postcard reshuffle

 this week i picked up three postcards from a convenience store in the skyway, along with a bottle of Dunkin Donuts coffee. it led to me reshuffling my collection a little that i have in various photo albums. one was about winter fun in Minnesota, one was about the capital city of Saint Paul and pro hockey returning, and one said 'god bless America' with a bald eagle on it and mention of 9/11. i say it all the time and it is true, but sometimes i have to take some cards out in the name of 'stressing quality'. in this case, i moved some postcards bought in New Ulm into the album with the others from that town. and i decided to take out cards that were more about promoting events instead of depicting tourist sites that can be mailed. with some it was easy to boot them if it was events i didn't attend, or if i still had one promoting a certain site. it helps that postcards don't cost that much. and the promotional cards, those are free. also notable was taking the bus, and then the light rail, to work as i went out for a morning walk and a bus stop shelter said it was still subzero. not a big deal to me to give the car the day off. it led to me getting items out of a vending machine like before. at the bank in the breakroom, it was potato skins from TGI Fridays. while waiting at the airport for the transfer, it was double salami sticks. but in both cases this time, i paid cash. it saves me a little money as there is a fee to use a debit card. and much like before, it was nice to get two packs of salami sticks but i was expecting just one. at work i eliminated the backlog on the Fargo checks, there was a thousand left over from the previous day. i ran them through the machine in the morning first. late in the afternoon, a colleague from payroll showed up with tax forms. it is much lower volume this year, i was told just under three hundred, instead of thousands. it was due to automation. i said i would run them through the next morning but was told they just needed to go out by mid-February.