christmas merchandise, already?

 in the past week i noticed how some stores have put up christmas merchandise already. seems kind of early since i have plenty of halloween candy i haven't eaten yet. target had christmas-themed cereal, and so did hy-vee in eagan. the latter i visited tonight. i got an ornament there, as i found yet another 'space jam' item. another ornament of interest to me is the grinch, as i don't think i have one of those yet. i know full well i have plenty of charlie brown ornaments, as well as one of rudolph. in addition, for the 5pm surprise a radio station played 'jingle bell rock' when i was getting started on the drive home from work. as for work, not much out of the ordinary. a supply order arrived, some envelopes. doorbell rang and then the agent brought them in. the spare maintenance kit arrived, but much like before it was hard to find at first. found out it was dumped at the branch, and the branch manager brought it over before i had the chance to check there. i am told this happens when the regular UPS driver is absent. a colleague advised me to change my out of office reply to have people contact the shared box, not a big deal, a simple solution. of course this is my last act before leaving, to have the reply set up. later on in the evening i went on a walk and found 2 dollars 16 cents. this included a dollar coin, one doesn't see them too often. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when howard and amy were working together and it led to some jealousy on the part of raj, as well as sheldon. then it became a parody of 'tom sawyer' because bernadette conned sheldon into doing chores. it was followed by the one where sheldon ends up in a ball pit because he is stuck on a science idea. he also tries menial jobs and eventually figures it out. i laughed a lot during this one, including when one hears the ring tone from leonard's phone, the voice of the joker from 'batman'.