what's your country song?

 when i was driving home tonight from work i had my car radio on and i really liked a song that i could tell had name-checked many other songs. i made a mental note of key lyrics and when i searched it online i found out it was 'what's your country song?' by thomas rhett. the video includes a song reference as well, as somebody spray paints 'billy bob loves charlene' and i know this is 'in john deere green' by joe diffie. themes i seen repeated in the video include teenage girls singing together in a minivan, as well as a football game and the cheerleaders at the game. when reading the lyrics i wrote down nine songs i recognized. here we go: mama tried, dixieland delight, barefoot blue jean night, exes in texas, lonesome i could cry, friends in low places, neon moon, when country wasn't cool, and family tradition. according to articles i found, there are even more, a total of maybe sixteen songs name-checked, at least twelve. one of them was apparently a hit for his dad, rhett akins. the wikipedia article said thomas rhett is actually a 'junior' so i understand why he chose a shorter version of his real name as his stage name. this song proves once again one thing i had said before about me: you can take the kid out of iowa but not the iowa out of the kid. i still like some country music, when i hear something good. this is evident in one of the key lyrics that helped me find the song- 'a small town anthem'. this is already proving to be a popular song, and with the nostalgic theme this comes as no surprise. it appears it has even cracked the billboard hot 100 and was just released under a month ago. so i think this makes it a 'cross-over' song. 

at work the repairman was to arrive to work on the check printer, but just before midday i got an instant message saying he had to attend to a personal matter. so he will try again on wednesday. i decided to get some of the envelopes from a box that was set aside in october into circulation, and now half of them got used. the box was set aside because some were not sealed on the sides. but i went through and found the ones that weren't and put them in the shredder. the further inspection shows that most are still useable. i hate having to throw out an entire box of envelopes and that is why i hadn't done it yet. there was a snafu again with the test checks in the afternoon, as i was unable to get into that system for a while. i notified I.T. about it and when i was able i went to print the non-test checks first. but i was able eventually to print the two test checks. i think these were the same two that came up blank when i tried to print them before, based on the date on them as they were date-stamped 2 weeks ago. in the evening i went on a walk and found 14 cents. the 'big bang theory' rerun was part one of the final episode, where it is announced that sheldon and amy won a nobel prize- and the elevator in their building is fixed. i did not watch the next one, as i got a tipoff early into it that it was when leonard meets a bully again. so i switched to another channel and found the ending of the movie 'music man'. there are a few episodes i don't enjoy at all and i know what to do when i find this out-do something else.