Here it is, almost a year since The Incident when my roommate got arrested. I decided to call the detective who was working the case to see if he knew when it would go to trial and all that fun stuff. He said that he was pretty sure my roommate did a plea deal already, so I asked if I could get my computer back. He said he’d have to talk to the DA and see if they needed it any further.

Of course, when they give it back they have to wipe it completely clean. This means that I will lose everything I had on it. Yeah, lots of half-written books, short stories, and music files are going to be vaporized.

If my ex-roommate had any money, I’d sue him for lost productivity. But since he couldn’t even afford his bail (which was set way to low in my opinion)….

Anyway, we shall see how everything shakes down. The detective wasn’t positive that my roommate had plead (he said, “I’ve had 60 arrests since his”, which is scary when you think about it), so it would depend on if that happened or not, and then it would depend on what the DA said. I asked if there was any way that I could get the files I wrote of my book projects and such saved, and he said probably not due to the fact that if there is anything illegal at all on the computer they cannot give it back to me and it’s a lot easier to simply wipe the hard drive than it is to have a techie look over a bunch of files to see if they contain anything illegal. :-( (Actually, he didn’t say it that bluntly, but I know how to read between the lines.)

So again: oh well.