I’m in Vegas right now attend­ing three sem­i­nars back to back. I’ve been here for close to three weeks now, and we’re about to return home tomor­row. This explains why I haven’t blogged in a while.

While here, we’re look­ing at some prop­er­ties. We want to buy a vaca­tion home, espe­cially dur­ing those cold win­ter months in Canada. (I think we found our home.)

But last week, my wife took me to see George Car­lin at the Orleans Casino as my Father’s Day gift. It was a great show. George was fun­nier than ever. Still raw, caus­tic, and rant­ing at 71, he cer­tainly hasn’t lost his touch.

Well, just a few moments ago I’ve learned that we, how­ever, lost him.

When I learned about it, I was speech­less. We just saw him a few days ago! I guess we caught one of his last shows if not his last. The fun­ni­est part of this? His show included jokes about dying and the afterlife.

Rest in peace, George Car­lin. We’ll miss you.

Bought myself a new cam­corder (JVC Eve­rio) and com­pres­sion soft­ware to record some “white­board dis­cus­sions” with my wife Sylvie for Suc​cess​Chef​.com content.

I wanted to test the soft­ware. So I decided to place the cam­era in front of my drum set (the light­ing was bad and my fault), and played along with “When We Were Young” by The Killers. (One of my favorite bands!)

This was recorded on the first and only take — I never played this song before, but I wanted to try out the cam­era and the com­pres­sion soft­ware. (If you ever won­dered if I can really play drums, you can judge for yourself.)

Don’t laugh, but here I am play­ing “drum karaoke” to the Killers. What do you think?

After 12 long years of work­ing seven days a week, I’ve made a deci­sion. I’m tak­ing tomor­row off.

Sounds strange? Well, I’ve had vaca­tions. Many of them. And I’ve taken half-​​days off, here and there. Some­times, I’ve even taken whole days off. But I would still check my email in the morn­ing, or return to my com­puter at night.

Aside from my vaca­tions, I’ve not taken an entire day off in over a decade. I mean, a full 24 hours with­out doing any work, includ­ing using the com­puter even if it’s to surf the web.

My wife and I are finally heed­ing to some very pow­er­ful advice about tak­ing an extra day off to earn more money from Terry Dean, a per­son I admire and fol­low closely.

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