Paperwork

Just finished getting a mess of paperwork out of the way. Student loan consolidation form (I'd been putting that one off for a while), phone bill, cable/Internet bill, and $5 donation to the SMSU Alumni Foundation because they asked me nicely. I have discovered a neat new lqptop fact: it is nice to be able to sit at the kitchen table with all that space handy for filling out forms while still having access to all the information on my computer and the web.

All things considered, the laptop is working out to be a good investment for most of the types of Internet usage I do. It's better than I expected in some areas, not all I'd hoped in others...but that's just the way things are.

I need to try to clean my room up a little more. It gets to be such a mess when I'm not looking...

It's the cops

So, I got home from dinner an hour or so to notice three police patrol cars pulled up in front of my apartment building, with nobody in them. Sort of an unnerving sight, I can tell you. Curious, and since it was such a pleasant evening, I took my laptop outside and had a seat where I had a good vantage point to see what was going on. Shortly thereafter, the three police cars were joined by a K9 car.

A few minutes ago, the K9 officer came back out leading a handsome-looking German Shepherd, and drove off; now the other cops are coming out, one of them bearing a fire extinguisher. A couple of uniformed, a couple plainclothes...I don't see any signs of arrestees, though.

I wonder if I'm going to be reading about this in the newspaper tomorrow. Probably not...it doesn't look like they found anything. I went over to ask the neighbors who were waiting outside, and they said the police hadn't told them anything. Just another one of those little mysteries, I guess.