[Rick Lee]

I work in the hood, almost exclusively. In fact, I was in Pittsburgh two weeks ago and spent a few hours driving around some hood areas to scout out for a future business trip (once it warms up). I use to mow lawns around Swissvale and Braddock in college, and hadn't been back there since, but remembered it being pretty blue collar, if not hood then. Oh man, Braddock is gonna be a gold mine for final expense insurance sales. I went to Wilkinsburg, Homewood, Point Breeze, the Hill District and a few others and am gonna make a mint when I head out there for work around April.

As I type this I sit in Muncie, IN and worked here all week, plus some in Marion, IN. I made more in four days than in two mos at any previous job. A woman I met today has a daughter who was just sentenced to 144 yrs. for capital murder in TX. She drove the getaway car.

I dated a girl in college (I went to Pitt) whose dad owned a restaurant space on the North Side. It was closed up, but she had an apt above it and I spent a lot of time there. Such a ghetto in 1993, but was probably pretty trendy at some time, having a loft apt above a restaurant there.