Westcoast Baseball Trip – Tickets Purchased

On 06.17.10, In Sports, Travels, True Life, By AC Slater

Since we're leaving in less than a week, and the theme of the posts today seems to be baseball, I figured I'd give an update on our trip.

We're flying out of Chicago early next Tuesday and will make it out to LA around 2:30PM (we have a layover in Houston). We'll then drop our bags off at a friends place and head over to Anaheim to watch the Angels take on the Dodgers that night. The next day we're just going to hang out in LA with our buddy and see the sights, I've been there before but P hasn't so I'm sure we'll be very touristy.

The day after that we also have nothing going on, but are going to make our way up to San Francisco/Oakland and check that out before we go to the Oakland vs. Pirates game on Friday the 25th, and from then on out it's a pretty packed schedule. We have San Francisco vs Boston on Saturday the 26th. After that game we're gonna try to make it at least half way back to LA because we have the Dodgers vs. Yankees game on the 27th and then on the 28th it's down to San Diego to see the Padres play the Rockies and on the 29th it's back up to LA to fly back home.

I think it's gonna be a fun trip. We're going to be pretty busy which is a good thing, I'm not one who really likes to have downtime while on vacation (unless of course that is what the vacation is about, like our Mexico trip). It's going to be interesting to see if we can make it to all these places in the California traffic, but I'm sure we'll manage just fine. It's also nice that we have friends in both LA and San Diego that we'll get to see. I only hope that I can get the people sitting in the seats next to us to give me their real tickets to the games since all of ours were "Print at Home" tickets due to how fast we planned the trip.

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Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket – Affiliate Marketing

On 06.03.10, In Random, True Life, By AC Slater

After all the research and reading I've done regarding affiliate marketing and making money on the internet, one thing that I've always read is that you should never put all of your eggs in one basket, meaning that you should not rely on one site or one affiliate program for all of your income. I always knew that this was good advice, but I never knew how good it was until a couple weeks ago.

When I first got into affiliate marketing I really had no idea what sort of site I wanted to start or how I would get people to that site, I just knew I wanted to make money on the internet. Eventually I figured out an idea, presale passwords for concerts and events. I knew that I was always searching the internet for passwords for different concerts that my friends and I wanted to go to, so why not make 1 site that aggregates all the passwords for people. After I came up with the idea I had wondered if I could even get into a Ticketmaster affiliate program. If there was no money to be made there was no point, as that's what I wanted to do.

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Westcoast Baseball Trip

On 06.03.10, In Travels, True Life, By AC Slater

If you've read any of the "Travels" category on the site, you know that a couple years ago me and 2 buddies drove from Chicago to the East Coast, hitting up multiple baseball stadiums and hall of fames along the way in our quest to see every baseball stadium in the country. Well we are now headed out to California in a couple weeks to hit up all 5 of the stadiums there in 7 days. It's not going to be easy, but it'll definitely be worth it. We've also lost a member of the group this time to a wedding so it's just me and P headed out there. We have a couple friends out there that we are going to visit and maybe they'll even come to a couple games with us, so it won't just be us in a car together for 7 days straight.

Our schedule is pretty set in stone so this is what we'll be doing. We are flying from Chicago to LAX with a layover in Houston on June 22nd. We'll get into LA around 2:30PM and that night we'll head over to Anaheim to see the Angels play. We'll then spend the entire next day (23rd) hanging out in LA and seeing the town with Burman. On the 24th we'll pack up and start the drive up to Oakland/San Francisco where we'll be seeing the Athletics on the 25th and the Giants on the 26th. After the Giants game on the 26th we're going to start our drive back down towards LA, hopefully making it about 1/2 way. We'll then wake up and drive the rest of the way back to LA in time for the Dodgers game at 7PM on the night of the 27th. On the 28th we'll wake up pretty early and drive down to San Diego to check out the town for the day and then enjoy the Padres game that night. And on the 29th, we'll hang out in San Diego for a little bit before we have to drive back up to LAX in time for our 5:30PM flight out of LAX, direct, back to Chicago.

So it's a little crammed towards the end, but it's better than having a lot of down time in my opinion. When we did the East Coast trip we ended up with a lot of downtime in between games and found ourselves going to movies to kill time.... seems kind of pointless to go all the way out there to see a movie. Plus it was hard enough finding a week where all 5 California teams were playing at home at the same time, so it's hard to be picky. The only drive that's a little annoying is getting back to LA after getting up to San Francisco/Oakland. The way up there isn't bad because we have an entire day to do so, but on the way back we have to be back in LA the next night for a game and I really don't want to be stuck in traffic around LA while trying to get there.

