you had to be there movie

 before midday i went to see a movie, 'you had to be there', in Eden Prairie. it was a documentary about the cast of the Toronto production of 'Godspell', and how some of them went on to 'second city' and 'Saturday night live'. plenty of clips and interviews of course. i knew to get to it soon as docs usually don't have a wide appeal. for lunch i went to the nearby food court and ate from Leeann Chin. also bought a blizzard treat from dairy queen. watched some of the pro football games when i got home. the evening game was rams-broncos. 

waiting for godot play

 went to see the play 'waiting for Godot' at the Guthrie theater in Minneapolis in the evening. a drawing card was knowing character actor David Strathairn would be in it, seen many of the movies he's been in. i knew the play was about waiting for someone that never shows up. i correctly guessed it was mentioned in a sitcom i had seen, and during intermission i googled it and it was on an episode of 'home improvement'. went to Aldi early for groceries, shortly after they opened for the day. two e-bay orders were picked up from the post office, and for lunch i had a sandwich at Jersey Mike's. 

late files, deferred request

 near the end of the workday i was asked to pull a check. i said the file it was in was late and i would print the file the next business day. actually, three files were late, all of them from the fraud department. i get these requests all the time, in this case it was due to being the wrong amount. the courier picking up tax checks was the only visitor of the day. there was a Canadian tax check file, and it printed before the courier arrived so two more were in the envelope, three in all. the regular ad-hoc file arrived in the afternoon and those will be held for pick-up on Monday. the business line in st. louis notified me that their file would be late, but i said i still had time to send it out same day. there were no overnight labels for the second Marshall file of the day. i did make it to Walgreen, but it was moved up. i went to a different location, and before i went to work. in the evening i watched a college football game on fox, Indiana beat northwestern. the Indiana head coach had some commercials for State Farm Insurance airing during this game. 

second chair massage

 at work i had a chair massage appointment mid-morning. it can be hard to snag an appointment when those fill up quickly, it was just the second for me since i had moved to this building nearly two years ago. there are some paid appointments but like most people i prefer the complimentary ones. this is now being offered once a week onsite. i spoke a lot with the massage therapist during the fifteen minutes, some of it was about baseball and how there were two teams known as the sox. i knew there would be a courier for the tax checks but said i needed to get to the appointment. i later found out the courier wasn't there yet. when the courier arrived, it was with a mailroom employee, he was late and one i hadn't seen before, likely new. for lunch i had some pizza, as the boss had gone to a place called Broadway and i got the second half of a meat lovers pizza. i had been there before but usually get a single slice and this was likely equal to more than that when it came in a box. a colleague who had picked up checks this week asked me to return them to the boss. there was some confusion, though. these were not from the special project. i do sorting and those from the special project say so in the window of the envelope. those are not opened at all, and those envelopes go into some former copy paper boxes in the shop. we have currently filled seven of them. i am still wondering when the returned check volume will slow down. this colleague said most of the checks from the special project were low dollar amounts. when i opened one that was sent back in a different envelope, i said it wouldn't buy a meal at my favorite sandwich shop. 

sent link to citrix

at work my boss spoke of wanting to get access for more people on the team. it meant sending a link to a system i use called citrix, this was sent as an instant message. sounds like it is meant for the boss and team lead. there was a dial-in meeting in the morning, third quarter finance town hall. as usual i did my best to get work done during that time as there were checks to print. i was pleased that the work order was handled right away on the check shop doorbell. sounds like a tech arrived to swap out batteries after i had left for the day. i was sent an email and asked to test it, and it was fine. i said i preferred to be there when it was done as i could test it right away. at the same time, no complaining at all that it was done fairly quickly. the last time i did a work order for the same thing, it took a month. it was odd that the tax specialist still wanted to test it after it was proven to be working, so i got into the hall and tested it again. it might make a difference as to what part of the button is pushed. 

no refund checks until afternoon

at work i had more visitors than usual since vacation replacement was on vacation. one of them was a lady that i hadn't worked with much. she picked up the returned checks for our internal business line. in the afternoon there was another colleague, asking for refund checks. there weren't any until i sent the regular mail tubs to the mailroom. along with more returned checks, and most of those returned checks are still from the special project that wrapped up weeks ago. the boss was ill so the team lead was notified that i would be out of the office for one day next week, as i had made an appointment. tax specialist notified me about the doorbell to the shop so i put in a work order near the end of the day. 

keep profile safe

at work there was an email about keeping profiles safe on UPS, a place where i create plenty of overnight labels each day. i finally went to our internal team about it and was told no action was needed. something about how there will be another step of verification soon. the boss asked me to do another MICR ruler test on checks in the morning. i was pleased that the inter-office envelopes arrived as there was plenty to use again. i decided to put the tub these arrived in into the rotation of the regular mail tubs. it meant taking the sign taped onto another one and moving it. that one was taken out of the rotation as a metal rod in the door was missing and i knew it wouldn't function properly.