I'm not sure how to file this, as I just went through a few hours of talking with the police, my apartment building and my insurance providers and now have an 11 AM appointment to replace a shattered window in the morning.

Still, it's my mistake and if I'm going to try to learn something from it, I may as well put it out there for public consideration.

A couple hours ago, I wandered out to my car to go run some errands. I approached it from the unbroken side and everything looked normal. When I got in, I looked at the passenger seat and took it all in. Someone had smashed the window, sifted through some items and gone through the glove compartment, taking registration information and manuals in the process.

Then I took a gander at the back seat, only to realize that my laptop bag containing my MacBook (the same one I accidentally spilled half a delicious beverage into and paid $800+ to have Apple repair back in April), my computer tools, an external hard drive carrier and the drive itself were now missing.

So, three hours of making calls, making claims and getting claim numbers later, I can offer the following nuggets of wisdom in a bullet-listed format:

Thankfully, no one was hurt, this is part of a spree and there's more of a demand to catch whoever did this and all this stuff can be replaced.

If anyone's looking for me, they'll find me involved in a Rocky-esque series of training montage events with a crazed ex-Green Beret as a means of training to avenge the theft as well as my father's mysterious death oh so many years ago.

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