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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Driving Food Holidays Movies

My 111-Hour Holiday Weekend

Here’s how I spent the first two hours of my long holiday weekend:

  • I spent $3.119 per gallon on regular gas filling up my car at Racetrac. That’s a new all-time record high for me – surpassing the previous record high of $3.099 per gallon set on 4 separate occasions in 2006 and 2007. Luckily I only fill up my car with gas about once every 2½ to 3 weeks. It’s cool to to live and work within 7 miles of each other. Just remember that while gas prices may be at an all-time record high here stateside we are still one of the TOP 10 cheapest countries in the entire world as far as that’s concerned.
  • I saw a movie at the Flagship Cinemas 14 here in Homestead for the first time since last September. I saw “One Missed Call” which falls under the category of ‘horrifying bonechilling thriller’. I wasn’t too scared. I was more confused at the plot than I was scared. There were 3 of us in that theatre. The other two giggled occasionally. I was too confused to even giggle.
  • I went to McDonald’s after the movie to get myself a large hazelnut iced coffee and two apple pies. It’s the first time that I’ve ever gotten one of their iced coffees. It was refreshingly delicious, and I think that I’ll be back for more in the future.
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God Movies

Church At The Box Office

I’m gonna go see a movie tomorrow afternoon after work as a cool way to kick-off my 111-hour holiday weekend, and I’m gonna go to our very own Flagship Cinemas 14 here in Homestead to do so.

During the final 9 months of 2006 (the year that the movie theatre opened for business) I saw 13 movies there. 

Exactly one year ago this weekend the movie theatre became the place where I go to church – or rather – the place where I meet my church every Sunday morning. I don’t actually ‘go to church’. I am the church. We are the church. A church is not a building with a slanted roof and a cross high atop it. A church is a living breathing spiritual body. We simply meet corporately in a public gathering place, and that place just happens to be our local movie theatre.

Since I’ve been meeting my church there I’ve only actually seen 4 movies there over the course of the entire year that was 2007. So that’s 13 movies in 9 months before I met my church there, and only 4 movies in 12 months since then.

Now that I’ve finally figured it all out and realized that the movie theatre itself is not the church that I go to but simply a cool meeting place for the church that I am a member of I feel that I can comfortably go to the movies again to be entertained, and to also support the movie theatre itself (which appears to be struggling for survival).

There’s a bunch of cool movies out there that I want to see, and that’s what I will start to do again on a more frequent basis. I’ll be there tomorrow afternoon, and then I’ll be there again bright and early this Sunday morning to celebrate my one-year-anniversary with my church. As our Pastor states – we do not go to church or leave from the church because we need to be the church – no matter where we meet and where we go.

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Blogging

Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

ALWAYS HONEST … SOMETIMES BRUTAL !

1.  Another brief cool spell is upon us aqui en Homestead. I turned off my A.C. last night, and this afternoon one of my sliding glass doors is open. It’s a nice comfy 76°F here in my living room. We’re dropping down to the mid-50s again tomorrow morning – just like this morning.

2.  I think I have my first vacation planned for 2008. I’m going to San Antonio Texas to hang out at the River Walk with my brother at the end of June. San Antonio is the Orlando of Texas.

3.  I’m thinking about doing a very special upcoming edition of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ on-location at Monkey Jungle.

4.  Who cares about the ongoing writer’s strike. I managed to record nearly 10 hours of high-quality television programming last night via my 3 VCRs (Arthur, Barney, and Charley). Tonight I’ve got another 6 hours of recording planned. The ‘VHS Trio’ are workin’ overtime !

5.  Further proof that I am 40-years-old (pushing 41) – Less than a week after I sprained my lower back muscle on a Sunday morning at Life Pointe Church I hurt the right-side of my neck and my right shoulder while sleeping awkwardly this past Saturday morning. It’s 84-hours later, and I’m still in moderate pain in that general area. I’m fragile.

6.  ‘The Major’s Life Blog’ was recently described by a fellow believer as a ‘ministry’. I can dig that !  It’s a cool form of communication for me to document the life and times of this fantastic journey that I’m on. God gave me the talent of writing, and I’m using it for good. He is reading my blog every day.

7.  Contrary to possible belief I am not a secret minority investor or owner of Casavana Cuban Cuisine.

8.  The Home Depot at Biscayne Drive and Speedway Boulevard is now open for business. There should be no shortage of home supplies here in the Greater Homestead / Florida City area with two Home Depots and a Lowe’s within 8 miles of each other.

9.  The 12TH season of “The Amazing Race” on CBS airs its finale this upcoming Sunday night at 8 PM EST. I’m rooting for Nicolas and Donald to take the cool mil.

10.  I’m taking the day off from work this upcoming Friday. With Monday as a Federal holiday that gives me a 4-day / 111-hour weekend to catch up on stuff at home. I can’t wait to kick it all off at 3 PM this Thursday afternoon.

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God

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

SPECIAL TWO-FOR-ONE SALE !

1.  Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.
This may be the wisest fortune cookie message I have ever received. This is a ‘Chasing Daylight‘ fortune here. Look forward. Proceed. Move forward. Don’t look back at the darkness. Look ahead at the light. Seize every moment in time.

2.  Avoid senseless contradictions with others.
This seems like it’s straight out of the Scriptures. Don’t put on a show. Don’t be one person on Sunday morning at church and then a totally different person at all other times. If you are following God on this fantastic journey then you should be doing so 24-7. You are the hands and feet of Him on His Earth. You are a Disciple of Him. Be the Disciple that you are all of the time. Everyone is watching, but most importantly He is always watching.