Month: December 2008

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Career Computers Life

Monday Night Countdown

This is what happens when ‘Monday Night Countdown’ is mashed with ‘Saturday Night Retro’.

For those of you who don’t already know this my professional occupation of the past 24 years is essentially a hybrid of Computer Systems & Database Manager / Budget Analyst. I pretty much manage computers and resources for the Department Of Defense. It involves a lot of statistics and EXCEL spreadsheets !

As a kid of the 1970s into the first-half of the 1980s this is not what I had ever dreamed of doing. In fact here are the TOP 5 jobs that I was most interested in doing once I graduated from high school and college:

5.  City Planner / Manager

4.  NFL Field Goal Kicker

3.  High School Teacher

2.  TV Weatherman / Meteorologist

1.  Radio Deejay / Announcer

Discuss !

Categories
God

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

Pastor Travis led us. Here are my bulletted takeaways in 15 words or less:

– The church is a spiritual organism.
– It’s a living breathing body with Jesus as the head.
– It’s composed of born-again people.
– Whereever you are – be there.
– That means that if you’re at church then be the church.
– Just because you show up for church doesn’t mean that you are the church.
– God has chosen you to follow Him.
– Some people do so enthusiastically.
– Some people politely turn Him down.
– Some are in total defiance of Him.
– We should always pursue purity and holiness.
– We will never be perfect.
– We tend to pursue sin more than we pursue Jesus.
– We need to starve and kill the sins.
– We can’t serve two masters.
– God is the only Master that should matter.
– We should always believe in Him – even when it’s inconvenient to do so.
– If you’re comfortable on this journey then you’re not living.

Categories
Driving Holidays Music Travel

Saturday Night Retro

December 25TH 1996 – It was the first Christmas with my Mom, Dad, Brother, and Cats up in Jacksonville Florida. They had just moved there after about 28 years up in the Washington D.C. area. That was 2 homes ago (for my parents) and 3 cars ago (for me). I was still in my 20s (!), and my brother was 21. It seems so long ago. It was just a dozen years ago.

Today I drove back home to Homestead from the Jacksonville area, and so another chapter in our lives has now ended. This was our last Christmas in Jacksonville. My parents are getting ready to move (for the final time) to the Dallas Texas area. I’ve got a lot of great memories from the past dozen Christmases (and years) up there, but the good times and great memories shall continue infinitely with my family over in North Texas.

Going back to 1996 I present to you for your ‘Retro’ review this MASSIVESMASH from The Smashing Pumpkins. It’s one of my favourite hit songs of all-time. It’s a 1996 smash that’s all about “1979”. It’s the biggest pop and rock smash of their entire career, and it was Grammy-nominated and certified gold. It’s a hot track that spent 10 months in heavy rotation on TOP 40 radio stations nationwide. Here’s the 1996 MTV Video Music Award winner for ‘Best Alternative Video’.

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Blogging

Friday Night Blogroll Review

Here’s what my favourite bloggers in the entire world were blogging about this past week:

Travis wished us a Merry Christmas and reminded us the reason for the season.

Check out the matching bright red Christmas pajamas !

It’s what Phil was thinking about on Christmas morning.

Jesse and his crew are feeling fine after dealing with an automobile accident.

Billy takes us back on a ‘Retro’ family trip through time.

David C. gets it.

Ritz exclaimed, “it feels nothing like Christmas”. His bad.

Rebecca’s been hangin’ out with her family here in the Homestead area.

Nathan lost 33.33 pounds during the course of a 40-day fast in which he ate no food and only drank water. This is the winner of this week’s ‘Major Bloggie’ award which goes to the most entertaining blog of the week as far as I’m concerned. Check out his captivating story written in a journal-style – day-by-day.