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.

Bedtime Stories

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 1, 2008

The weakening U.S. dollar may soon be the victim of yet another currency abroad. Following in the footsteps of the Canadian dollar which is now worth more than the U.S. dollar is the Australian dollar. A couple of days ago it closed just shy of U.S. 95¢. That’s up from 7 years ago in March 2001 when 2 Australian dollars equaled 1 U.S. dollar. And you wondered why there were so many Australian tourists here in the U.S. !

Daylight Savings Time does not begin this weekend. It begins on the 2ND weekend of March, so that’s next weekend. Next Sunday morning at 2 AM it will suddenly become 3 AM, and daylight will arrive later in the morning but linger on later into the evening.

Those are your ‘Bedtime Stories’ for this Saturday night. I’m getting ready to watch an hour of “Cops” on Fox, and then it’s on to bed I go. Be sure to catch this blog after about 1 PM tomorrow afternoon for the ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’.

Until then remember this:

The best part of wakin’ up is Folgers in your cup.

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The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 1, 2008

Sky: Mostly Sunny
Temperature: 62°F
Relative Humidity: 89%
Winds: N 5 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.27 Rising

My thoughts:

1. It was another 1.8-mile walk around my neighbourhood on this cool and crisp Saturday morning. I did it in a little over 35 minutes.

2. Nobody was outside this morning walking or jogging or walking their dog(s). I was all alone – just me, the continuous hits playing on my iPod Shuffle, and the coolest music video I’ve ever seen – the imagery and scenery all around me. This neighbourhood is beautiful. I wish I discovered it 13 years ago when I first moved here. I wasn’t living back then. Now I am alive !

3. Constitution, Independence, Liberty, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, and Hamilton: These are the names of the 8 streets within my neighbourhood. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin were the authors of the United States Declaration Of Independence. It was created on July 04TH 1776. The United States Constitution was created in 1787 and then ratified in 1788.

4. During my Active Duty Air Force years I had to run a mile-and-a-half once a year within a specified period of time. I always beat the time, but I never enjoyed it. Some 20 years later I walk that same distance once a week, and I love it. I actually look forward to Saturday mornings because of the walk. It’s a physical walk that symbolizes my spiritual walk with my loving friends and family as we follow the ultimate Leader – The King Of Kings.

5. 2007 was the year that everything changed for me in my Life. I’m not re-living 2007 again. I’m making 2008 even better. It’s one thing to wake up from the darkness of night (1967-2006). It’s another thing to chase that daylight and make an impact in my Life. That’s what I’m all about for 2008. I’m ready to take the stand and be ‘Fully Engaged’.

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You know that Spring is almost here when Major League Baseball is already playing exhibition games. Our Florida Marlins played two games today as they literally split-up into two teams. One team beat the Washington Nationals 4-1 and the other team lost to the Baltimore Orioles 7-5. Yesterday the Marlins thrashed the Orioles 16-3, and the day before that they tied the Nationals 3-3.

The National Weather Service in Miami announced today that the three Winter months of December, January, and February were the warmest Winter season in 76 years – and the second warmest on record. That statistic applies only to Miami International Airport. It does not necessarily apply to Homestead because as we know our weather here can be very different than what is going on at the airport some 30 miles away. Case-in-point here in Homestead we bottomed out at 45°F and 51°F over the past two mornings. At MIA – 50°F and 56°F respectively. We were 5°F colder on both mornings.

Well those are your ‘Bedtime Stories’ for this Friday night. I’m currently watching “Amnesia” on NBC. I’ve got another long walk around my neighbourhood planned for tomorrow morning, so be sure to catch ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ here on this blog shortly thereafter.

Until then remember this:

Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline.

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