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Our BlackLivesMatter sign has been stolen again. #12.

Anyway, we now have an air tag! So I was very excited when I discovered the air tag app giving me an address in a nearby town. I called the police department in my town, they told me to call the other town, which I was sure was wrong. That town told me that I should call my town because that's where the theft happened (I knew that). So I called my town back and eventually convinced them to let me give a report. The officer didn't really seem very excited about my issue. I called the neighboring town back and said that I'd made a report, and they said "well we can't just go there on your say so, we need a request from your town", so I called my town again, and they called the neighboring town. The neighboring town called back and said that they had sent somebody out to the address, and driven around, but the sign was not in evidence. (It's not like somebody who steals one is going to put it in their yard.) They said they were not able to walk up to the door and knock on it and say "did you steal a sign" or "do you have any information about the sign". I said "so do I need a warrant or something" and they said "nobody will give you a warrant on the evidence of an air tag. This happens all the time with cell phones too and we can't do anything."

I am entirely disappointed. What is the point of the police department if they don't do anything when an obvious crime has been committed and you have decent evidence of where the lost item might be?

Some of Valerie's first brood (her two daughters, one of their husbands, and one each of their sons) descended upon us. We had a very busy weekend. Lots of waterskiing, tubing, bicycling, canoe/kayaking, and swimming. A little board gaming. The weather was spectacular. I had a perfect waterski run this morning. And for some cultural appreciation, last night a bunch of us went to see of local community theater production of 1776. (Our local community theater is really semiprofessional, and they do an excellent job of whatever they are producing.) One of Valerie's grandsons is a thespian, which is what drove this activity. But I like to go to plays periodically too.

After everyone else leaves tomorrow afternoon, one of Valerie's grandsons is staying behind because he is starting at Northeastern in three weeks; he and his parents were here for an orientation thing at the end of last week. I thought this was weird; when I had orientation when I went to college, it was 3 days before the start of classes; all the freshmen came three days early. Apparently Northeastern has a whole bunch of these Thursday/Friday things throughout the spring and summer. These people are coming from Washington state; presumably a lot of other people are coming from out of town, and so most of them have to make two trips because they don't have relatives that can put them up for three weeks.

The boat has been acting up with its starter, and this was somewhat of a drag when I was trying to pull people behind it. Sometimes we would just leave it idling at a time that I normally would turn it off, other times we would struggle to get it started. So after we were done with lake activities this morning, Ken took the control system apart, and put it back together, and it hasn't failed yet, but we won't really know until we leave it sit for a day and try it; it's been more reliable after it's been used for a while during a day. He did unplug and re-plug a bunch of connectors, so that might fix the problem. Fingers crossed.