersey Mike's was moved to the evening. also, that evening i watched a DVD at home. it was a French movie called 'le chignon d' Olga'. i did google translate and found out it meant 'bun' or 'top knot'. although the Olga character didn't have much screen time in the movie, mostly early on as a bookstore employee. 

leave a check to print

 vacation replacement is still doing more of the check shop training, and i was asked to leave a check to print from the Cincinnati file. i like doing that file as i don't have to create the overnight labels as the business line sends them to us. i still had to print another file that i was asked to leave for training, though. it was related to checks for government agencies. eventually i know all check files need to be printed if it is late enough in the day as checks need to be sent out. i did the customary visit to Walgreen in the morning, sticking with a recent change to go to one close to home before i get on the light rail. it still works to get the paper there along with some tea. in the evening it was the trip to the Hy-Vee in Eagan. i bought another bag of those star-shaped tater tots from Ore-Ida, with the america-250 logo on the bag. it was one of the items that generated points in my 'fuel saver' account with this store, once i run my loyalty card there. the other was a small bottle of skim milk. when i got home i found a football game on local TV, a rare Friday game for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Iowa beat Washington on the road. 

test pages printing

 one of the check shop trainees asked me if a test page printed on one of the printers in the shop, i said two of them did. it was on the one closest to the office that the boss uses. there was another chat script about check shop training, and the team lead said she couldn't hear anyone. it seemed to be related to selecting a printer, and of course there are two check printers in the shop. there were nine checks set aside for the tax specialist, i was told to hold them until Tuesday of next week, after the upcoming bank holiday. there were more questions from vacation replacement about specific files i print. in this case it was a mortgage file where all checks are overnighted. i said we don't save those emails because no one has asked me to. i do send out all tracking numbers to the requestor on the original email once available, though. 

check shop training on chat

 at work i found it odd how there was a chat script about check shop training. i figured it was all going to be in person. at the same time, i was not that involved with it even though i am the primary for this function. vacation replacement is holding much of it for two colleagues, one of them being the team lead. the other i don't know all that well. two of those involved in the chat were from I.T., and it said, 'i can hear you'. one of them later spoke of having to drop due to having another meeting to attend. this was just before midday. the check stock order for the spike in volume arrived, more quickly than expected, a day earlier than the supplier had informed us about it. when i get one shipment and don't have the other, i knew i needed to start asking about it. there was a dial-in meeting with the Fargo team about the spike in volume, and the claim was that we were told to expect it by email. i had arrived just a day prior, on a day that my boss was out of the office. 

wine infused salame

 i went to the convenience store near me at work and got a snack around midday. it was called wine infused Salame. i am used to it being spelled 'salami'. i got a bottle of Dunkin donuts coffee as well. there were four tax checks set aside for our tax specialist. the spike in volume happened as expected for the two Fargo files. it was thirteen thousand checks. i was asked to send samples/scanned copies of seven checks in particular and waited for the green light to send out more. for this reason, i wasn't able to send out as many as i would have liked on the same day. the envelopes ordered for the spike in volume arrived. 

rare file, no overnights

 at work i was asked about a rare file, i think vacation replacement i still updating the binders. it is based in the Kansas City area, i did say right away after seeing the name that it is 'few and far between'. and no, we don't overnight any of those when we do get them. when i went to dashboard it said just eight checks so far this year. there was a facility manager dial-in meeting as well, as usual it didn't last all that long. there was a check for the manager that likes karaoke, but she and her team lead were not in the office so i am fine with keeping it in the shop for one more day.