magnet and pocket schedules

 attended a St. Paul Saints baseball game tonight, it was the first one of this season for me. as expected, magnet schedules were available, so i claimed one from the information desk- which is where team rosters are also found- before i went to find food. i got a chili cheese dog, a bag of old Dutch chips, and a Killebrew root beer. later on, i got an ice cream sandwich, smores flavored. near the end of the night i got some hot chocolate after claiming a bag of peanuts during the 7th inning stretch. Saints lost to Omaha, 3-0. i spoke with some of the ushers, one still recognizes me. i said i am not a season ticket holder but go to a decent number of games. hard to say how many this year, but i am thinking at least seven based on what i am seeing for promotions. it was a chilly night, not much of a crowd there, but i was dressed for the weather. still have a winter coat on and i put my winter hat on over my blue Saints hat. i asked about pocket schedules, not available yet but likely will be later this month. i walked around for most of the game, figured i could stay warmer that way. i called an audible on the parking due to the construction in the downtown area. i found a ramp with a weeknight rate, works for me. at work the adobe app works fine, only needed to log in once. thankful i don't need to log in each time i want to print a file. there was a one on one scheduled on short notice, in the afternoon when i am getting close to delivering things. when i pointed it out this was changed to next week and in the morning. nice that the overnight volume is staying low, twenty-five for the day. during my walks i found 1 dollar 1 cent. 

checking inter-office envelopes

 i check inter-office envelopes just before i close the mail tub and put the zip-ties on. good thing i do each time as i noticed one of them didn't have a name and mail code on it. i pulled it out and added it, and it will go in the next day's mail. didn't want to hold up all of the day's mail for just one envelope. i don't know what would have happened otherwise, if it still would have made it to the intended destination as i hear the next stop images some mail. i liked how the volume of overnight labels to do was low, just over twenty. vacation replacement was in the shop and asked about the adobe app, i said it was approved by a senior leader. there was an email later in the day, will see how much more i can do since this access was granted. preview and quick print are nice but normally i am able to do more on PDF files. i saw announcements for two events at the Saints stadium that weren't Saints games. once was college baseball, the other a concert by a cover band. closer to when these events happen, i think i will order tickets. both are general admission. during my walks i found 50 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when Bernadette and Amy went to a conference together and Bernadette is critical of Sheldon, saying Amy had options. it was followed by the one where Sheldon goes to the movie theater where Leonard and Dr. Stephanie are on a date. 

using up dividers

 this was a day to get a lot of little things done around the home as there wasn't much else on the docket for the day. one of those was using up dividers, getting them into some of the trading card albums. i had claimed some dividers from the office that we left behind in December, two packs of eight each. i used up one of those packs and noticed the baseball card albums had some that were unused and unlabeled, three in all. now the non-baseball album and the miscellaneous baseball albums have sections. one is all St. Paul Saints cards from various stadium giveaway editions. other sections are about Charlie Brown and Snoopy cards, as well as Simpsons cards. both of these categories were cards i had found on e-bay. some other small things done was running the paper shredder, plenty of junk mail was shredded, filled one plastic grocery bag. also got some souvenir pages from work into sheet protectors in a binder. this included some mail code labels once placed on the mail tubs as well as a ticket from the recent pizza party. in the early evening i went to perform at an open mic, i closed out the show. the final joke about bathrooms went over well. late in the evening i did the dishes. during my walks i found 90 cents. 

happyend movie

 late in the evening i went to see a movie at the Edina theater, it was part of the MSP film festival. i saw 'happyend', a Japanese dystopian film where the main characters are high schoolers. it was subtitled, i prefer this over dubbing. at times some words seemed to be the same as in English but i know how words are 'borrowed' from languages all the time. one scene stood out, where the principal told the students how it is wrong to waste food. i did pick up literature at a table near the entrance that had blurbs about all of the movies being screened at the festival, over a hundred. good chance this is the only one that i will be seeing, in terms of what interests me as well as what fits my schedule. i am hopeful that some of the movies in this festival get a wider release outside of it as each movie gets just 2-3 screenings across the 12-day event. i liked how the Edina theater is a venue this year, one of their four auditoriums is being used for it for seven of the twelve days. plenty of parking available in a ramp next to the theater. i didn't do much after getting home due to the late start on this movie. i did plenty before it, though. there was the weekly stop at the post office, three orders picked up. surprised how one of them was the amazon order but then i saw the return label. it was sent from Shakopee so when it is in the same metro area, then it wouldn't take long. i dumped some change into my savings account at the credit union, but not as much as i had hoped. the counter was rejecting most of the dimes but over four dollars was counted. i made it to the copy store and printed a ticket for an upcoming Saints baseball game. then it was time to get lunch, and i went to the nearby Kentucky Fried Chicken, all of three of these places are in Eagan. when i got home i laid down for a while, then had pizza for the evening meal and went to the Aldi for groceries. during my walks i found 69 cents. 

