Well, that sucked

I came back from a pub quiz at one of the bars downtown, to discover that in my absence, someone had broken into the apartment.

They'd kicked the back door down - my neighbour downstairs had gone for a walk and then taken a sleeping pill when he got back, so he was out for the count and didn't hear a thing. Luckily, I think they decided that they'd made too much noise as it was, so all they took was the netbook and the PC - they walked past a few bits I was surprised they didn't take, like my mobile phone (admittedly, they don't make a cheaper phone, but even so), a little cash, and the Kindle.

The police were excellent - a very nice policewoman was round in about ten minutes, which
I thought was excellent considering there was no one there they could catch. She took a statement, was impressed by the amount of damage they'd managed to do to the door (the metal bolt is bent - they'd kicked it through an inch of wood); I was naturally disappointed that CSI Ottawa wouldn't be visiting, but that's unsurprising considering how little they actually touched. And then she said that there was practically no chance of them being caught and headed out.

I'm surprisingly alright about the whole thing. I know I'm supposed to be worried about someone coming into my space uninvited, but I'm wondering if I've not been there for long enough for it to feel like a home; and they didn't take anything that was especially personally important - as far as I can tell, they came in through the backdoor, saw the PC, grabbed that and the laptop, and were gone - it wouldn't have been more than a minute or two.

I'm annoyed about a couple of things; mainly that I've not been able to speak to my beloved for a couple of days and let her know that I'm OK. Other than that, I've changed the passwords on a couple of accounts, just in case whoever ends up with the kit decides to have a little fun with my Facebook account; and the only thing I'm annoyed they took is the adapter I had on the netbook, so I could plug it into a North American socket. I was intending replacing the netbook anyway, in the next couple of weeks, as it's pretty much stopped working - I wish them luck rehoming a three year old netbook with a UK keyboard, no working wireless card, and which needs to warm up for five minutes before the left side of the keyboard starts working. I've got a couple more bits to add, but I'm currently in Starbucks abusing their free internet policy, so it might have to wait til I've figured out how to reconfigure the home wireless hub.