– Let’s do this thing – in 15 words or less.
– This is the express version of the ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’.
– It’s sort of like the VH1 ‘Pop-Up Video’ of my blog.
– My buddy Phil also posts ‘Thoughts’ on a Thursday.
– This week he discusses guns and food.
– I last shot a gun in 1992.
– I had to shoot an M16 annually while in the Air Force.
– I never quite understood why.
– Today was a crazy day at work – in a good way.
– I could not have planned the events of the day as they occurred.
– I prefer carefully-scheduled days rather than chaos galore.
– It’s really arid extra dry outside.
– There’s no end in sight.
– We’ve only had about two inches of rain over the past five months.
– We need another Tropical Storm Fay.
– She gave us four-and-a-half inches of rain in two days last August.
– She single-handedly ended our last drought.
– My dear friend Ela thought I actually wrote yesterday’s ‘Bible Stories’.
– It was a copy and paste job.
– A friend sent it to me via E-Mail.
– It’s been widely circulated on the Internet for awhile now.
– Here’s one version of it here.
– Tomorrow is Friday.
– I totally dig Friday.
– The weekend starts for me on Friday (afternoon).
– This Saturday morning me and some friends are riding to Key West.
– Once there we’re gonna so be tourists on bikes.
– I last drove down there at the end of December 2006.
– I’ve been there via cruise ship more so than via car.
– I’ll be back there again via cruise ship this September.
– I wouldn’t turn down this fun day with my friends for anything !
– I filed my income tax return online last Saturday afternoon.
– I’m getting back the biggest refund in history !
– Thank You President George W. Bush !
Category: Career
– I couldn’t wait to get home to do this.
– I was thinking about it during the entire 7.2-mile drive home from work.
– It was a mad crazy day at work from 6:30 AM to 4:30 PM.
– It was fantastic then horrific then fantastic then horrific then fantastic.
– The peaks of the day were so sky high and bright.
– The valleys of the day were way down low and dark.
– Satan was working overtime all day long today.
– He was running the show trying to make Life miserable for me.
– He was pulling the strings of a few puppets at work.
– Good thing for me God was working even harder than Satan.
– He was guiding and directing me through it all.
– He’s seen it all before, so He knew where to lead me.
– God prevailed, and I left work rather happy and satisfied this afternoon.
– The me prior to 30 months ago would have failed miserably.
– The me of yesteryear may have done something that he regretted.
– I’m so blessed that God gave me a second chance at Life.
– I’ve grown up a lot since God rescued and saved me in August 2006.
– I’m in good hands with God.
– I’m currently in my 22ND year of working at the air base.
– I’ve had a lot of supervisours over the years.
– Some of them were good.
– Some of them were bad.
– Some of them deserved better.
– Some of them made my life a living hell.
– My current supervisour is by far the greatest of them all.
– That would be God.
– But my supervisour at work is the best too.
– Tomorrow is Friday.
– I dig Fridays.
– I’m looking forward to this upcoming weekend.
– I plan to file my 2008 income tax return online.
– That’ll be after a ‘Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ early on Saturday morning.
– Read all about it right here on this blog.
– Thank You – my friends – for living Life with me via this blog.
Is this what you’re lookin’ for ?
1. Every single vehicle in the U.S. should have a tiny computer chip inside that measures every relevant driving metric possible such as accelerating, decelerating, speeding, braking, and turn signal use. That computer chip could then transmit all of this data directly to all of the automobile insurance companies who could then base your premium on it. Some of you would pay thousands of dollars for auto insurance every six months, while others of us would pay very little (due to extremely safe driving habits).
2. 14-time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps was caught smoking marijuana at the University Of South Carolina a few months ago, and the pictures of him doing so have recently made the rounds on the Internet. Who would have seen this coming ? (That’s me being sarcastic.) Let’s see here he’s already been arrested for underaged drunk driving (2004), and he’s a regular of the hard party scene in Hollywood and Las Vegas. What a total shock-a-roo ! 🙄
3. On paper today – the 03RD of February – is my 23RD anniversary as an employee of the Department Of Defense. Technically I became ‘Air Force property’ during the Summer of 1984, and I went in to Active Duty in June of 1985. The revised February 03RD 1986 anniversary date is due to a break-in-service in 1993 when I wasn’t affiliated with the Air Force. Don’t make me explain it any further. The detailed explanation is really quite boring.
4. One incredible edible egg contains about 215 milligrams of cholesterol. That’s more than 71% of the recommended limit of 300 milligrams per day. As part of my Lunch today I ate two hard-boiled eggs. Oh yeah I also enjoyed a rare Breakfast courtesy of McDonald’s consisting of a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit sandwich and hash brown. Why does my chest suddenly hurt ? FLUFFY ! I’m comin’ to join ya honey !
5. OK let’s get serious here. To each and every one of you who have been following these ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ every Tuesday night for the past 14 months with no interruptions whatsoever I sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul for living Life with me on this fantastic journey. We’ve been through a lot together. I’ve shared a part of my Life with you, and many of you have shared a part of your Life with me. It certainly doesn’t end here. It totally doesn’t end soon. This journey is infinite. While I won’t be here on the blog next Tuesday night you’ve still got all of my writings to date on here. Feel free to take a flashback through time, and revisit some of our Life experiences together over the past 14 months. I’ll be back in 2 weeks as we resume these Thoughts again.
This is what happens when ‘Monday Night Countdown’ is mashed with ‘Saturday Night Retro’.
For those of you who don’t already know this my professional occupation of the past 24 years is essentially a hybrid of Computer Systems & Database Manager / Budget Analyst. I pretty much manage computers and resources for the Department Of Defense. It involves a lot of statistics and EXCEL spreadsheets !
As a kid of the 1970s into the first-half of the 1980s this is not what I had ever dreamed of doing. In fact here are the TOP 5 jobs that I was most interested in doing once I graduated from high school and college:
5. City Planner / Manager
4. NFL Field Goal Kicker
3. High School Teacher
2. TV Weatherman / Meteorologist
1. Radio Deejay / Announcer
Discuss !
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