Running List of Stadiums Visited:

Arizona Diamondbacks - Chase Field
Atlanta Braves - Turner Field
Baltimore Orioles - Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Boston Red Sox - Fenway Park
Chicago Cubs - Wrigley Field
Chicago White Sox - Old Comisky / U.S. Cellular Field
Cincinnati Reds - Great American Ballpark
Cleveland Indians - Progressive Field
Colorado Rockies - Coors Field
Detroit Tigers - Comerica Park
Florida Marlins - Sun Life Stadium
Houston Astros - Minute Maid Park
Kansas City Royals - Kauffman Stadium
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim - Angel Stadium of Anaheim
Los Angeles Dodgers - Dodger Stadium
Milwaukee Brewers - Miller Park
Minnesota Twins - Target Field
New York Mets - Shea Stadium / Citi Field
New York Yankees - Old Yankee Stadium / New Yankee Stadium
Oakland Athletics - Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
Philadelphia Phillies - Citizen Bank Park
Pittsburgh Pirates - PNC Park
San Diego Padres - Petco Park
San Francisco Giants - AT&T Park
Seattle Mariners - Safeco Field
St. Louis Cardinals - Busch Stadium
Tampa Bay Rays - Tropicana Field
Texas Rangers - Rangers Ballpark in Arlington
Toronto Blue Jays - Rogers Centre
Washington Nationals - Nationals Park

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Jamie Bisoulis – Hell’s Kitchen Season 7

On 05.26.10, In Food, TV, True Life, Video Clips, By AC Slater

With less than a week before the premier of season 7 of Hell's Kitchen things are starting to get interesting. I finally caught a TV spot last night that featured my friend Jamie being confronted by Chef Ramsay after she apparently left a toothpick in one of her dishes, which is actually kind of funny to me because of something I did to Jamie about 10 years ago involving toothpicks. But then I found the video above, which is an extended sneak peak at the new season, and towards the end Jamie gets thrown out of the kitchen.... uh oh. I'm going to be pretty annoyed if Jamie gets booted off the first episode, I mean I know she burnt a frozen pizza she was making for me in high school, but come on... haha.

So of the trailers and videos I've seen of the show so far I can only pray that Jamie doesn't get booted the first week and starts to pick things up after she gets more relaxed and falls into the groove, but I guess we'll see. Hopefully I'll make it to the premier party in Chicago next week and I'll try to get some quotes out of her for my review of the show next week. Make sure you tune in and see how she manages to cook a toothpick and get salmon in her ears.

I've embedded her little interview video after the jump.

Update: Wow, some friend I am, it took me until now to notice that they spelled Jamie's last name wrong on everything related to Hell's Kitchen... they forgot an "i", it's Bisioulis, granted I've never known how to properly spell it...

Update 2: I was just informed that she calls the new spelling her "stage name" haha. I'm guessing it's just easier to spell her name the way it sounds instead of adding the random "i".

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My Colonoscopy Experience

On 05.20.10, In Random, True Life, By AC Slater

I bet a lot of you are wondering why the hell I'm writing about this here since most of the time I write about movies, video games and TV. Well, when I wrote about my upper endoscopy experience a couple months ago it actually got a good amount of attention from google searches so I figured people may be interested in how it feels to get a camera shoved up your ass instead of down your throat. And I'll tell you right now, the procedure itself was no different to me because they gave me the same medicine that they gave me with the endoscopy and I don't remember anything. It's essentially like getting roofied at a party with a bunch of frat guys and waking up not knowing what happened, but having an idea of what may have happened...

This post is kind of graphic as I'm not going to hold anything back as that would be unfair to those that are trying to see what they will experience if they have to go through this. I'm not trying to gross you out, but I did not use proper terms for anything here because I'm not a doctor and I don't care to refer to shit as stool or shitting as defecating, sorry. So if you're sensitive to that kind of language you may want to hit up webMD or somewhere else to read about what you may experience. Most people are embarrassed to talk about this kind of stuff, but I don't really care. It's no secret to anyone I know that I have digestive problems and there are only a few ways to figure out what those problems are and everyone pretty much knows what a colonoscopy is so why not talk about it.

So like I said, the actual procedure was no different than the upper endoscopy except for the fact that I didn't have a sore throat after the colonoscopy and I did after the endoscopy (and no I did not have a sore ass either). The worst part, and anyone who's had one will tell you the same thing, is the night before. With the endoscopy all I had to do was not eat after midnight, no big deal, but with the colonoscopy you need to completely clear your colon and that means you have to pass everything out of you. And that doesn't just mean you can't eat, it means you can't eat and you have to drink this nasty laxative. For the entire day before the procedure I was only allowed to drink clear liquids so I survived on water and Sprite, but I was damn hungry by the time I left work for the day.

I got home the night before the procedure around 4pm and was instructed to take an anti nausea pill that they had prescribed as well as mix up the 1st liter of the MoviPrep liquid laxative stuff they prescribed. So I mixed up the full liter of liquid and put it in the fridge, I didn't have to start drinking it until 5pm. So at 5pm my alarm went off and I grabbed the jug out of the fridge. I was instructed to drink 8 oz. of the liquid every 15 minutes for an hour until the whole liter was gone. So I poured 8 oz. out of the supplied jug and into another cup, set my alarm for 5:15 and started to chug. Now I know there are different liquid laxatives that different doctors prescribe cause my mom recently had to go through the same thing and she said her's tasted like cherry due to a flavor packet they gave you... I most definitely did not have a flavor packet, it was disgusting. It was almost like the sourest, most nasty tasting lemonade I've ever had in my life. If you are prescribed MoviPrep I would ask to be switched to another one that has flavor packets, seriously.

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