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This is my last week of work and my almost 11 month old son is sitting quietly in the play pen eating a toy. I'm afraid to look at him for fear that he will realize I am being productive and he will feel the need to end that productivity with a cry. Ohhh, there it is. I can't even write about this child without him knowing about it. He needs another rice cracker. That should distract him for at least another 20 minutes. This weekend we went out. As in my husband and I went out. Not just one night, but two. It was a crazy weekend. I stayed up later than 11 and it wasn't related to a child being awake and sick. I went to dinner and the kids weren't even mentioned until desert. I didn't drink, but I was intoxicating non-the-less. I was so high from being out I didn't even notice that the waitress in the sushi bar was actually a man. His nails were so perfect, but then that did explain why he had his hair in his face and his neck was covered. Still, I know loads of women who would pay good money for lips like that. Of course, having mentioned the bust of 27 individuals in a mafia run sports book last week I exhausted the only interesting fodder in the online gambling world at the moment. There is the fact that this is my last week at work, but I was planning on using that later in the week. Say, Thursday, which is my last actual day. Now he's standing in his play pen making happy noises. He sounds so cute, but if I look it will all end. Of course, my future unemployment was mentioned at dinner and people asked about my plans. My coach, yes I have a writing coach – like those chi-chi life coaches, only she focuses on what I am doing to promote my writing, anyway my coach told me this morning that I shouldn't mention my novel to people. That it will take away my energy from writing it. So now people will think I am a lazy lady of leisure who puts her child in day care and then goes home to do what? I have to admit, I have personal issues with that. The busted online gambling thing has been in every single newspaper online from California to Dubai. Seriously, it is the only thing that is responding to my Google Alerts. Damn me for being so good at research. I used the story too soon. Well, we all know what I am going to be doing once this job ends. What are you planning on doing? Where will you go to get your daily fodder of online gambling information? I think one of my bosses will become the new writer for the site. Either that or they will pay some poor sod an unseemly small sum of money to write this very column. Or they will shut the site down completely. Actually I have no clue what they will be doing, and as I only know one of my readers (that isn't a personal friend) I can't only guess what the rest of you will be doing. Ok, right now he's whining. I have to go. More rice crackers. He won’t let me feed him food, but he doesn't have teeth yet so I have to give him things he can hold on to and get in his mouth. It isn't an easy task. Couscous is one food I can get him to eat, it's messy but it works. I tried to give him liver today. That was kind of gross. I read an article this weekend which stated that internet casinos are having a surge of new players from the US since President George W. Bush signed the anti-internet gambling legislation on Friday the 13th (October). I'm not even going to bother to print bits of the article here because it was from a crap publication and I'm certain that there isn't an ounce of truth to it. Every decent site has blocked players from the United States. Both Visa and MasterCard have blocked US based players ability to deposit. FirePay is blocking US players. Neteller is debating it, but there aren't that many places left that will take US players so their debate is more or less irrelevant. There is no way that the numbers can go up with the major players in the industry taking it down. The article made me angry. This is the type of thing which gave the industry a bad name in the first place. No integrity is the image that the online gambling industry has in the United State and this is ultimately what led to the downfall of the industry. Ok, he's crying full-stop now. It's time for me to go, for today. Posted on: November 19, 2006
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