I read the previous entry I posted here back last year. It sucked. Sucked bad. I decided to take it down and start fresh. It has been while since I am very critical of my writing. It can be either a good thing or bad thing. During my hiatus, when I was not focusing on my business, I found myself in random Facebook forums leaving unanimously, great essays in the comment section. After a year of doing that, I realized I had to get back into writing! Also, I was still putting money into the site while it was sitting idle.
I bought a notebook from a local store and started taking it with me everywhere. I’m not one of the cool kids who will talk to a digital tape recorder to store ideas. The idea of listening to my voice is the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. The notebook has been an icebreaker with waitresses at restaurants. in fact, one of them thought I was a rapper. A part of me wanted to laugh at that assumption despite wearing headphones around my neck. I had to explain to the young lady that I am the complete opposite. Also, this is an opportunity to allow me to re-introduce myself.
I am an Air Force veteran who has served the United States for eight years and participated behind the scenes for the Global War on Terrorism. During my time in the service, writing has been a therapeutic outlet in terms of creating and expressing ideas. I turned the hobby into Scottropolis.com. The site mainly consists of warped humor, sarcasm, and retro pop cultural references intertwined with the reality of life. Before my time in the service, I was the kid who sat in the back of classrooms with a vivid imagination who would just write little stories based off of sitcoms and reruns.
I am a former deejay who happens to be a music lover. During the latter days of my military career, I started deejaying for private, military unit functions to boost morale for my fellow troops. I saved them thousands of dollars with my generous offer of doing it pro bono! I was so good at it that I was offered a job as a residential deejay for the NCO club. Unfortunately, I had to turn it down due to conflicts with my primary job in the Air Force and college part-time. I had a blast doing it and learned quite a bit from the experience. It’s something I wouldn’t mind doing again in the future. Since Giorgio Moroder is globe trotting and deejaying electronic dance music at the age of 74, why close that door?
These days, like any healthy human being, I work for the Man while real estate investing on the side. After going through countless of job interviews over the years, I found the nine-to-five rat race as wall-to-wall insanity. The experience has made me realize that life is too short to not tap into my potential and build a real estate portfolio. Over the years, I was fortunate to shake hands and co-mingle with successful, wealthy entrepreneurs. As I was sitting in a cubicle at work, I just couldn’t help but feel life passing me by, like that redheaded girl does to Charlie Brown. Yep, I know…good grief! I learned it was either reinvent myself while living or do the same thing with little to no result while dying.
Prior to posting this entry on the site, I scoured through my vast music collection to find a song to help make this entry complete. Here is Johnny “Hammon” Smith with Los Conquistadores Chocolatés from the Gears album! Until next entry, live long and prosper!