at the pop machine

 i was walking back from the speedway gas station in the evening and stopped to look at a pop machine at a motel. it said 'use at your own risk'. there was somebody nearby at the bus stop and asked me about it, i said i didn't want the machine to eat my money. then i said i needed to keep on trucking, and said 'you do the same' to him, and continued my walk home. odd how somebody cared so much about what i was doing. he was having a cigarette and it appeared shortly after our conversation was done that a bus was on the way. i went there tonight to get a paper instead of the hy-vee. also got some chocolate milk, cheese, and an ice cream sandwich. i will likely go to hy-vee on saturday. during my walks i found 68 cents. so now i have reached the next save-up goal, a tube of toothpaste. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when raj and emily double-date with howard and bernadette. sheldon wakes up with a geology book, and drunk dials steve hawking. it was followed by the one where sheldon kicks out amy to work, and sheldon is helped by penny because she doesn't want to interfere with amy and leonard enjoying re-enactments of science fair projects. i tried watching the st. paul saints baseball game on TV when i got back but fell asleep. at work my colleague arrived to help with setting up the printers on the laptop. although with all of the meetings by phone or in person-with my colleague, or boss, or i.t.- i was behind on work. it is harder to get work done when someone is helping me with another thing although it was very necessary and i was thankful for it. so i will try again on monday on seeing if it works to log in only from the laptop. although i may have no choice as i.t. wants to disable the desktop and a meeting moderator from recently wants to send a box to send back the desktop by UPS.