When I am at football games I always listen to the radio broadcast and almost always bring a pair of wide angle binoculars that I bought specifically for games. But in the process of moving stuff from my Cedar Rapids home to Ames my binoculars went missing. They weren't in the basket where they are kept in the offseason. The case has a pocket for my wired earbuds which you have probably heard me talk of how I use wired buds on my phone to pull in FM radio. So when the binoculars go missing, the gameday earbuds do also.
Last week I looked everywhere in Ames. I looked in my unit, my private garage and private storage area and couldn't find them. I looked at my rented storage space and not there either. I looked everywhere in my car and came up empty. So I figure they must be back in Cedar Rapids. But knowing I have been clearing out most stuff, I really didn't think I would find them there.
So I get back home and search my home with no luck. I figure I'll have to dig into every packed box at the condo in all those spaces I mentioned. As they had to be there. So I get to Ames and spend hours digging through every box in all those areas. I find nothing. Now I'm beginning to think I misplaced them or someone stole them. After hours in the storage room, I go back to my unit and start looking at everything. Nothing.
Just as I'm about to give up I take one last look in the coat closet. And what do I see. A strap hanging down behind the last coat on the rack. I'm on to something now. I grab it and follow it to the shelf where under my stack of hats is my binoculars. It was tucked in to the bottom had completely hidden from view except for the strap. I can't believe I went through all those boxes pulling dozens of them off shelves and going through them just to make sure I didn't put them in one as I was moving stuff to Ames. And there it was. Right where it should have been all the time.
I'm frustrated I wasted so much time searching, but am overjoyed that I found my binoculars and earbuds before the Iowa game. I now declare myself ready.
Last week I looked everywhere in Ames. I looked in my unit, my private garage and private storage area and couldn't find them. I looked at my rented storage space and not there either. I looked everywhere in my car and came up empty. So I figure they must be back in Cedar Rapids. But knowing I have been clearing out most stuff, I really didn't think I would find them there.
So I get back home and search my home with no luck. I figure I'll have to dig into every packed box at the condo in all those spaces I mentioned. As they had to be there. So I get to Ames and spend hours digging through every box in all those areas. I find nothing. Now I'm beginning to think I misplaced them or someone stole them. After hours in the storage room, I go back to my unit and start looking at everything. Nothing.
Just as I'm about to give up I take one last look in the coat closet. And what do I see. A strap hanging down behind the last coat on the rack. I'm on to something now. I grab it and follow it to the shelf where under my stack of hats is my binoculars. It was tucked in to the bottom had completely hidden from view except for the strap. I can't believe I went through all those boxes pulling dozens of them off shelves and going through them just to make sure I didn't put them in one as I was moving stuff to Ames. And there it was. Right where it should have been all the time.
I'm frustrated I wasted so much time searching, but am overjoyed that I found my binoculars and earbuds before the Iowa game. I now declare myself ready.
