Day 955 of 1000
This is the second time in a row I sat by a semi-almost-famous person on the flight from Charlotte to Phoenix. On the last trip I sat by an old English guy who had a career as a professional ballroom dancer. He spent most of his time traveling around teaching people how to dance and judging dance competitions. I did not know whether to believe him or not, but then he pulled out his iPad and showed me a bunch of pictures of himself with famous people. It turns out he trained some of the Dancing with the Stars dancers–not the celebrities, the dancers that danced with the celebrities. He was a very nice guy and we had a nice chat most of the way to Phoenix.
Yesterday I sat by a guy whose day job is a high school art teacher. He was a very nice guy. When I asked him where he was going, he told me that he was traveling to Reno, Nevada to be some kind of a monitor for the Nevada Gaming Commission of a Mixed Martial Arts fight. It turns out that he does that one or two times per month. He broke out his iPad and showed me some pretty amazing pictures of events he had worked for different gaming commissions monitoring fights for the UFC and other organizations. He sits in the front row about three feet from the cage and monitors whether the fight is being judged fairly.
One of his pictures was of the front row of people watching a fight in St. Petersburg, Florida. It include Vladamir Putin, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and several other famous people. Another was of himself with a guy name Calvin Ayre of Bodog notoriety at the after-party. He was a nice guy and I had a nice chat with him, most of the way to Phoenix, too.
Betty Blonde #97 – 11/28/2008
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