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.

Sports

Super Bowl XLIII – In Real Time

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 1, 2009
3 Comments on Super Bowl XLIII – In Real Time

This is an annual tradition of mine, so just play along as I have my fun here.

(All times in PM, Eastern Standard Time)

6:09 – Steelers on the field.
6:10 – Cardinals on the field.
6:28 – Cardinals win the coin toss. (NFC wins for the 12TH year in a row.)
6:32 – Kickoff; 1ST quarter begins.
6:43 – Steelers Field Goal; 3-0.
7:01 – 1ST quarter ends (after 29 minutes).
7:04 – 2ND quarter begins.
7:08 – Steelers TOUCHDOWN; 10-0.
7:21 – Cardinals TOUCHDOWN; 10-7.
7:51 – Steelers TOUCHDOWN; 17-7.
7:56 – 2ND quarter ends (after 52 minutes).
8:29 – Kickoff; 3RD quarter begins (after 33 minute halftime).
8:57 – Steelers Field Goal; 20-7.
9:05 – 3RD quarter ends (after 36 minutes).
9:08 – 4TH quarter begins.
9:25 – Cardinals TOUCHDOWN; 20-14.
9:44 – Cardinals Safety; 20-16.
9:48 – Cardinals TOUCHDOWN; 23-20.
10:00 – Steelers TOUCHDOWN; 27-23.
10:09 – 4TH quarter ends (after 61 minutes); Game over.

STEELERS 27 CARDINALS 23

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God

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 1, 2009
2 Comments on Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

It’s my takeaways from this morning – ‘Mini Thoughts’ style in 15 words or less:

– Anne J.’s car always smells of fresh bagels early on a Sunday morning.
– Her car is the official Life Pointe Church-Mobile.
– The Starbucks Coffee was extra scrumptious. Thank You Lesia !
– Don’t mess with David C. or (especially) Bibi while they are folding tee-shirts.
– Mark moved the Youth table to a more prominent location.
– Mark does not wish for his table to be neat and tidy.

– Travis kicked-off our 9-week / 63-day ‘New Testament Challenge’.
– Our goal is to read all 27 books of the New Testament.
– That’s about 130 verses per day.
– We can do it if we just devote about 20 minutes per day to it.
– This is Day 1 of the Challenge.
– Tonight I’ll be reading Matthew 1-2 and Acts 1-3.
– We should never compare ourselves to others.
– We should always compare ourselves to Jesus Christ.
– We will never be as awesome as Him.
– The Bible Says – ‘Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.’
– We should always call upon God to grow us.
– We should ask Him to take us where we need to be on His journey for us.

I will not be at Life Pointe Church next Sunday morning; however, the New Testament Challenge will go forth with me on my vacation destinations. I’ll catch up with everyone again in 2 weeks on Sunday February 15TH 2009.

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Saturday Night Retro

Several weeks ago as I was cruising the Miami-Dade Metrorail into Downtown Miami we stopped at the Historic Overtown station. I glanced over at a large pile of leftover debris that sat where the Miami Arena once sat. They were building that arena when I first moved to America’s Rivera at the end of 1987. It sat there for 21 years, but its heyday was obviously the 1990s when both the Heat and the Panthers occupied the building. During much of the decade the arena was booming with business up to 5 nights a week with either basketball, hockey, arena football, or music concerts. As the 1990s came to a close its tenants began moving out and into new homes. The Miami Arena began dying a slow death. It was demolished just a few months ago:

I visited The Miami Arena when it was a fresh new modern facility. It was on a warm and rainy night on Friday June 30TH 1989 when I attended a 5-hour concert there sponsored by POWER-96. It was “Club MTV On Tour”, and ‘Downtown’ Julie Brown and the Club MTV Dancers hosted the shindig which featured some of the hottest pop acts at the time LIVE in concert including Was (Not Was), The Information Society, Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam, Tone Loc, and YES – the hottest pop act of them all in 1989 – Milli Vanilli ! Rob and Fab defined pop music in 1989 with their 5 TOP 5 smash hits in a row. This was ultimately the biggest smash of them all – “Baby Don’t Forget My Number”: