Sunday October 18 2009

Someone broke into my car and took some stuff. I think I left the passenger side door slightly ajar and the thief was able to get in. Yes, I already I'm a retard for leaving nice things in the car. List of stolen property along with how much I care:

4 GB iPod nano. I'm pretty sad that I lost this. We had good memories. I got it refurbished from Apple back when I was in college and too poor to get a new one, so it was kinda cheap and I'm not too pissed. I still have the music scattered around various hard drives, so I'll need to just re-upload them to my backup iPod shuffle that I got as a corporate Christmas present (yes, I have a backup iPod, so obviously I'm not in too bad of shape). It was only a 4 gig model, and it was pretty much at capacity, so I was thinking about getting a 16 GB model anyway. At least that's what I'm telling myself.
Motorola Razr Remember in like 2003 when these were crazy expensive? Since then, they got cheap and now even my grandmother has one. Now it's basically the phone for people who don't have an iPhone or a Blackberry. To make things better, I dropped this thing and it caught the edge of my desk resulting in a cracked screen, so this thing was kinda crappy. I called Verizon to suspend the service and pleasantly found out I'm due for an upgrade in 4 days. Sweet. Time for a Blackberry. I'm mostly sad that I'm losing my archive of random cell phone pictures that I've accumulated over the 2 years since I've had it. I also used it to take pictures of book covers at Barnes and Noble of books I wanted to buy later on Amazon.
Garmin Nuvi 255w GPS Shit. I just bought this a month ago after my last GPS was stolen a year ago. Fuck. These things are so damn hot for thieves. They need to make one with like a cell receiver so I can remotely deactivate it or randomly pop up pictures of boners. Or something. I dunno. This was the one thing I was pretty pissed at losing.
64 MB of RAM I was throwing out my old Gateway 2000 computer about 2 years ago and I decided to keep a stick of RAM from it as a souvenir of days of playing Quake 2 and Command and Conquer all night. It sat in my car's dashboard and I would use it as a drumstick when sitting in traffic while listening to music on my (now departed) iPod. Even if you had 10 times this much memory, you still wouldn't have half the memory it takes to boot up Windows Vista. Current value today: $1. The fact that the thief took this made me laugh and not feel so crappy. He probably thought it was like some sort of hi tech government computer chip. Strangely enough, he did not find my 4 GB memory card. In fact, he would have been better off going for my spare change compartment.
Subwoofer Back in high school, if you had a subwoofer, you had a sweet ride, no matter how awful your car physically looked. Okay, so maybe my high school (Hickory High School) isn't a good representation of the general public school systems (our prom king and queen were brother and sister), but it was still pretty awesome to pop open the trunk and blast some Jay-Z in the parking lot of 7Eleven. 1999 was a good year for me. So the thief actually opened my trunk, disconnected the subwoofer and took it out. I have no clue how much this thing would be worth, but it is about 10 years old and I got it for free because the guy installing my sister's car CD player did such a lousy job that he felt bad and threw it in for free. I'm more upset that the thief opened my trunk and pawed through my crap back there. Like the iPod, I'll miss it for the memories. A throwback to days of yore when you could have spinners on your wheels, giving shouts to your honeys and it wasn't illegal to cruise up and down the strip in Virginia Beach. Now if they catch you in the same spot twice in under 3 hours, you get a ticket. Daaa-yum.

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