I'm truly touched by the PM's I've received from Mudcatters wanting to help. Thank you, all! After sorting through everything I came up with around 15 or so that I really really will miss and want to replace. Others were backups (thankfully) and some (I won't mention any names) I listened to a couple of times and didn't like that much.

I think this has been a good lesson about taking care of things better. I said the CD's were precious to me, but I unthinkingly stuffed them in a CD holder and left them in an unlocked car. Not very smart. It also made me more aware of things that are going on in my neighborhood. I think there are some groups of kids walking around late at night and getting into mischief. As I walked around searching - hoping they'd thrown out the CD's (can you imagine their disgust if they'd popped Jeannie Robinson's unaccompanied singing into the CD player) I noticed small signs of vandalism - a street sign knocked off - a dent in my mailbox, some beer bottles in a ditch. I often go for a walk with my dog late at night and sometimes leave my door unlocked while we're out - I won't be doing that any more - at least I'll lock the door. And I often sit around in my house with the door unlocked, but I won't now.

Oh and I will make backup copies of CD's that I want to listen to in the car.