The time is drawing near, Kelly and I are still counting the days until we can get out of LA safely. Everytime we leave the apartment I think its either going to get robbed again or is going to burn down, because that is how our luck would be. Kelly finished the list of items that were stolen and we are looking at about half of our renters insurance total coverage value. I have realized that we have a lot of expensive stuff and really need to bump our total coverage up. When I talked to USAA they seemed to baulk at the fact that Kelly and I had THREE laptops, while most of the people who read this site know that I am a geek who likes his toys would not think anything of the fact that we own three laptops. Anyway back to the point, USAA immeadiatley thought that we were trying to pull something over on them. So here is the deal, we have to provide some kind of proof that we own the stuff that we are claiming, photographic or otherwise, no big deal right? EXCEPT that all of our photos went with the laptops. Luckily Kelly has most of the recipets for our big ticket items. I can only imagine how it would have been trying to convince USAA that 700+ DVDs had been stolen, they would have called “Bullshit”. So as soon as we get everything replaced we are going to make a video of EVERYTHING that we have and place it in a safe-deposit box, and hopefully if this ever happens again we can avoid these hassels.
We are still slowly packing up, we need to pick up some more bubble-wrap to pack up our posters and tabletops, but other then those and clothes we are mostly done. Hopefully I will hear something from the moving company this week, and we can get this show on the road.
I borrowed a laptop from work and am using the wireless USB adapter that is off of my TiVo to post right now while Kelly is using the desktop computer. Luckily the robbers didn’t steal my Airport Express so after picking up a cable modem at the local Adelphia office Kelly and I once again we were able to rejoin normal society.
I don’t know if I posted this in my previous post but LAPD has to be the WORST police force in the US. They took 6 hours to respond to our call of the break-in. WE ONLY LIVE THREE BLOCKS FROM THE STATION!!!!!! I could h ave ran over there and punched the first cop I saw and ran back to the apartment and recieved a better response time. Now I know this is LA and shouln’t expect to much but damn, 6 hours…… We were actually able to get our door replaced before the cops showed up. The said they were going to send out a fingerprint unit but that hasn’t happened yet, and I’m not expecting it to. I have resigned myself to the fact that our stuff is gone and even though we have the serial numbers from our laptops and such, it isn’t likely that the cops or anybody else will recover them. Sigh…….
Kelly and I went to go see Ocean’s Twelve last night. Very Good, but again not as good as the original, but that is to be expected. I highly recommend it. I still would like to go see Blade Trinity, but Kelly isn’t a fan, so that may have to wait for DVD. LOTR:ROTK comes out on Tuesday, so I will pick that up but probably wait until we get to Kelly’s folks house to watch it, so I can watch it on Jim’s TV and Surround Sound system.
OK I’m done for now, I have to run to work and make copies of all of these reciepts to fax to the insurance tomorrow.