The most common question that people email me, is how I got into blogging. As life usually is, the answer is complicated. My blogging roots can really be traced to a night in June of 2005. Around 4:00 am on June 11th, I awoke to smoke in my apartment and then screams. The apartment next to mine was engulfed in fire. By the time the fire department was able to control the fire, my apartment was completely destroyed. Since I am a complete idiot (and had just switched to Geico to save mon