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.

posted by MAtt D. at 8:45 AM