{"id":88705,"date":"2012-05-13T01:57:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T05:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/88705\/merry-month-may-watching-basketballers-play\/"},"modified":"2012-05-13T01:57:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T05:57:31","slug":"merry-month-may-watching-basketballers-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/88705\/merry-month-may-watching-basketballers-play\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Very Merry Month of May, I was Watching Basketballers Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many cigarettes have I smoked in my life? This is a question I asked myself as I lit up my latest Marlboro Red. Let\u2019s see.. I was fifteen when I started. A pack a day for the first 15 years. A pack and a half since. Subtract the three years I had quit.. Equals 203,950… Dayum. I\u2019m gonna quit. This year. <\/font><\/p>\n

Monsieur Lemur put out a survey asking where I\u2019ve been. In asking why I\u2019ve not been on FriendBurst so much lately, he forgot an important category: The NBA Playoffs. I haven\u2019t been on here so much lately because I\u2019ve been watching large sweaty men running up and down the court 7 days a week. Alas, I live in a town that no longer has an NBA team. We\u2019re a regional city too; a team in Seattle would attract fans throughout Idaho and Montana too. In any case, not having any home town bias, I am allowed root for teams that I just have an unexplainable emotional affiliation for\u2026The Orlando Magic\u2026 BYE! The Memphis Grizzlies\u2026 We\u2019ll see tomorrow\u2026 Denver Nuggets\u2026 watching them now. The Boston Celtics\u2026 Gotta root for the old guys. <\/font><\/p>\n

My preparations continue in earnest for my trip to Yellowstone National Park at the end of the month. In all honesty, I dunno how I\u2019m going to make it happen. It\u2019s a money thing. I don\u2019t have enough. <\/font><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll make it happen though. Somehow. It will be the best Tour d\u2019Joko video ever.
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I\u2018ve even come up with a theme for the \u201cmain\u201d video- \u201cLife on Top of Magma Chamber\u201d. It\u2019s going to be about geophysics\u2026 Rocks. Gasses. The Earth belching out its presence. I can\u2019t wait. I\u2019ll be spending some cold night camping in my van at 8,000 feet altitude, but its going to be so worth it. <\/font><\/p>\n

So that\u2019s what has been going on\u2026 Now, for what has been. A couple months back, I made a \u201crandom\u201d video featuring clips from the month of March over the last five years. I do the same tonight for the month of May. The music was once again inspired by something I heard on a TV commercial. <\/font><\/p>\n

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How many cigarettes have I smoked in my life? This is a question I asked myself as I lit up my latest Marlboro Red. Let\u2019s see.. I was fifteen when I started. A pack a day for the first 15 years. A pack and a half since. Subtract the three years I had quit.. Equals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}