It seems like yesterday that I left a small town in Kansas and moved to an outer suburb of Dallas. How do 7 months pass so quickly? It's crazy. So what is a still fairly young gay guy doing here? I needed a change in my life. I really did. As much as the mostly isolated area south of the KC metro has been home for most of my life, I was miserable there. At the time it was winter. I could not find a decent job, I was tired of the cold winters, and there's nothing there for someone my age. Sure, I could have wasted more days being miserable and returning to my old habit of being stoned off my ass most of the time, but that's not a life.

What am I up to now? Well, I have a job as a security guard. Up until recently, I was working close to 50 hours per week. However my hours have been cut to around 32 hours per week in the form of two 12-hour shifts and an 8 and