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Weigh-in: 168.2. Progress!

The hoodie has been found. One of my personal proverbs is, "A misplaced object is in one of two places: someplace you didn't look, or someplace you didn't look thoroughly enough."

With that guidance in mind, I decided to take a second look at the contents of the duffel bag I'd recently stashed in the bathroom. I had already rummaged through it once, and anyway I was pretty sure I hadn't ever put the sweater in the duffel bag in the first place. So I was about 98% confident that it wasn't to be found there.

But was I *certain*? What if my assumptions were 98% wrong? So, just to rule out the duffel bag as a possibility, and to set my mind at ease that the sweater was well and truly lost, I dumped the contents of the duffel bag on the bed ... and lo and behold, there was the sweater.

So with the week starting on that upbeat note, I can head out to the gym, hoodie and all.

Plans for the week. I've been thinking I might need to defer starting classes until spring. Scraping up the tuition at this point is going to be very difficult, and another three months to put together the funds would make it a lot easier. I've got a credit card that will be paid off in January, so it'll be easier after that. Plus I've been at my job almost a year, and I'm hopeful I might get a modest pay increase by January, and if I get hired on full-time (also a real possibility) I might become eligible for tuition assistance. I've already got the books and have been studying them daily - so an extra three months to prepare would give me an advantage in all kinds of ways.

Plans for the day. Gym, groceries, haircut. Afternoon, head to Portland for the JBP group.

I've almost finished my remarks on Genesis Chapter 4, and should have that ready to post later today.
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I spent most of the week looking for, and obsessing over, a piece of ID I'd lost. The first place I called was the movie theatre where I suspected I'd lost it, but at the time they said they hadn't found it. Then yesterday afternoon I got a call from the cinema and they had found my ID after all. So, a leisurely drive of 18 miles this afternoon, and I had the ID back.

Then, just a couple of hours later, this happened:

I wrote a check to G to help with clothes and camp for Bunny, put it in an envelope, sealed/stamped/addressed the envelope, and went out the door to (a) move the car, (b) mail the check from the corner of 21st, and (c) shop for a few food items at Trader Joe's (also on 21st).

Somewhere between (a) and (b), the envelope disappeared. And I have no fuckin' idea what happened to it. Did I put it down before going out to move the car, figuring I'd pop back in to pick up the envelope before heading to 21st? Or did I take it with me into the car, put it down on the passenger seat, and then somehow manage to lose it in the car? Or maybe I put the thing on top of the car while I was putting the key in the door. Well, hey, at least we can narrow down its whereabouts to (a) in the house, (b) in the car, (c) blowing down the street somewhere within a half-mile radius of where I dropped it, or (d) none of the above.

This anecdote is made slightly less amusing, for me, by the fact that my Dad suffered from Alzheimer's in is last years.

Now he was 80 and I'm 51 - a bit young to be worrying about AD, but it still haunts me.

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