Missing: Black Leather Bag, Years of Hard Work

We saw an especially heart-rending "missing" sign this morning on a light pole near Fort Hamilton Parkway and East 3rd Street, and wanted to pass it along. We just can't stand the thought of years of handwritten computer programming notes being gone forever—not to mention a cool skull and crossbones pencil case.

The poster offers a triple digit reward for return of the following items:

Health journal with six months of entries

C++ book by Stanley Lippman, which contains "1 year by 4 hours a day of hand-written notes"

C++ Wiki downloads with handwritten notes

FDNY ID

Four FDNY thumbdrives

The poster also writes, "I also would like to have my green pencil case with skull and cross-bones."

Handwritten below are the words: "And a blue Acer computer=Gregory."

The poster requests that if found, the bag be returned to the nearest firehouse.