Stolen property and canceled flights

On the 28th of this month Strider was due to come home for two weeks. I had hoped that everything would have gone without a hitch, but that was a pipe dream, seriously, it was just a dream. Nothing went as it should have. The entire day leading up to his arrival at the house was just one thing after another.

It all started at 8:20am the morning of the 28th. It started out as a normal day, got up, got Bug breakfast and started to get her ready for school. Then I went outside to start the car...that's when the bad shit started. My car had been robbed, as in someone had gotten into my car and stole stuff. The glove box and center console were open and the contents all over the car. Thankfully I never leave anything of value in my car, so all they got was the leather folio that the registration and insurance in kept in, the thing that holds the car manual and such.

So I called the police, the insurance company and the DMV, had to cover all my bases, you know? An officer came out to check out the car, he even tried to get prints but he couldn't. Let me just say that fingerprinting dust is messy as all hell! The officer and I stood outside and talked for a while, he let me in on a lot that's been going on in the neighborhood lately, which is a good thing. One of my neighbors had also had their car broken into that same night.

While I had been waiting for the officer to show up I had been taking a nap, that's when I got the message from the flight app that I had all set up with Strider's flight information...the flight had been canceled...

I was hard waiting for the plane to land at Dulles so that I could talk to him and try to get him set up with a rental car. And here's where it gets even better...it started snowing...in the first half hour we already had about 1/4 inch on the ground and we were supposed to be getting a total of 8-15 inches by the end of the storm.

Strider had finally called me around 4:30pm and let me know what was going on, so I did some fancy foot work with the accounts and got the money where he needed it and set up the rental for him...then the waiting started.

He finally got in around 10:45 that night, by then we already had a good couple of inches on the ground and were expecting to get a lot more. I had reserved an SUV and what did they give him? A minivan. Things finally got better at that point.

We ended up getting a total of 8-10 inches.

Strider's home with Bug and I, things can finally return to some sort of normal for the next two weeks before he has to go back to Bahrain for who know how much longer. We're still playing the waiting game with his orders, hopefully they'll be in so we know what's going on, the waiting is the worst part of it all.



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