The Major’s Drive-A-Thon

I’m back home. Here’s a look back at my recent road-trip / vacation:
1.  From start (early Thursday morning) to finish (mid Sunday afternoon) I drove a grand total of 764 miles from here to there and then back again. That’s 372 miles on Thursday, 0 miles on Friday, 23 miles on Saturday, and 369 miles [...]

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Blatant Promotion

The ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’ will not be presented here on the big blog tomorrow afternoon. It will return to its regularly-scheduled time and position on the afternoon of Sunday September 07TH 2008. This bald dude, this college pup, and this fishing lunatic will also not be at the LPC tomorrow, so if [...]

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Saturday Morning Shenanigans

Here at my undisclosed location somewhere within the great state of Florida I’ve been able to go to bed early – during the 9 PM hour – and wake up late – during the 7 AM hour. I’m certainly not getting a MASSIVE 10 hours of sleep, but I am getting plenty of relaxation time whether [...]

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Friday Night Blogroll Review

Pastor Travis announces some exciting changes that are happenin’ right now at Life Pointe Church.
Phil is not a fan of the Chinese Government, does not appreciate the Democrats, loves the University Of Miami Hurricanes, adores lobster season out on the high seas, and looks forward to Sunday mornings at Life Pointe Church. Oh yeah – he’s [...]

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Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

This is an Internet hoax:
CAN OBAMA BE PRESIDENT ?
It seems that Barack Obama is not qualified to be president after all for the following reason:
Barack Obama is not legally a U.S. natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between December 24, 1952 to November 13, [...]

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Telemarketer Of The Day Hit List

305-503-3525 – 2:15 PM TODAY – I’m not alone.
305-503-3543 – 8:15 PM TODAY – I’m really not alone.
(Exactly 6 hours apart. What a coincidence !)

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

1.  Category 1 Hurricane Gustav made landfall earlier this afternoon in southwestern Haiti very near that country’s capitol city. I am forecasting it to eventually intensify into an extremely dangerous Category 4 Hurricane threatening the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida on Labor Day Monday and Tuesday. If you live anywhere between New Orleans and Panama [...]

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The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

SPECIAL TWO-FOR-ONE DEAL THIS WEEK !
‘Be calm when confronting an emergency crisis.’
(That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout.)
‘It doesn’t matter. Who is without a flaw ?’
(What doesn’t matter ?  What is it ?  Maybe it does matter.)

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Monday Night Countdown

My friends – I used to party. I used to hang out with the happenin’ scene. That was then and this is now.
Here are my personal TOP 5 smash hits on the radio and at the clubs that I was partying to exactly 20 years ago this weekend as a nutty 21-year-old USAF Senior Airman [...]

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

1.  The summertime slump is done and over with. We had one of our biggest crowds in a couple of months during both services. It was so great to see that movie theatre all packed up with Life Pointe Church energy and enthusiasm for about 4 hours this morning. One couple saw all of the [...]

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Saturday Morning Shenanigans

What a crazy abnormal Shenanigan-filled week in August it was !
At the start of the week Tropical Storm Fay began her whirlwind grande tour de force of the state of Florida, and me and my fellow Homestead neighbours received just a tad above 5 inches of windswept rains over a 5-day time-period. Some portions of [...]

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The Third Day Of School

In November 1980 my family moved from Lanham Maryland to McLean Virginia (on the other side of the Capital Beltway surrounding Washington D.C.). I attended James Fenimore Cooper Intermediate School for the 7TH and 8TH grades from November 1980 through June 1982. Back then we had either ‘Junior High Schools’ or ‘Intermediate Schools’ in-between ‘Elementary [...]

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Friday Night Blogroll Review

Travis has a video for you that shows some of the intense damage that Tropical Storm Fay did here in South Florida – to a kite surfer !
See Travis and Blake chillin’ in seclusion at a house down by the river !
Last Saturday LL Phil J presented his TOP 5 reasons why he attends Life Pointe [...]

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The Second Day Of School

Once upon a time I went to this school …
… that’s attached to this church …
From September 1973 through June 1975 I was a Catholic School student for my 1ST and 2ND grades. My two teachers made quite the impression on me – literally and physically. I still remember them to this day. Sister Mary [...]

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Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

This – my friends – is yet another Internet HOAX !
Beware folks. This is news you can use.
THIS HAS BEEN CHECKED ON SNOPES
A friend’s son came over yesterday – he had to go to Canada for work last week. One of the other engineer’s traveling to Canada with him, but in his own [...]

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