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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Blogging Food Weather

Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

1. TODAY is the exact 11-month anniversary of this durable weekly series here on my blog. It was Tuesday October 16TH 2007 when it made its nonchalant debut back on the old MySpace blog. It’s a Tuesday night tradition on here. It’s our flagship weekly series. I think that an all-points bulletin or perhaps an amber alert could be issued for me if I don’t do this on any given Tuesday night.

2.  A totally impromptu and definitely spontaneous blog entry last Wednesday afternoon regarding Chuck Norris’s upcoming appearance on Larry King Live ! (four hours later that night) resulted in thick dense rush hour traffic clicking over to this blog. It enabled this blog to experience its busiest Thursday and Friday in history, as well as the busiest week overall (by a MASSIVE margin). That single blog entry is suddenly approaching the TOP 10 (of all-time) out of over 500 posted !

3.  Here’s a restaurant that I’ve been going to forever that just seems to get better and better over time – Peking House – Homestead‘s # 1 Joint For Chinese Food, Music, & Fun !  Today’s Lunch buffet was absolutely crammed with hot delicious food just 10 minutes after opening time at 11 AM. That joint was jumpin’. It was really jumpin’. By 11:30 AM it was nearly packed in there !

4.  After Lunch I went over to the Life Pointe Church offices where I said ‘Hi’ to this smart cat, this creative dude, and this crazy guy with the really weird yellow hair. Oh yeah I also hung out with my fellow 41-year-old friend for about 2 hours of topical discussion spanning some 2,500 years of history !  I loved every single second of it too !

5.  At the present time there are absolutely no named Tropical Storms or Hurricanes, no numbered Tropical Depressions, and no areas of mere concern out in the Gulf Of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Atlantic Ocean. This statement was brought to you by our fine friends over there at the ‘What A Relief’ bureau.

Have A Great Tuesday Night My Friends !

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Blogging

Blatant Promotion

TOMORROW afternoon I’ve got my ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’. It’s a weekly tradition that’s been goin’ strong for the past 11 months now. That makes it the longest-running weekly series here on my blog. Be sure to be here as the Tuesday night blogging saga continues.

Late last night (with the conclusion of ‘Sunday Night Football’) I clinched another winning record with ‘My NFL Weekend Game Picks’. I’ll have ‘The Results Show’ on here on Wednesday night.

Thanks for blogging with me today, and I’ll leave you with these interesting pictures of some cool sheep that are actually made out of old recycled telephones and cords. Check it out:

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Radio

Monday Night Countdown

This week’s countdown takes me back in time to the 1970s into the 1980s living in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C.

These are my TOP 5 most memorable radio stations during that time-frame:

Honourable Mention – WPGC ‘AM & FM Morningside’ (TOP 40)

5.  Q-107 (WRQX, TOP 40) – It’s still WRQX today, but it’s MIX-107.3 (HOT A.C.)

4.  WAVA 105.1 – This was the D.C. area’s greatest TOP 40 station – EVER !

3.  WASH-FM (97.1) – This station hasn’t changed much during my entire lifetime. It’s the first FM station that I ever listened to (mid-1970s) because it’s what my Dad always listened to in his car while driving on the Beltway.

2.  WWDC AM 1260 – This was the very first radio station that I ever listened to as a little kid in Bowie Maryland with my very first radio. They were a TOP 40 station on the AM dial. You know – back when AM radio was far more popular than FM.

1.  WJOK AM 1150 – This was an innovative all-comedy radio station that pretty much lived (successfully) for a single year – 1983. I was totally in to this station 25 years ago, and I still have hours upon hours of old cassette tapes that I recorded of it while I listened to it. Long live those days and nights of Walt Howard, Evan Haning, Mike Morin, Brad Krantz, K. Michael Silva, and others.

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God

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

1.  TODAY was our first Sunday morning with our new three-service schedule. I had previously forecasted approximately 35% of our total church attendance to be there bright and early for the 8:30 AM service, and 45% to be fashionably late for the 11:00 AM service. I figured that the middle 9:45 AM service would be the one that would be lightly attended. As it turns out all three services were solid as a rock and rather evenly distributed in attendance. Flagship Cinemas dreams of the number of people that we had in their building this morning during the regular work and school week.

2.  Pastor Travis kicked-off a fresh new message series this morning, and this time we went ‘old school’ with the Old Testament. It’s a three-week study of a cat named Habakkuk. You never heard of him ?  Me either until just recently. He’s an obscure minor prophet – one of the least known of a dozen of them. The Bible shares conversations that he had with God. He’s asking Him all of the tough questions, and he wants answers from The Lord Almighty. He says that God doesn’t seem to care. He says that God isn’t doing much. He says that what God is doing just doesn’t seem fair.

3.  God sees the whole picture. He is the only one who does. That is why He does things His way for His reasons in His own time. It is fine to question God at any time. In fact it is beneficial to do so. That is what a deeply-committed believer in Him does. It’s one who expresses questions for God and faith in Him simultaneously.

See what my friend Ritz had to say about this glorious Sunday morning at the LPC !