Year: 2009

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Driving Food Health Weather

Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

The Tuesday night saga continues with the flagship weekly series of this here blog:

1.  TODAY I took a day off from work. I actually took 8.0 out of my accumulated 1,386.5 hours of sick leave. That’s just a little over one-half of one percent of all of my sick leave. I was not actually sick today, but sick leave may be utilized for any type of medical appointments, and I did just that today.

2.  This morning at precisely 9 AM I reported to my new personally hand-selected Family Practice M.D. Here’s a brief summary. My weight is virtually perfect for my height and age. My blood pressure is extremely normal. My heart functions as determined by the EKG is about as average as can possibly be. Oh yeah – they also took a lot of blood from me. They will check it all out to see how it all looks. I have a follow-up appointment for the ‘results show’ next Monday morning.

3.  Later in the morning I ventured over to Firestone for routine preventive maintenance on my car which incidentally hit 59,500 miles today. That’s 59,500 miles over the past 2,231 days for an overall average of 26.67 miles per day – slightly below the national driving average of 33.33 miles per day. Firestone did the oil and filter change, the tire rotation, and the alignment in about two hours while I waited. I’m always satisfied with their work.

4.  While I waited for my car at Firestone I walked on over to Mamma Mia where I enjoyed a GINORMOUS Lunch consisting of salad with blue cheese dressing, spaghetti and meatballs, garlic rolls, and soda. The food was great, the service was great, and they also have an unusually clean and modern bathroom for a mom-n-pop Italian ristorante !

5.  The last stop on my errand-filled Tuesday was at the legendary Woody’s Barber Shop for a haircut. My last haircut was 7 weeks and 3 days ago, so I imagine that my next haircut will be sometime during the final week of September. That sounds about right. I think I average about 6 to 7 haircuts per year.

6.  Most of the southeast coastal region of Florida has received two to three feet (24 to 36 inches) of rain over the past three months. It was a bit on the hot and dry side during much of the month of July, but I am forecasting a return to the cooler and wetter weather that we experienced during much of May and June for the latter portion of August into September and October. El Niño is in full effect here in America’s Riviera.

Thank You for your attention my friends, and Thank You for your continued support of the fine art of blogging. Good Day !

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Humor Politics

The Major’s Loony Bin

After a long hard day at work on a Monday – all ya wanna do is laugh.

Coming out of the ‘Loony Bin’ this week I present to you a joke and a song that’s not so politically correct, but it made me chuckle, giggle, and guffaw:

An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand pulling a male buffalo with the other. He says to the waiter:  “Want coffee.”

The waiter says:  “Sure, Chief, coming right up.”

He gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee. The Indian drinks the coffee down in one gulp, turns, and blasts the buffalo with the shotgun causing parts of the animal to splatter everywhere, and then just walks out.
 
The next morning the Indian returns. He has his shotgun in one hand, pulling another male buffalo with the other. He walks up to the counter and says to the waiter:  “Want coffee.”

The waiter says:  “Whoa !  We’re still cleaning up your mess from yesterday. What was all that about anyway ?”

The Indian smiles and proudly says:  “Training for position in U.S. Congress:  Come in, drink coffee, shoot the bull, leave mess for others to clean up, disappear for rest of day.”

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God People

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

It’s my takeaways from this morning’s Life Pointe Church experience:

– The devastation and the redemption continues …

Devastation

– We all need help from above.
– God does not wish to redeem our harvest.
– He wishes to redeem our land.
– That way we can be fruitful and produce.
– It’s all for the purpose of us redeeming other people’s land.
– God wishes to use us to be His hands and His feet here on His Earth.
– God wants the ‘us’ back that He created.
– He wants all of His creation to return to Him so that we may all be redeemed.
– The world has corrupted us, and God is waiting for us to repent to Him.
– His Holy Spirit will be poured on to us all once we call on Our Father.
– We shall be witnesses of Him, and tell all about His miracles.

Acts 1:8 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere — in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Nancy L., Chris D., Anne J., Kristina M. - 26 July 2009
Nancy L., Chris D., Anne J., Kristina M. - 26 July 2009
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History Music Radio Travel

Saturday Night Retro

It’s a short edition of the ‘Retro’ for this Saturday night, as I just returned home late tonight from a one-day trip down to Key West and back with a buddy. It was a total blast. I got to spend a couple of hours out on the big island, but have no fret for I shall return to see it all again in just 38 days as the first of two ports-of-call on my upcoming Carnival cruise vacation.

Having absolutely nothing to do with Key West or Carnival cruises it’s the originally-scheduled ‘Saturday Night Retro’ concept and music video for tonight:

Back during the latter portion of 1988 Miami Top 40 radio station Y-100 was the station to listen to at the workplace. They dayparted their music back then in that they were essentially a ‘work-friendly’ hot adult contemporary station during the work day. But then at precisely 3 PM right after the top-of-the-hour station identification they went totally ballistic, loosened their tie, untucked their shirt, and suddenly rocked hard. We all knew that it was 3 PM and nearly time to call it a work day – when this hard rocker was cranked up as loud as can be: