<div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi Amara,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">sorry for your notebook.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This why whenever I travel I carry my notebooks and laptop with me.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I feel exactly the same, that I would rather loose money and precious valuable than my research notes or codes.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It is horrible that people in a state agency like Poste Italiane stole your stuff.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But I had stuff stolen in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> too.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In fact, similarly to you, I lost my dissertation original files and 3 years worth of research material, stuff that was stored in a laptop that I left overnight in my office at a college in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Baton Rouge</st1:place></st1:City>. Somebody with access to the offices stole it. Of course, I was very stupid in not saving the material on a CD.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The college authorities were not able to find out who did it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">So there are bad people everywhere.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But again, I'm very happy you are at home.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I hope you will
find peace and happiness.</SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Giovanni </SPAN></div> <div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Amara Graps <amara@amara.com></I></B> wrote:</div></div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi extropes,<BR><BR>For what it's worth, I arrived in Boulder on November 17, with only my<BR>toothbrush and my new passport and my extra carry-on of photocopies of<BR>my identifications as a side-effect from the large theft of my<BR>wallet-purse on October 29. I'm still shell-shocked and disoriented<BR>because after I arrived on the 17th, I left on the 20th (12 hours after<BR>my luggage from Rome finally arrived) to San Jose to have new driver's<BR>license and social security (like the codice fiscale) cards. Those two<BR>things took 15 minutes in total. I spent Thanksgiving with my sister and<BR>saw two close friends (Hi Samantha), and returned to Boulder on the
evening<BR>of November 23. I was only in Boulder one day, however, before I went to<BR>San Antonio, Texas and saw two more friends (Hi Damien and Barbara) and<BR>to attend the 'orientation' for my new job. The 'mother ship' (I call it)<BR>of Southwest Research Institute is located there.<BR><BR>So now I'm in Boulder, and probably know Denver Airport far more than<BR>I know the town that I moved to, even though I technically moved to<BR>Boulder 10 days ago. In my home, I have a futon mattress, two lamps,<BR>enough warm clothes, cooking-ware, one Mac G4 laptop: useless with a<BR>broken memory cache on the logic board that will cost $700 to replace,<BR>a two seasons newer Mac G4 laptop to replace it, but completely<BR>unconfigured so far with the exception of this email (Eudora) program<BR>and Firefox browser. It seems that I picked up this newer computer from<BR>my UK colleagues (six weeks ago), where they were storing it for me from<BR>my UK Ebay purchase, just in time. I
will not try to salvage my old<BR>G4 laptop Mac.<BR><BR>The tragedy of my International-Move-From-Hell is my notebook of two<BR>years of calculations of my water-on-the-terrestrial-planets research<BR>project. The notebook is gone, a result of my mistake to send it through<BR>Poste Italiane. I consider it a much larger tragedy than the theft of<BR>all of my identifications in my wallet-purse, three weeks before. This<BR>notebook was in one of 22 brown padded envelopes that I had sent of my<BR>in-progress writing and research projects. After the moving company<BR>picked up my home, I still needed to send these notes and notebooks. I<BR>couldn't use Poste Vaticano because I didn't have any more my<BR>identifications after the wallet-purse theft to enter the Vatican. DHL<BR>is expensive and then (and now) and I'm still desperately broke (that's<BR>_why_ I needed to leave Italy). I figured because I had no bad<BR>experiences in the past 5 years with brown padded envelopes
(only boxes;<BR>seven in the last 5 years were stolen), I could trust that Poste<BR>Italiane could send these. I was wrong. Four arrived to Boulder with<BR>major tears at the edges, with two of them, taped up by the US Postal<BR>Service a second time. Of those two, most of the contents had fallen<BR>out: that was my thick calculations notebook; which had my name and<BR>email address and phone number, by the way. On the more recent packages,<BR>one of the postal clerks on the US side had written: 'All Closed'. I am<BR>still waiting for 3 more padded envelopes, but, if those were stolen<BR>by the thieves at Poste Italiane too, then at least those contents are<BR>orders of magnitude less valuable to my than my research notebook.<BR><BR>So what can I say? I will have the opportunity to sharpen up my<BR>arguments for that project, but some significant part of it is<BR>irreplaceable. I doubt it was an accident with so many torn; the thieves<BR>at Poste Italiane were probably
looking for valuable Christmas presents,<BR>and I probably disappointed them. Who else would find scribbles and<BR>photocopies of journal articles valuable?<BR><BR>I will tell the relocation company not to let their customers moving in<BR>or out of Italy to use Poste Italiane. The only good thing I can say<BR>about my move, so far, is that at least the baggage handlers at Rome<BR>Fiumicino airport didn't steal my stuff while it was on the ground for<BR>those two days, since my four pieces of luggage was carrying alot of<BR>valuable things. I have my bicycle, in which I have my old Heidelberg<BR>riding lifestyle back. And of course, the SwRI people here are<BR>wonderful. It's incredibly nice to get so much support and interest<BR>from my workplace after my last years of feeling like I was thrown to<BR>the wolves.<BR><BR>Amara<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR><BR>Amara Graps, PhD www.amara.com<BR>Research Scientist, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder,
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