With three boys, it would be fun to have a girl, but I'll take healthy baby, uncomplicated delivery above all!

The manager did a walk through mid afternoon. He seemed pretty peeved at us. I think he thought we'd be giving the delivery crew a difficult time, perhaps because we pushed pretty hard to get our belongings before the 20th. We weren't mean spirited though.I started receiving the delivery, checking off boxes and furniture. My husband was able to get home around noon to help.

A lot of damage though, occurred probably during and after our household goods were containerized.

My great grandmother's round end table has the top completely ripped from the legs. My grandmother's sewing machine and cabinet that my husband beautifully restored has two very large heartbreaking gouges out of it. My husband says a furniture restorer will make both items appear undamaged. I was really depressed though yesterday. I'm not overly attached to "things". These were the only special items I trusted the movers with though and I was stricken. Never again.

But we are settling into our house. Josh is applying to finish his final high school year at a Quaker academy. It's very late to apply, but still giving it a go. Wish I had had a working crystal ball and known where and when we'd find a suitable house.

Arizona Sen. John McCain predicted on Sunday that the Senate GOP's health-care bill is "probably going to be dead." Appearing on CBS' Face the Nation, McCain said publicly what many Republicans are beginning to admit privately. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has struggled to get at least 50 of the 52 Republicans in the upper chamber to come to a consensus, and the unpopular legislation is facing backlash from both conservatives and moderates. McConnell delayed a vote on the legislation until after Congress returns to Washington, D.C. on Monday following the July 4 recess. McConnell himself has acknowledged the possibility of failing to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, in which case he would work with Democrats to fix Obamacare.

meet Groucho

• okja: on netflix. it's not a korean language film. it's really good. made me cry.
  
• the unloved: full movie on youtube. it is about an eleven year old girl placed in the u.k. child welfare system. it's not a documentary but it feels very true.

I thought it was convincing. I liked they had an ex F-16 pilot explains he aviation aspects with a map and data not he winds to explain how she could have been blown off course. And his description of what would have been her 'plan B' if she could not find Howland - go back and find someplace to land before she ran out of fuel. I thought the whole story, backed up by contemporaneous witness accounts and the Office of Naval Intelligence records, really held up.

Could have lived without the overly dramatic music and quick cuts, but those seem standard on TV documentaries these days.

But it would be worth watching just for the music.

It has inspired more that one rummage through the CDs.  

Much to the surprise of Fisher (and likely his journalism teacher as well), Gen. Mattis graciously said yes. And much to my surprise, Fisher actually conducted a very good interview, and it's worth a read. I learned more about Gen. Mattis and his worldview from this high school student's questions, than I ever did from the professionals on the eastern seaboard.

Mr. Trump's Instagram has been corrected, which had identified the president of Singapore as the president of Indonesia.