Day: April 8, 2008

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Bedtime Stories

This is ‘Bedtime Stories’ for a Tuesday night, and this edition of the ‘Bedtime Stories’ is all about things that I’m looking forward to doing soon.

– I’m looking forward to a fun night of food and fellowship with my Life Group family tomorrow (Wednesday) night.

– I’m looking forward to eating Lunch with this dude and this dude on Friday.

– I’m looking forward to quite possibly the Spring season finale of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ bright and early this Saturday morning.

– I’m looking forward to another fantastic Sunday morning at Life Pointe Church followed by an afternoon of fun, food, and fellowship at Homestead Bayfront Park with my church family.

– I’m looking forward to returning to Orlando for the first time in this new Life in two weeks to attend ‘The 2008 National New Church Conference‘. Returning to a place that I used to visit several times per year for all of the wrong reasons will be quite the accomplishment for me considering the reason why I am going up there this time around. I have lived the darkness and now I am alive in the daylight. I’ll be chasing that daylight straight up to Orlando to the former scene of the crimes. Get out of my way Satan. I have no time and no use for you anymore. I’m a Jesus Freak now. I praise Him !  I worship Him !  I follow Him !

Well that pretty much wraps things up for this blog tonight. This was another one of those ‘spur-of-the-moment’ blog entries that came to me as I typed it on here. I didn’t plan it. It just spontaneously happened. It seems like whenever I just let my fingers do the talking on here it always leads back to Him. He’s that amazing.

Have a really cool Tuesday night everyone with your loved ones, and I shall anxiously await your return to this blog again tomorrow. I love you all !

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

You came here for a reason, and that reason is the sole fact that it’s Tuesday night here on this blog. Here’s what’s on my mind right this very minute:

1.  This afternoon’s 15-minute drive from work to home was more treacherous than normal due to horrendous drivers all around me. I could have been involved in nearly a dozen collisions if it weren’t for my spectacular defensive driving techniques. I’m safe like that.

2.  For the past several months my front patio area had been a haven for hundreds and hundreds of flying gnats and other assorted subtropical insects that swarmed the area (and me as I walked through them while attempting to hold my breath). That is until I had my Orkin guy hose down the area yesterday afternoon with an environmentally-friendly concoction of water and poisons. Now my front patio area is clear of pests, and I can see clearly now the bugs are gone. Thank You Orkin Dude !

3.  I got a haircut at Woody’s Barber Shop yesterday morning. My barber casually remarked about my ‘white’ hair, and then he guessed that I was about 31 or 32 years old. Once I proudly told him that I was almost 41 years old he remarked that my hair is just fine for my age. That’s how you earn a nice tip $ !

4.  EVERYONE was talking about what they were doing during that unexpected ferocious thunderstorm that plowed through most of South Miami-Dade County on Sunday night after 9 PM. It rained all night long into Monday morning, and the base officially got 2.21 inches of the wet stuff when all was said and done. Rain is good.

5.  I visited the Life Pointe Church offices today during my Lunch hour. Anne J. and Paul H. were hangin’ out with me. Jesse S. was working on ‘special projects’ behind closed doors in his office. Enjoy it while it lasts Jesse. You won’t have your own office at the new place.  😉

6.  I am convinced that Anne J. and Paul H. know more about cell phones and computers than I do. I think that most people under the age of 40 know more about cell phones and computers than I do. My professional occupation may be that of a Computer Systems Administrator, but that’s actually not my original job. The roots of my current job can be traced back to when I originally started out as a Data Analyst / Statistician. I’ll be utilizing some of those real skills o’ mine for some new projects for Life Pointe Church that I can’t wait to get started on.

7.  ‘The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club’ has apparently inspired Pastor Travis to do a month-long message series at Life Pointe Church based on the original concept. Hey it was either that or ‘The Road Rage Files’. It makes more sense to do the former.

8.  “The Simpsons” has been yanked off of a Venezuelan TV channel because it may be inappropriate for children. It’s been replaced by – “Baywatch Hawaii“. Read more about it.

9.  I grabbed the Southwest Taco Salad at Wendy’s for the first time ever today. It was unlike anything I expected. I ate the whole thing, but I probably won’t get that ever again. It’s just not my thing. It was too spicy for me. I’m not into spicy. I’m a member of the bland nation.

10.  Can you believe that next Tuesday night will mark the 6-month anniversary of these ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ ?  Time flies when you’re thinking out loud !