Month: April 2009

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

Let’s kick it:

1.  Can you believe it ?  The ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ quietly turned 18-months-old last week. Who would have thought back in October of 2007 that this would become a weekly Tuesday night tradition here on this blog ?  I mean – besides me.

2.  So yeah at like 11:10 AM this morning I was just a few minutes away from getting up from my desk at work and getting into my car to grab a bite to eat for Lunch – but then the telephone rang. Instead of ignoring it I decided to answer it. That telephone call led to another nearly two-hour long distance telephone call with the Air Force equivalent of ‘computer technical support’ to fix a problem on a local computer system that’s within my area of responsibility. Long story (sort of) short I ended up leaving work at 2 PM – 90 minutes early – going to Lunch – and then taking Lunch home with me. Lunch was delayed by some 3.5 hours today, but better late than never !

3.  As part of my 2009 Economic Stimulus Tour of Miami-Dade County tourist attractions I plan to visit Everglades National Park this upcoming Saturday. I haven’t been inside the park in such a long time (maybe 10 to 15 years). I plan to drive all the way to Flamingo and back and walk many of the half-mile trails along the way. (I need the exercise.) I’ll blog about it after the fact on a very special edition of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’.

4.  Another late-season cold front from the north made its passage through America’s Riviera this morning, and for a brief moment there it looked like funnel clouds were trying to develop northeast of the air base. Now we’re on the refreshing side of the cold front, and we could actually drop down into the upper-50s early tomorrow morning. Look for quite comfortable temperatures (daytime and nighttime) to continue for perhaps the next 7 days.

5.  Former President George W. Bush and Former Vice President Dick Cheney have been out-of-office, retired, and private citizens just like you and me for over 3 months now – yet you would think that they are still in office by the way that all of the late night television talk show hosts keep disrespecting them. That tells me that they are extremely (left-wing) biased – and afraid to rag on our current President and Vice President for fear that their Hollywood superstar guests would boycott them and call them racists for even attempting to make fun of the President. As it stands right now President Obama can do no wrong with the media by his side.

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History Television

Monday Night Countdown

The 5-day time-period of April 16TH to April 20TH has been quite deadly here in the U.S. over the past 16 years. 5 horrific events have occurred during this time, and some would argue that at least 2 – perhaps 3 of them are indirectly related to each other.

You may remember where you were and what you were doing as these 5 disasters unfolded before a LIVE international television audience: 

5.  Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, April 20TH 2007
– 2 dead

4.  Columbine High School, Columbine Colorado, April 20TH 1999
– 15 dead / 24 injured

3.  Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Virginia, April 16TH 2007
– 33 dead / 23 injured

2.  Branch Davidian Ranch, Waco Texas, April 19TH 1993
– 80 dead

1.  Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, April 19TH 1995
– 168 dead / 850+ injured

I’ve actually visited the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

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God

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

– TODAY I begin my 28TH month at Life Pointe Church in Homestead Florida.
– It’s also the start of my 33RD month on this journey.
– Why do I keep counting up ?
– It’s because the higher the numbers the further away from darkness I am.
– Lead Pastor Travis led a strong message this morning.
– It was based on 1 Peter 1:13-22 and Romans 3:23 / 6:5-11 / 12:1-2.
– We are born into sin and separated from God.
– We are rebels with no cause.
– We have all sinned; therefore, we have all fallen short of God’s example.
– Death to self is the only way to a revolutionary Life in Jesus Christ.
– 32 months ago I was at my own funeral.
– It was the most alive I had ever been.
– That’s becaause God pulled the dead man out of me when I accepted Him.
– The dawn of a new Life had finally arrived.
– I’ve been chasing daylight ever since.
– I’m still a work in progress.
– I must never give up the mighty fight against evil and darkness.

1 Peter 1:13-16
A Call To Holy Living
13  So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world.
14  So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then.
15  But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy.
16  For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”

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History Music

Saturday Night Retro

1988 was my first full year of livin’ large here in the land of the ‘305’. (I actually arrived on the First of December in 1987.)

In 1988 I was a 20-year-old that became a 21-year-old – without a car. I was either gonna be stuck in the dorm (at the Air Force Base), or I was gonna bum a ride with a buddy to see any other part of Miami. Luckily I got to see a lot of Miami during that first year. I also partied a lot within the Miami club scene. I considered myself a Y-100 groupie at the time – following them along as they broadcast LIVE from a different nightclub around town on 4 or 5 nights per week.

It was a lot of fun – although admittingly I don’t remember much from the times. After all it was 21 years ago – a half a lifetime ago for me.

Here’s a song that literally brought chills to me last night as it got cranked up at Splitsville (which incidentally has its own dance floor with deejay and lights and such). There may even be raw video footage of me acting like a dancin’ moron at our dinner table as this song progressed. (I’m not sure if Venus was recording at the time.)  Yep – I still got mad skillz at the age of 42. 🙄

This jam totally defined the land of the ‘305’ in 1988. It was the absolute biz out on the streets and up on the dance floors all across the ‘MIA’.

I present to you for your ‘Saturday Night Retro’ review – MC Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock with “It Takes Two” !

LET’S KICK IT HOMIES !