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The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

Sky: Mostly Cloudy
Temperature: 73°F
Relative Humidity: 77%
Winds: E 5 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.02 Rising

My thoughts:

1.  It’s the first Saturday morning of May, and the walk continues. We’re enjoying an unusually cool Spring here in South Florida. Later this month the rainy season should be kicking-off, and that will pretty much bring an end to these weekly walks for the season.

2.  It was another 2.2-mile walk for me this morning, and I did it in 40 minutes flat. That’s an average of 3.3 MPH. I always feel refreshed and alive during and after the walk. I think that’s the whole point of exercising.

3.  U.S. 1 is known as the ’18-Mile Stretch’ from Florida City to Key Largo. I’ve got the ’18-Minute Stretch’. That’s the middle portion of my walk that takes me from the main gate of my neighbourhood, completely around its southern hemisphere, down the spine, and back to the main gate again.

4.  2 little dogs were out for some early-morning shenanigans without their owner. I think they escaped from their patio. They were having a good ole time running all around in the street and on the grass – until they saw me !  That’s when they ran behind me and straight outta sight – probably back to where they belong. I wonder which one of those little dogs was the trouble-maker ?  Which one said to the other one, ‘Hey, follow me. We’re gonna go out and paint this town. We’re gonna go and get us into some monkey business this morning. Let’s go dog !’

5.  Most neighbourhoods have a lack of parking. My neighbourhood has an over-abundance of parking. I think we may even have one parking space for every man, woman, and child that lives here. At least it seems that way.

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The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

Sky: Partly Cloudy
Temperature: 72°F
Relative Humidity: 68%
Winds: E 6 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.06 Rising

My thoughts:

1.  God woke me up at around 6:40 this morning, tapped me on the shoulder, told me to get up and take a shower, and then insisted that I get a-steppin’ with my physical walk around my neighbourhood. He wouldn’t let me sleep in this morning and waste away the daylight. I obey Him.

2.  I walked 2.2 miles again this morning – the same as the past two Saturday mornings. I also shaved another minute off of the time that it took me to walk it – just a tad bit more than 40 minutes.

3.  It was quite comfortable outside this morning. It wasn’t really cool (72°F), but it was rather dry (68% relative humidity), so it felt cooler than it really was. In the middle of the Summer South Floridians typically wake up to temperatures right around 80°F with relative humidity readings above 80%. I won’t be walking in that hot and steamy mess !

4.  ‘The cat by the dumpster’ was there again. He looked at me with his sad yellow eyes with no fear. I think if I dropped a few morsels of tasty food by his side then he would have gobbled it all up in a split second and then followed me for the remaining mile-plus of my walk. 10 years later …

5.  Following the walk I eventually ended up at the Dunkin’ Donuts at the northern edge of Florida City for blueberry coffee, a sausage, egg, and cheese croissant breakfast sandwich, and crispier, juicier, tastier oven-toasted hash browns. You just can’t go wrong with that combo. I think that the blueberry coffee (with cream and sugar) is one of the best hot beverages that you can possibly buy for less than two bucks.

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Bedtime Stories

Greetings Friends and Bloggers. This is the Friday night edition of ‘Bedtime Stories’ – inspired by my dear friend of the past 13 months or so – Ms. Venus Diaz – one of the greatest trash-talkers in my Life Group !  (I’ll deal with you on Sunday morning.)

It’s fast approaching 11 PM EDT on a Friday night, and I’m really not sleepy at all. Since I don’t really need to be anywhere early tomorrow morning I’m thinking about a rare session of staying up late tonight and then sleeping in and waking up whenever I feel like it tomorrow morning. That’s actually not a good sign for ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’, but I figure that I got plenty of exercise this past week up in Orlando walking all over the place at the Exponential Conference. Would you believe that I actually lost a couple of pounds this past week despite eating MASSIVE quantities of food ?

Incidentally due to the unexpected MASSIVE popularity of the first two entries of the ‘Exponential Conference Orlando Tossed Salad’ (representing the first two days of the conference) I am adding a special bonus 4TH entry to the series !  The next entry will represent the final day of the conference (this past Thursday), and then I’m posting a ‘leftovers’ edition featuring the top items that didn’t quite make it onto the first three editions. Look for both editions to be posted here on the blog during the day tomorrow (Saturday).

Today (Friday) was the biggest Friday in our history as far as unique hits were concerned, and many of you were brand new to this blog. Let me answer two questions here. ‘Tossed Salad’ is simply the unique brand name that is utilized as an identifier to my Sunday morning summaries of what happened at Life Pointe Church. There’s a certain recognizable structure to the series of ‘Tossed Salad’ blog entries, and that same general format is being utilized to summarize my day-to-day experiences from Exponential ’08.

Well there you go with tonight’s ‘Bedtime Stories’. Be sure to check back with this blog at least a few times during the course of the day tomorrow. I’ve got a whole lot more of ‘Tossed Salad’ to share with you.

Until we hang out again here on the blog have yourself a safe, peaceful, and blessed Friday night with your loved ones. Before you retire for the night open your arms and raise them up high for God. Let Him know that’s He is fully in charge of you. Let Him know that you are fully dependent on Him.

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The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

Sky: Partly Cloudy
Temperature: 67°F
Relative Humidity: 80%
Winds: E 3 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.05 Rising

My thoughts:

1.  I ate a MASSIVE breakfast at the Cracker Barrel in Florida City this morning during the six-o-clock hour. A stack of warm and buttery French Toast was totally drenched in authentic maple syrup and accompanied with scrambled eggs with melted American cheese and hot smoked sausage. P.S. I weigh 165 pounds.  😉

2.  After the feast I came home to do the walk during the seven-o-clock hour. It was another record-tying 2.2-mile walk, and I did it in less than 41 minutes (compared with 42 minutes last Saturday morning). I guess I walked just a tad bit brisker this week than last week.

3.  During the first quarter of the walk I totally frightened a woman who was carelessly walking her dog. As I walked my continuous straight line along the left-edge of the street a lady walking her dog was approaching from the right-side of the street. She was crossing the street, but she wasn’t looking where she was going. She was looking in the completely opposite direction. Her dog was going nuts, but she was totally oblivious to it. I swerved around her so that she wouldn’t walk right into me, and as I walked behind her that’s when she noticed me. Pedestrians get killed by oncoming vehicular traffic when they pull stunts like that. Ironically, “Wake Up” from KJ52 and Toby Morrell was rockin’ my iPod Shuffle at the time.

4.  I may not have big muscles to show for it, but I am the most physically fit today than I have ever been in my entire life and Life. I am in far better shape today than I was during my late-teens and early-to-middle-20s when I had to run a mile-and-a-half every year in the Air Force.

5.  Tomorrow morning at Life Pointe Church I get my weekly workout from 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM lifting, carrying, moving, and setting up objects in the main lobby of the movie theatre as we transform it into a setting that is suitable for our church family. I’ll be sweating again. It’s all good. It’s all for God.