Getting back on track..

Today was the first day since the weekend that has seemed fairly normal. The other days have seemed weird, for some reason. [an error occurred while processing this directive]Perhaps it was the fact that I was tired. My long nap the other night pretty much solved that. Perhaps it was the chip on my shoulder from the thefts at work this week. Just to fill you all in on that:

Over the past few weeks, we've had 5 laptops grow legs and walk off. None of us have been sure whether it's been an inside job or someone off the streets gathering up the nads to come into the building in broad daylight and snatching up our stuff! As I mentioned briefly in yesterday's entry, someone came into the building Tuesday morning and stole another laptop. One of the mailroom guys saw him, and later in the day, he saw him enter the building again. He immediately called the Police and began following him around the building. He also notified those left over in ITS and Operations so that they could seal off the entrances. A few minutes later, the guy emerged from the building. Rod,from Operations, stopped the guy and told him that he needed to "ask him a few questions". The suspect became very uneasy, tossed his drink in Rod's face and took off running the opposite direction. Rod and my boss, Glen, chased the suspect 2 blocks where he finally surrendered and knelt down with his hands up. By this time, two other Martin employees came running up and they all gathered around him to keep him from running again. Glen called the police to tell them to come up the street 2 blocks, instead of our building. The police finally arrived and took him away.

We found out today that the guy confessed to stealing multiple computers. Witnesses to the previous thefts were able to positively identify the suspect. So, it looks like we've got a winner�err, a loser. This is really good because it gives me some closure to this whole thing.

Nonetheless, Tommy and I have been instructed to get our computer inventory more precise, so we've both agreed to come in this Saturday and record serial numbers from the CPUs and monitors from all of our Macs in the building. Fun.

Jennifer came over tonight to help me work on a project for this weekend's holiday. Folks, I can finally say with absolute certainty that the digital age is here. Jennifer is sitting here with my other PowerBook, chatting on AOL Instant Messenger to some girl that she doesn't even know. And the funny thing is: she's been sitting here doing this ever since we got home from dinner. She's addicted. Since arriving at 6:30, she's checked her email twice and been chatting online another 2 hours or so. I think she likes our broadband connection. Perhaps I'll need to hide the computers the next time she comes over. :)