Author: Chris M. Day

I'm almost 59 years old. I've been online for 33 years - starting with my own dial-up bulletin board system in 1993 - and continuing with AOL, my own dot.com web site, Myspace, WordPress, Twitter / X, Flickr, and Facebook.

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Humor

Monday Night Countdown

This week I present the TOP 5 nicknames for my brother Danny:

5.  Funny Guy – My brother is the funniest guy in the entire world, and he laughs at all of my jokes (and vice versa). His sense of ‘huma’ is virtually identical to mine.

4.  Peanut Head – Simply put – my brother’s head is in the shape of a peanut – a large peanut – a George Lopez sized peanut.

3.  Little One – Up until about 16 years ago I was taller than my brother, and then he reached and surpassed my height by perhaps a half an inch or so.

2.  Bunky – Our Dad came up with this nickname as far back as 30 years ago. I don’t know where it came from. Perhaps it’s a variation of ‘Bunker’ as in ‘Archie Bunker’. 

1.  Banny – A simple and innocent typographical error online introduced this long-running nickname for my brother. It also spawned his # 1 favourite nickname for me – ‘Biss’ / ‘Bissy’.

You just don’t know how hard I’m laughing out loud right about now !  😆

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God People

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

– Today I began my 27TH month as part of the Life Pointe Church family.
– It’s also the start of my 32ND month following God.
– I’m not gonna stop counting the months until I reach the top.
– It was great to see all of the Johnsons back in town.
– It was also great to Jesse and Alex back in biz again up on stage.
– I missed everyone while they were away changing lives for the better.
– Jesse and Alex are my two favourite rock stars in the universe.
– We got to hear their hot new album loud and proud in the main lobby.
– “So Alive” is the breakout smash of the month as far as I’m concerned.
– Wanna download it for free ?  Click here.
– Wanna buy the entire album for $10 ?  Click here.
– Pastor Travis was back up on stage leading us in this week’s teaching.
– This morning’s topic – ‘The Challenge Of Obedience’.
– The Bible says – ‘If you love me, obey my commandments.’
– I love and trust God; therefore, I obey Him.
– Reading His word is easy, but applying it can be hard at times.
– I may not agree with everything that is in the Good News.
– That’s irrelevant, for I must still obey His every word.
– It’s easier to obey with a positive attitude.
– I once had a negative attitude towards generally everything.
– That was part of the evil and darkness that once consumed me.
– God rescued me from all of that in August of 2006.
– He directed me to release all of my anger and set it free.
– He instructed me to give up my worldly plans.
– He set a new agenda for me, and I was reborn.
– I will never be perfect.
– God is the only perfect One.
– I hope to look more and more like Jesus.
– The world should be able to see His good work being done within me.

This morning’s teaching was based on the following 8 verses of the Bible:
– John 14:15
– Romans 8:38
– 2 Timothy 3:16-17
– Philippians 1:12
– Romans 8:28
– 1 John 1:8-9

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Career History Home Music

Saturday Night Retro

This weekend marks my 15TH anniversary back in Homestead following my original nearly 5-year residence from December 01ST 1987 through the destruction caused by Hurricane Andrew on August 24TH 1992. I was away from Homestead for nearly 19 months, and I never really thought that I would see it again – until just a few months before I actually moved back down here.

Homestead Air Force Base officially reopened as Homestead Air Reserve Station (now Base) on this exact weekend in March of 1994 as our Squadron of F-16 jets came roaring back to life across the subtropical blue skies of America’s Riviera.

It was “The Sign” that Homestead was starting to get back to normal again.

I present to you for your ‘Saturday Night Retro’ review – this U.S. platinum pop smash that spent 10 months on the pop charts in 1994. It was the runaway # 1 smash in the entire free nation as our jets returned back home again on that glorious 3RD weekend in March of 1994.

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Animals Travel

The Major’s Walk-A-Thon: Special On-Location Edition – Miami Seaquarium

I visited the Miami Seaquarium for the first time since an unspecified date sometime during the mid-to-late-1990s.

Here are my takeaways in 15 words or less:

– I’m on my ‘2009 Economic Stimulus Tour’ (of tourist attractions).
– So far – Metro Zoo, Monkey Jungle, and Miami Seaquarium.
– When we (me and a buddy) got there there weren’t a lot of people there.
– By the time that we left in the afternoon the joint was jumpin’.
– It was really jumpin’ !
– It was good to see people spending money at a tourist attraction.
– I love to hang out with the animal kingdom.
– I loved the sea lions.
– I could watch them frolic for hours.
– They are really smart creatures of the sea.
– They will work for food.
– So will I.
– They love their fishies.
– So do I.
– Lizards, Turtles, Alligators, Crocodiles – They were all chillin’ in the hot sun.
– The birds are not afraid of the humans – or the killer whale !
– Speaking of birds – The next logical stop on this tour – Jungle Island.
– Maybe we’ll hit that place up next month.
– Lolita is a 7,000-pound killer whale !
– She’s the same exact age as me – born in 1967.
– ‘Free Lolita the killer whale’ generates 183,000 searches via Yahoo !
– She’s been at the Seaquarium for the past 39 years.
– This is the only life that she knows.
– Some activists want her to be released into the wild.
– Releasing a killer whale from her home of 39 years makes no sense to me.
– The manatees were MASSIVE !
– They are sort of like elephants of the sea.
– They are calm, cool, and collective – just like me !
– They mostly eat plants – not like me.

No visit to Miami is complete until you’ve visited the Miami Seaquarium !