Love

You really gotta love it (you have to reach for it, thirst for it, strive to be one with it...) in order to become good at it. Otherwise, it's just a passing glance; how will you ever know it?

I've said it before: you must be willing to emerge yourself. A cursory glance may get you through, but it definitely won't put you on top.

Today

Today is my birthday. I've gotten really lazy when it comes to blogging. Most of it has to do with my realization that quite a bit of my desire to blog came from making money (believe it or not I have been paid $400 for a single text link, two words/one year, in the past) and further, that the good money is definitely not in blogging (at least, not for me). I wanted to use it to help develop my skills too; but, I don't know if blogging is the best way to develop potential in whatever you're trying to improve.

So much of the time one puts into blogging goes into constructing a skeleton of an article that will hopefully make sense to someone else. You really aren't writing for yourself. Sometimes you get good ideas and suggestions, but, besides a great venue for making friends, most of my ideas were gathered through rigorous trial and error. Try, fail/succeed, then modify. Repeat. Not so much writing about them, as by getting my hands dirty (and my wallet).

Anyway, today is my birthday. I would love to be making a million dollars a year right now. But really, I didn't have any such thing in the works to occur by this day.

My thoughts are terribly scattered. Obviously (I feel).

And I wanted to put the fact that my friend's and my poker bot is functional at the 90 table play money tables (made it to some final tables) and will be functional at the real money tables shortly. I obviously can't give you too many details, what with various big named poker sites trying their best to prevent such things from happening (I would prefer not to have my account frozen and closed).

But in the future, I'll definitely give more details. Making a bot, while time consuming, isn't as hard as it would seem. I don't want to say it's _easy_ as you probably want to be at least a marginally profitable poker player, and most people would say that's difficult (I would have to agree). But it really isn't as hard as some people would like you to think.

This time next year, I hope to have a degree (I missed several years of school in there), a side income from botting, and have taken a step back into the trading ring (I've been doing some micro forex trading recently*)

(*FXCM has some nice software to help making your own automated trading program. And it's free (albeit, you have to sign up to use it)). MULTIPLE PARENTHESIS!

But, things aren't too bad. Another year, another 365 days, another, what is that in moments? We'll have to see how my brain determines that process this year. Let's stay mentally active, fit, and healthy.

Cheers!!!