ranch style beans

 there was plenty of food for the taking on the table on the breakroom this morning. i claimed 9 items and took home 7 of them. one was a little bucket of ranch style beans from con-agra. at the end of the workday i heated it up and ate it, along with a stick of slim-jim. i took home 4 sticks of slim-jim, another bucket of beans, as well as a pack of cookies and chocolate fudge topping. as usual i only claimed what i knew i was going to eat, so i passed on the salad dressing and the pizza-flavored sunflower seeds. even though i had  a quick dinner at the office, i still picked up a bottle of tea and some peanut butter cookies at hy-vee before heading to the micro-brewery as i was performing in a show called 'punchline punchout'. i knew both of the show runners, one of them being opera singer. my word was 'clean' and i found some good new material from it. this included mention of maytag, as well as the hat rack that is a family heirloom. even though the crowd voted for the other contestant, i still had some people find me and say they liked my set. so it was still worth it, because any stage time is valuable. another contestant, assigned a different word, i knew as a show runner from a mic i did pre-covid. i didn't stay long after the show ended as i wanted to get started on my after-work routine. work went fine, since the envelope stuffer is humming along now. i have cut down on the backlog on the fargo checks, it was 2 days and now it is 1. still cut it close on getting the overnight packages in the drop-box though, because i was trying to stay caught up on other things.