TEN THINGS
Ten Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Me
Here I combine some of the best traditions of blogging: lists, quasi-narcissistic talking about oneself and tagging. Yes, read at your own peril because you could be one of the people tagged at the end of this blog, required by blogging honor to post something similar to this…
Here’s Ten Things you probably didn’t know about me…
1. I’m a Gemini. We’re known in the positive as gregarious, intellectual and humorous people. In the negative, we’re known as superficial, flighty and willing to throw away friends. Gemini make friends with the intention of being friends for life, but once they become fatally displeasing to us, they’re gone. We’re also notoriously bisexual and criminals. What does this mean? I think it is possible that some of the prescriptions for astrological signs are self-determining, in that people who are of that sign exhibit the characteristics stereotypically assigned for those signs just because they’ve been TOLD that is how they should be.
That said, I think that characteristics of some signs are SO strong that you can tell a lot about those people just based on when they were born. These include Scorpios (not so much a sign as a condition), Gemini and Cancer males (cancer females are okay). I once saw in a local newspaper an ad for a Gemini support group. I wasn’t sure if the group was for Gemini or those who have to deal with us.
2. I ride motorcycles. My soon-to-be-renewed drivers license includes a motorcycle endorsement. I started riding the iron horse at age 8, and I look forward to getting back up on two wheels as soon as I can.
3. I share my birthday with Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming, the authors and creators of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond respectively. It’s weird enough that the creators of these two famous 20th Century crime fighters share the same date of birth, but it is also mine, May 28th.
4. I have really enjoyed the fictional works of Ayn Rand, L. Ron Hubbard and William Shatner. Certainly in the case of the former two, I disagree philosophically with what they stand for, but there is no denying that all three were very good story tellers.
5. I’m not a very good dresser. I combine colors and combinations that others think are weird or mismatched. I do wish it was something I was better at.
6. I have two famous “relatives”…. My uncle-by -marriage (now divorced), was Hugh Gygax, cousin to the late E. Gary Gygax, the inventor of the game “Dungeons and Dragons” which I’ve played my whole life. I count Gary Gygax as an uncle-in-law, once removed. My other famous “relative” is also through marriage. I was the first student from my hometown of Los Gatos, California to be a high school exchange student to a foreign country in 20 years. It just so happened that the family that hosted me in Indonesia included a mother whose family, 25 years previously, had hosted an American girl. Her name was Clare. Perhaps it was no coincidence that while I was there, her husband, Paul, was the ambassador to Indonesia, put there by Ronald Reagan. At 16 years old, I was rubbing elbows with and swimming in the pool of the American ambassador to Indonesia. This Paul guy later came to be of greater importance, becoming assistant Secretary of State under George W. You might have heard of him. His last name is Wolfowitz.
7. I’m not a very good musician. I know HOW to play music, having posted hundreds of videos of YouTube of me playing ukulele or guitar. That said, I recognize that just like athletics, art or music, there are inborn talent levels that can be disguised or played through, but cannot ultimately be denied. I am lots of things. A high level musician, I am not.
8. I’m a single bisexual. Recently, I’ve disclosed a feeling of loneliness that has lead to a certain amount of discontent. See, I’m suffering from the Bachelor’s Dilemma. This entails weighing the benefits of regular sex and that sense of direction one gets from being in a relationship (few mates are willing to enter into a relationship with someone without direction) versus the freedom of being on one’s own. I’ve been on my own fir 4 years now, and it’s had it’s ups and downs.
At 41 years old, I’m not old. There is no specific “Biological Clock” for a man of my age to produce children, except in my acceptability to women of child bearing age. Will there be a Joko Junior? Well, this is time to piss or get off the pot in that regard.
Then again, I might just decide I am gay and this whole procreation thing won’t enter into the equation.
9. I’m experiencing a basketball renaissance. Understand that if I could do nothing else, but just play basketball everyday, all day, that would be an ideal life for me. Sometimes, a desire doesn’t necessarily match up with results. Lately, due to a combination of fitness and opportunity, I’ve been able to play basketball like never before. It’s a damn good feeling. Of the 20 or so 40-years old-plus players at the Ballard Boys and Girls Club where I regularly play, it is SO awesome to be an MVP. Yeah, some of the 20-something guy who show up to play might be better athletes, but when it comes down to who leads teams to victories, my performances might be considered the most influential…Joko’s teams win.
10. My middle name is Apollo, in honor of the moon landing.
I am TAGGING five people to post a blog similar to this one. You MUST post a blog, however painful under the theme “TEN THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT ME”, otherwise you will face my scorn and derision.
ROSCOE
MANGO
MERIKAY-O
LADYHARTO
LEMURO
Complaints?
tagged? 😆 😆 😆 Will get to work.
interesting read Joko. Apollo was a god too you know…. 😉
First, I had a complain, cos I wasn’t tagged, but then….I was glad that I wasn’t on the list.
p.s. who is Merikay -o ?
Wow… Ten Things that people don’t know about me. I’m an open book.
I’m glad I wasn’t tagged!!! HA!!! Oh and Joko, believe it or not, you’re perfect just the way you are! plus you always make me smile 🙂
Ta for sharing, and starting this “My Ten..” spate of blogs rolling…..
I should have known you were a Gemini. Gemini’s (at least the one’s I’ve met) are cool. I even married one.
I am SO glad that you typed bisexual instead of gay. Because we sure in hell aren’t claiming you as one of ours if you are not a good dresser.
I’m JUST sayin’…
That Paul Wolfowitz thing is neat. Six degrees of separation in your circle is impressive when you can show two degrees of separation between yourself and a former world’s most powerful leader! Paul Wolfowitz> George Shultz> Ronald Reagan (nice)
You can be gay and progenitor at the same time. Give your white knights to a clinic that in turn implants into a surrogate and voila! (The breast feeding will be extra).
The Gemini and Apollo eclipse is sublime. :groovy:
The Lemur has just found out about this tag and has been remaining unusually quiet for the past few weeks.
One can imagine he will complete this requested list by weeks end.
:groovy:
Joko,
Please stop fretting about meeting a good person. Relax. Be yourself. With time, the right person will come along, and you will find the drive and direction. 🙂
CRAPO!! ok I have been tagged twice. No way am I doing two!! After reading your blogs for years you would think I would have known all of these things. Not so much.
*snickers*