Thursday, December 02, 2010

Not a good way to end the day

It was a long day. Staff meeting went late for me and even later for the one at T's school so we decided to eat dinner at the restaurant across from the school. We invited T's admin assistant and had an enjoyable dinner. Then she went to youth group and I went to choir and T paid the bill. Next he headed out to the pick-up where he discovered someone had broken into the truck and stolen his briefcase with his laptop inside. He had our entire lives stored on that thing. Everything he does, schoolwork, web-page management, 30 years of information about everything everywhere is on that thing. He is not happy. We spent the next four hours canceling every credit card, changing every password, and filing reports with police and insurance. The police said that there's a ring of thieves operating in the area who are breaking into vehicles, homes, businesses and grabbing purses, cash, briefcases, electronics with the intent to sell it all - fast. Fortunately T had every model and serial number for everything stolen and it will go on some hot-list that is circulated to pawn shops and other second hand type places. Guess who's getting a new Mac? And it can't happen soon enough!

3 comments:

Ruth said...

I'm so sorry to hear about this.

Kathie said...

And we aren't even in Haiti! sigh...

Cami said...

SO sorry to hear this. The last thing you want to have to do at this busy time is run around and cancel credit cards and such.

But yippee about the new MAC. I'd love a new one. I've had mine for nearly seven years and it keeps going. I'm grateful, but think it would be lovely to have a valid excuse to upgrade.