Facebook just reminded me that on this day two years ago I wrote my representatives. Weirdly, I just wrote them again today like it's a tradition. Today's: "It is infuriating that Mitch McConnell will not bring up the bill that has already passed the Senate unanimously and reopen the government. Especially since you all know that the wall is an expensive fantasy. It is past time that GOP Senators stand up to their leadership and demand the government reopen with no strings, and NO WALL, attached. Although I voted for Republicans for decades, I've never been more ashamed to be from a red state." I'm talking to you Lisa Murkowski and Senator Dan Sullivan

My project to convince my family that I'm not sliding into dementia was undermined when my wife got a call from the people that found my wallet yesterday.

I Also WAY Overpaid For a PopSocket For Karen

We returned to our Yuma cottage (it's still a cottage even if it has wheels, right?) the other night and found the door unlocked. This was surprising since I had a definite memory of thinking about locking the door when we left. Also, I didn't have my keys. At first confidently, then more and more frantically I looked for them. I ransacked our sheds and my sister's car that we had been driving. I checked the same pants pockets over and over again as if I might surprise the keys into revealing themselves. In the morning I found them in front of the car. They wouldn't say where they'd been or what they'd been up to.
As a responsible key owner, I didn't want them to be off by themselves and for me not to have a way to contact them. So I went to Target and bought a couple of Tiles. Two, because my wallet had traveled from Boston to Phoenix on its own and, granted, it had a passport, I was uncomfortable not knowing where it was for a couple of days. Since then, the keys have been hanging on a hook by the door. That makes them easy to find, although it means I have no reason to use my phone to find them which is a little disappointing. Even more disappointing, we were at Sam's Club yesterday and they had four Tiles for just over half what I paid for two. For what I paid, my keys should be lost four times as often. I may have to start just tossing them out of car windows and then coming back later to look for them.