Year: 2009

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Annoyances Driving Food History Shopping Weather

Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

Here’s what’s on my mind on this Tuesday night:

1.  I just returned home from Publix at the Oasis Plaza in Homestead. It’s where shopping is a pleasure. It would have been more of a pleasure if there were less people there. That joint was jumpin’. There is no recession in effect at Publix.

2.  Traffic in and around Homestead has been extra nightmarish lately with all of the tourists mixing in with all of the snowbirds from Quebec mixing in with us natives of the land. I’ve been averaging at least a couple of near-death experiences on the roads per each mile traveled.

3.  I just turned on the A.C. in my home for the first time in two weeks. It was approaching the 80°F mark in my living room. Our next frigid outbreak is still on track to arrive during the day on Friday. On Saturday we may actually struggle to reach 60°F all day long !  Are you paying attention Kelly J. ?

4.  The hot new Burger King on Speedway Boulevard just north of Biscayne Drive (in front of the Home Depot) is now open for business – and half of the base clogged up their parking lot – and their arteries !  That’s 4 Burger Kings around Homestead – but not in Homestead.

5.  There’s a really cool video on You Tube of a dude who is a passenger of a vehicle that’s driving all around the Homestead Air Force Base that once existed in 1989. He’s using his camcorder to record the drive all throughout our absolutely gorgeous and totally vibrant base at the time. He probably sent it home for his family to watch way back then. The video brought tears to my ears. Our current Air Reserve Base is merely a shell of what it once was, but I must admit that we have made substantial progress since Hurricane Andrew destroyed everything that we had nearly 17 years ago.

Thank You for sharing your time with me by reading these thoughts o’ mine.

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Sports Weather

Homestead Cold Weather Alert

Don’t let this week’s upcoming 80°F+ temperatures during the afternoon hours fool you. Another substantial flip-flop in the current North American continental weather pattern will occur later this week. This will begin another extended period of below normal cool days and particularly frigid nights all across America’s Rivera.

I’m currently forecasting the cold air to arrive during the day on Friday. Early-morning temperatures on Saturday could be in the low-40s here in Homestead with wind chills in the mid-30s !  The same goes for Sunday morning as well. Monday morning should not be as cold, but we may still have some leftover wind chills in the 40s. I am expecting the cold air to stick around for at least 7 days.

It should be a cool and crisp Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa as well – with game-time temperatures dropping down well into the 50s.

I’ll post another update later this week if my current forecast changes substantially. Keep those winter clothes out South Florida !

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Travel

Monday Night Countdown

Vacationers and snowbirds alike spend millions of dollars each year to visit this particular region of the U.S.A. that I call home year-round. It’s America’s Riviera, and for those of us who call it home we tend to get bored and restless after awhile. Even we need to go elsewhere on vacation to get away from it all. Once we return back home again then that’s when we really appreciate what we actually have down here.

Here are my TOP 5 vacation destinations that I’d love to visit to get away from it all for just a short little while:

5.  Australia / New Zealand – This is one of the top entries on my personal ‘Bucket List’. I am very intrigued with these two secluded nations. In a previous life on the web I used to have an actual fanbase in this part of the world.

4.  United Kingdom – I lived there for two years and one week nearly a quarter of a century ago. I haven’t been back since. I promised myself that I would be back when I departed back then. I intend to keep that promise – some Summer.

3.  Madeira – This is perhaps the most exotic place that I’ve ever visited in my entire Life. I did so in early November 2007 as part of a Mediterranean / Transatlantic Carnival cruise from Rome Italy to Miami Florida. I was only on the (capital) island for a day, but I could have spent at least a week there.

2.  Bermuda – I visited there twice as a little kid back in the mid-1970s, and I haven’t been back since. A couple of nights ago I actually did research online regarding seasonal hotel rates on the island. I think I know where I wish to stay now once I decide to pull the trigger on this whole vacation thing there.

1.  Mexico – I made this my top vacation destination because this will actually occur within the next two weeks. I’ll be visiting Progreso and Cozumel on back-to-back days as back-to-back ports-of-call on my upcoming Carnival cruise. I’ve never been to Progreso. I’ve been to Cozumel more than any other port-of-call, and it’s probably my favourite of them all.

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God

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

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– It was another loud and rambunctious Sunday morning at the movie theatre.
– That’s how we roll yo !
– It’s what Satan doesn’t want us to do.
– He can go back where he came from.
– The Grace Of God allows us to follow, worship, and idolize Jesus Christ.
– Even a dude that partied to techno music in 2002 can give it all up to Him.
– ‘Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.’
– We must share the Good News with those who don’t believe in Him.
– We must diminish ourselves and magnify Jesus.
– It must always be all about Him – and no other.
– We must love the world less – and love Him more than any one and any thing.
– We must never let worldly things own us.
– We must not be full of pride.
– We must not boast about any one or any thing except for Jesus.
– We must not build Kingdoms for ourselves.
– The only Kingdom that’s relevant is God’s Kingdom.
– That’s the Kingdom that we must always grow.
– We must always yield to God.
– We must love those who don’t yet know Jesus.
– We are no better than the non-believers.
– None of us are worthy of Him.
– Through the Grace Of God everyone may follow Him.
– We are all His children.

Luke 15:4-7 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
4  “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do ?  Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it ?
5  And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders.
6  When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’
7  In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away !