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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Food Politics Weather

Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

Let’s do this thing:

1.  I did not vote for Barack Obama; however, I sincerely wish him the best of luck in reuniting this divided country. I really hope that he does a great job as our new President Of The United States, for if he does then he may just earn my vote in 2012. I support him as my President.

2.  I think that President Obama has the support of a large majority of Americans. That’s something that George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush never really had when they each took the oath of office. The last time we were this united for a new President was exactly 28 years ago when Ronald Reagan took over a divided and disgruntled country from Jimmy Carter.

3.  Late this morning the unmistakable aroma of hot and juicy and big and rich and delicious fried chicken permeated all throughout the parking lot of Homestead‘s Waterstone Plaza in front of Publix. That parking lot smelled so outrageously delicious that I wanted to sit right there and eat some parking spaces !  Say what ? !

4.  Don’t complain to me that we don’t have a Winter season here in America’s Riviera. We had one of our chilliest Novembers in modern history, and now January’s temperatures have been noticeably below normal. We may skirt with wind chills in the upper-30s tomorrow morning, and then on Thursday morning we may have actual temperatures approaching the freezing mark with wind chills in the upper-20s !  Global warming strikes again !

5.  A couple of people asked me why I posted this picture on Saturday morning:

The Grand Slamwich - Over 1,300 Calories Of Goodness !
The Grand Slamwich - Over 1,300 Calories Of Goodness !

It’s because I actually ate that for breakfast !  And I’ll be doing it again real soon. If you don’t believe me that I can deal with that 1,300 calorie masterpiece all by myself then I invite you to watch me LIVE and in person at Denny’s in Florida City (where all of the food is).

Those are my thoughts on this Tuesday night. Thank You for your time.

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Television

Monday Night Countdown

Here are my TOP 5 favourite daily television shows that I’ve been watching for many years:

5.  TMZ – My brother and his wife got me addicted to this entertaining piece of mess last July while I was on vacation in Texas. At first glance I was totally hooked. Now I watch it every night at 6 PM on South Florida’s MY-33.

4.  The Tonight Show With Jay Leno – I’ve seen about 99% of his nightly shows (on tape) since he took over for Johnny Carson 17 years ago. I’ll be watching his nightly 10 PM show when it debuts later this year.

3.  The Late Show With David Letterman – He’s been on late night for the past 27 years, and I’ve pretty much been there with him from the very start. He’s why I mastered the programming of a Betamax VCR all of those years ago.

2.  Live !  With Regis & Kelly – I’m at work from 9 AM to 10 AM, and so is my VCR. It records this for me every single morning. Regis Philbin is hands-down my favourite male television personality of all-time !  Oh yeah I really like Kelly too !

1.  Judge Judy – After a long hard day at work there’s nothing else that I’d rather do than to sit down, chill, and watch Judy dispense justice with an attitude. I think that she’s the smartest woman on television today. I totally dig Judy !

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Weather

Homestead Cold Weather Alert

You think it’s chilly now ?  You ain’t seen nothin’ yet !

Get ready for 40 hours of really cold weather here in America’s Riviera. In fact it’ll be the coldest 1 day and 2 nights in over 12 months !

It all goes down starting at around 6 PM this Tuesday night. I’m forecasting your early morning temperatures on Wednesday morning here in Homestead to bottom out in the lower-40s; however, northerly winds will be gusting to up to 25 MPH. That means that we could have wind chills down to around the freezing mark !

During the day on Wednesday we will struggle to reach the lower-60s !

Temperatures plummet again late on Wednesday night into early on Thursday morning, and they could actually drop into the upper-30s with less wind. There’s actually a remote possibility that frost could develop in the rural farmland areas west of Krome Avenue.

If you love cold weather then get ready for 40 hours of it starting Tuesday night !

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God People

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

It’s my takeaways in roughly 15 words or less:

– It’s my 2ND anniversary at Life Pointe Church.
– I walked in via the front doors for the first time on this January Sunday in 2007.
– This morning I opened the front doors during the 2ND service with Tom.
– I opened them just as they were opened for me exactly two years ago.
– The first person that introduced herself to me back then was Anne J.
– She introduced me to Casey W. – the Youth Pastor at the time.
– For the first month Anne J. thought that I was 24.
– I eventually told her my real age.
– She eventually put me on her Hospitality staff.
– The rest is 2 years of history – the best two years of my entire Life.
– This year is going to be even better than the first two.
– That’s because I have higher expectations this year for my journey.
– I refuse to be content and satisfied on this journey.
– I will never be there where I need to be.
– I will always strive for higher and better.
– I will never be as righteous or as effective as Jesus.

Philippians 3:13-14 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
13  No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,
14  I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

1 Corinthians 4:12-13
12  We work wearily with our own hands to earn our living. We bless those who curse us. We are patient with those who abuse us.
13  We appeal gently when evil things are said about us. Yet we are treated like the world’s garbage, like everybody’s trash — right up to the present moment.

Matthew 5:11-12
11  “God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers.
12  Be happy about it !  Be very glad !  For a great reward awaits you in heaven. And remember, the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way.

John 14:12
12  “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.