Author: Chris M. Day

I'm 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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Driving Food Health Humor Shopping

Saturday Morning Shenanigans

CHEVRON – I filled up my car with regular 87 octane gasoline this morning at my favourite Chevron on the congested Homestead corner of Useless-One y Campbell Drive (SW 312TH St. / NE 8TH St.). It’s my first fill-up in exactly 14 days, and that’s a few days below my overall average. Typically I can go up to 17 to 19 days before I need to fill-up with gas. I spent $4.069 per gallon of gas (nipping the previous all-time record by a mere penny), and I spent a total of $45.00 for the fill-up (nipping the previous all-time record by a single dollar). KA-CHING !

WALGREENS – The highlight here is that I now have enough Omega-3 Fish Oil (1200 milligrams per softgel) to take me into January 2009 providing that I take one of them per day every day until then. (They had a ‘Buy 1 Get 1 Free’ sale on them this week.) I adore the bargain$. THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN’ ‘BOUT, WILLIS !

STARBUCKS – I visited our Homestead Starbucks for the first time ever, and what a quaint little place it is with such a quaint little parking lot and a bustling drive-thru. Recently my friend Phil teased me for only going to Starbucks for the ‘frou-frou designer’ espresso coffees that cost over $4. He told me that I should try out their regular coffees that cost under $2. As is always the case for me at Starbucks I get lost, dazed, confused, and sometimes even dizzy looking at their all-encompassing menu board. (Travis I am not.) In my entire life I can still count on two hands the number of times I have been to Starbucks. Have no fear my dear, for I received excellent customer service from my personal barista behind the counter. She helped me to make a decision on what I really wanted. I got the grande Pike Place Roast ($1.89) with caramel flavour added ($0.30), and also a pastry item. My barista also told me all about the benefits of purchasing a Starbucks card. As it turns out I could have gotten the caramel flavour added free-of-charge if I already had the card. I may get it. The coolest part of this particular Starbucks is that they open for bid-ness at 5:30 AM during the week. I totally dig that since that is a half-hour before I need to be at work. BOO-YAH !

… And those – my friends – are my ‘Saturday Morning Shenanigans’ …

I HEARD THAT !

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Blogging People

Friday Night Blogroll Review

Here are this week’s best blog entries from my favourite bloggers in the blogosphere:

Pastor Travis addresses some of the growing pains that we are currently experiencing at Life Pointe Church at Flagship Cinemas in Homestead.

It’s Phil’s BIGGEST ‘Thoughts’ in history !

Diego walkin’ !

Ms. Annie H. reports on ‘The Party !’ at Kids’ Life.

Ritz Crackah posted his ‘Belated Sunday Goosfaba’ on Monday, and he’s ‘Got Funk’.

Is Kelly pregnant again ?

Read all about Luci’s vacation with her family in Orlando, in the Everglades, and in her backyard. There’s water everywhere !

Pastor Nathan pointed out the obvious – that in order to keep his tens of loyal fans locked in to his blog he needs to be more consistent by adding new content to it on a more regular basis.

Owen – Movie Star ? 

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Food Health Shopping

The Major’s Walk-A-Thon – Summertime Special

This ‘Summertime Special’ edition of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ comes to you from The Falls Shopping Center in South Miami-Dade County Florida:

1.  Yesterday was my birthday, so that only means one thing today – it was time for my regularly-scheduled annual eye exam. (My eye doctor has his office adjacent to LensCrafters at The Falls.)

2.  If you’re not getting an annual eye exam then you must be mad crazy like that. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had 20/20 eyesight for your entire life (which is extremely rare). What you don’t know about your eyes could hurt you in the future. It doesn’t take very long for a thorough eye exam, and it’s very painless. Don’t be a wimp. Go and get your eyes checked for Goodness sake !  😯

3.  My least favourite part of the eye exam is also painless, and it brings back hazy memories of the 1980s and 1990s. It’s when my eye doctor dillates my pupils so that they are MASSIVE !  He puts these drops into my eyes, and then within 30 minutes everything gets very blurry and my eyes become extremely sensitive to sunlight (or simple daylight for that matter). Once the pupils are GIGANTIC he checks them for various diseases. As I type this exactly 4 hours after he initially put those drops into my eyes to begin the dillation process my pupils are still much larger than normal, but my eyesight and sensitivity to light has slowly returned back to normal again.

4.  During the peak of the MASSIVE pupils I continued a longtime annual tradition by running – not walking from LensCrafters over to T.G.I. Friday’s to consume a MASSIVE Lunch to complement my MASSIVE pupils. I received excellent customer service from my waiter, and the food was absolutely scrumptious. I adored the ‘Parmesan-Crusted Chicken’. It’s ‘a sautéed chicken breast basted with Caesar dressing – then finished with a Parmesan-crust topping.’ It’s ‘served with three-cheese tortellini tossed in spinach alfredo sauce and a side of our fresh tomato salad.’ Oh yeah for dessert I dug an ENORMOUS chunk of the legendary ‘Vanilla Bean Cheesecake’. I didn’t regret it pal !

5.  In addition to the eye exam and the Lunch I also did a fair amount of walking all around The Falls Shopping Center (a few times around). That makes it a valid ‘Walk-A-Thon’. I’ve been visiting The Falls longer than any other shopping mall here in South Florida – over 20 years. When it all comes down to it The Falls provides the most pleasant (and most natural) shopping environment of any shopping mall that I know of. They don’t have very many stores that I’m a fan of, and their longtime movie theatre which was once state-of-the-art (back in 1990) is now totally obsolete. But it just feels right to walk around that shopping mall at a nice slow pace and glance into the stores to see what I’m not buying. If I lived within the surrounding neighbourhoods then I’d probably be mall-walking around The Falls every week – even in the heart of the summertime. That place is so cool !

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Blogging People

Blatant Promotion

OK friends it’s really late on a Thursday night (10:40 PM is ‘really late’ for me). I’ll be heading to bed within the next 20 minutes or so. I’m really looking forward to the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ tomorrow night. The usual blogging suspects will be front and center – Travis, Phil, Jesse, Kelly, Nathan, and Harmony – as well as a couple of our supporting stars – Ritz and Ms. Annie H. (in a rare ‘FNBR’ appearance). Be sure to catch the fun as it drops LIVE on Friday night here on the big blog.

On Saturday morning I’ll tell you all about my ‘Shenanigans’ at a local dining establishment for Breakfast.

Be sure to keep it locked in to this same blog channel. You won’t regret it pal !

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