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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

It’s that time of the week again. It’s time for the flagship weekly series here on the big green blog – the one that started it all back in 2007 !

1.  Fire season is in high gear all across America’s Riviera. It started early this season due to the cold and dry winter that we enjoyed – oh yeah – and the frost that killed the grass all around and made it crunchy. Over the past 5 months (since Oct.) we’ve only had one rain-soaking day. America’s Riviera – ON FIRE !

2.  Travis watched the beautiful sunrise kick-off Tuesday morning over in Seoul South Korea at around 6:50 AM local time. That was at 5:50 PM EDT yesterday evening here in America’s Riviera. Nearly 14 hours later at around 7:40 AM EDT this morning I watched that same sunrise kick-off Tuesday morning outside of my east-facing office window at work.

3.  I want to fly Jet Blue somewhere. It looks like a really cool airline. I spent a lot of time on their official web site last night. I took some virtual trips to Austin Texas, Washington D.C., and Hamilton Bermuda. They don’t fly to Dallas-Fort Worth, but they fly to Austin. I’m almost willing to fly in to Austin and then grab a rental car and drive up to the Dallas area the next time I visit Texas.

4.  I have a fun afternoon planned for Southland Mall later this month. I plan to see the comedy blockbuster “I Love You, Man“, and then I plan to eat pig-out at the all-new Buffalo Wild Wings. I have a feeling that I’ll be visiting the mall more frequently now that BWW is in full effect.

5.  I’m having problems losing the pounds that I packed on during my recent Carnival cruise. It appears that I’m actually gaining even more weight, and that I’m stuck in the mid-170s (if not approaching the upper-170s) !  I may have to contact “The Biggest Loser” for assistance in this matter.

… And that’s what I’m thinking about on this Tuesday night.

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Saturday Morning Shenanigans

I did enough walking last night at the mall, so this morning I postponed ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ and slept in until an abnormally late 8:15 AM !

If you’re looking for a HILARIOUS movie to see then be sure to catch the box office smash “Four Christmases“. It’s the funniest movie I’ve seen since “License To Wed“. Both of those movies are actually very similar in many ways. Last night we saw Jim Carrey’s latest flick “Yes Man“. It was funny as well, but perhaps less funny and more romantic than we expected. Go see it. Good Stuff !

In lieu of this morning’s ‘Walk-A-Thon’ here is some wacky Tom Foolishness to make you giggle out loud (GOL):

On a famous TV game show a BLONDE contestant needed only to answer one more question.

One simple question stood between her and ONE MILLION DOLLARS !

“To be today’s champion,” the show’s smiling host intoned, “name two of Santa’s reindeer.”

The contestant gave a sigh of relief, gratified that she had drawn such an easy question.

“Rudolph !” she said confidently, “and … Olive !”

The studio audience started to applaud (as the little sign above their heads instructed them to do), but the clapping quickly faded into mumbling. The confused host replied, “Yes, we’ll accept Rudolph, but could you please explain … ‘Olive ? ! ?'”

“You know,” the woman circled her hand forward impatiently and began to sing, “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer – had a very shiny nose. And if you ever saw it, you would even say it glows. Olive, the other reindeer…”

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

Every Tuesday night the world listens to me. Hear me now:

1.  Aside from the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida the entire rest of the free nation from coast-to-coast and from border-to-border is shivering in a deep icy freeze. Even much of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas is socked-in to a deep freeze. Here in Homestead we’ve got fast-moving tropical showers moving in from the Caribbean. It’s December in Paradise !

2.  The 17TH season of “Survivor” held in Gabon Africa is now done and over with, and it was quite the entertaining season finale this past Sunday night on CBS-TV. I’ve seen every single episode ever made since it became an overnight sensation back during the Summer of 2000. The 18TH season has already wrapped-up its filming up in the Brazilian Highlands. It premieres in February 2009.

3.  Yesterday I was on a portion of Campbell Drive that is off-limits to most vehicular traffic. It’s located on a secluded portion of Homestead Air Reserve Base east of the South Dade Labor Camp neighbourhood. The original road surface of Campbell Drive still exists. It’s not in very good shape though. Once upon a time the main gate to the base was right there at the intersection of Campbell Drive and Tallahassee Road (now Speedway Boulevard). Today’s Labor Camp was once part of Base Housing.

4.  Gas prices just keep on dropping. It’s in the $1.40s and $1.50s across much of the free nation. There are actually some analysts out there who state that gas prices could actually drop below $1 per gallon in 2009. These are the same analysts that forecasted gas to reach $10 per gallon earlier this year.

5.  I’m eating at the Outback Steak House this Friday night for the first time in recent memory (many years). I’m totally looking forward to that. Afterwards I’m heading off to see a movie – “Yes Man“. It sounds like someone is dating again !

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Saturday Night Retro

It’s an extra early edition of the ‘Saturday Night Retro’ this week because I’ll be livin’ it up out on the town until late tonight. No worries though. I’ll be hangin’ out with my Life Group at the mall.

So check this out. In 2003 I was livin’ it up. It was just 5 years ago, but it seems like a lifetime ago – literally. I was 35 and 36 years old – going on 22 years old. The U.S. economy was booming thanks to President George W. Bush and the Republican-dominated House and Senate. I was financially successful but emotionally unhappy. I was miserable at work, but I did a pretty good of hiding it (most of the time). I was happy at home because I had my little feline buddy Boots to hang out with. I spent a lot of time at the malls – and the movie theatres where I saw a whopping 30 movies at the box office during the course of the year. On the radio Party-93.1 was ‘South Florida’s Pure Dance Channel’, and I listened to it day and night. My life had the frenetic beat of an underground European techno track, but it had the soul of a cheap green glow stick.

Watch this 2003 music video from Aquagen. It’s a German techno remake of the Chicago classic “Hard To Say I’m Sorry”. It was my running theme song that year.

It’s all about moving forward in Life, but sometimes ya gotta look back in time to see the growth that’s been made from then to now. I thank God for rescuing me from the dying darkness, saving me, and placing me on His journey especially selected for me into the living daylight.