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Last night someone stole 3 laptops from my vehicle as I was getting ready to make the trip back to Atlanta to go to work. I don’t have the ability to run out and get myself a new machine so that I can continue to work. Times are hard, really hard. I moved from Atlanta back to Pace, FL to try to reduce the amount of money I was spending on monthly bills. We (Shannon and I) are still picking up pieces from last night. Having to spend all of our time making calls and changing passwords to our accounts we have online.

To the people that took from us:

If the people who took the laptops are reading this, and I hope you do, I don’t hold anything against you. I forgive you. I only ask that you please consider what you have done and return what you took. See I am the type of person that if you had come and knocked on my door and asked for financial help I would have given you what I could to help out. We understand that you are possibly going through hard times and we have been there ourselves. I just ask that you find it in your heart to return what you took so I can continue to work and provide for my family. I don’t have insurance on the vehicle and we rent the home that the vehicle was parked in front of. I ask you to put yourself in my shoes and try to realize what the impact was from taking those machines. Please help me out and return what you took. If you do then I will drop the matter. If you come to me and talk to me I might be able to help you out. I give you my word that the police will not know who took or returned the items just that the matter has been resolved.

Please look deep into your heart and consider what you have done. The karma train is not something you want to mess with. The more bad decisions you make the worse the karma train runs you down. As well as, consider having to answer to your actions. Maybe not now but later when you are in front of your maker and trying to explain to him why you did it instead of putting your troubles in His hands. Letting him help you through whatever drove you to steal.

I hope you consider what I am saying here. I say to you God Bless you and I hope that whatever drove you to steal last night that you are able to work through it. Talk to Him as He loves you no matter what. All that he asks is that you ask Him to help you.

In closing:

If anyone reads this, I ask for your prayers as Shannon and I pick up the pieces to what has happened. If you would like to assist us in any way I have placed a donation page up for contributions towards the purchase of the tools that have been taken. If you can’t I fully understand. I just wanted to provide a way for people to help if they feel it in their heart that they want to.

Donations Page

God Bless

Jason L. West

This site is currently under development.  If you are looking for old posts they will be available after tonight (08/23/2010) as well as I have been working on a lot of articles about my experiences with development with the PEGA PRPC BPM system, Rails, Django, Railo, Amazon EC2/S3 Hosting and much much more…

So please check us out tomorrow for the old content and check back periodically for new publishings.

Thanks,

Jason L. West, Sr.
Senior Applications Architect & Developer