madden magazine, espn

 this evening i went to hy-vee for my weekly grocery order and i said it was time to get the special magazine i had seen for weeks about football great john madden. i knew it has on the cover to display it until april. i had seen the documentary on christmas day and he passed just a few days later. plenty of photos in it, the part about the video game bearing his name didn't interest me much as i am not a video game player. but the rest of the story was of interest to me. we all know i like special magazines, so this one will go in the box next to the others. probably the first one i have about a football personality. there was 80 pages and i understand it would have been hard to cover everything so it is still largely highlights, such as one photo from being a product endorser for miller lite beer, and a brief mention of other commercials he did. i of course liked mention of being a guest star on 'the simpsons'. so it is a slightly different style of telling his story than the documentary, nothing wrong with that. 

at work it was a fairly low volume day so there were some gaps between check files to print. one colleague wondered why there was just three checks at midday to pick up and not the fourth. this was the one that replaced the one who retired in january. then it was determined it was likely due to the small gap of a few minutes on approving it, and this meant the fourth didn't meet the same cut-off time as the others. after having lunch i went over to mcdonald's to get a shamrock shake. i plan on getting one once a week for as long as they are available, and i figure it should be on the menu until the end of the month. it was a cold and windy walk over there though. as i was leaving i saw a box for the branch manager so i brought it inside the building. then i went to the church nearby and picked up the fish fry dinner i had ordered online. since i still had the commute in front of me i heated it up when i got home. later in the evening i went on a walk and found 1 dollar 48 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when raj and howard go to a goth bar and i liked this one because one of the ladies they meet kept saying 'not that anyone cares'. it was followed by the one where amy does work at caltech and sheldon ends up reacting to the videos the same way the monkey does. before getting groceries i went to the adjacent liquor store and got a can of sam adams so now there are three beers waiting. i was following the results of the conference tournament for big ten basketball and found out iowa beat northwestern, and then rutgers, to advance to the semifinals against indiana on saturday. so i think i will stay in and watch that one as it is on CBS. of course i still have chores and errand running to do, but i will do what i can before the game begins and whatever is left will be done after the game.