Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

Now approaching its 1ST anniversary – it’s the flagship weekly blog series that needs no introduction:
1.  Once Hurricane Ike blew by well to our south earlier in September the Atlantic and Caribbean tropical storm season began to wind down to nearly nothing. It’s pretty much done and over with now, but we still have to [...]

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Bedtime Stories

‘The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club’ posted earlier tonight got me thinking about what the Bible says about success and complacency through it all. I went digging into the New Testament – specifically the 2ND Book of Corinthians.
I found this intriguing passage in Chapter 3 (New Living Translation):
1 Are we beginning again to [...]

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The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

DOUBLE FEATURE THIS WEEK !
‘Your dearest wish will come true.’
‘We must not become complacent over any success.’
Discuss.

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Monday Night Countdown

OK kids. This week I’ve got a change-of-pace TOP 5 countdown for you:
It’s the TOP 5 reasons why I’m greatful that my 6TH cold in 11 months is now officially done and over with:
5.  My gorgeous pearly white teeth were slowly rotting due to the MASSIVE consumption of Airborne (sugar juice), Zicam (sugar tablet), and Cold-EEZE (sugar candy).
4.  [...]

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Blatant Promotion

TOMORROW on the big blog I’ve got your ‘Monday Night Countdown’ with a zany TOP 5 list that will hopefully make you giggle out loud. It’s the TOP 5 reasons why I’m greatful that my 6TH cold in 11 months is now history. Be sure to check that one out !
Then on Tuesday it’s the [...]

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

This morning at Life Pointe Church in Homestead Florida Lead Pastor Travis wrapped-up our three-week message series on the Old Testament Prophet known as Habakkuk. While most of the Prophets relayed God’s message to the people Habakkuk switched it up and represented the peoples’ message to The Lord Almighty.
When we drift into a crisis of [...]

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Saturday Night Retro

The year was 1995 and I was 28-years-old. I moved from a house in Naranja to my current home in Homestead. I’ve been here ever since then. Homestead was still a sleepy small town back then with mostly narrow two-lane roads. It was struggling to recover from the overwhelming destruction of Hurricane Andrew just 3 years earlier. U.S. gas prices [...]

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Bedtime Stories

OK it’s time for the first edition of ‘Bedtime Stories’ in nearly 3 weeks. Ela keeps pleading for me to return it as a nightly feature, but I just don’t have that much material to support a nightly nightcap.
I’m writing this blog entry during the 8 PM EDT hour on this Friday night. Just before 9 [...]

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Friday Night Blogroll Review

It’s not officially Friday night until I do this:
Pastor Travis doesn’t talk politics at church.
Every Sunday afternoon Kelly posts her ‘Sunday CHICK-Kabob’ in which she summarizes the greatest events of that morning at Life Pointe Church.
Brother P.J. invited me to play Fantasy Football with him this season, and I shockingly accepted his plea bargain !  [...]

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I’m Sick ! I Ate A Cricket !

Here we go again. This morning at work I officially confirmed the existence of my unprecedented 6TH cold over the past nearly 11 months (since the end of October 2007). Let’s take a look back now at a rough timeline of my 6 colds:
1.  Late-October 2007 (on a Carnival cruise in Europe).
–> Less than 3 [...]

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My NFL Weekend Game Picks

I’m picking the underlined teams to WIN !
SUN  1:00 PM EDT (8)
Falcons At Panthers – UPSET SPECIAL # 1
Browns At Bengals
Texans At Jaguars
Broncos At Chiefs
49ers At Saints
Cardinals At Jets
Packers At Buccaneers
Vikings At Titans
SUN 4:05 PM EDT (2)
Chargers At Raiders
Bills At Rams
SUN 4:15 PM EDT (1)
Redskins At Cowboys – UPSET SPECIAL # 2 !
SUN 8:15 PM [...]

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My NFL Weekend Game Picks: The Results Show

SUN 1:00 PM EDT (8)
Chiefs At Falcons – YES !
Raiders At Bills – YES !
Buccaneers At Bears – NO !
Panthers At Vikings – UPSET SPECIAL OF THE WEEK ! – NO !
Dolphins At Patriots – NO !
Bengals At Giants – YES !
Texans At Titans – YES !
Cardinals At Redskins – YES !
SUN 4:05 PM EDT [...]

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Homestead Florida In The Wall Street Journal

This article in The Wall Street Journal made me feel awesomely proud to call Homestead Florida my home. It’s one of the most positive well-written news articles I have ever read regarding my city of the past 21 years.

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

You came here on a Tuesday night for this, and I shall not disappoint you. This week’s theme - hot versus cold.
1.  We’ve got light rain here in Homestead right now because we have an incredible phenomenon occurring - an actual wintertime cold front approaching us from the north – in September !  It should ooze on [...]

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Blatant Promotion

It’s not quite 9:30 PM on a Monday night, and I’m already thinking ahead outside of the bun. Be sure to be here TOMORROW as I post my weekly ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ sometime before 5 PM EDT. I don’t have a clue as to what I plan to blog about, but I’m [...]

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