House Sitting in Florida
I was at a very down point in my life. My marriage of 15 years had just ended in divorce and my ex-wife had gotten half of my military retirement pay. The divorce proceedings had eaten up the majority of my savings. I had just started a new job, but a small fire in our building had caused major damage and the company was going to shut down for a week for the clean up. All of the employees were put on vacation or unemployment, but since I had been there such a short time, I qualified for neither. While most of my co-workers were headed out to nice vacations, I was stuck in the cold Northeast, facing the prospect of the coldest weeks of the winter. To make matters worse, I hadn’t been laid …