ebisu, mall of america

 this was a day off for me, decided it would be 'mall of america day'. and it meant finding multiple charlie brown items. one of these was from ebisu, have to give credit to my college roommate for that one. this store is like a 100-yen shop in japan. in the back i saw some vending machines, one of them had charlie brown figurines. i put tokens in it and got a linus figure, my favorite character from that comic strip. i got a calendar from a nearby store, it only sold calendars. went to barnes and noble first but i didn't see any charlie brown calendars there. my first stop was a and w for lunch. found out the mall has two of these. good chance i will return to the mall sometime soon as there is a sushi place that has charlie brown characters in their ads. it is likely another souvenir to pick up. before i made it to the mall i went to the post office, but nothing to pick up there. then it was to cub foods in eagan, bought a st. paul winter carnival button. then it was the groceries on my list, including some that weren't such as some cheese as well as hostess holiday cupcakes. after the mall it was on to walgreen where i went through photos for the first time in a while. i went back a full year and found some to print as well as get copies on a disc in order to share on facebook. three were from a family gathering in april. did not know the final jeopardy answer, the nation of bhutan. in the evening i watched a special, christmas at the opry. later on i went on a walk and found 39 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when penny gave sheldon a napkin signed by leonard nimoy. it was followed by the one where the friends try to find bitcoin from seven years prior on a laptop that penny gave away to zac.