plastic patriotic banner

 more cleaning out of the check shop was done. i found a box on the top shelf and it had more holiday decorations in it. besides some for easter, and for the minnesota twins baseball team, there was a plastic patriotic banner. it says 'spirit of america' in all caps on it. most of what was in the box was thrown in the recycle bin or the trash, but i kept this banner along with a page with a bad easter joke on it. and a small plastic minnesota twins pennant. i cut it off from the chain of pennants it was on. vacation replacement dropped in and was helping with the cleanup and emptied the binders from the bookcase. i still have to find out if it is fine for me to claim the bookcase, would likely need to rent a truck to get it home. and of course, dust it off. called for service for the first time in months, after getting back from lunch. it kept throwing the same error message about a blocked wetter sensor after one check was run through. thankful that remote help worked, the sensors were re-calibrated, just had to log in as 'supervisor' to get it done. i still had enough time to get all of the checks out by the end of the day, as we were called back about an hour later. the recycle bin for cardboard boxes was filled again, mostly with UPS boxes we weren't using. we still have more than a month until the move downtown, but we've made plenty of progress on the cleanup. with some old records we still might need guidance about what to do with them. the 'big bang theory' rerun was likely my favorite episode, where howard's mom is in the hospital and bernadette said 'me?' when told that the mom wanted to see her first. i drank the can of german beer with the evening meal and now there are three beers waiting. during my walks i found 11 cents.