After about six months of morning and evening bus commutes, it seemed like a good idea to move nearer to work. The ideal location would be some place I could walk to work from every morning—plus the right place would put me within walking distance of the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver, my favorite area to hang out on weekends. An old-style apartment building, the Grosvenor Arms, on East 16th Street, had a unit available on the fifth floor that I was excited to find—a very cool place, spacious, with windows all around, and even old-style boxes where the milkman used to leave bottles of milk every morning. This time I would have to undergo a credit check, but no sweat: by hacking into the credit reporting agency TRW, I was able to identify several Eric Weisses with reasonably good credit. I used the Social Security number of one of them on my rental application (different from the one I was using for employment). My paperwork sailed through without a problem.