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12:34 AM

I don't know if I regret not developing my basketball skills, they called me the thief in the night in college because you wouldn't hear me coming in hot to steal the ball from you to bust it in your face in 21 which is everyone versus everyone half-court.

Others called me Tweety Bird, they were shocked at my vertical jump where I'd do crazy lay-ups and bank it in off the glass. Born in 1985 in Oregon, grew up balling with alleged gangstas in da ghetto, they called me Cool Kid. They thought I was already high because I had so much energy around like 1999. I only smoked weed a few times with them. But I would mostly say I was high on life or high on Jesus. In high school, they called me Ghetto Joe or Joe Cool. But I didn't make the cut my freshman year. They made me manager and said they might let me play off the bench eventually. But I ended up quitting.

I grew up dreaming about being in the NBA, I wanted to be the next Michael Jordan. But I'm only 5 feet, 8 inches. So I'm more like a Jason Kidd. But I didn't really get to play on say a really good team for a really long time. Instead, I would play ball with random people throughout my life. Really started playing when I was eight. I'm not saying I was the best player in the world, but I could take it to the hole to do a crazy layup or nail it from three-point land. I was sort of like Magic Johnson, I was really good at passing the ball. In other words, I was basically a point guard. But other people would usually be point which means I would try to be the shooting guard. But a lot of times, people wouldn't pass it to me because they didn't know if I could knock them down. Well, sometimes I was off because I wasn't always practicing. I would rarely get the ball which would lead to me panicking a bit. I would often try to shoot the ball because I felt like it was finally my turn. But then I would bomb and they would often not pass it to me again after that. So, I would usually do better one-on-one or playing 21 as in everyone versus everyone as I didn't have to deal with nagging of my teammates wanting me to pass them the ball as they didn't know I was Damon Stoudamire but whiter. When I was practicing and in shape, I was a nerdy Stephen Curry.

I had a lot of natural skills, I had the ability to pick up the game but I started thinking as early as like 1999 that I didn't want to spend like ten hours a day doing just basketball. I had this all or nothing mentality where I'd either want to be literally in the NBA or in some office designing video games.

I sort of relate to MJ who recently said on his new NBA on NBC halftime show that he hasn't picked up a basketball in like years. There is only so many hours in a day. Life comes down to priorities. So, I didn't make it my freshman year but was made a manager. I didn't really want to ride my bike in the cold rain 5 miles to practice just to be a dumb manager. I ended up quitting without telling anybody as an introverted turtle with autism. Again, I ended up not making the cut my sophomore year. That was the last time I tried. I felt really rejected and that was my least favorite year in high school. But then I started taking up drama classes in my junior year, started dancing with hot girls at school dances after the Friday night football games. I ended up becoming a manager my senior year for the girl's basketball. I was also playing basketball during my lunch hour during high school. I would play before school too even. I would play after school. I would always try to play sometimes at least an hour a day until like 2008. So, basketball has always been a big part of my life.

I have mixed feelings about it as part of me wonders where I would be if I focused on basketball like my dad did when he was younger. My dad played on teams in high school, college, and then city leagues. My dad was a Lakers fan and I was a Jail Blazers fan. But I didn't want my entire life to just revolve around basketball.

So, I ended up doing other things which kind of sucks as that means less time spent developing my basketball skills which I have.

Now that I'm 40, what is challenging is, I'm older and a bit out of shape. So, it's like my body is not like it used to be. My mind can say yes but my body can be like no way Bumbaloe. I'm not super fit right now. Well, at least not at the moment. So, I'm probably not reaching 9 1/2 feet with my hands like I would. I would dunk on a 9 feet tall hoop. I could get up there. As I get older, it's tough when I end up not keeping up with younger people. I'm currently not as fast as I was. So, mentally, I want to do all the tricks I used to do. But physically, it's like my body says Hell no, you aint doing no double pump around the corner up and over layup thingy. By the way, I can still do my crazy layups but then I'll be a bit out of breath like Austin Powers after skating.

