May 31, 2007
They found a match.
Many of you don’t know that we’ve experienced one attack after another in the last month. May has been hard.
The first week after our return from Egypt was spent recouperating from jet lag. The next ten days I was very sick, probably with a bug I caught on the plane: cold turned sinus- and bronchial-infection. Then came two days of all-day team meetings for my office (which make me tired anyway). The very next day someone broke into our house.
Yup. That’s right, someone broke in to our home.
And took 2 computers.
2 cameras.
1 pda.
1 digital mouse.
the bags that go with the computers and the cameras.
emptied a change jar.
and took another change jar, this one was foreign coins.
oh yeah. and in the cameras were our pictures of egypt.
so the next two weeks were packed with phone calls to the detective unit of the grpd, the insurance company, and searching through our old records-that-were-still-in-boxes-from-living-overseas to prove ownership of the stolen items.
and then, just when i was getting all those things in order, my dad called last tuesday morning at 7am with news that mom was in the hospital.
and wednesday he called again at 5:30 in the morning to say that mom was being rolled into surgery.
and the next 6 days were spent at her bedside.
saturday night it rained. beautiful sweet rain. sunday morning we noticed (after the rain had stopped) that there is a new addition to the door-ding arrangement on my little jetta’s doors.
in the parking lot of charlevoix area hospital, someone had left in a hurry in the rain and COLLAPSED a rear door with their bumper.
and they didn’t leave a note. and we didn’t notice it because of the dark and rain and preoccupied state of our minds.
but there’s a bright side to all of this, well, a few actually:
jet lag is over. my cold is over. my meetings are over. and
they found him. they found the kid that broke in and took our things. they didn’t find our stuff, but they have found him and he has confessed to both the b&e and the theft. he’s in juvenile detention right now. yup. a minor. his name is LaMonte Smith Walker.
and mom went home yesterday (hi mom!) after 10 days in the hospital.
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