To Whom It May Concern

Little Tid Bits Of Whatever

Missing: 600 dollars worth of DVDs and CDs.
From Where: Not sure, presumeably the pickup
When: again, not sure, sometime during a week long period from the 17th to the 25th of December.

I put all my DVDs, all of them (I don't have many, about 20), and 30 or so of my newest CDs, in a disk booklet to take with me on my annual training in october. When I got back it was just convenient to keep them in there, without my car working, when I borrow the pickup I take them with me. Well, I took them to work with me on a Saturday in December, and that's the last place I remember having them. I can remember switching out a cd on the way home, I took the truck to wash it, filled it with fuel, and then drove to the apartment.

We were so busy over the next week getting ready for belly to leave that I didn't notice they were missing, I just kept thinking they were in the truck everytime I would go to get a CD and "oh yah, not in the apartment".

As Murphy's Law would dictate, I realized they were missing at 4 in the morning the Monday following Christmas, and I got up figuring I would find them in the living room, them looked in the truck, tore the apartment apart, checked the truck again, searched the apartment until I had to go to work, then spent a miserable day at work realizing I was out half a grand in entertainment.

Another thing that stunk just as bad is that because I'm a control freak about my property, so I couldn't go back to bed when I realized they were missing, and that caused friction between belly and I, so I finally went to bed at about 6 or so, even though I didn't sleep, I felt a little better just putting my arms around her.

I think what was most miserable, and still is irritating me now, is that I haven't a clue what happened. If I walked outside and found the window busted out on the pickup and my stuff missing, then I get mad, shake my fist, maybe yell a little unmentionable stuff, but at least I KNOW that yes, some bastard stole my stuff.

But this, this stinks... without knowing, I find myself speculating what is going to happen. I'll go spend a chunk of money and replace some or all of my stuff and then find it all somewhere, or I wait and never have my cds and dvds I enjoy. Ah, the dilema!! I miss my Crossfade CD, listening to Creed, CCR greatest hits, watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force, etc, etc. I keep thinking to myself that I hope some poor bastard that had a horrible christmas found them, so at least he was happy. I had a great Christmas, just being able to spend it with such a wonderful woman.

I think I'm going to check Homer's Music used cd section, I know I'll be able to replace a good portion of my cds with used ones, but there are a couple of compilation cds that I really love that were made for me, and I'll never be able to replace those.

Anyways, enough about that, if I dwell on it my brain starts to boil. Today I picked up some hours from a coworker so I CAN have a little extra overtime money. I stayed up till 4 in the morning after napping earlier, but weekend hours at work are pretty laid back, so even though I was tired, I was okay, pretty boring hours at work, during which I wrote my sweety a letter.

I've spent the rest of the day watching football and snoozing off and on in the ole' easy chair. Something about me: I would rather watch the WORST football game than the best game in any other sport, I just flat out LOVE football. Especially college football, but in this case, I'm settling for NFL playoffs.

-4 F this morning, very cold. Too cold to go work on my car. I am going to perhaps try tomorrow if it does get to 39 F. That's still cold but at least you can handle that. 4 below though is crazy 'fingers falling off' cold, because when you work on engines, gloves are a no no.

I called a few old friends today. Visited a little with Alfonzo, Andy, and Mark. I sometimes wish it was easier to remain closer with them, but Alfonzo is starting his new music studio up, and well, Andy and Mark are married now, and it's so hard to stay close with friends you really care about when they have a family. I will always work to remain close with the friends I have, because I have so few close friends, I am not one of those people with a hundred 'surface' friends, I have maybe a dozen people I call close friends, some I don't get to talk to as much as I'd like.

I'm going to finish working out now, and make something to eat. I have not eaten out ALL WEEK, since having mexican with belly in des moines!!