soooo.... that new house Alli and I moved into about two weeks or so ago? Burglarized this last weekend. Sunday, as a matter of fact, in the two hour timespan we were at the mall. Person pops the screen off one of our windows, slides the dowel out of position (too hard to explain on the blog... I need like, visual aids and shit), comes in through the window, crosses the living room into the kitchen, takes Alli's laptop off the kitchen table, but leaves my iPod, my checkbook, her checkbook, and everything else over there, crosses back to the window, where the power cable for the laptop is, unplugs it, takes it as well, exits through the same window (we can only assume), and proceeds to put the screen back in... as though nothing were touched. Like we wouldn't notice the $1500 laptop missing.
The whole thing is frightening for a myriad of reasons. 1) Someone was in our house while we weren't and we don't know who. 2) Someone had to have been watching us to see when we left, otherwise who robs a house on a Sunday afternoon, especially when there's only a two-hour window at best? 3)They ignored everything else. What kind of burglar see tons of important shit lying around (including Alli's passport) and ONLY takes the laptop? Lucky for us, Alli is Ms. Finance and was on top of all Identity-thefty type things in a flash. And our landlords are super-awesome guys and they were on top of it in no time, beefing up all our gates with locks and beware of dog signs and getting us stronger window security. So the only thing left is the loss of the property. I'm so frustrated because we chose the place based on its seclusion and seeming security.
Anyway, if anyone's ever on eBay or craigslist for the San Diego area, it's a Dell Inspiron 6000. It DOES NOT have a Celeron, it's got something else that I can't think of right now. Also, we had loaded it with Microsoft Office, Student and Teacher Edition. Thanks.
So, I haven't had internet for three days because this three day weekend I was moving! Alli and I finally moved in together and it feels like a ran a marathon this weekend. Well, maybe not that bad, but I can't say I got a hell of a lot of rest. All I know is I'm not moving til she and I have enough money to hire a moving company to do it for us.
It doesn't feel like we're living together just yet. It still has that "staying together at a hotel" feel. It's very weird to think that there will never be a "my room" for me again. Coming from four years in the dorms and a condo I shared with two other guys, "my room" was a very important concept - my place to get away, get quiet, to focus, to be alone if I needed, to chill out and unwind. No more, forever more it shall be "our room." Crazy. We made dinner last night and ate at our big table in our dining room. We did our laundry jointly last night. We are the picture of domesticity. It's still so curious to me... like it's not quite my life just yet, like I'm in a TV show or movie. Any way, just a small picture of life in these big picture days.
Apparently Alli's company has a policy that if an employee donates to one of a certain charities, they'll match the donation, so I think that's where we'll wind up giving for Katrina Relief.
I was listening to Air America last night, and on his show I thought Jerry Springer made a great point. (Yes, he's a liberal talk radio host now. The tagline for the show is, "Swearing to use his powers only for good now!") He pointed out that there is all this horrifying news footage of people on rooftops, trapped without food, water, or medicine. His question was this - if there are helicopters that can get close enough to film these people and get the audio of their cries, aren't they close enough to rescue them? or at least drop water bottles? Honestly, where does journalistic detachment end and being a compassionate human being begin? posted by MAtt D. at 6:57 AM
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Anyone hear the president tell us to go fuck ourselves yesterday? Well, that might not have been exactly what he said, but it's sure what I heard. He was addressing the nation about the hurricane and this is an actual quote from that speech:
"The Environmental Protection Agency has granted a nationwide waiver for fuel blends to make more gasoline and diesel fuel available throughout the country.
This will help take some pressure off of gas prices, but our citizens must understand this storm has disrupted the capacity to make gasoline and distribute gasoline"
What this breaks down to is "I'm loosening the pollution regulations that make life hard for my good ol' boy buddies in the oil industry, and stop whining about the high price of gas, because that's how it's gonna be, bitches." Understand this: gas prices need not spike because of the hurricane. He could declare a state of emergency, thereby outlawing profiteering, which is what the oil companies are doing. He has ways of reducing the RIDICULOUS price of gas, but he won't. He is using this horrible disaster to make life easier for the rich oil moguls. For someone who loves America so much, he sure seems to hate the average American.
