{"id":170,"date":"2016-01-27T09:39:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?p=170"},"modified":"2019-02-20T10:27:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:27:03","slug":"tile-saved-me-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Tile saved me today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-171\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-171 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"tile-on-key-chain_center\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\"><\/a>Ordinarily, my two sets of car keys (one for each car) are always in their usual place in our front hall when I&#8217;m not using them. I&#8217;m pretty good about it. But this week, my wife, Kristin, is recovering from surgery and I&#8217;m playing &#8220;single dad&#8221; for a bit. I&#8217;m definitely not on my game.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:25am, after spectacular success getting everyone up, dressed, fed, and packed for school on time, I discovered that neither set of keys were in their place. A minute later, after checking all the likely places, I still didn&#8217;t know where they were. Guess what? No keys, no car; no car, no school! This was very, <em>very<\/em> bad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/how-it-works-step-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-172\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-172\" src=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/how-it-works-step-1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"how-it-works-step-1\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\"><\/a>It&#8217;s been more than a year since I started carrying a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetileapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tile<\/a> device on each key ring. So I fired up the Tile app on my phone and hit the &#8220;Find&#8221; button on each key ring. After one minute of straining to hear the faint, tinny, electronic tune, I had the set for the &#8220;wrong&#8221; car (the one I wasn&#8217;t planning to take to school). It had been in my bed, buried under the covers. Apparently I&#8217;d slept with it all night. (Planning a midnight escape?) After the second minute, I had the &#8220;right&#8221; set, which had been sitting in the cup holder of the &#8220;wrong&#8221; car, in the garage. (The Tile &#8220;range finder&#8221; feature guided me right there.)<\/p>\n<p>Without Tile, it would undoubtedly have taken me another 30 minutes at least to find my keys&nbsp;in such unusual locations. And by then, I would have been a trembling, hyperventilating, crazed lunatic, shouting at the kids and destroying any chance of them having a calm day at school. Tile saved me!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I don&#8217;t have a Tile on my sunglasses, even though my mom and step-dad gave me a brand new Tile for Christmas this year. (They know how much&nbsp;I need these things.) So I still have no idea where those are, and I squinted all the way to school and back in the bright, New Mexico sunlight. But hey, ya&#8217; gotta have priorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Tile images from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetileapp.com\/how-it-works\">thetileapp.com\/how-it-works<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ordinarily, my two sets of car keys (one for each car) are always in their usual place in our front hall when I&#8217;m not using<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?p=170\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-computing","tag-gadgets"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg",516,685,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center-226x300.jpg",226,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg",516,685,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg",516,685,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg",516,685,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg",516,685,false],"miteri-cp-520x400":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg",301,400,false],"miteri-cp-450x450":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg",339,450,false],"miteri-cp-700x700":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg",516,685,false],"miteri-cp-800x500":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg",377,500,false],"miteri-cp-1200x580":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tile-on-key-chain_center.jpg",437,580,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Lee","author_link":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Ordinarily, my two sets of car keys (one for each car) are always in their usual place in our front hall when I&#8217;m not usingRead More","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}