Well, for those of you who didn’t know, I managed to misplace my ipod last weekend (meaning a week and a bit ago now). This led to some lengthy searches, worries about where it might be hiding, concern about whether I needed to buy a new one, and so on. I’m not entirely sure why, but losing things is extremely frustrating and upsetting (for me at least), disproportionately with the financial cost of replacing them.

In any case, I had been searching my room, the living room of my house, the apartment where Beth and I are living at the moment, my car, all to no avail. Last night I decided to do yet another (as far as I could remember) search of the blue couch in the living room, which is rather notorious for eating things. I was armed with a vacuum cleaner, since the amount of crud and dust in that thing is kind of scary. Anyway, there it was, hiding under one of the cushions, which is much less hidden than many things that have previously fallen into the couch’s clutches have been. I really thought I’d checked there before, which is why I’m so surprised, but I overall I’m just relieved. One less thing to worry about now.