long john silver, mall of america

 i had a day off due to the bank holiday and decided to have lunch at mall of america. going to long john silver had been on my list for a while, and this is the only minnesota location i am aware of. i got two pieces of fish, two hush puppies, cole slaw, and root beer. i liked what their cup said, where fish never complain, say mean things on social media or commit road rage. i first stopped at the wishing well and dumped two canadian pennies in it. after i ate i walked around the rest of the mall and bought two magnets at a sock shop. there was a display outside showing charlie brown characters but only one pair of that kind of sock in the shop. in the morning i went to a copy store and printed some event tickets, including for an upcoming st. paul saints baseball game. i registered with the fringe festival as a volunteer, the training session is just over a month from now. after getting back from the mall eventually i went on a long walk, hadn't done one of those in a while, and i was gone for over an hour. i made it back in time to watch 'jeopardy', learned the term 'ramen western', in reference to western movies from japan. i was pleased with the finds i made in little free libraries. one was 'saturdays in the good old days', there is a norman rockwell painting on the book cover and the art in the rest of the book is good. plenty of essays included by various writers as well. another was a biography of patrick henry, the orator and patriot. of course, i like having another history book. yet another was 'san francisco splash' from the 'ballpark mysteries' series, and we all know i like baseball. it may have been a children's book but i still liked reading it, as the mention of tourist sites such as alcatraz and fisherman's wharf were reminders of my visit there many years ago. i went online and found out there are something like two dozen books in the series, and one of them is about st. louis, called 'cardinals caper'. so i see myself ordering that one soon. during my walks i found 1 dollar 26 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when the extended families arrive for the second wedding of leonard and penny, it ends with leonard's dad and sheldon's mom spending the night together. it was followed by the one where sheldon and amy become exclusive after amy goes to a movie with stuart.