2nd Follow-up

[hrj]

The fingerprint guy showed up at 1:45 am,just as I was starting to drift off. One can always hope, although I recall a news item about budget cuts in the Oakland Police Dept pretty much eliminating the analysis side of fingerprinting. Having made all the finance-related phone calls first thing in the morning, I've been spending my lunch hour on-line printing out applications for replacement documents. This is the down side of keeping all your essential papers in a single location. I haven't tackled the insurance company yet. If sympathy were police action, I'd have the perp in jail and all my stuff back -- thanks for all the good wishes.

And sure enough, the only time I started bawling was talking to my mom about g-g-grandma's diamond ring.