Another site to add to my portfolio
I apparently don’t understand the saying “don’t spread yourself too thin”. Since I got my priority to do list done, I’ve been working on stuff on my “shit that isn’t priority but should be done to do list”, as well as trying to get a few sites I have half-finalized done and fully launched.
This month, I expect to launch at least 6 new websites, possibly more. The first one is https://wrestling-books.com, and it will cover – you guessed it – wrestling books. There’ll be wrestling book reviews, news on upcoming books, as well as news on autograph signings and all that shit.
Really I have no idea how this site will do, in terms of hits and actual money. But it’s a tiny niche with no competition, so me and Brando figured we’d give it a try. It’s easy to write content for the site, and we’ll see how it goes.
Anyway – back to work I go, hi ho hi ho hi ho. Meanwhile you can go read Wrestling Book News & Reviews!
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Well it’s just been one of those awesome little kick you in the ass ain’t it great to be alive weeks for me so far.
A year ago Christmas eve, one of my friends had a really shitty time when her 6 month old died of crib death/SIDS. Now I’m a big believer of “everything happens for a reason”, and the kid had a lot of heart issues etc, so even though it’s heard to actually say “yep that kid died for a reason” – it made it a bit easier to take and understand.
Well about 7 months ago, she announced she was pregnant again, which was just awesome, and to be honest I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone so happy as she was. Well – on Monday she was rushed to the hospital – and would you fucking believe it, this baby had died. I can’t even begin to fathom just how bad she must be feeling, or even begin to comprehend something like that.
To make matters worse, the mother in law was rushed to the hospital last night with a suspected stroke. From the tests they did it didn’t look like she had a stroke, but they found two freakin’ brain aneurisms.
So yeah, not a good week. And if you believe in the whole “things come in 3s” then there’s some more shit coming very soon.
Either way, life is a bit fucking depressing right now.
Hey I’ve still got it!
I rarely play poker anymore these days. I just don’t have the time, plus I prefer to play on Fortune Poker and it rarely has limits for 7 Card Stud above 3/6, which is just too low for me.
So I sat down at the computer tonight to do some work, and one of my players messaged me wanting me to transfer them $200 on Pokerstars, and they’d transfer me $200 on Cellsino Poker Rakeback. So I’m like okay, I have no idea my nickname on Cellsino so let me just log on and check.
So when I log on, it only lists my username, so I go to sit at a table and get the nickname, when I see 1 person sitting at a $5/$10 game for Stud. Wow. On Cellsino they never even have over $0.5/$1 there so this was a surprise. I decided to sit down and play a little.
Well after about 30 minutes, I’m up $300. The guy leaves the table, and then comes back at a different seat. The reasoning? He thought the seat he was sitting in was unlucky. Yeah, okay.
So we play some more, and I go up another $150. He wants me to play $10/$20, but I was ready to go at this point and said no. He started spazzing out a bit in the chat, and I knew he was on tilt, so I said sure let’s play.
Well 5 hands later, I was up another $400, and he called me a PUTANA(which is like a whore) and then quickly left, oops.
$850 in an hour. I love poker.
The perfect end to…well, a shitty day.
So today was shitty for the most part. I got a lot of key work done in the morning, and Risto was off work and asked if I wanted to play some Rainbow 6 Vegas 2. I said sure no problem, give me 30 minutes to write an Aced.com Poker Affiliate Program Review for the Poker Affiliate Bible. So I do that with about 5 minutes to spare, tell Risto to fire up the XBox, post the article to my site….
….and everything fucks up.
Suddenly when you would visit the site, it wouldn’t load, then would time out. So I enlisted the help of Frank, my go to guy for techy stuff. So the two of us start brainstorming. There’s no easy way to see what the problem is, so we start by eliminating all problems. First I upgrade WordPress. Still broken. Next I upgrade all plugins manually. Still broken, one hour gone. I remember I installed eaccelerator recently, so we remove that, recompile apache – still busto.
After testing out a few different things, we finally narrowed it down to it being a specific theme/design issue. Okay great. After a bit more work, we figure out it’s in the functions.php file, and narrow it down to the code which posts excerpts for password protected categories. Some other issues crop up, but we manage to fix them all finally. This took about three fucking hours, and it ruined my day. After this was done, I told the wife I was going out for a bit, grabbed my coat and just headed the fuck out, feeling really pissed off at the world.
I caved and bought a pack of smokes and this made me feel better. I headed up to Blockbuster to rent COD World on War, and saw Halo Wars there. Craving a good RTS, and going on the recommendation of Nateeasy, I rented it. Came home feeling emotionally drained, went for a shower, got into my PJs, and felt a lot better. Relaxed and watched the Celebrity Apprentice with the wife, as my day turned around.
Then with the wife up in bed, I was busy finishing off a few work related things, when I remembered Halo Wars. I put it on just to try it out and HOLY SHIT – it’s everything I want in an RTS. Nice and simple, easy to navigate etc, nothing too dumb in it – I fucking love it, and am ready to buy it and all I have did is play one skirmish.
Anyway yay – that’s put me in a great mood, so now I am off to bed, and then tomorrow I’ll be back to conquer the world. Fuck I feel good.