I'm not sure where I'm going with this. My lovely girlfriend Karen has been pushing me to start a blog for sometime, I guess she must think I have something interesting to say.
I chose the title "Saber-toothed Writer" after spending about an hour in a thesaurus, searching vainly for something remarkable to call myself. Frustration and tiredness took its toll; and so I gave up and called the blog its current name. It's an attempt to be civil, a lot of my writing will be expressing dislike for the politics, and I was tempted to call my blog "The Terrible Fecal Tide". I hate politicians. I'm a libertarian, and just want to live my life without interference.
I'll also write about my job and my hobbies. I work as a table-games dealer (croupier) in a local casino. I enjoy my job and my day is never dull, I essentially get paid to play games for a living. I deal Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat and some minor games also. I've cross-trained into slot machines as well, so my job description and responsibilities would actually be getting quite lengthy. Another time.
I like reading. I enjoy the work of Hunter S Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), and PJ O'Rourke (Eat the Rich, Parliament of Whores). I'm also an avid comic reader - although I wasn't much of a comic fan in my childhood. I usually read intelligent graphic novels such as Watchmen by Alan Moore, and Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis.
I keep tropical fish, not many though. I have a few platies continually breeding in a small fish tank; the babies that don't get eaten by mum and dad fish grow on to become the next generation of fish. They must be terribly inbred by now. I also keep a foot long armoured bichir, a type of dinosaur fish from Africa. Very vicious. Have to feed the creature to maximum capacity before I clean his tank, or he tries to eat my fingers.
I'll write more later on.
-Rob
