Day 9 - Where are my glasses???

So I know right now, some guy is sitting in his room all proud that he found my sunglasses. There is a remote chance that he in fact thought they were his. Mix together some Alzheimer's, dementia, and the fact he may have owned those glasses when they were popular in the 70's, but i am going to get to the bottom of this.

So let me start the story out right. I got a present from my wife, actually, I got a bunch of gift cards from my wife. I am not a particular person in most regards, but I am quite picky when it comes to my sunglasses. Given the few extra pounds I carry, I don't think that most sunglasses look right on my face. Most squeeze my temples and look like I have John Lennon glasses on my somewhat wide face while the arms of the sunglasses tighten down like a vice on my unsuspecting head. In order to avoid this unflattering look, I take ample time to ensure that the sunglasses I wear fit appropriately. I don't care about the cost, I want them to fit good and feel good. Now I mean that, I don't care if they are $15 blue blockers or $500 Revo sunglasses. I would much prefer the cheaper ones, but that isn't what I usually find.

Sorry, got a little off the story. So my wife, being the dutiful and intelligent wife that she is (See Kacey, I do mention you. And in positive light!!!), she gave me the gift cards so I could go and buy my own glasses. She came with me to the store to pick them out, but finally gave up on me and went shopping in other stores for the afternoon while I picked out my glasses. I honestly never looked at a price until I decided on a pair. Of course they were of the more expensive ilk.

All of that background to get to my story. So I took my sunglasses off today as I was playing with maddie in the pool. Of course, I hit my head on the side of the pool. We were playing this nice little game, Kacey, Maddie and myself. I won't go into the full length of the story, but someone let me hit my head at full speed on the side of the pool. And since as guys, we are never wrong, I will let you guess who made the mistake. Remember that even though Maddie is female, she lacks a cognitive thought process. Deductively, I am sure most can figure out who dropped the ball. Anyway, I go upstairs to calm down, get my eyes uncrossed and take half a bottle of Advil. My wife follows and I leave the glasses by the pool.

Now I come back down a few hours later to grab my glasses and they are gone. Now everyone that was there is still there, and they all look at each other with amazement that they would go missing. One of the 5 old guys sitting there has my glasses and I am going to get them back. I am thinking about going to Best Buy tomorrow and getting a camera. I already have a router down here. Then I can control the camera from back in Illinois. I will scope the pool every day until I see the guy who stole them, wearing them. Then, I will come back down here in person to deal with the situation.

Now I know both of you who read this blog and yes Kacey you are one of two, think it is overkill. I will put it into simply terms. The camera, plane ticket, and bail, will be cheaper than buying the glasses again. I think I will even have some money left over for lunch. I will figure this out, but I need a night to sleep on it. I think that I may just put up some missing posters with the sunglasses on them with some fake blood dripping off the bottom. Just something scary enough to have the person who stole them wonder if I could in fact cause bodily harm if I found them out. Again, I am going to sleep on it and figure out something a little over the top.

Real quick, before i sign off. I know I promised pictures, but here is the problem. while I have a SLR, compact camera, and a video camera down here, Alberto has all my software. To clarify, they made me turn in all of their software when I left. Therefore, i realized that I didn't have anything on this computer to take the photos off the cameras and upload them. The pictures were the least of my concerns. I didn't even have office on this computer. I had to download a 60 day trial from Msoft just to turn my homework in. Nothing like a 400 mb download to send a word doc in. Anyway, I am going to go brainstorm a plan to recover my glasses. God be with the guy who has them, I am coming for you!

Until tomorrow...