Day: December 25, 2007

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Blogging

Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

Tuesday night just would not be the same without my weekly ‘Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’, so here we go with this week’s ‘brain dump’:

1.  I have a new toy here on my computer – Google Earth. With it I measured my 18-minute ‘High Noon Walk’ of yesterday at 0.9 miles as well as my 25-minute ‘Walk-A-Thon’ of this morning at 1.3 miles. That’s an overall average of a mile every 19 to 20 minutes, or an average walking speed of 3 MPH.

2.  7 hours after walking that 1.3 miles this morning and I can still feel it in my legs. No pain. No gain.

3.  This past Sunday morning at Life Pointe Church we sang “Do You Hear What I Hear ?” and “Silent Night” back-to-back during Praise & Worship. I just can’t get enough of traditional Christmas carols. They mean so much more to me now than they ever used to. I’ll be missing them for the next 11 months.

4.  I currently weigh in at nearly 172 pounds (78 kilograms for the rest of the world). That’s at the top tier of my general weight range over the past 15 years. I’d rather weigh closer to 165 pounds (75 kilograms).

5.  The nicest picture that’s hanging on the wall directly above my computer workstation here at home is that of Air Force One over Mount Rushmore. With the picture are two patches of the 89TH Airlift Wing, and a nice engraving with my name on it as well as the dates that I worked at Andrews AFB Maryland. It’s also signed by 35 of my co-workers at the time. Those final 6 months of my Active Duty Air Force career were the best out of 8 years.

6.  I only saw 9 movies at the Box Office in 2007. That’s the lowest total for me since 1996. Out of those 9 movies I only saw 4 of them at the movie theatre here in Homestead that I go to every Sunday morning for Life Pointe Church services.

7.  I like to shave every 3 to 4 days. Sunday nights and Wednesday nights are typical shaving nights for me.

8.  When I was a kid I used to love eating peanut butter & banana sandwiches for lunch. I think it’s been about 25 years since my last one.

9.  One of my unique hobbies is watching the International Space Station pass over the skies of Homestead on selected evenings and mornings (when it is in view). I’ve seen 41 such passes since February of 2004.

10.  If I walked from home to work (over 7 miles away) then it would take me about 2½ hours to get there. I’d have to leave here at 3:30 AM to get to work by 6 AM. Yeah that’s not gonna happen ! 

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God Holidays

The Christmas Card Of The Year Club

The Gift Of Jesus

It’s a gift wrapped in love,
the love of a King.

It’s a gift wrapped in grace –
what a wonderful thing !

It’s a gift wrapped in joy,
the joy of creation,

A gift wrapped in song,
the song of salvation.

It’s the gift of a Man who died on the cross.

It’s the gift of new life so not one would be lost.

It’s a gift just for us,
not too big, not too small.

It’s the gift of Christ Jesus –
the best gift of all !

The spirit of the Lord bless you and yours with the present of peace this holiday season.

Luke 8:50 (NLT 2ND Ed.):
But when Jesus heard what had happened, he said to Jairus, ‘Don’t be afraid. Just have faith, and she will be healed.’

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Health

The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

THIS MORNING I did the unpredictable – I walked the entire perimeter of my neighbourhood – approximately a mile-and-a-half – close to 2½ kilometers for the rest of the world. (I’ll have to drive my car the entire trek to determine the actual distance.)

Sky: Mostly Cloudy
Temperature: 69°F
Relative Humidity: 95%
Winds: NW 8 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.04 RISING

My thoughts:

1.  My iPod Shuffle came along for the walk this morning. All of my smash hits on it provided a great beat to walk to.

2.  One of those smash hits that played as I walked alone was the Christian speed-metal-romp “Writing On The Walls” courtesy of Underoath. Its lyrics include the prominent (screaming) verse ‘We walk alone !’

3.  There were a bunch of other walkers out and about on this most glorious Christmas Day morning. Some of them were walking alone, and some of them were walking their dog(s). There was even a nice older yellowish cat walking alone. He / She looked at me with love rather than fear. This cat somehow knew that I was a lifelong friend to the feline populace.

4.  There’s a new ‘Key West style’ townhouse development going up just over the southern perimeter fence of my neighbourhood. I hadn’t seen it before.

5.  This was a 25-minute walk for me. There was only one thing that I wanted as soon as I walked back in to my home, and that my friends was a MASSIVE gulp of Zephyrhills Natural Spring Water.