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

My Chevron: New-And-Improved For 2008

This is the 3RD consecutive blog entry today regarding the gridlock that I endured during my Lunch hour, but in this story there is a happy ending.

Since I couldn’t get to Racetrac to fill up with gas (because that portion of Campbell Drive was completely shut-down due to the natural gas leak) I had to go down to Chevron at the corner of Campbell Drive and Useless-One. That particular gas station was my longtime exclusive place to get gas for well over a decade, but then I stopped going there on a regular basis because it started to get frequented by homeless people laying down alongside the building early in the morning and various incidents of near criminal activity. (I nearly got mugged there one time.) If those things weren’t bad enough the gas pumps were literally crumbling before my very eyes. I was scared to pump gas there for fear of either getting robbed or having the gas pump I was using disintegrate or even worse – catch on fire and explode.

TODAY was a different situation. That Chevron gas station has recently been renewed and rejuvenated with all-new state-of-the-art gas pumps. It was a total pleasure to fill-up my Saturn with 10.730 gallons of regular gasoline at $3.099 per gallon for a total cost of $33.25. I’ll be back for more in about 15 days. Just keep it safe for me to do so.

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Food

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

TODAY I picked-up Lunch at the new China Yan take-out restaurant in Homestead’s Oasis Plaza – the same one that Casavana Cuban Cuisine is located in. (I adore mentioning Casavana in my blogs as often as possible because it brings in the heavy traffic. There goes another 50 hits !)

I got the Beef & Broccoli with the Won Ton Soup. The meal was made for one with a hearty appetite (that’s me), and it was quite good. Despite the nearly 45 minutes from the time that I picked it up to the time that I arrived back at my desk at work (because of the MASSIVE gridlock that I ranted about in my previous blog entry) the food and the soup was still piping HOT !

The only negative regarding this meal was the lack of a fortune cookie !  (I didn’t notice that until I got back to my desk.)

Since I received no fortune cookie, and bonafide club members worldwide are getting restless I have pulled a fortune cookie message from weirdfortunecookies.com.

‘A smile is your personal welcome mat.’  🙂

How true !

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Annoyances Driving Travel

The Road Rage Files – Chapter 17

If you tried to drive anywhere within the cities of Homestead and Florida City this morning right around Lunch time then I’m guessing that you were stuck in the same ridiculous situation as me.

A construction crew accidentally cut a natural gas line located under Campbell Drive near the overpass of Florida’s Turnpike this morning, and that caused authorities to completely shut-down the southern 5 miles of the Turnpike from Biscayne Drive down to the terminus at Useless-One in Florida City as a precautionary measure.

That caused MASSIVE gridlock like I’ve never seen before in my life on Biscayne Drive (SW 288TH Street), Avocado Drive (SW 296TH Street), Kings Highway (SW 304TH Street), Campbell Drive (SW 312TH Street), Farm Life School Road (SW 162ND Avenue), and Useless-One (U.S. 1) which truly lived up to its name as it was pretty much a 10 to 15 MPH logjam of continuous vehicles northbound and southbound from Florida City to Homestead to Leisure City to Naranja Lakes and beyond.

Florida’s Turnpike eventually re-opened early this afternoon, but the damage was already done. At least all of the tourists got to take a nice slow look around our area while crawling along on Useless-One. Stop by for a longer visit next time around. Spend some money in our fine stores. Eat at our wonderful restaurants. It’s good for our economy !

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God

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

1.  You’ve got to arrive mighty early at the movie theatre on Sunday mornings to get there before Anne. She already had half of her car unloaded into the main lobby before I arrived there just a couple of minutes after 7:30 AM.

2.  The new layout and configuration of the Information Booth, Information Table, and Sales Table ‘on the right’, and Kids Life Registration Table ‘on the left’ worked out brilliantly and got rave reviews on the right, on the left, and in the middle. It really opened up the entrance leading to the Pier Hallway. The bottleneck congestion is no longer an issue.

3.  I’m not naming names, but if anyone was hiding behind Curtain # 1 ‘on the right’ then they were probably eating Dunkin Donuts, cherry turnovers, and bagels with cream cheese. Anne needs to acquire a registered copyright trademark for her out-of-this-world guava paste cream cheese. J.T. is still thinking of a good name for it.

4.  Pastor Travis talked all about ‘Vision For The People Of God’. You’ve got to see well beyond how things are to how they can, should, and need to be. If it’s not right then let’s make it right. Where do we get this vision from ?  There’s only one legitimate answer to that my friend. The Lord Almighty Above provides us with the vision, and He expects us to use the tools and talents that He gave us to get there.

5.  TODAY is my 47TH Sunday as a regular attender of Life Pointe Church, and on this 323RD day I took that next big step of my ‘Rebirthing’ by officially signing and dating on the dotted line of the Life Pointe Church Membership Covenant. I am now an official member of my Church. It is a truly distinct honour that will never be taken lightly. It is an absolute unification and commitment to God and my fellow church members that will never waver. It will only intensify.