Nope, it was just me, two dogs and a cat. And I think Eloquence might have made an appearance.
Hmm, I feel the need to post this, but don't think it deserves a new topic.
So after I confirmed that my computer was still working after that cat incident, I tried to go outside to record things, but between the birds and the traffic there was just too much background noise.
So today I went outside at 1:07AM (I think the time is spoken by NVDA in the recording) to see if the birds would be too asleep to cause problems. There was still background noise from traffic and the wind in trees, but it turned out much better.
The recording is about twelve minutes and 33 seconds long. Afterward I go back inside, play with some of the sounds in there to see if they're usable, then do some posting hereabouts, then decide to return to sleep.
Except I hear a vehicle pull up in the driveway and people getting out. I don't hear much else for a few minutes, but eventually I hear a horn honk (it made me think someone in the vehicle was tired of waiting on the people that got out).
I hear some more doors being shut, and a couple minutes later, I hear three series of three honks (at first I thought they might be playing jinglebells with it...). At this point I'm suspicious enough to investigate further, so I dawn my "walking outside in the wee hours of hte morning" gear and press my ear to the front door.
It starts to sound less like some sort of criminal conspiracy and more like some people just hanging out in the driveway, but I move to the garage to try to hear better anyway. It was hard to make out what was being said, but the worst I could hear was someone saying they needed a Budlight, and a single use of profanity in reference to what sounded like a discussion over relationship drama.
It didn't sound like anything worth calling the police over was afoot, but I stuck around until the heater came on and drowned out the voices.
The first thing I did when stepping back into my room was turn the light on, without really thinking of the possibility that this would get the attention of the people in the driveway.
I did hear what sounded like people getting in their cars and leaving after that, but while typing this post I heard some music for a few seconds, so I'm not sure if they all left or not.
It was exactly 3:00AM when I finally decided it was safe to come back in and check the time, though. Since that seems like it was more than fifteen minutes, I'll assume the timestamp on my last post before this adventure means it was 1:45AM. So... this was probably about an hour-long driveway gathering.
Eh, once I was awake when someone decided to flood the garage, but they started it while I was using the water, so I just assumed that I broke something. I don't intend to do that again. 
看過來!
"If you want utopia but reality gives you Lovecraft, you don't give up, you carve your utopia out of the corpses of dead gods."
MaxAngor wrote:
George... Don't do that.
So, I lost about 1 TB of stuff, I'm never going to get back. Sucks, too.
