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now THIS is friday music
You can check out the rest of my Friday music posts by clicking the “now THIS is friday music” tag below, or you can see all of them arranged in my Springpad notebook.
now THIS is friday music
You can check out the rest of my Friday music posts by clicking the “now THIS is friday music” tag below, or you can see all of them arranged in my Springpad notebook.
see…what had happened was
So…I woke up this morning, and took something out to the car. On a whim, I circled the car one more time…you know, since it was daylight and all…and what do you know. There was a Nexus 7 tablet.
I’d like to think that the would-be thief suffered a round of guilt and brought the Nexus 7 back to its rightful owner (oddly leaving it face down on in some leaves on the sidewalk next to my car); but something tells me that’s not what happened. Now, my feelings move from victimization to embarrassment. I appreciate those who expressed concern last night, especially my son who searched the car for me and gave me a couple of hugs. Thanks, in advance, to all of you for not riding me too hard about this [honest] mistake. At least I have the Nexus 7 in hand. If nothing else, I went through a little fire drill changing all of my passwords and updating my online security settings.
Please excuse me while I go make some toast to go with that egg.
my nexus 7 got jacked
At some point this evening, between the Verizon Wireless store and Qdoba, both in Rockville, MD, someone stole my brand new Nexus 7. If you’ve been reading my blog in the last week or so, you know how much I went through just to get the damned thing. Now it’s gone. I didn’t even realize that the Nexus 7 was gone until I got home. I hold myself accountable because I left the tablet out of my backpack on the back seat. (I am also kicking myself for not enabling the lock screen on the Nexus 7.) Clearly, I must have left the doors to the car unlocked, because the windows are in tact and there was no forceable entry.
Of course, once I discovered that I had been jacked, I scrambled to change every conceivable password, disable Google Wallet, and offered up a generous heaping of curse words for the new owner of my Nexus 7. I also pushed the Plan B app to the Nexus 7 in the hopes that if someone connects the device to a WiFi network, I will be able to see its whereabouts. If it’s on a wireless network long enough, I can let the police know.
[deep breath]
I am really bummed about this; but I admit that part of me wonders if it just wasn’t meant to be. Perhaps all the hassles with shipping were an omen that I should have heeded.
Larceny sucks!
update: google follow-through
In life, it is important to give credit where credit is due — particularly when someone makes good on correcting a mistake.
Responsiveness and thoughtful actions are how companies build loyal customers. Good on Google for refunding my shipping fees. Now let’s see if UPS follows Google’s lead, and refunds my $40 for the less-than-effective MyChoice service.