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Thursday Night Mini Thoughts

– Let’s get spontaneous.
– Let’s not hold nothin’ back.
– Can we talk here ?
– Today I ate Lunch at the Longhorn Steakhouse.
– It’s transitioning into a weekly tradition for me.
– It’s my favourite of all of the new eating joints that have opened recently.
– Homestead has come a long way over the past few years.
– We are turning in to quite the eating mecca down here in suburbia.
– I dig that since eating food is one of my favourite hobbies.
– So next Friday night I’ll be seeing what should be a GREAT concert.
– It’s Toby Mac, Skillet, and House Of Heroes.

– All three acts rock my face off !
– I’m seeing them over at the Germain Arena between Naples and Fort Myers.
– I’m actually driving over to Naples early in the morning next Friday.
– I plan to spend the entire day over there and visit various places.
– The Naples Zoo and the Collier County Museum are on my short list.
– I’m also spending the night over there following the concert.
– I thought about driving back home after the show, but then I reconsidered.
– It’d be a 2½-hour drive in the dark across Alligator Alley (I-75).
– I’m not into that.
– I’d rather relax in a hotel room and get a good night’s sleep.
– And then the next morning I can see more of Naples before I head home.
– It’ll be like a short little vacation for me.
– I want to do those at least once a month.
– I’m already planning a nice little road trip for a later weekend in April.
– It’s fun to get out on that open road and visit places and see things.
– I used to do it far more often back in the day.
– Homestead Air Reserve Base reopened 16 years ago this weekend.
– That’s when I moved back down here to Homestead after a 19-month hiatus.
– If I had to do it all over again then I’d do it all over again.
– It’s straight-up and down six o’clock in the evening as I type this.
– That means that Life Group is just an hour away.
– Life Group has been the crown jewel of my work week in 2010.
– I get excited about it every week.
– It’s fellowship done right.
– Have a great night my friends.
– Celebrate Life !

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My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics

You know even when you follow, believe, trust, and love Jesus Christ above every one and every thing – you’re still going to have days that just don’t go your way. You can call them ‘bad days’ if you wish, but never forget that you’re not alone. God is with you always and forever. He sees it all  – the good, the bad, and the downright ugly.

Just because you’re living a new Life – separate and distinct from your previous life – it does not mean that all of the bad things went away the moment that you stepped away from your old ways of the world. You’re still human, and you still have the problems that normal humans have. It’s how you react to those problems that sets you into motion and defines how you Live your new Life. 

There is always one nucleus to every solution to every problem. That nucleus is our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. If you believe. If you trust.

In honour of Saint Patrick’s Day I present to you Christian Rocker Kevin Max. Here he is with an “Irish Hymn” on this very special day where everyone can be Irish simply by wearing the green !

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Saturday Night Retro

Standard Time comes to a grinding halt early tomorrow morning – Sunday March 14TH 2010 at 2 AM local time – as Daylight Saving Time begins. Be sure to ‘Spring Forward’ by one hour before you go to sleep tonight, or else you will be one hour late for everything tomorrow. You will lose an hour of sleep, but have no fret for you will get that hour back next November when Standard Time returns. I know – I’m not crazy about it either. I say leave the time alone !

We don’t ‘Spring Forward’ every Saturday night on the ‘Retro’ – we ‘Fall Back’, and this week we take a trip back 18 years ago to the Spring of 1992. It’s when “The Silence Of The Lambs” won the Oscar for Best Picture. It’s when Microsoft Windows 3.1 made its much-anticipated debut at computer stores everywhere. It’s when the ‘Long Island Lolita’ Amy Fisher shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco. It’s when Johnny Carson retired from “The Tonight Show” after 30 years – and Jay Leno took over as the new host. It’s when USAF SGT Chris M. Day drove all around South Florida in his red Geo Spectrum listening to the hottest hits on Y-100.

It’s also when Ms. Amy Grant rocked the radio airwaves with this positive uplifting smash. It’s “Good For Me”, and it’s one of my favourite songs EVER:

This concludes another week of blogging for me. I’ll be back LIVE on Tuesday night for another action-packed edition of my ‘Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’. Until then you can catch me on Twitter at majorhitwaves. Enjoy your weekend !

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The Major’s Friday Night Disco Party

It’s time for the 35TH rockin’ edition of ‘The Major’s Friday Night Disco Party’ – one-half of the ‘Moldie-Oldie Music Weekends’ here on the big bellbottoms blog.

For about 19 months the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ was the weekly tradition on here. That’s when I’d recap and link to my favourite blog posts of the week from all of my blogging friends. Unfortunately something happened along the way. The bloggers got lazy and gradually disappeared into oblivion. And then there were none (or one or two). It certainly wasn’t nearly enough to sustain a weekly blog post. But Fridays remained wildly popular on here. I had to take drastic action, so what was once a joke became a reality. I threatened some of my blogging friends that if they didn’t post a blog then I’d put on 1970s Disco music every Friday night. 35 editions later it’s a rousing SMASH !

This week on the ‘Disco Party’ I present to you one of the U.K.’s greatest Disco bands ever. They are Hot Chocolate, and this is their gold pop and Disco smash “Every 1’s A Winner”. Let’s kick it kids !