not long after i applied to and got a job at the los angeles herald examiner. making $179 a week. it was about four times as expensive of living in tallahassee. i found an apartment in the fairfax district. pretty sketchy. nicer now. around the corner from pioneer chicken which was way too expensive for me to go to. few weeks later i was stalked and broken into repeatedly. something the cops were helpless to stop. at the time i was assigned at san diego a horrible school shooting. when i returned everything was gone. everything i had. so it began. mitre bill but thrilling six months of living in my car basically trying to get by, the only upside being when you might have met a women, pretty easy to figure out the night inquiry, your place or mine. as much as i knew my ultimate goal was to save enough to get an apartment, people would take me in now and then so i could get a shower, change, gate good night's sleep. i still never quit saving. i remember cashing my paycheck every other week and writing a check to fidelity magellan fund. you only had gas, food and insurance if you wer