Gretchen and Elizabeth book club - Dani Shapiro's Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love.

https://gretchenrubin.com/podcast-episode/207-go-to-the-doctor

That link will take you to the podcast where this book selection was announced. And the show notes will also give you the dates for their activities including an author visit.

I listened to  Dani Shapiro's Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love on Audible.

It is non fiction. Read by the author. And very well written. Really enjoyed it.

In process, I have steadily been cleaning/sorting

The computer room, in the background, looks bad, maybe even worse, but it is not. A lot of what is sitting on the counter now is actually empty. I had to get nearly everything out, to see and to sort. I think I will be back to an empty counter shortly. It is moving along steadily.

Also in process is the DVD clean out.

We are all visual. If I put it all back in a cupboard, it will never get done.

The box on the left contains the DVD's that we are selling.

The piles on the right are the ones to watch. The big pile in the back are the ones middle has to watch. The little pile in the front is my husband's. If it were up to me, they would all go in the box and be out of here this afternoon. . .

So far my husband has watched one, The Usual Suspects, and then it went in the box.

The pile of VHS (farthest right) needs watched also. (I found a friend with a VHS. And we are going to borrow and then sort thru them.)

We suspect most/all of them are left from when we used to records TV shows to watch later. That was mostly at the old house I think.

One of the those tapes is labeled. It is the final of Voyager (Star Trek) which aired in 2001. That was a prized tape in its day.

The DVD's we are keeping, at this point in time, are all in these baskets (below).

That has been a process also. Because this is where it started - - -

It was not easy figuring out what to do with the hole where the TV used to be. It was a BIG hole. And I wanted the space to be useful.

It was not possible to get two more matching doors to close the top (like the cupboard on the bottom). 

Between lumber and baskets and paint, it was about a $200 project.

This is a list of kid skills. It is a good list. Great summer project. Great family time.

I am not sure how often this happens, but at least once this week

Middle is traveling with a friend. Flights were yesterday.

They did carry on only.

When they arrived at their final destination, and were getting their carry ons out of the overhead compartment, someone had taken middle’s friend’s Case.

They were both on wheels. They were both purple. But they were not identical.

Friend’s had a luggage tag on it. The one that was left, no tag.

So there are two lessons right there.

1. Put a luggage tag on everything, even if you are not checking it.
2. Tie something unique on the handle of everything. Ribbon, bandana.

I know they turned wrong case into airlines. I know they filed claim for missing bag.

I know that by the end of the day they had the correct bag. I don’t know how they connected with the other passenger.

This might happen all the time, but it was new to me.

We put bandanas and tags on checked luggage. But not always on carry on.

And this absolutely could happen to me because if I am flying by myself,  I usually stay in my seat until other passengers have unloaded and left. Then I get my case out of overhead.

I am assuming this is exactly what happened yesterday. The person who grabbed her case was probably one of the first off the plane.

And we are usually traveling with solid black pieces, like most everyone else. So if this happened with PURPLE, could absolutely happen with black.