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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The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

Sky: Sunny & Clear
Temperature: 78°F
Relative Humidity: 67%
Winds: E 9 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 29.97 Rising

My thoughts:

1.  NO – Your eyes are not deceiving you. This is really an edition of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’. I just had to take advantage of this extremely unusual cool and dry air over Homestead this late in the winter season (which incidentally I forecasted with precision accuracy nearly a week ago). When dewpoints reach the lower-60s in late-May in Homestead you just know that you are living through a strange weather phenomenon. Of course if you have no clue what a dewpoint is then you probably just think that it’s really sunny outside !  8)

2.  Before I even ventured on this ‘Walk-A-Thon’ I went over to Florida City (where all of the food is), and I ate the mother of all MASSIVE breakfasts to end all MASSIVE breakfasts big and small – at Denny’s !  I walked in, I was treated with love, care, and respect, and I ate one of the biggest meals that I can remember in recent short-term memory. Everything was just oh-so-perfect with this breakfast experience – including the environment, the surrounding clientele, and the rockin’ music that was playing in the background. I think I found my new favourite breakfast hang-out joint on future Saturday (or holiday) mornings.

3.  I ate so much food that I just had to walk it all off, and so I did via a basic ‘old-school’ standard-issue 1.3-mile walk around the circumference of my beautiful neighbourhood. I did the walk in a little more than 23½-minutes, and I walked to the fantastic beat of my glorious Christian rock, pop, and hip hop music on my green 2GB iPod Shuffle. Editorial Comment Alert – If I were the Music Director of the main lobby of Life Pointe Church on Sunday mornings then I would play my iPod Shuffle in lieu of the current music selection on the iPod that has been played endlessly for about a year now. But that’s just me.

4.  One side of Lakeshore’s dumpsters were clean and empty. The other side were dirty, full, and overflowing onto the ground. Gee I wonder which side the City Of Homestead hasn’t gotten to yet ? !  The north side is anxiously awaiting with baited breath the emptying of our dumpsters.

5.  I guarantee at least one more edition of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ this Summer – on location from the River Walk in San Antonio Texas. Look for it during the week of the 4TH Of July. 

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Holidays

Bedtime Stories

This is the 50TH edition of the ‘Bedtime Stories’. It’s after 10 PM on a Sunday night, and normally I’d be getting ready to go to bed at this time so that I can get about 7 hours of sleep before I have to wake up and go to work bright and early on a Monday morning. But tomorrow is Memorial Day – the day that is set aside each year to honour our fallen military heroes during times of war.

http://www.usmemorialday.org – In Memory Of Our Honored Dead

http://www.history.com/minisites/memorial – Memorial Day

http://www.memorialdayfoundation.org – The Memorial Day Foundation

http://www1.va.gov/opa/speceven/memday/index.asp – U.S. Department Of Veterans Affairs

http://www.remember.gov – U.S. White House Commission On Remembrance

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God

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

1.  I arrived at the movie theatre at my normal time this morning, and Pastor Paul was already sweating up a storm upon my arrival. He totally dreams of setup on Sunday morning, and come to think of it – so do I. Transforming a place of Hollywood movie magic into a place of worship within a matter of a few hours late on Saturday night and early on Sunday morning can only be described as miraculous. We do it all for Him.

2.  I was at the Kids’ Life Registration table when Kelly, Kourtney, McKenna, and Blake checked in. I said ‘Hi’ to everyone. Kourtney ran away from me, McKenna ignored me, and Blake looked straight at me and cracked a smile as if to say ‘Yeah, I know my name !’ Oh yeah – and Kelly told me to fix her up with a cup of coffee with lots of cream and sugar. Apparently Kelly thought that it was Mother’s Day rather than Memorial Day. It’s all good, but Kelly got her own coffee !  😯

3.  A rockin’ edition of ‘Praise & Worship’ was conducted by Jesse, Alex, another young skinny dude with long hair and tattoos, and Julie (of ‘Richard & Julie’ fame). If you weren’t up on your feet and singing and dancing and clapping your hands then you … were probably sitting down and enjoying the music of God in your own special way. That’s cool too.

4.  Pastor Travis wrapped-up our month-long ‘Fortune Cookie’ message series with a teaching that was subtitled ‘A Person Often Meets His Destiny On The Road He Took To Avoid It ?’. Our Life is the cookie. Our future is the fortune. Jesus is holding the cookie.

Romans 8:38-39 (NLT, 2ND Ed.):
38  And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow — not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.
39  No power in the sky above or in the earth below — indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

5.  What happened over the course of the next 3½-hours (immediately following the conclusion of the 10:30 AM service) can only be described as mass chaos to an exponential degree. I won’t mention most of the specifics except for the highlight of it all which featured Richie N. and I as the only two people to show up for a picnic and baptism at Homestead Bayfront Park. Apparently we made it in to the crowded park just before it was closed (by Miami-Dade County Police) to new patrons, but we didn’t know it at the time. I later found out (while I was back at home eating dinner) that the picnic had been moved over to Keys Gate Park (just a couple of miles away). One of these months we are going to have a normal picnic and baptism. I’d like to be there for that one !

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Saturday Morning Shenanigans

B U G S – The bugs are back in town here in Homestead due to all of the recent heavy rains. You may be thinking to yourself, ‘Hey – Wait a minute. I live in Homestead. It hasn’t rained since March !’  You may also be thinking to yourself, ‘No doubt. I thought the sky was caving in on us yesterday afternoon. My yard turned into a giant lake !  My new patio furniture was thrown by the funnel cloud into the canal !’ There is rain all around us. Some of us have received a lot of it this past week, and some of us are still living in a dust bowl. Pretty soon all of us will get a lot of rain, and the bugs will flock to Homestead on their Summer break. Get ready to be eaten alive by little itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny mouths with glow-in-the-dark green eyes.

G A S – I filled-up my car this morning with not quite 11 gallons of gas at Chevron on Useless-One at Campbell Drive at the remarkable price of $4.059 per gallon. That’s about 15 to 20 cents per gallon higher than every other gas station in the general vicinity of that Chevron, but I am kinda sorta semi-loyal to Chevron, and I really wanted to use my fresh new Chevron-Texaco credit card this morning for the first time. $4.059 may seem outrageous to a majority of whining and complaining Americans, but $4.059 for the equivalent of a gallon of gas anywhere in Europe is known as ‘the good old days of the 1990s’.

J A V A – Speaking of items that we Americans love to spend a lot of money on – Starbucks in Homestead – not to be confused with Starbucks in Florida City – is OPEN for BUSINESS !  OK calm down Travis. The drive-thru is open for business. The inside of the joint is apparently not quite ready for customer utilization, so you’ll just have to wait a little while longer to sit inside for hours on your wireless Apple Mac.

One final item of interest – Many of the mega-stores and restaurants at the first phase of the Homestead Pavilion shopping, dining, and entertainment complex at Campbell Drive and the Turnpike are expected to make their grand openings between the middle of October and the middle of November – just in time for the NASCAR Championship Series at the Homestead-Miami Speedway and of course the Christmas 2008 shopping season.