Tis the Season
To many, the Christmas season is all about joy, friends, family, love, Faith, togetherness.. you get the idea. But it seems that these days all of the joy, love, and faith is getting impinged upon by a nastier element of the holidays.. thievery and idiocy. Apparently tis the season to break into people’s homes and steal from the hardworking. Is this really a way to celebrate Christmas? Well, for us, this Christmas season was fraught with fear and stress. It all started around the beginning of December this year. I was at work while my girlfriend and the kids were home. This day I was sitting in a training room learning new skills (or so they say) and I get a Jabber message saying that I needed to come home quick because someone’s trying to break into the house. The cops had been called already, and I rushed to the trainer, then to my boss, and told them that I had to go, that I’d be back, but it was an emergency. Getting the go-ahead, I quickly grabbed my phone and keys, ...