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I thought I´m so fucking awesome, nobody can steal from me.  Well, I just waved my Eee PC and cell phone goodbye.

How: 3h bus ride from Montanita to Guayaquil (Ecuador).  Modern, clean bus.  Two of us,  a bit of a hangover, but mostly awake (13:00).  Keeping our bags in the overhead storage space.  Nobody was walking around, as far as I remember.  A man tried to help me with putting the bag into the storage space, but I stopped him and did that myself.  After the ride, one of the passengers passed me the bag, when I was standing up.

Outside of the bus, I noticed the bag is too light and too soft — the netbook is gone.  I thought I left it in Montanita, have excluded the possibility of theft on the bus, seemed too difficult… but then I noticed the loss of the cell phone, and everything clicked together… the man with the guinea pig (distraction), the helpful passenger…

Fuck, fuck, fuck.  I´m lucky they left the passport.

Before I figured things out and notified the police (a helpful lady from the tourist information office was kind enough to translate), the bus was gone to another destination… I bet the driver knew what´s going on, but the friendly cops couldn´t do anything more.

I mark this Technical, for it´s a good lesson about backups.  The last one I (probably) can recover is from 2006, and that´s just the most critical stuff (my SSH and PGP keys, etc).

The phrase ¨epic fail¨ somehow doesn´t seem appropriate.