Re: What's new

[Guest guest]

Hello, Alena. I was wondering about you. What a terrible experience you

had, but your sense of humor seems to have come to your aid, also your

mother's. Did you have to buy a new computer? Fancy getting 1,000

e-mails... The most I have ever had was about 300 when I was away for three

weeks. I am glad your dogs are all right. Apparently they are not trained

as guard dogs, or maybe they did bark but nobody heard. I am so sorry for

everything that happened.

Sincerely,

What's new

> Hi folks,

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> Here is a little update, not really R related, as I found many new friends

on this list who may be wondering why I don't respond to emails.

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> On Thursday, I returned home from work, noting that there had to be a

decent downpour in the afternoon. I opened the door to my my house and my

heart almost stopped (it definitely felt worse than just missing a beat).

There were NO DOGS behind front door. No happy dance, no helicopter tails.

No dogs in the living room either and no pitter patter on the stairs from

upstairs. I rushed to the back door and saw all three dogs standing there,

resembling drowned rats. My first thought was that - as unlikely as it

seemed - I forgot to let them back in after their last potty call before I

left for work. I let them in, dried them with a towel, apologizing

profusely.

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> Then I started to prepare their dinner - wait, where did all this water on

the counter come from?? And the glass? I looked at the window behind the

kitchen sink and knew then that the house had been broken into while I was

at work. The screen was cut out, the glass was smashed. I realized that the

stuff that I picked up on the living room floor and put back onto the

cabinet had not been knocked down by the dogs - I put it back on the cabinet

not realizing (yet) that previously it had been on top of the DVD player,

but the DVD player was gone. I ran upstairs - mess everywhere, and my

computer was gone, the monitor was gone, and my digicam was gone, too. (they

left me the speakers, keyboard and mouse). I stood there trying to grasp the

situation when it occurred to me that the CD with about a hundred of the

best, carefully selected pictures of my dogs was in the CD ROM drive, and it

also contained some pics I was collecting for my mom as I wanted to send her

a little album about how things changed since her last visit in Canada.

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> I called the police and waited for their arrival. I was to find out later

that the mitre saw is gone as well as some other tools from the basement.

And my Visa card, and Minka's comforter. And that the faucet and the ceran

stovetop are damaged. I called my mom on the weekend to tell her what

happened, and of course, she was shocked at first, but I assured her that it

could have been a lot worse. I am grateful that nothing happened to the dogs

(though Piper must have really hated being outside in the rain) and that at

least the thieves let the dogs out into the yard as opposed to the street (I

don't even want to think about that). I was telling my mom that the dogs

must have been quite amused seeing somebody coming through the window -

" Look, a visitor! Can you play with us? " and we laughed about it. My mom

even said 'they could have let the dogs back in when they were done'.

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> Aside from feeling violated, the thing I am upset most about are the

digital pictures. Everything else is replaceable, the pictures aren't. Oh

well. What really matters is that my dogs weren't hurt.

> I happened to have last Friday off, so this morning I downloaded over a

1,000 emails. So, I am alive, though a little frustrated. (The last thing I

remember reading on this list was Adam's post about his troubles some 37

days after his photoderm. Adam, I hope you are doing better by now). Sorry

this is such a long post.

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> Alena

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