{"id":73676,"date":"2011-12-04T04:22:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/73676\/73676\/"},"modified":"2011-12-04T04:22:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T09:22:20","slug":"73676","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/73676\/73676\/","title":{"rendered":"TEN THINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten Things You Probably Didn\u2019t Know About Me<\/font><\/p>\n

\"\"Here I combine some of the best traditions of blogging: lists, quasi-narcissistic talking about oneself and tagging.\u00a0 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\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Ten Things you probably didn\u2019t know about me\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 I\u2019m a Gemini.<\/strong> We\u2019re known in the positive as gregarious, intellectual and humorous people. In the negative, we\u2019re known as superficial, flighty and willing to throw away friends.\u00a0 Gemini make friends with the intention of being friends for life, but once they become fatally displeasing to us, they\u2019re gone.\u00a0 We\u2019re also notoriously bisexual and criminals.\u00a0 What does this mean?\u00a0 I think it is possible that\u00a0 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\u2019ve been TOLD that is how they should be.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 These include Scorpios (not so much a sign as a condition), Gemini and Cancer males (cancer females are okay).\u00a0 I once saw in a local newspaper an ad for a Gemini support group.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t sure if the group was for Gemini or those who have to deal with us.<\/p>\n

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\"\"2.\u00a0 I ride motorcycles. <\/strong>My soon-to-be-renewed drivers license includes a motorcycle endorsement.\u00a0 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.
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\"\"3.\u00a0 I share my birthday with Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming, the authors and creators of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond respectively.\u00a0 It\u2019s 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.<\/font><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 I have really enjoyed the fictional works of Ayn Rand, L. Ron Hubbard and William Shatner.\u00a0 Certainly in the case of the former two, I disagree philosophically\u00a0 with what they stand for, but there is no denying that all three were very good story tellers.<\/font><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a very good dresser.\u00a0 I combine colors and combinations that others think are weird or mismatched.\u00a0 I do wish it was something I was better at.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 I have two famous \u201crelatives\u201d\u2026.\u00a0 My uncle-by -marriage (now divorced), was Hugh Gygax, cousin to the late E. Gary Gygax, the inventor of the game \u201cDungeons and Dragons\u201d which I\u2019ve played my whole life.\u00a0 I count Gary Gygax as an uncle-in-law, once removed.\u00a0 My other famous \u201crelative\u201d 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Her name was Clare.\u00a0 Perhaps it was no coincidence that while I was there, her husband, Paul, was the ambassador to Indonesia, put there by Ronald Reagan.\u00a0 At 16 years old, I was rubbing elbows with and swimming in the pool of the American ambassador to Indonesia.\u00a0 This Paul guy later came to be of greater importance, becoming assistant Secretary of State under George W. You might have heard of him.\u00a0 His last name is Wolfowitz.<\/p>\n

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7.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a very good musician.\u00a0 I know HOW to play music, having posted hundreds of videos of YouTube of me playing ukulele or guitar.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 A high level musician, I am not.
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\n8.\u00a0 I\u2019m a single bisexual.\u00a0 Recently, I\u2019ve disclosed\u00a0 a feeling of loneliness that has lead to a certain amount of discontent.\u00a0 See, I\u2019m suffering from the Bachelor\u2019s Dilemma.\u00a0 This entails weighing the benefits of regular sex and that\u00a0 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\u2019s own.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been on my own fir 4 years now, and it\u2019s had it\u2019s ups and downs.<\/font><\/p>\n

At 41 years old, I\u2019m not old.\u00a0 There is no specific \u201cBiological Clock\u201d for a man of my age to produce children, except in my acceptability to women of child bearing age.\u00a0 Will there be a Joko Junior?\u00a0 Well, this is time to piss\u00a0 or get off the pot in that regard.<\/font><\/p>\n

Then again, I might just decide I am gay and this whole procreation thing won\u2019t enter into the equation.<\/p>\n

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9. I\u2019m experiencing a basketball renaissance.\u00a0 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\u2019t necessarily\u00a0 match up with results.\u00a0 Lately, due to a combination of fitness and opportunity, I\u2019ve been able to play basketball like never before.\u00a0 It\u2019s 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.\u00a0 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\u2026Joko\u2019s teams win.
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10.\u00a0 My middle name is Apollo, in honor of the moon landing.<\/font><\/p>\n

I am TAGGING five people to post a blog similar to this one.\u00a0 You MUST post a blog, however painful under the theme \u201cTEN THINGS YOU DON\u2019T KNOW ABOUT ME\u201d, otherwise you will face my scorn and derision.<\/font><\/p>\n

ROSCOE
\nMANGO
\nMERIKAY-O
\nLADYHARTO
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Complaints?<\/p>\n

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