Dalton and I go way back and if you don’t know him well, then now is your chance (he’s the one in the pink shirt… don’t worry- he left his ruffled puffy pants at home that day).  Jonathan Dalton is a Realtor/Blogger/ Father/Husband in Phoenix, AZ.  His blog focuses on Phoenix real estate and he also voices his opinion on national issues at Agent Genius.  My favorite things about Dalton are (1) that he’s missing any shy bones in his body, (2) he keeps his word, (3) has a great sense of humor and (4) he has a dog.  Yep, that’s a favorite thing.  Okay, enough about me, let’s embarrass Dalton- make sure to leave ugly comments for him, he really likes them.

What was your first job ever?

I was a gold shearer. Kinda like being a sheep shearer but without the cache or the groupies. My dad worked for a company that made circuit boards and I used what essentially was a paper cutter to cut the golf off the rejected boards so they could recoup the gold chemically. Side note: years later, that same company burned down causing one hellacious environmental mess.

Do you wear braided leather belts or shoes with braided tassels?

Well, uh, um. Gee … what’s the next question?

What’s your highest score on Wii bowling?

Glad you didn’t really ask me, Lani. 267! And I’m damn proud of that fact.

On a vacation, tell us about meeting a stranger.

Oh this is easy. Have you ever gone to a ballpark and run into someone who becomes everyone’s friend in the section? The kind who can make large masses of people rise and fall and cheer at their urging? Yeah, that’s me. So I meet strangers all the time. My favorite has to be from the honeymoon on the first marriage. We were at an Oakland A’s game and some 16-year-old kid took off his shirt, jumped his flabby butt up and down and kept yelling at Brady Anderson: “Hey, Brady! Don’t you see me shaking my fat for you?”

If you had a twin, would you be the good or evil twin?

Evil, naturally. Good’s highly overrated. And boring.

Say I jumped out and scared you- would you karate chop me or scream like a girl?

I’d probably settle for shouting a stream of expletives. My wife’s answer about my response likely will be different.

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So there you have it. Dalton’s first job was an undercover spy at a gold shearing plant, wears braided leather belts and tassled shoes and proudly sports one of those wallets with a rad wolf or an arrowhead engraved in the leather, is a semi-pro bowler (on Wii), made friends with a flab-flyin’ teen at a ball game, wants to be the evil twin (like Danny Devito in “Twins”) and screams cusses like a girl when scared.  Now that you really know Jonathan, what do you think???