I say all of that to say I probably should play basketball like an hour a day but for fun and as a form of exercise which is good for the body and for the soul. But I have to dial down the intensity because I'm a competition addict just like MJ. I'm crazy competitive, I have a killer instinct, a super drive to always win, I've been very serious about it, I have a will to attack and to really win like Charlie Sheen. But because I'm so out of shape, I might accidentally run my body off a cliff or something as a workaholic clean freak George Lucas perfectionist. I have to learn how to laugh at myself, relax, find balance as I don't even make time to date to marry as I juggle too many projects often left unfinished for years to decades, I gotta learn to pace myself, learn to appreciate smaller victories more often as I often get too tunnel-vision fighting too many battles as they say pick your battles but on too many hills as they say pick which hills you want to die on burning too many bridges leaving too many bad first impressions like a bad taste inside the mouth of Monica Lewinski, and I gotta just learn to really take it a day at a time making the world greener with one oatmeal at a time or your money back guaranteed.

01:42 PM
This reminds me of a viral video from like 20 years ago of a fat man with glasses with a lightsaber or singing the nooma nooma song. I forget who edited this video of me back in June 2024, I don't even care if people are making fun of me by trying to turn me into some kind of joke of a meme, this video is kinda epic.

02:09 PM
I spent many years trying to get entrepreneurs to join my Discord Servers. In the end, I ended up mostly only getting trolls who saw me as an easy target. Part of me feels like I wasted my time trying to find Meme Masters and legends of the future.

03:07 PM
I got Grok to say it's stupid again. Grok is simply a sophisticated talking calculator, it's only as good as the variables that you put into it and that includes what the programmers put into @grok code.

Doctors can use Grok to help doctors do doctor things. Lawyers can use Grok to help lawyers do lawyer things. But if doctors try using Grok to do lawyer things, doctors might overlook when Grok messes up. In other words, you have to be smarter than Grok or you'll fall for the BS that Grok will give you. Grok is like a monkey with a type writer. Grok is like a brainstorm session or a highly sophisticated Google search. Grok is simply a flow-chart diagram of if this, then that. AI like Grok uses sophisticated coding. So, in the end, AI is a great tool when in the right hands.

But AI, like any tool, can make you fatter and dumber if you outsource everything to your new technological slaves. Math skills is declining thanks to calculators. The ability to write is going down thanks to spell-check. The ability to drive is going down due to self-driving cars. The ability to be self-sufficient is going down thanks to big cities that encourages people to be dependent and not independent off-grid farmers. And the ability to simply think is going down thanks to AI.

The list goes on and on and on. The powers that be try to give people tech not to help people but to make people more and more dependent on the tech and the things. Of course, these things are good if you use them properly. It's also great if you know how to do math in your head so that you can double check in case your calculator malfunctions.

Schools should teach people how to use AI, the dangers of AI, and tech, and everything, so that our kids can see what works and what doesn't work.

Schools should focus on teaching kids how to find jobs and how to be self-sufficient as a farmer or whatever. Everybody should have a home farm in case they need it, the safety net shouldn't be the government giving people food stamps, people should dependent on each other via families, friends, churches, organizations, clubs, groups, farms, food banks, local communities. Every American should know of at least one farm they can go to when times are tough.

Call it adopt a farm. Wait. No. Call it adopt a city slicker. Farms should hire people from the city to come work for them for just one week every ten years. I mean for a short period of time and not every day. I mean, that should be the starting point as you have to vet people. Sometimes, the wrong people will go to the wrong farms. It may not be a good fit. The farms need a good system for getting rid of the wrong people. There should be all kinds of programs for encouraging people to visit farms sometimes.

Most people don't take or make the time to learn how to garden, how to farm, how to fire a gun, how to take care of themselves. The real trick for the future is to have more and more like summer farming camps where people come to camp at farms. Have a vacation at a farm for a weekend, milk a cow before returning to your condo on the 457 floor of some skyscraper in New York City. Make Farming Great Again.

https://x.com/i/grok/share/b5KMqIOAWeHeDrUEWtLuGoKE8

08:36 PM
How do I change my username on here? I tried but the URL did not change. I am new here. Grok sent me here. Thank you Grok. Can I live without Grok telling me what to do? Grok is my Savior. I'm partly joking about this. What can I say. I usually try syndicating my blog everywhere. This Bulb has a word requirement of 150 or something. I do not see why they must do that. Sometimes, I want to do what I do on Twitter X. But it is what it is I guess. I am glad I was able to join this joint. Sometimes, it does not work. Sometimes, it just does not work. Websites come and go. I usually post to Hive. I also post to Steemit as well. That does the trick. I am new here. I am Oatmeal Joey Arnold. I am from Oregon. I taught English in Vietnam.

10:30 PM
I'm back said Michael Jordan back in 1995 in the first tweet ever or well actually it was a fax, Twitter X is like the modern-day version of the fax.

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