Month: July 2008

Getting From Here To There By The Numbers

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 26, 2008
4 Comments on Getting From Here To There By The Numbers

I’ll be spending the Thanksgiving week with my family over near Dallas Texas at my brother‘s and sister’s-in-law house. According to Mapquest it’s 1,368.87 miles from my home to their home (exact addresses utilized). Mapquest estimated the time to drive that at 21 hours and 11 minutes. In order to drive that number of miles in that estimated time I would have to drive an average of 64.6 MPH. That won’t happen. I typically use a base average of 60 MPH when I estimate how long it will take for me to drive from here to there on long road trips. It takes into account my average highway speeds as well as various stops along the way for gas, food, drink, bathroom, etcetra. So at 60 MPH it would take me nearly 23 hours to drive from Homestead Florida to Allen Texas – minus an hour for the time difference – so that’s 22 hours. That would be a two-day event – and not half on one day and half on the next day either. I don’t think that I would want to drive 11 hours in one day and then 11 hours the next day, but I think that I could drive perhaps 15 or 16 hours on the first day and then the remaining 6 or 7 hours on the second day. That would create an overnight hotel stay somewhere in Louisiana on the way over, and near Lake City Florida on the way back home.

How much would the 2,737.74 mile round-trip cost in gas alone ? I estimate that gas will actually drop down to the $3.50 per gallon level by Thanksgiving week. So at 30 MPG that’s a little more than 91 gallons for a total cost of not quite $320.

Round-trip airfare between Miami and Dallas will cost more than that. In fact I checked earlier today, and had I booked the round-trip flight that I really wanted it would have cost me over $600 ! Right. I’ll wait a bit until that drops down into the $400s. I don’t book my airfare based on the lowest round-trip cost on the cheapest airline. I book it based on the exact flight that I want. I just wait for the cost of that specific flight to drop down to a reasonable level. Airfares fluctuate daily, so I’ll be monitoring it regularly.

I’ll probably fly to Dallas for Thanksgiving week, but some day I will drive the miles. When I do that I’ll take my time and explore places along the way. There are a lot of cool things for me to see between here and there !

God People

The Chris Day Club

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 26, 2008

This is not my ministry out of Danboro Pennsylvania.

There’s a lot of cool stuff on that web site. Be sure to click on all of the various tabs including ‘About Us’ (for a personal message from Christopher Day), ‘God Loves Us’, ‘Christ Is In Us’, ‘Jesus Invites’, ‘Jesus Teaches’, ‘Jesus Forgives’, and ‘Jesus Saves’.

Blogging People

Friday Night Blogroll Review

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 25, 2008

Here’s what’s happenin’ at some of my favourite blogs in the blogosphere:

Last weekend Travis spent some time at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.

In his ‘Monday Morning Shenanigans’ Phil describes how frantically busy he is for 100 minutes from 4:00 AM to 5:40 AM on a typical work day morning.

Jesse’s got still more ‘Facts You Didn’t Know’ (about him).

Bill includes Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, John Entwistle of The Who, and LL Phil J of the Life Pointe Church ‘Praise & Worship’ Band as 3 of his TOP 5 favourite bass players in the entire world !

Casey posted his first blog entry in 3½-months in which he explains what went horribly wrong at the RED concert last Thursday night.

Ritz got a Dell dude !

Kelly’s got a funny story regarding Kourtney and an apple !

Luci shares some pictures of a fun day at her home last weekend. (As is usually the case – water is involved.)

THANK YOU BLOGGERS for another entertaining week ! Keep on doin’ your thang !

Computers Hoaxes Internet

Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 24, 2008

It’s by far the most-read weekly feature here on this blog. It’s what everyone talks about on Friday. It’s the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame. It’s ON !

This week’s outrageous hoax is brought to you by the land of make-believe:

Subject: ****** VIRUS WARNING ******

Please read the attached warning issued today.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:

You should be alert during the next days:

Do not open any message with an attached filed called “Invitation” regardless of who sent it.

It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which “burns” the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it.

If you receive a mail called “invitation”, though sent by a friend, do not open it and shut down your computer immediately.

This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.

This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus.

This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.

SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, COPY THIS E-MAIL AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS AND REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US.

There is not a single speck of logic or truth in this widely circulated E-Mail (or its numerous variants through the years). Someone with extremely limited computer and Internet technical knowledge obviously created this E-Mail way back in the day (late-1990s), and nearly a decade later it is still circulating all throughout cyberspace.

Would you believe that I actually received this E-Mail this past week at work from a coworker who actually thought that it was legitimate ? She sent it to dozens and dozens of people too, but I’m not angry about it at all. She unknowingly provides me with lots of material for this weekly feature. (If she only read this blog …)