


She also likes to remind me that she’s married to a very lucky man.” “Sheila’s not my first wife,” Edridge writes, “(the exact count is unimportant and it’s not excessive for California), but, as she likes to remind me, she is my final wife. With encouragement from his wife Sheila, you start over. Well, you buy 30 acres of land near Igo in Shasta County, and you move. It was 2002 “and the dot-com bomb had just wiped out the entire tech industry.” What to do? Yet after a decade and a corporate takeover, he was out. The small company he worked for provided an “idyllic” life. I was broke and broken.”īut “sometimes God smiles on the truly stupid” and he became a computer programmer.

“By my mid-thirties,” he wrote, “I had reached the end. London-born Peter Edridge got a poor start when he landed in San Francisco in 1971 looking for “sex, drugs and rock-n-roll.”
