Thursday, at work, I noticed that I couldn’t get to my laptop over the internet. I thought about it for a second, whether I had it in “power saving” mode, and I realized that someone probably stole it. Unfortunately, I was right.

Sometime during the day, between 8:30AM and 3PM, a burglar came and threw a brick through the glass in the back door and broke into the house. They also pulled off and broke a storm window, but didn’t go through that window. They stole 3 Mac laptops which were all the working Macs in the house. They also took my mom’s old coins, a handheld ham radio, and a bunch of wristwatches including the one my dad used to wear. I can replace most of the things they took except for the novelty wristwatches (including an In-N-Out anniversary wristwatch) and the watch my dad used to wear. You can guess what I miss the most.

The police came to take a report, and they even sent someone to check for fingerprints. I figured they wouldn’t bother, and they didn’t find anything smooth enough to take fingerprints from, but it was nice that they sent someone. And a friend who is a contractor came by to help me board up the broken door window.

I’m fairly sure I have a recent backup of my laptop, so I should be OK there. Unfortunately, I got my MacBook Pro on a developer’s discount and replacing just one laptop is going to cost, without the discount, at least $2500 + $330 for the memory. The ham radio only gets used once a year at the Portland Marathon, so I can just quit volunteering for that and I won’t need to replace it. Or I can just borrow a radio from my buddy Greg. And I had too many watches anyway.

Still, what a pain in the ass.