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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

You’ve been waiting about 168 hours for this to come around again, and so here it is. LIVE IT UP !

1.  We were treated with a rare mid-May cold front here in South Florida late last night. After sizzing hot temperatures approaching the mid-90s over the past several days we plummeted down to the refreshing low-60s (!) this morning, and this afternoon we’re struggling to reach the mid-80s !  I dig that !

2.  Call me crazy, but “Cotton Eye Joe” by Rednex may just be the greatest hillbilly techno smash ever made. You can watch the original 1994 music video of it via my ‘Bedtime Stories’ from last night.

3.  Last week’s ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’ became our most-read blog entry ever within about 48 hours of its posting. Many of the top search engine terms that have brought all of this big-city rush hour traffic over to my blog include the stores Bed Bath & Beyond and Circuit City – and the words ‘bankruptcy’ and ‘hoax’. Thank You fans of both of those stores for discovering my blog and realizing that it is indeed an Internet hoax. Your stores are open for business. We’re actually getting a brand new Circuit City right here in Homestead !

4.  I ate more popcorn in one sitting at Travis and Kelly‘s house this past Sunday night during the “Survivor Micronesia” finale than in any other previous sitting in quite possibly my entire life and Life. I actually don’t like to eat popcorn, but once I get started with it I become addicted to it. 250 kernels of popcorn later …

5.  The grass is always greener where the sprinklers are – and where the dogs go to play.

6.  I gave blood this morning at a local medical facility in Downtown Homestead. The lady that drew the blood knew what she was doing. She had that needle in and out of my arm cleanly in no time flat. She got what she needed, and I was on my way with no pain or jaundice this time around.

7.  I wasn’t at work from 6 to 10 AM this morning, and during that time I was a wanted man. It seems that everyone needed me and nothing was working right during my absence. Lines began to form around me upon my arrival at work. I nearly had to issue out numbers on little paper tabs.

8.  I enjoyed Breakfast with my blogging brothers Travis and Phil this morning at the Cracker Barrel in Florida City (where all the food is). We mainly discussed blogging and bloggers. Travis and I agreed that LL Phil J’s blog is being subsidized by both of our blogs. It’s all good.

9.  Incidentally I totally adore eating MASSIVE meals with buddies who also adore eating MASSIVE meals. If you’re gonna sit at my table at the restuarant then you best be eatin’ good in the neighbourhood. That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout !

10.  I’m grabbing at straws for this week’s 10TH ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thought’, and that begs me to wonder why would you grab a bunch of straws in the first place ?  If you’re indecisive and don’t know what to do or where to go next then just do something. Put the straws down, and seize that moment. It could be the moment that defines your future and determines how everything else will evolve from that moment forward. Know what I mean, Gene ? 

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Bedtime Stories

Greetings Friends !  We’ve made it – to the 44TH edition of the continuing late-night saga that is the ‘Bedtime Stories’ here on ‘The Major’s Life Blog’. Incidentally when I revitalized this blog and gave it a new look a couple of weeks ago the subtitle of this blog mysteriously dropped off. You may recall that it read ‘The Life & Times Of Major Hitwaves (AKA Chris M. Day)’. I didn’t remove that subtitle. This new blog design theme simply doesn’t display it. So now you know what happened there – for the few of you that actually noticed it missing.

I get to stay up late tonight (sort of). There will be no 5:15 AM wake-up call for me tomorrow morning. I’m gonna be a daredevil on-the-edge and set my alarm clock for a mad crazy 6:00 AM !  I don’t have to be at work at 6 AM, but I do have to be at a local medical facility later on in the morning to give blood as part of ‘Operation Reduce Bad Cholesterol By 40% In 2008’. This will be the first blood work that will be done since I’ve been on the Lipitor, so we’ll see how that goes. Right after I dump the blood I’m speeding over to the Cracker Barrel to eat my MASSIVE meal of the day (Breakfast in lieu of Lunch). There’s a tall stack of French Toast that’s waiting for me over there with my name on it written in pure butter !

Be sure to hang out with me on the blog tomorrow afternoon for your weekly ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’. You just never know what could be on my mind on a Tuesday night. It’s the most spontaneous blog entry of the week. It should go LIVE shortly after 5 PM EDT.

Until we meet again have yourself a safe, peaceful, and blessed Monday night with your loved ones, and – oh yeah – remember this:

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Bedtime Stories

Greetings my friends, and welcome aboard to the Friday night edition of ‘Bedtime Stories’.

Here’s a few ‘quick hits’ for you:

+ Friday May 09TH has become the ‘best day ever’ here on this blog, as we’ve shattered every record in the book for a single day in our history. We shattered the previous Friday record for unique hits by well over 40%, and we beat the previous ‘best day ever’ record by over 10% !

+ This comes hot on the heels following the best Thursday ever !

+ Yesterday’s edition of the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’ has totally blown up on the Internet. It is expected to become the most-read blog entry ever in our history in just a few more days !

+ It’s Day 4 of my 4TH cold over the past 6 months, and I am now on the road to recovery. I can actually breathe out of both of my nostrils. My voice is still weak, but I expect it to come around to normal by Sunday morning.

+ I worked a long day today – over 9 hours without a lunch break. When I got off of work at 3 PM all I wanted to do was to eat food, so I hopped on Florida’s Turnpike and headed southbound because all of the food is in Florida City. I found it at the Cracker Barrel. While I was waiting for my food I passed the time away by texting a message to LL Phil J‘s cell phone. It was an ‘UnTwitter’ message. 😉

+ I watched 3 excellent episodes of “Survivor Micronesia” back-to-back-to-back this afternoon, and now I only have one more remaining (last night’s episode) before I am all caught up. I’ll be able to watch the three-hour season finale extravaganza LIVE this Sunday night starting at 8 PM on CBS-TVI’M SAYIN’ !

OK that’s ‘Bedtime Stories’ for you. Be sure to hang out on the blog tomorrow (Saturday) for more fun and surprises !

Have a safe, peaceful, and blessed evening with your loved ones.

Good Night Everyone !  Good Night Kelly !

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Food God Philosophy

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

I received two fortune cookies with my take-out Lunch this morning:

‘You emerge victoriously from the maze you’ve been traveling in.’
(This is the second Tuesday in a row that I received this particular fortune.)

Fortune Cookie

‘Two small jumps are sometimes better than one big leap.’
(So true. So true. It doesn’t matter how long it takes for you to get there. The important thing is that you eventually arrive – even if it takes you me 40 years to get there.)