Year: 2009

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History Music Politics

Saturday Night Retro

Exactly 18 years ago this weekend I returned home from the Saudi Arabian sands in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Here’s a timeline:

Sat. Mar. 09 1991 0326L – Departed Al Kharj AB Saudi Arabia.
Sat. Mar. 09 1991 0833L – Arrived Torrejon AB Spain.
Sat. Mar. 09 1991 1357L – Departed Torrejon AB Spain.
Sat. Mar. 09 1991 1656L – Arrived Dover AFB Delaware.
(Spent the night at a hotel in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.)

Sun. Mar. 10 1991 0756L – Departed Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Sun. Mar. 10 1991 1001L – Arrived Miami Florida.

3 days later I drove nearly 1,100 miles from Homestead AFB to Northern Virginia to spend the rest of the month of March 1991 with my family. (The USAF gave us returning veterans that free time off following the war to spend with our families.)

And now for your ‘Saturday Night Retro’ review I present to you “Voices That Care”. Spot the stars from 1991. They cared for us back then. Unfortunately it’s a different world today.

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Food Health Weather

The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

Time: 6:28 AM – 7:14 AM
Sky: Partly Cloudy
Temperature: 65°F
Dewpoint: 57°F
Relative Humidity: 75%
Winds: E 6 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.30 Rising

Here are my thoughts in 15 words or less:

– It’s my 2nd walk around my neighbourhood of 2009.
– The last time I did this was the 1ST Saturday morning of January.
– That was way too long ago.
– I hadn’t done it since then due to a wide variety of reasons.
– Some of them were too legit to quit – like I was out-of-town.
– Some of them were poor excuses not to walk – such as ‘too cold outside’.
– Hopefully I can get back into my groove again on Saturday mornings.
– That is until it gets ‘too warm outside’ by the time mid-May rolls around.
– This morning was the last morning of Standard Time until November.
– That means dark early mornings begin tomorrow.
– The Sun rose at 6:39 AM EST this morning.
– I began my walk 11 minutes before that.
– Tomorrow morning at 6:39 AM EDT it will be pitch dark outside.
– I don’t need daylight at 7:30 PM at night.
– I need it at 6:30 AM in the morning.
– I’m not a fan of Daylight Saving Time.
– That’s right – it’s not ‘Savings‘ – it’s ‘Saving’. Look it up.
– Oh yeah – about this morning’s walk:
– I walked for 46.6 minutes.
– That made it about a 2.5-mile walk.
– That made it the longest walk ever !
– It nipped my previous 43.2 minute / 2.3-mile walk.
– My neighbourhood smelled good all around.
– I smelled dozens and dozens of varieties of breakfast in the air.
– It all made me hungry for some home-cooked food.
– Too bad I don’t cook.
– But Burger King does !
– After this past rollercoaster of a work week I needed this walk.
– It made me feel good.
– It cleared my mind.
– I haven’t felt this refreshed in a long time.
– I’m ready to rock and roll.
– I’m ready to file my income taxes.
– Be sure to catch the ‘Saturday Night Retro’ tonight.
– You won’t regret it dude !

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Blogging

Friday Night Blogroll Review

You’re not fully clean until you’re Zest-fully clean – and it’s not officially Friday night until I’ve had my say on the ‘Blogroll Review’.

Let’s kick this thing into high gear:

Travis reports on The Saturn Project (an emerging rock band). They are changing the world – on the other side of the world in Cambodia.

Kelly is iChatting with Travis LIVE from 12 hours into the future.

Phil explains his clothes. *MAJOR BLOGGIE AWARD WINNER *

Jesse and his bandmates are expanding God’s Kingdom in Cambodia.

Mark didn’t care too much for the R-rated movie that he saw late last night.

Kelly Downing – in her ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ debut – introduces her newborn nephew to the world. Kelly – Don’t you follow my blog ? 

Ritz is a Disciple of Jesus, and he just happens to like the rock band Disciple.

Luci’s been blogging for an entire year !

Garrett is participating in ‘The Red Envelope Project’.

I want to fly on Rush Limbaugh’s Gulfstream jet plane !

Home sales and home prices in Homestead just keep on dropping like a rock !

That’s your week in quality blogging. Let’s just keep on doing our thing !

Categories
Career God Life

Thursday Night Mini Thoughts

– I couldn’t wait to get home to do this.
– I was thinking about it during the entire 7.2-mile drive home from work.
– It was a mad crazy day at work from 6:30 AM to 4:30 PM.
– It was fantastic then horrific then fantastic then horrific then fantastic.
– The peaks of the day were so sky high and bright.
– The valleys of the day were way down low and dark.
– Satan was working overtime all day long today.
– He was running the show trying to make Life miserable for me.
– He was pulling the strings of a few puppets at work.
– Good thing for me God was working even harder than Satan.
– He was guiding and directing me through it all.
– He’s seen it all before, so He knew where to lead me.
– God prevailed, and I left work rather happy and satisfied this afternoon.
– The me prior to 30 months ago would have failed miserably.
– The me of yesteryear may have done something that he regretted.
– I’m so blessed that God gave me a second chance at Life.
– I’ve grown up a lot since God rescued and saved me in August 2006.
– I’m in good hands with God.
– I’m currently in my 22ND year of working at the air base.
– I’ve had a lot of supervisours over the years.
– Some of them were good.
– Some of them were bad.
– Some of them deserved better.
– Some of them made my life a living hell.
– My current supervisour is by far the greatest of them all.
– That would be God.
– But my supervisour at work is the best too.
– Tomorrow is Friday.
– I dig Fridays.
– I’m looking forward to this upcoming weekend.
– I plan to file my 2008 income tax return online.
– That’ll be after a ‘Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ early on Saturday morning.
– Read all about it right here on this blog.
– Thank You – my friends – for living Life with me via this blog.