Required Daily Posting...

I went home for lunch today only to discover strange men on my deck/balcony.

Now, if I were drdawn this might not be a bad thing - but fortunately (or un, depending on your viewpoint, I suppose. I personally think that one Dawn is plenty) I am still me and I was taken aback. Also, afoot as they were painting the deck and I was stepping out onto it.

I had no idea that they were gonna be there today and I also wondered where my deck furniture had gone.

"It's all right here in this guy's apartment" the strange man on the deck said - pointing to my next door neighbor's place.

So - now I am kind uneasy cause my *stuff* is in someone else's place and that is just weird. And I had no idea they were coming out to paint and that could just be my fault for not checking my voicemail.

And there were *teams* of these, to be perfectly honest, creepy staring men at my apartment - at the front door and at the deck door and at the back door (they are painting that tomorrow) and now they know all points of entry to my place (once you are on my deck - breaking in is so very very easy - this was never an issue as long as it was just me and the little anti-social dude next door. He might be a serial killer, but he is quiet and doesn't have parties and serial killers *rarely* kill their neighbors. They need us around so someone is there to tell the press about how he always seemed to be such a loner...) and they know I have a dog who barks, but all they have to do is look in a window to *actually* see the dog.

Sidwickian the Magnificent is so not intimidating, despite the name.

So now I am a bit nervous. And I know that I shouldn't be - or should I?

See - I rewatched "Bowling for Columbine" last night and while I am aware that I live in a culture of instilled fear - I've also been robbed a few times. And if someone took my computer (which is not visible thru any window) I would have to curl up and die. Because I have my entire life on those hard drives - or at least the fun parts. My vids and my vids in progress and while I am willing to part with the X-files vid I am growing to hate, no one can have Lex-n-Clark's Amazing Anime Adventure or I will have to CUT THEM!

::growls menacingly toward anyone approaching computer::

And if you think something and voice it out loud it can't happen. Except when it does.

I'd burn back up discs but we are talking over 350 gigs of info total. Thems a lot of discs. A vid in progress - well, its file could be anywhere from 20-60 gigs depending on how far along I am and how many clips I have.

So I'm thinking voo-doo protection spell is probably the most rational thing I can do here. My computer needs a force field. And a cabana boy.