Tough Life
Sometimes I envy Darfur War Orphans. Their lives are so simple compared to mine.
I just returned from my trip to Mexico, which was AWESOME BTW. Like seriously just fucking sick. All inclusve food & drink and I took advantage of it, including the infamous “35 tequila night” which will go down in history as the craziest drunk ever.
So I return from Mexico, and now what do I have?
– Fallout New Vegas, the new XBox 360 game.
– American Assassin, the new Mitch Rapp novel.
– Worth Dying For, the new Jack Reacher novel.
– No work to do.
Seriously, how am I meant to deal with this? 3 awesome things at once. Oh yeah, plus lots of TV shows that I am into to watch, like Dexter, The Office, Big Bang Theory, The Event, Arrested Development, etc.
Things really are awesome right now though. As I mentioned I really have no work I need to do – and I am going to spend the next little while content writing for CasinoAnswers.com – I’d like to write about 100 articles, and get to the point where content wise we’re good for the next few months. I also have the brand new Poker Affiliate Bible to work on. The good thing is both of these things I can do at my leisure and there really is no rush, that is very nice 🙂
Alright, off for a bath and to start reading!
Top Jack Reacher Novels
(Jan 13, 2013: I wrote a more updated and detailed version of this article here: Top 10 Jack Reacher Books. I recommend reading that instead.)
I was talking to someone about the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child today, which is my favourite series of all time. I love Mitch Rapp, but man nothing comes close to Reacher. I’ve read the majority of his books at least 3-4 times, and there’s a couple I have read more than 6 times.
Here’s the list of my top Reacher novels:
#1: Persauder
#2: Running Blind/The Visitor
#3: The Hard Way
#4: Killing Floor
#5: One Shot
#6: The Enemy
#7: 61 Hours
#8: Die Trying
#9: WIthout Fail
#10: Bad Luck and Trouble
#11: Gone Tomorrow
#12: Tripwire
#13: Echo Burning
#14: Nothing To Lose
In saying that – only Echo Burning and Nothing To Lose are really “bad” books. I do have to re-read Echo Burning again though. Also Gone Tomorrow and 61 Hours may be higher – I’ve only read them once, and I rushed through them so didn’t fully appreciate them. Without Fail is on my rereading list again. Think I’ve read that three times so far and thinking about it, I’m surprised I don’t appreciate it as
Persauder and Running Blind I am pretty sure would be on my list of books to take to a desert island, as I could reread both of them again over and over with ease.
I’m currently going through Bad Luck and Trouble again but just making this list makes me realize I haven’t read Running Blind in at least 6 months. Now I know what to read on the plane to Mexico!
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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!