The family went to the river park with a lot of teen-agers while I stayed home to do homework.  I got interrupted.  Someone had broken into our van while everyone was rafting, smashing a window and stealing a backpack, two iPhones, an iPad and Barbara’s wallet.  As soon as she called me, I began the work of cancelling all the credit cards and disabling the electronic devices.  This took three hours.  Barbara meanwhile, was dealing with the sheriff and with our auto policy.  About the time I finished killing any chance of the thieves profiting from what they had done, it was time for school.  When I got home, the family still wasn’t home.  When they got home, Barbara was understandably upset; not so much because of the expense of the whole thing but because the thieves had stolen all her clothes and a book she had been writing for the last three years – by hand.  Barbara did not sleep well that night.