Another Day

Today is the first day in a long time that I don’t have to go anywhere. My wife and I went to the grocery yesterday and my kids are at space camp in Alabama. I’m just sitting back and enjoying the day. I did go for a short walk earlier, but it was extremely cold compared to yesterday’s weather. At first I thought it was raining, but I soon realized that it was more of a mix of rain and snow. I played Saints Row on my Xbox 360 all morning. That is my all time favorite game. I was always a fan of the Grand Theft Auto series. I have every one of them and was annoyed when THQ announced that they were releasing a game that was so similar to GTA San Andreas. Then I purchased an Xbox 360 Pro Package and bought Saints Row for less than $30. I absolutely love it. The sequel, Saints Row 2, comes out this year but I don’t know when. Hopefully sooner than later.

Speaking of upcoming releases, Grand Theft Auto IV comes out April 29th. That’s going to be a great game. It’s being said that this game will set a new benchmark for open world gaming. I haven’t decided yet whether I’m buying for the Xbox 360 or the PS3. The Playstation 3 has the ability to support better graphics than the 360 but Rockstar claims that the game will not be scaled down for the Xbox 360 console. Currently, Rockstar is developing downloadable content for GTA IV for Xbox Live. I’ll wait until closer to the release date to decide which console I will purchase it for.

I’ve also been researching various work at home opportunities. I never realized just how tedious it is to search for legitimate opportunities among the scams. Finding a real opportunity is well worth the hassle. So far, the best things I’ve found for myself, based on my education and experience, involve freelance writing. I wouldn’t recommend any of the “earn $10,000 a month selling our products” packages that have saturated the online world. Many people are making money selling products online, but the difference is that they have set up their own suppliers and pick their own products. I think that one of the most important factors that has to be considered when searching for a work-at-home opportunity is the initial cost of the opportunity. That is what gives freelance writing such an advantage over many other methods of generating profit. There is virtually no initial cost.

If I could figure out the process of setting up my own freelance writing business, it would be great because I love to write. I actually wrote a book once. It was about 412 pages of short stories but I deleted it from my computer because I couldn’t deal with the idea of someone else reading it and criticizing me. I do love to write both fiction and nonfiction. I did plenty of nonfiction writing in college while completing my professional writing minor. During my last semester of college for my undergraduate degree, I took an English class called Creativity and Community. We actually had to keep a blog for the semester and write in it regularly. I’ve had other blogs going on and off for years, but it was difficult to write in that one without censoring it because I knew my classmates were reading it. It’s not that I’m so insecure that I care that much about what others think, it’s that most of my classmates were high school teachers and were over critical of others. But in the end, censoring my writing backfired and I received a “C” instead of a “B” for that class.