national park movie, redford

 in the evening i went to the science center and saw another movie, it was about national parks and Robert Redford was the narrator. i did well on getting there early enough to find parking. it covered many parks that i haven't been to yet such as Yellowstone. i liked seeing mention of Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir about conservation and creating the national park system. i did a fish fry at a church near Cretin Derham Hall before i made it downtown. sister roz, the locally famous massaging nun at Saints baseball games, served the fish. there was a scrimmage going on the baseball field next to the church, cretin was playing two rivers, f/k/a Henry Sibley school. i was really busy throughout the workday but i got out close to on time which gave me more time to do the fish fry and the movie. during my walks i found 1 dollar 11 cents. it meant doing overnight labels early, over thirty were done before i went to lunch. after plenty of delays, the h.p. rep arrived in the afternoon with the maintenance kit. i did point out how i asked for much earlier in the day as when he arrived was close to when i needed to start delivering things. thankful it didn't take all that long. when walking through the skyway in the morning i was recognized, this was on the way to the Walgreen. it took a few minutes but i figured out it was a fellow comic, just someone that i hadn't seen in a while. 

chiropractor needs

 no, not me, my boss. there was mention of needing a chiropractor when leaving the shop in the early afternoon. before this i found out i was able to print pdf by doing 'preview' and 'quick print'. and now i have my ticket exchanged for a Saints game next week. i called the office and got it done in the afternoon. there is over a thousand Fargo checks left over but i can run them through early the next day. both of thr big supply orders arrived in the morning, within the same hour. check stock was second but it came right to the shop. except it meant having to wait for the freight elevator to become available, found out there was a medical emergency and the EMTs were using it. but it was my excuse for finally seeing the loading dock, first visit although i had heard about it off and on for the four-plus months since i moved to the downtown office. i still had to get the envelope order from the mailroom, i used some of the check shop's carts to move those out. during my walks i found 10 cents. big bang theory reruns were when the friends played d and d while raj was on a date with lucy. it was followed by the one where penny got strikes for touching Sheldon's food. 

adobe apps

 i still find some annoying things at work. around midday i find out i can't print PDF files and my boss said i need to call i.t. about it. now i guess i need to log into each PDF file through a new adobe app, even though before i just hit 'open' and then 'print' for those check files. it meant vacation replacement had to print those files for me. i can still print anything from the main app that we had before some checks went PDF. it meant getting a sandwich and bottle of juice and chips from the convenience store on the main floor as i didn't feel like heating up a can of soup. and sadly, these i.t. issues left me behind on all of my other duties such as the overnight labels. i went to another floor to deliver part of a supply order. our team lead had ordered some letter openers, but not the kind i use which look like knives or i call those the 'stabbing kind'. the ones just ordered are smaller ones, and mostly plastic. i had a check returned by UPS to deliver to that floor to the customer service boss as well. in the evening i got a look at the amazon wish list for a birthday party that my niece invited me to. i ordered two items, no surprise how one of them is a book. i figured i should order fairly early to allow for delivery time as i would like to be the one that puts all gifts into one box. since i had a gift card balance it took care of most of the price of the order. 'The conners' was about trying to convince dan to file a lawsuit against the drug companies over Roseanne's death. i am still watching mainly due to liking this character, as i like john goodman. i have been getting a steady stream of Facebook friend requests in the past week, some are from the same hometown as me. except i haven't accepted any of them yet. i have cut back on the friend list over the years, now down to less than two hundred. during my walks i found 91 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when Bob Newhart made his first appearance as professor proton, then asks Sheldon to be his fill-in while still in the hospital. it was followed by the one where we hear the song 'be my Yoko Ono' as Sheldon gets an admirer, Ramona. 

validate or verify?

 the Fargo business line asked me to pull another check and send it to the email thread. did they say it was to validate or verify? either way, i said i was holding all checks until a got a green light. thankful it was just one check i had to do a 'twin copy' for as i didn't want to black out credit card numbers on a live check. i got the green light i wanted, but it still meant not all checks went out same day. the backlog from the previous day, a little over a thousand, was done in the morning. one big file went out same-day, as usual i print and run through the smaller one first. but it meant the larger one, over two thousand, will be carryover to the next day. if i get started early enough on it then it won't take long at all. as expected, with the first of the month the ach-pdf file was a big one due to rent payments, nearly a thousand pages. although some were overflows so that meant it was actually a little lower. i got one idea for a show i would like to attend next month, it would be to see a preview as it is cheaper. as usual, i am often trying to plan things out fairly well in advance. 'Night Court' was a weird one, a big inheritance going to a horse. i liked how dermatologist Emily from 'big bang' was in it, of course this would be Laura Spencer. during my walks i found 1 dollar 26 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when Sheldon had delayed closure on things like dominoes. it was followed by the one where the friends have an 'intervention', saying Sheldon needs to learn to drive.