7 Things...

In my brief time blogging on myspace, the biggest thing that annoyed me was the incessant "tagging" where someone would come up with a silly concept and tag a bunch of other bloggers and they would have to divulge the same information. Well, that was the biggest thing that annoyed me aside from the people that complained about the blog tagging and then went ahead and completed the tag anyway.

And in the spirit of that spinelessness ... due to OOSSUUU754 ... here we go.

1. I played basketball on the floor at Madison Square Garden. Okay, not in a game. Not even when there was anyone in the stands. But I went with Ohio University when they were in the Preseason NIT and I practiced with them. One of the highlights of my life pre-college.

2. I once left a girlfriend at a hockey rink 45 minutes from our college without any way to get home. The "kicker" ... I was in a full leg cast from a torn patella tendon and she had been nice enough to drive me. I drove the 45 minutes back home with my right leg sticking over into the passenger seat and driving with my left foot. Those were my "dark" days as my lawyer and therapist call them.

3. I had my own horse racing handicapping television show in Washington, DC. Okay, it wasn't broadcast...it was closed circuit inside the track and at other racetracks. But still. I was on camera. And I was recognized at a horse track in Florida. I gave that guy money because he clearly needed it.

4. I’m in therapy and on Prozac. But who isn’t?

5. I got into a fight with a guy at a Let it Ride table in the former Aladdin in Las Vegas because he was harassing my brother about not playing the $1 bonus. Security was on their way and we scurried out the front door. I am still to this day unspeakably embarrassed. I can’t believe I played Let it Ride.

6. I want to retire to Annapolis, Maryland. I think it’s one of the most beautiful and interesting cities in America. Great food, beautiful people and incredible scenery…all of which can be enjoyed from the deck of a sailboat/retirement home.

7. I can still only count on one hand the amount of times I have played poker in a brick and mortar casino. But I am proud to say, I neither wear sunglasses, an I-Pod or poker-related clothing and I always post my blinds. And I hate straddles.

Since I think just about everyone in the poker blogging community has done this, let me tag five in the horse racing community:

Left at the Gate

Curb My Enthusiasm

Superfecta Blog

Foolish Pleasure

Top of the Stretch