Back to Work
Well apparently I’m back at work!
As I’ve mentioned before, I was planning on taking a sabbatical for the rest of the year, and doing basically as little work as is possible for an internet marketer. I took time off for the whole World Cup, and enjoyed it so much I was hoping to take the rest of the year off.
The last little while has been going well as I’ve been doing the bare minimum, relaxing etc. However Maston started school last week and a funny thing happened – I just sort of gravitated to my computer chair. With peace and quiet in the house, I found myself getting back into the routine of waking up and then going straight to work.
Before I knew it – all the aspects of my routine were back, like going to bed at 10pm and waking up at 6am. Not sure how it happened but I am not complaining – I love work, and I’m really happy to be getting back into it.
The next couple of months are going to be very busy too. The two main aspects of work for me are:
Casino Answers: So freaking much to do on this website. We’ve already accomplished a ton – over 700,000 words of unique content in less than a year, and the million mark doesn’t seem too far away. I’ve started doing Casino Video Reviews as well. Google is really giving the website a lot of respect – as it should, considering the quality of it – and I can see it becoming one of the biggest casino portals in 2011.
Then there is Poker Affiliate Bible. I’ve been planning a big redo of that website – a whole new design, and a whole new layout and oh so much more. I finally got the design completed to my satisfaction – so now we have to get it coded, then I have to get to content writing. That’ll probably be about 100,000 words of unique content right there just to get the site ready for relaunch.
So yeah that’s pretty much what I am doing. Not much time for XBoxing etc and I love it – just work, work, work. Oh, and family I guess.
Got a lot of fun excursions over the next little while too. These include:
– Week long trip to Mexico with the wife
– Norm MacDonald in Ottawa
– Billy Connolly in Ottawa
– Dane Cook in Kingston
– 3 day meetup with Frank & Marky Mark in Edmonton, featuring a strip club crawl.
So yes, good times. Oh yes, and Eminem in Detroit was probably the greatest concert ever. The energy etc was just amazing, and the crowd pop for Eminem was one thing – but the crowd pop for Dr. Dre still fucking gives me goosebumps.
Back to work!
Off to Detroit
Off to Detroit this weekend which should be fun. Going to be doing a photoblog for NPP too so you’ll be able to see in gory detail as I get shot by a band of juggalos.
Just busy getting my Blackberry set up with movies. I don’t think I will be adding any Lord of the Rings movies, even though there’s a great Lord of the Rings Slot Machine out.
Sorry cheap plug – but it really is cool as I played it earlier.
Anyway yes, off I go!
Bought a PS3
Over the last 18 months I’ve been debating buying a PS3 primarily as a Blu-Ray player. Once I got into Lost and watched all of that, I decided to get the PS3 so I could watch Lost in HD when the complete collection came out(because other than the final episode I watched them all on my computer or on my Blackberry or on my Ipod Touch).
I’ve spent like 3 months waiting for a PS3 deal so I could buy one – with so many deals these days I basically refuse to buy anything at retail. Even if the deal was “$10 off if you come in wearing a wrestling shirt” I’d do it – just something in my mentality where I can only purchase something via a deal.
Then I was going through some stuff and cleaning out my reciepts file, when I discovered an old EB Games card from when I traded games in a few years ago. I checked online to find that there was $90 on it! So I then decided to take in a bunch of my other games to trade in and put that towards the price of the PS3.
These were the games I traded in and the prices:
Far Cry Instincts: $4.25
Trauma Center(Wii): $7.00
Assassins Creed: $4.00
Civilization Revolution: $12.50
Call of Duty 3: $3.75
Lost: $4.50
Call of Duty 2: $5.75
Saints Row 2: $6.25
Gears of War 2: $7.50
Trivial Pursuit: $2.75
Project Gotham Racing 4: $1.25
Smackdown vs RAW 07: $0.70
Gears of War: $6.00
The Godfather: $5.25
Total was $73.45. So I ended up putting that and the previous card together and getting a PS3 for about $140. Sweet deal. Now to start building up my Blu-Ray collection. So far all I have is Lost, the Bourne Collection and Taken.
Here’s a picture of the XBox and PS3 on at the same time:
Great Job City of Kingston
My neighbour has a tree in her front yard which has already seen part of it collapse onto the road a few years ago.
The city of Kingston came out a few weeks ago to check the tree out, and thankfully declared it “safe”. Yep, that tree will still be standing 50 years from now.
Oh…..wait:
Yeah….see that white house where the rest of the tree looks like it’s about to collapse on? That’s mine. But it’s okay because it’s “safe”. Sure the slightest breeze sees it shaking and making weird creaking noises, but if you can’t trust the City of Kingston who can you trust?
Hell Yes
I love days like today.
I had a work day planned today. Changing the URLS of all my pages on Casino Answers. So like casinoanswers.com/titan-casino-review/ would become casinoanswers.com/casino-reviews/titan-casino.php or whatever. With over 600 articles on the site I have been stressing the day I decide to tackle this, as so much could go wrong.
I planned out 48 hours for this job – seriously I figured it was going to be a two day thing.
It was sorted within 48 freaking minutes.
A few plugin installs, a few hacks and boom – it was all done. There’ll be tweaking and work to do but nothing urgent – I can chill out and relax and do it at my leisure now.
As if that wasn’t enough, I decided prior to the stress ball that I would relax and order Boston Pizza and treat myself. After dining on mainly fruit & veg for a month I figured that would get me in the right state of mind. Well I called and an old friend works there now and he is able to hook me up with the Clubhouse Pizza – a special pizza that was my favourite and they took off the menu 2 years ago.
Yep, it’s going to be a great weekend.