dj whitebread
Friday, August 08, 2008
Really?
Today was supposed to start with a nice breakfast with Carrie. Then I was going to come into school and start working on my talk, specifically, try to write out a script so that I could go between the slides smoothly. Needless to say... not so much.
A plumber showed up this morning to inform us that our other shower seems to be leaking. Not into our neighbors apartment, thank goodness, but down inside the outside wall. So basically, they are going to take the siding off outside our door and cut through the exterior sheetrock to check out the pipes. Fantastic.
That was not exciting. But I figured I could just come to school and try to bury my head in work. I stopped downstairs to get some breakfast tacos and when I got up to my cube, I noticed my monitor was nothing attached mode. I then looked over and noticed a severe lack of a laptop. Probing a little bit further I noticed a nice clean cut in the lock I use to secure my laptop. Yep, that's right... somebody just stole my laptop. And when I say "my," I really mean somebody just stole the University of Texas at Austin's laptop. Luckily, they did not steal my external hard drive that was sitting on my desk, so all my data including my dissertation (which is backed up in other places as well) and my presentation slides and graphics are all safe on their. Thank God for Time Machine. I also realized we should be able to figure within what hour of time it got stolen because Time Machine backs up every hour... that will make it pretty easy to pin down.
Let me just say... I usually take my laptop home if I leave work at a normal time and don't plan on returning. I only leave it on my desk when I stay late and know I will be getting in the morning. Last night I left around midnight, and I got to my desk right around 9 AM. The elevators in ACES don't open up until 7AM. Not to mention that somebody was walking around with cable cutters. Luckily, my laptop is password protected, so you can't just hop on and use it. But I'm sure it's at a pawn shop by now. I'm waiting for Sara to get in so that I can send the UTPD the serial number and UT tag number for the laptop so that they can enter that in the database of stolen stuff. Seriously, there's apparently a database of stolen stuff that pawn shops will check on. Well, reputable pawn shops anyway.
So yeah... defense is Monday. Nothing like throwing a few mountains of stress on right before. Woohoo!
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