11/ Those of you who know that I came out this year can probably imagine the reception waiting for me in a small town.

Side note on that - I've been "forbidden" to bring anyone home after coming out. There's the flavor waiting for me. So you can understand that living out of a car or staying with friends was starting to look like a better option.

I honestly don't know what my resume looks like to HR anymore. I've got a huge gap staring in the face of anyone looking to hire me for tech so judging from the nonresponse to resumes I sent out, I'm not the hire that I once was.

I'm going to skip ahead a bit here.