This is going to be short and sweet. And I’m not even going to make the normal pun about how that’s just like me (yeah, I know it’s bullshit anyway).

As someone who has had to write somewhat for a living for the past 14 years, I think in my mind my first post on this blog really should be astounding. It should be insightful, potentially funny and definitely meaningful to me, if not to you.

Yeah, that’s probably not going to happen.

In case you haven’t met me, I really don’t care to do things the way they’re supposed to be done. That’s part of the internal drama that’s been going on in my life the past couple years as I’ve really become complacent. Don’t get me wrong. I loved my job, enjoyed my co-workers as much as you can and had no qualms with life. Well, other than the fact that I wasn’t really excited or fulfilled lately.

Somehow over the past decade, I lost that it, that something that really makes you tick.

Enter stage left: the sugar mama.

Now, she’s not loaded and we’re not on easy street. Actually, there’s a lot of anxiety on my part as far as our finances right now. But with my wife getting a new job and moving across country, well, it really freed me up to get back to my roots. That’s to say, I just said ‘Fuck it’ and am moving 989 miles away without a job or any prospects.  It’s like I’m 22 again and don’t have any clue about what I want to do with my life.

Funny thing though. Even without really having any idea where life’s going to take me (us really), I feel really good about this change.

It feels like an opportunity waiting, a chance ready to be taken. That’s where the name of the blog comes from. Six-7 offsuit is my favorite hand in Hold ‘Em and as shitty a hand as it is, I’ll play it every time. I’ve won more than my share, and really more than I ever should have, playing that hand over the years and that’s what makes me actually optimistic about life today, which is not my normal disposition.

But that’s what it feels like I’ve been dealt right now and I’m going all in. Come back here often and see if it pays off or if I go bust.