This is me joyous at knowing that within a week I should be reunited with the digital camera I left at a ALA session in DC. For those of you who didn't hear this saga, a few hours before we left DC, I realized my camera was not in my bag. After a few phone calls to the likely places, I'd pretty much accepted I'd lost it. Imagine my joy when I got an email from someone at the conference with the subject line "Lost camera?" Wow. She'd been at the session I was at and stuck around to talk with people and noticed my camera. In the pocket of the camera case was the receipt with D's name on it in the camera. She traced him via the ALA message service to our workplace, found him on Uof W's website, thought it odd that he'd be at ALA and then thought he might have been at ALA as a spouse, did another last name search on UofW's website and found me listed as a librarian and then emailed us. Pretty amazing biblio-sleuthing. She brought it home to Philly and another saga emerged when she attempted to FedEx it to Canada from Philadelphia.
After she made 3 unsuccessful trips to 2 different FedEx outlets, we came up with Plan B which was for her to FedEx it to my brother in Vermont and then have my parents (who happen to be visiting there) bring it back to Canada and mail it to me from Edmonton. So, the poor little camera's on a bit of an adventure: Detroit, DC, Philadelphia, Burlington, VT, Montreal, Edmonton, Windsor. I'll have to get it a new set of batteries to make it feel better. As Alec said about the lid I did not tighten on my water bottle before putting it in my book bag and having it leak all over everything: “I guarantee you’ll do it once.” Indeed indeed. Ah, the kindness of strangers, the resourcefulness of librarians, and the steadfastness of family! Bless them all. As for FedEx...
This is me joyous at knowing that within a week I should be reunited with the digital camera I left at a ALA session in DC. For those of you who didn't hear this saga, a few hours before we left DC, I realized my camera was not in my bag. After a few phone calls to the likely places, I'd pretty much accepted I'd lost it. Imagine my joy when I got an email from someone at the conference with the subject line "Lost camera?" Wow. She'd been at the session I was at and stuck around to talk with people and noticed my camera. In the pocket of the camera case was the receipt with D's name on it in the camera. She traced him via the ALA message service to our workplace, found him on Uof W's website, thought it odd that he'd be at ALA and then thought he might have been at ALA as a spouse, did another last name search on UofW's website and found me listed as a librarian and then emailed us. Pretty amazing biblio-sleuthing. She brought it home to Philly and another saga emerged when she attempted to FedEx it to Canada from Philadelphia. 
After she made 3 unsuccessful trips to 2 different FedEx outlets, we came up with Plan B which was for her to FedEx it to my brother in Vermont and then have my parents (who happen to be visiting there) bring it back to Canada and mail it to me from Edmonton. So, the poor little camera's on a bit of an adventure: Detroit, DC, Philadelphia, Burlington, VT, Montreal, Edmonton, Windsor. I'll have to get it a new set of batteries to make it feel better. As Alec said about the lid I did not tighten on my water bottle before putting it in my book bag and having it leak all over everything: “I guarantee you’ll do it once.” Indeed indeed. Ah, the kindness of strangers, the resourcefulness of librarians, and the steadfastness of family! Bless them all. As for FedEx...
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