patriotic cactus

 i went to hy-vee in eagan tonight for groceries, moved up one day. i noticed near the frozen aisle how there was a patriotic cactus, decorated with bulbs like it was a christmas tree. it made me think about the charlie brown comic strip as 'desert snoopy', who i later found out was actually named 'spike', decorated a cactus. ten items were bought. at work it was a long day as there was server issues, made it harder to print checks when files would print with a blank page. i tried calling i.t. but was disconnected during the re-boot of the system, so they weren't much help. looks like a ticket was opened and closed, so i can still refer to it and have them re-open it. there was also getting a UPS label ready for a manager who needed to send a box to phoenix to a new employee. thankful that not too much was left over for me after a day off. late in the evening i went on a walk and found 51 cents. i drank the can of fulton with the evening meal so now six beers are waiting. the 'big bang theory' rerun was when ramona kissed sheldon and it led to sheldon proposing to amy.