Month: April 2008

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Blogging

Friday Night Blogroll Review

It’s Friday night, and here’s what’s rollin’ at some of my favourite blogs that are near and dear to this blog:

Travis unveiled a sneak-peek of the hot new Life Pointe Church web site that will drop soon !

P.J. posted his ‘Topped Thoughts’, and he’d appreciate it if you’d Twitter with him. If you don’t know what that means then join the club. Maybe he’ll explain it in a future ‘Stuffed Crust Thoughts’.

Jesse becomes ‘Pastor Jesse’ this Sunday morning at Life Pointe Church, but he knows how to disconnect from the office.

Ritz Crackah was nominated in the ‘Best Personality’ category for his high school yearbook. How precious !

The Right Reverend Nathan will be preaching this Sunday night at a revival in West Palm Beach. Incidentally I am accepting the role of President of Chopper Pastor Nathan’s fledgling fan club. (I am a self-admitted ‘Nathan Groupie’.)

Wild chickens make Owen so scared that he shivers. I can relate. I was once attacked by an angry duck right here in my own neighbourhood. It was quite the traumatic experience !

Categories
Driving Money Travel

$38.00 To Fill Up My Car With Gas

TODAY I filled up my car with gas. Here are the vital stats:

Number Of Days Since My Last Fill-Up – 18 (right on par for 2008)

Total Gallons – 11.212 (the most since immediately following Hurricane Wilma in October 2005)

Cost Per Gallon – $3.389 (the highest ever)

Total Cost – $38.00 (the highest ever)

As I identified above I typically fill-up my car with gas about every 18 days, so with that $38.00 fill-up that’s an average of about $2.11 per day in gas that I utilize to drive in and around Homestead.

I was recently accused of being in the oil business due to the fact that I continue to defend the current price of gas here in the U.S. The facts are:

– I am not an oil tycoon, none of my friends or family members are in the oil business, and I do not own stock in any oil company.

– The U.S. is in the bottom 10 in the world as far as gas prices are concerned, and when gas prices are matched up against the per capita income of the average citizen of this country we pay less for gas than any other country in the entire world.

Categories
Astronomy History Hoaxes Internet News

Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

A satellite photo of North America on the night of Thursday August 14TH 2003 – the night of the largest blackout in North American history that affected an estimated 50 million people and caused an estimated 6 billion dollars in financial losses:

Thursday August 14TH 2003

IT’S NOT REAL !

Can you identify at least 5 things that are obviously wrong with the photo above ?

Try to figure it all out, and then read more about it.

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Blogging Food Humor Internet News People

Bedtime Stories

It’s 10:30 PM on a Wednesday night. Do you know where your appetite is ? 

When we experience food, fun, and fellowship in my Life Group we don’t play around. We mean business. We had enough food for about 50 people tonight even though there were only about 15 of us. That means that each person had to eat for 3 people. Since some people only ate for 2 people that means that I had to pick up the slack. Oh yeah, and J.T. has enough lunch and dinner leftovers to last him through the upcoming weekend !

It’s going to be another heavy duty afternoon of more food, fun, and fellowship this upcoming Sunday at Homestead Bayfront Park. BRING IT ON !

TOMORROW here on the blog I’ve got your weekly ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’. I’ve got a well-circulated ’round the Internet photo to share with you that illustrates the effect of a major news story from the Summer Of 2003 that caused an estimated six-billion-dollars in financial losses here in North America. But is the picture for real, or is it a complete and utter hoax ?  We’ll find out tomorrow afternoon.

Thursday is also the day that many of my favourite bloggers post some of their best work of the week in a dire effort to get included on my coveted ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’. Get to work bloggers !

And so that’s what I’ve got for this Wednesday night edition of ‘Bedtime Stories’. Have a safe and restful night, sleep tight, don’t let them bed bugs bite, and remember this:

A large company – feeling it was time for a shakeup – hired a new CEO. The new boss was determined to rid the company of all slackers.

On a tour of the facilities the CEO noticed a guy leaning on a wall. The room was full of workers, and he wanted to let them know that he meant business. He walked up to the guy leaning against the wall and asked, ‘How much money do you make a week ?’

A little surprised the young man looked at him and replied, ‘I make about $400 a week. Why ?’

The CEO then handed the guy $1,600 in cash and screamed, ‘Here’s four weeks’ pay. Now GET OUT and don’t ever come back !’

Feeling pretty good about himself the CEO looked around the room and asked, ‘Does anyone want to tell me what that goof-ball did here ?’

From across the room came a voice: ‘Pizza delivery from Domino’s.’