Jasonisms

 In my previous post I alluded to the fact that some things had been happening in my life - some not-so-good things, in fact. In this blog post I will [a] attempt to explain what had happened and [b] have a written record of what happened. As some of you know and others of you never guessed, I'd been slightly homeless for the past few months. My landlord decided not to renew the lease with me citing I was "fat and lazy". So, as of mid-August I was adrift. Sure, I was working, but I wasn't making that much money, surely not enough to pay for a down payment on a place. Besides, I was working for a congressional campaign and I wasn't sure how the election would turn out. If we won, we all had jobs. If we lost ... well, then we were all unemployed.  Luckily, there was a non-profit that helped veterans with housing and they had some money to put me up into a hotel for the short term. The candidate I worked for kept asking me to just stay at his house and I kept wanting...

This is Sunday night. For most people it means winding down the weekend, getting the kids to bed early, maybe watching football or catching up on whatever TV shows they missed during the week. It's s time that has traditionally been for me to become emotionally and congitively reset from the previous seven days. Not this Sunday. Not now. A week ago, as some of the internet already knows, I became homeless. That's right: a combat veteran with a college degree and good experience is now sleeping in his truck. This post is about that. I will apologize as a lot has happened over the course of the past few days and I don't know if I will recall it all while I'm sitting here typing, just trying to stay out of the cold. First: How Did We Get Here? H e's a link : I probably should have tried creating a Blogger post, but when I decided to write it out I typed it up in Docs and there it is. Last Monday morning I left the safety and comfort of my home of the past y...