Keeping track of your stuff.

I've read enough other bloggers to know that they have code names for the important people in their lives. We'll use Big D for my Dad.

Over the past few days I've noticed a pattern of how he intereacts with his gadgets and other stuff he has to carry. When he comes in the room, he leaves these gadgets in "logical" places when he sits down to relax. Then, he'll need one of them, and he storms around looking for it in any number of logical places. When it's not in place #1 or place #2, he starts getting angry and swearing under his breath saying "where the f$% did I put my X!?!" Eventually, he finds it, but by then, he needs another item. The process starts again. He needs a third item. Unfortunately, by the time he finds the third item, he has put the first item somewhere, and he needs it because it was the reason he got up in the first place, so the cycle starts over.

So, we have learned that he can really only carry 2 items at a time. In order to carry more than 2 items, there needs to be some sort of tracking system, at least when traveling, as I don't see this happen as much at home.

Unfortunately for me, I see some of these same things happening to me, so I have a pretty strong incentive to either figure out a good system for him, or get myself down to just 2 items.