I live in a nice neighborhood, on a fairly busy road…front door facing the street. Last Thursday mid-afternoon someone kicked our front door open and welcomed themselves in during a two hour window no one was home. They picked up a couple macbooks, sorted through a few things. Then we are left to assume they opened a bedroom door to find an angry bulldog that scared them out, 2 macbooks in hand. I am so, so very lucky neither of those computers was mine. However some of my roommates not so lucky. I would have lost tons of freelance work to say the least. Maybe even my new camera. I don’t have renters insurance, or any kind of mac anti-theft program, or recent back-ups of anything really…well I sure do now.

Point being, let this be a reminder. Back up your stuff! Lock your windows and doors. Don’t leave precious items in plain view. Be cautious of who you let in to your precious home. In almost every case the person that breaks into your home is someone you know. Or a friend of a friend that’s been there once before. They know what you have and don’t know you well enough to care about you, and your precious things. Someone’s got some realllly bad karma headed there way.