There was a Clever Sculpture for the Sacramento KINGS Basketball Team... MISSING THE LETTER "I" So People Could Stand with Their Hands over Their Heads - Pretending to be an "I"

 

If You Stand With your Hands Holding an Imaginary Basketball... 

You Look Like a Dotted Lowercase "i"

For Some Unknown Reason

 in 2019 the Sign Vanished...

and I Can't find any Pictures from

that time of People Posing... 

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I Don't Care About Baseball, Football or Basketball... or CAR RACES... Totally Lame Events... I Prefer Dancing Naked Around a Bonfire in the Woods With Wiccan Witches... Now That's Entertainment!

I Really Love Taking a Walk in the Woods... I Do It Every Day Now That I'm Retired... I Remember the Trail from The Novitiate to Lexington Dam Spillway, in Los Gatos. CA. Then Take a Left and Come Back Over the Top of the Mountain... Spectacular Views of Santa Clara County.

In High School, The Basketball Team Would Run This Route... Yes, I was on the Team But I Was a Very Bad Player... a Slow Runner, Couldn't Put The Ball in the Basket and Dribbling Was Just Not My Thing... Other Players Would Simply Take the Ball Away from me when I Bounced it... I made the Team for Three Years but Refused to Play in my Senior Year because the Coach (My Math Teacher) and I Disagreed About Everything... However... I WAS on the Swim Team all four years. One Side Effect of Swimming in Chlorine is that it Prevents Acne...

Here is a Satellite Photo of Lexington Dam and the Trail Back over the Top of the Mountain is Clearly Visible at the TOP CENTER of the Picture... Hopefully People will Try That Hike Now that You Know Where it is... There is a SUPER VIEW of the Santa Clara Valley...

Google Satellite Photo of Lexington Dam in Los Gatos, CA

The REASON I Take a Walk Every Day is that a Couple of Years ago I Had to use a Walker... Somehow my Legs Failed for a few Months... I moved into this Old Folks Home and DID THE WALKING using my walker and REHABILITATED MYSELF... I'm not really sure Why my Legs Failed but Just before I Moved here I Smoked a Pound of Oregon Legal Marijuana in Eight Months and then Lived in a Mental Hospital for 15 Days... They Gave me Lithium at the Hospital... and I Suffered an Adverse Reaction... But, I'm In Great Health NOW... I Believe That Marijuana Should Be Legal BUT... I Refuse To Actually Smoke it... Not Healthy for Me... I saw things That Didn't Exist and Experienced Events That Didn't Happen... Maybe it's Good For YOU But Not Me...

BLACK HAT HACKER Embroidered Hat for sale.

Slogan is Embroidered in BLACK THREAD on a BLACK HAT making it Difficult to Read... It's a JOKE! and a Common Web Design Trick... "Secret Communication"

BLACK HAT HACKER Embroidered Hat for sale.
by gregvan

I was a Fan of the Washington Bullets Basketball Team - 10 games a year, right behind the basket on the floor.- GREAT Seats.

My boss at Analytics was a big basketball fan and went to games with his son. Sadly, his son died accidentally and Ed was stuck with an extra ticket to 10 games. So I went... Kinda creepy being the surrogate son but... it turned out to be fun.

We sat very close to the court right behind where the Cheerleaders danced. Very Sexy up close! When the giant men were fighting over possession of the ball they were VERY CLOSE. Loud, violent struggles. One set of Forwards was called "The Beef Brothers" and another was nicknamed "Thump and Bump". I believe they played for the Philadelphia 76ers. - The Arch Rivals. Larry Bird also played at our games against Boston.

We sat right in front of the dressing room and when the players went by I could slap them on the back and shout GOOD JOB!

This all happened in The Capital Center - a 19,000 seat arena... It was very loud with all the cheering and a guy playing the big drum and running all over the place encouraging madness.

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I also went to the Capital Center for Rock Concerts: Michael Jackson played there and I bought TEN tickets, then sold nine for a slight profit to friends of mine... I made enough that I got to buy a Grateful Dead ticket with the profit. Sadly, the Michael Jackson concert started with Very Bright lights pointed at the audience and I was blind for the first few minutes of the show. That pissed me off. Going to a show that I couldn't even see? WTF?

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I remember dancing to the Grateful Dead's song "Sugar Magnolia" with my wife JoAnn at the Capital Center. That feeling was the best in the world. Being in Love while dancing to a Love Song.

I really liked going to rock concerts at RFK Stadium. I bought ten tickets to Paul McCartney and sold nine...  Paul announced that he would be giving away for free the unsellable seats behind the stage for the next show. I picked up a pair of free tickets and a friend of mine arranged for a blind date with a lady that worked at the CIA as a newspaper reader. We had a fine time at the concert and she invited me to a kegger she was hosting the next weekend in her backyard. Volleyball, beer and many female CIA office workers. Most of the men invited were either Pizza Drivers like me or Deadhead drug dealers. It was a classic party... CIA ROCKS!

At a Grateful Dead show at RFK we had a Thunder and Lightning storm with torrential rain. It turned the lawn of the football field into a Sea of Mud. People were running and sliding just like they did in the movie "Woodstock". Some Unknown Person "Dosed" me with excellent quality LSD and I danced in the mud. After the show I did a POWERWALK like I was in a Carlos Castaneda book. I took ONE STEP and waited until I GROKKED that location, then I took another step and GROKKED that completely different location... so I walked extremely slowly all the way to my car in the parking lot... a spiral of deadheads surrounded me laughing and ridiculing me... "Watch OUT! That man is walking Extremely Fast and You better get out of his way or you'll be RUN OVER!" Silly People... I met some Deaf Students from Gallaudet University and we partied until Dawn. They had "Liberated" an electric cart and were driving silly all over the parking lot until the Security Guards stopped them and "Suggested" that they pick up trash and cart it to the dumpster... No need to arrest the people for stealing a cart, just put them to work!

Read more of my autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html