As always, it’s good news & bad news (when will there just be good news?). Renter’s insurance is covering all of my loss, but Carmax in CT offered me $1,500 less for my Corolla than the one in CA. I’m so torn up (and kicking myself thoroughly) about the whole process of owning/selling the damn car, I tossed and turned all Sunday night and didn’t finally get to sleep until about 5:30 a.m. - about 2 hours before I had to get up. My stomach is still in knots over it.

On Friday I decided to see what “off the rack” computers might be available at Best Buy, instead of waiting to have one built and then delivered to me when I am not home. I decided to live a little and replace my stolen Dell with a Vaio. Considering that I haven’t been able to spend money on myself in about 4-5 months, the shopping was fun. I almost felt like the upside to the break-in was outweighing the bad. Until, as I sat downloading & uploading programs and music files, I noticed I now have 2GB more storage… but nothing to fill that space with. Storage is only helpful when you have something to put in it. But all my pictures and documents and videos are gone. Poof.

I also just now realized that my mini memory card was in my Dell. Crap. If I want reimbursement, I’ll have to amend the police report, and the… ummm… for lack of a better word, let’s just call them “people”… who work at my precinct are a deterrent. God forbid I request something from the woman who answers the phone there. She might die of having to move, and I wouldn’t want that on my conscience. (Would I???)

Well, I still have my old Inspiron with a Celeron processor, so I can transfer some leftover items pre-August 2002 (perhaps this is an easy way to mentally erase a lackluster couple years?). I’ll just have to let it reboot for about a month before I can attempt to do so.