check stock dumped in hall

 it was a case of 'good news bad news'. check stock order for the month arrived, nearly a week late. but it was dumped in the hall, all forty boxes of it. saw it on the way to lunch. i ate lunch and then got out a cart, moving eight boxes at a time into the shop. i told my boss that i am cool with letting him argue it out with the supplier about the way it was delivered. in the evening i went to Hy-Vee in Eagan for groceries, ten items bought. Saints baseball game against the Iowa cubs was on fox-9 plus, but the Saints were way behind. saw some of it before, and after, the grocery run. listened to the game on the radio when i was in my car. i laid down and fell asleep and missed the ending of the game. 

mad magazine, 80's spoof

 i picked up more than just the typical bottle of tea and some cookies when i was at the Walgreen in the morning. i also decided to get the special 'mad' magazine, that spoofed pop culture things from the 1980s. most of it was familiar to me, except for the TV show 'dynasty', as i didn't watch that show. there is another special magazine i am seeing that i will pick up eventually. i got this one at Walgreen as i got points on my loyalty account there. also saw it at Hy-Vee but usually don't get points when i run my card there. 

modem picked up

i saw the UPS tracking number from the modem order and entered it at work. this was mid-morning and found out it was delivered to the store less than an hour prior. i found the time in the evening to pick it up just minutes before closing time. now we are back in business! i didn't waste any time getting things done once again, after too many trips to check email at a fed-ex office location. i placed an amazon order and registered for a meetup event later this month. 

whiter shade of pale

 when i was out and about recently, i heard the song 'whiter shade of pale'. it probably wasn't the original, as that is from the 1960s. it sounded good, then i looked it up and it said the song was inspired by drug addiction. well i know that inspiration can be found anywhere, but i still like the song. 

month of transition

 over the course of my life, i have noticed how the month of august can be one of transition for me. i have moved residences twice during that month, ended friendships and dating relationships as well when i said 'i have had enough'. and now another case of change when it was necessary, as my home internet provider service was no longer performing. i shopped around for another provider, it will be cheaper and hopefully more reliable. the modem had to be ordered but it should be arriving in a few days. 

husk/vessel show

 i attended three shows at the fringe festival. the one standout for the day was the first one, a non-verbal dance show called husk/vessel. sounded like it was performed by an out-of-town dance troupe, but they were really good, using curtains as props with their dancing. this was at the southern theater, the second show was right after it at the rarig. then i went to perform at an open-mic and then went home and did the dishes. third show was the final time slot of the night, 10pm, about a lady artist that died decades ago. the second show was about storytelling. there were some bright moments from those other two, but in my both fell short for various reasons. 

nightshift, british movie

 i did the second and third ushering shifts for the Minnesota fringe festival in the afternoon. at the third and final one the box office manager had stickers, and i got one, it said 'bang!' reminding me of seeing Eminem in concert. in the morning i did the pancake breakfast at Canadian days, then the car show, but no bagpipe band this year. in the evening i went to the trylon and saw the movie 'nightshift'. this is the British movie about a hotel desk clerk. it had the feeling of a documentary without a narrator, i liked it. 

pop and a pizza

this is what i heard from a pizza vendor when i went to canadian days in little canada. also got a can of dr. pepper besides a slice of pepperoni, and a tweety-space jam ice cream treat as he also owned the ice cream truck next to it.