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Lose It, Find It

2/18/2022

On February 7, when I had a doctor's appoint in fifteen minutes, I went into the garage wih my arms loaded, and the car was locked. Why wouldn't the car door unlock? Because my key was not in my purse. Where was my car key? I didn't know. By the way, a replacement car key would cost $300, so I really did not want to lose my car key. It had to be somewhere in the townhouse because I drove the car there and went inside the townhouse.

I called Glenn, but he couldn't help me from Borger. Of course not! He did say he could drive to Amarillo and bring the spare car key, but I didn't want him to do that unless absolutely neccessary. I cancelled my doctor appointment and begged for a new appointment. Got it. Then, I looked everywhere for my key.

I looked in places and in rooms I had not even been near for a week or longer. I thought back to the last time I used the key. Where could I have possibly put it? Still, I could not remember. Forty-five minutes later, I thought, "Wait a minute ..." and I found the car key right where I left it, in a pocket of my robe. Why was it there? Because I was in the closet getting ready for bed and the key fell out of the back pocket of my jeans where I had put the key the last time I used it to get into the car. I put the key in my robe. Well, it made sense to me at the time. Moving on ...

My iPhone is always right where I left it, unless my wonderful husband Glenn decides to be helpful and moves it to where he thinks it should be instead of where I left it. You see, I frequently forget where I have left it. Everything is in my iPhone: my calendar of appointments and dates to remember, important documents, lists, precious photos, seven versions of the Bible and my notes, games, as well as a multitude of apps. I do not want to lose my iPhone!

So for Valentine's Day, Glenn lovingly gave me the Tile. In fact, he gave me two of them. Do you know about Tile? It's a tracker for what I anticipate I will lose. The little rectangular Tile can be attached to just about anything. Then, with my iPhone I can find it. Or when I lose my iPhone, I can go to the unlost item that has a Tile attached to it, press on the Tile button twice, and it tries to locate my phone. That means, if the tile is on my CPAP, I will need to carry my CPAP around the house until the Tile on the CPAP is close enough to my phone to detect its location so it can make my phone play a tune. By the time the Tile locates my iPhone I may be close enough to it to see it myself.

If I had the Tile when I lost my key on February 7, the Tile would have led me to the closet where my housecoat was hanging on a hanger. Then I would have searched everywhere, high and low, in the closet until I pinpointed exactly where the tune from the Tile attached to the key was telling me my key was located.

I'm glad to have the Tile. It will probably do exactly what it should do, if I can remember how to work the Tile to find my iPhone, iPad, car key or ... yes, you guessed it .. my CPAP. Could I lose a CPAP?

... Merry Christmas ...

My book sales just get better and better. The extravaganza went well, and I sold twenty-one books. I was pleased, happy, and tired. Oh, yeah.This is next:

I have another event on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (11/27), and I'll tell you about it next time. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Have a healthy lunch and buy some delightful books. You buy them; I sign them.

Betty M Reeves

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My book sales just get better and better. The extravaganza went well, and I sold twenty-one books. I was pleased, happy, and tired. Oh, yeah.

This is next:

I have another event on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (11/27), and I'll tell you about it next time.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Have a healthy lunch
and buy some delightful books.
You buy them; I sign them.