Do you smell that ? It’s the smell of your hard drive burning ! The most destructive virus ever created by mankind has infected your system, and it’s literally burning a physical hole right through the middle of your hard drive.
Read all about it on a SHOCKING ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’ tomorrow (Thursday) at 5 PM Eastern / 4 PM Central / 11 AM Hawaiian. It’s what everyone will be talking about on Friday morning over at Denny’s in Florida City (where all of the food is).
Don’t forget about the original ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ featuring the greatest blog entries of this past week from the greatest bloggers that are near and dear to me. That includes this crazy cat who reminds me of me because when I read his blog it looks just like my blog ! Phil - One Sunday we should really mix it all up by having me guest-write your ‘Talk Soup’ on your blog in your style, and having you guest-write my ‘Tossed Salad’ on my blog in my style.
OK enough of all of that lunacy. THANK YOU BLOGGERS for blogging on here with me. Even if you don’t have your own blog and you’re just here to read what I have to write then that still makes you a blogger. If you read blogs then you blog. It’s that simple.
So until we blog again - REMEMBER THIS from 40 years ago !
Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 9:47 PM
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OK friends we’ve got a busy week ahead of us here on the big blog. You crazy cats made this past (Monday to Sunday) week the busiest week in the entire history of this blog’s young life. We finished the week with just a tad over 900 total views ! That’s way more than double our average weekly views from March 2008. Thank You Everyone for supporting this blog and participating on it ! Let’s keep on doin’ our thing !
TOMORROW on the big blog I’ve got your ‘Monday Night Countdown’ (a fresh new regular weekly feature on here that was inspired by this cool dude). This week’s countdown features the TOP 5 movies that I’ve seen over the past 13 months. You’re not gonna wanna miss that my friends !
Then be sure to round-up your crazy crew and hang out with the hipsters for the legendary ’Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’. It’s the most spontaneous blog entry of the week. I totally plan it that way !
That’s what’s happenin’ on here over the next 48 hours, so be sure to keep it locked in to the big blog. You won’t regret it pal.
It’s a warm and sticky Thursday night aqui en Homestead, and we’ve entered another extended dry period weatherwise with an abundance of clear skies, bright sunshine, and hot temperatures through at least the early part of next week. The chance of rain will be slim to none, but I can never rule out a quick passing shower in July - especially during the late-night and early-morning hours. Get out there and have some fun, but drink plenty of water !
TOMORROW on the big blog everybody’s waitin’ for the grande unveiling of this week’s original ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’. It’s what’s happenin’ dude at my favourite blogs from my favourite bloggers. Then on Saturday morning be sure to catch my ‘Shenanigans’. You just never know what could possibly happen when I get in my car on a Saturday morning and drive from here to there - wherever there may be. (Food will probably be involved.)
Until we hang out again here on the blog or LIVE and in-person - remember this !
Chris In 1994
It’s a ‘lost’ picture of me from 1994. I found it this morning while looking for something. Check out the ENORMOUS spectacles and the obsolete telephone and computer equipment on my desk !
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 9:16 PM
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Ladies & Gentlemen. Boys & Girls. I present to you this week’s TOP 5 countdown. It’s a countdown of the 5 most-read blog entries in the entire history of this blog ! Check it out:
Greetings My Friends ! For your ‘Bedtime Stories’ tonight I’ve got just a few quick notes here during my final 90 minutes or so of ‘awake time’ on this cool and wet Saturday night.
It may be cool and wet outside, but it’s cool and dry inside. My A.C. actually got a bunch of well-deserved breaks this afternoon and tonight due to the cloud and rain-cooled temperatures outside. We got a torrential thunderstorm in my little piece of south-central Homestead early this afternoon. Temperatures dropped down into the mid-70s, and they’ve pretty much stayed there ever since. I like it when it’s cool outside (and inside) in the middle of July ! What a rare treat !
Just a few minutes ago I wrapped-up the purchase online of a brand new state-of-the-art Panasonic DVD Recorder / VCR Combo. It’s being shipped to me within the next couple of weeks from my good friends over at Circuit City (coming soon to the Homestead Pavilion shopping, dining, and entertainment complex). I can’t wait to receive it. This could be my long-awaited ticket / excuse out of the VCR recording business (after over 25 years) and into the DVD recording business !
Well that’s all that I’ve got to say for now. To my Life Pointe Church family I’ll see you crazy cats tomorrow morning after 7:25 AM. You can read all about it on here tomorrow afternoon via the ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’.
Until we meet again have a cool and comfy Saturday night. Stay safe, get some high-quality sleep tonight, and - oh yeah - remember this:
My dear friend Venus inaugurated her fresh new WordPress blog this past week. Be sure to check it out on a regular basis and participate on it. Encourage her to continue on with her blossoming blogging ministry.
Later this week on Friday be sure to catch the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ where I expose my favourite blog entries of this current week from my favourite bloggers in the vast blogosphere.
But before that on Thursday it’s another wild edition of the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’, and if you love hot dogs then THIS is the one that could SHOCK you and make you ANGRY like never before. Be sure to grab your crew and not miss it. You won’t regret it pal.
That’s what’s comin’ up over the next 72 hours here on the big blog. Until we do it again - remember this crazy guy again:
1. Of all of the regular weekly blog entries that are posted on here this is the one that I look forward to compiling and posting more than any other. This is totally unrehearsed, and I am totally unprepared for it. This is raw, and that’s what makes it so cool. I have absolutely no clue what I plan to blog about for the next 9 items of interest, but I’ll just let my fingers do the talking and watch what happens.
2. The 10TH season / 9TH summer edition of “Big Brother” on CBS-TV begins this Sunday night at 8 PM EDT / 7 PM CDT. Please don’t bother me while it’s on (three nights a week as usual).
3. Some days everyone around me is a lousy driver. They either drive too slow in front of me, pull out in front of me, or tailgate me. This was one of those days. I couldn’t wait to get off of the streets.
4. Everytime I sneak a peek at this book I spend more time in it than I intended. I need to find some time this weekend to intentionally spend a couple of hours with it. It’s what I do for Life Pointe Church. It’s how I serve God and His children here in Homestead.
5. This afternoon I ordered a medium roast beef sandwich combo (with curly fries and a Sierra Mist) and an apple turnover via the drive-thru at Arby’s in Florida City (where all the food is). That’s what I paid for, and I’ve got the receipt right here to prove it. I got the curly fries, the Sierra Mist, and the apple turnover, but in lieu of the medium roast beef sandwich that I was truly looking forward to devouring I instead got - get this - a REUBEN ! I can dig mistakes like that when they work out in my favour flavour !
6. Are you tired of all of the rain here in Homestead (nearly 14 inches over the past 22 days) ? GOOD - I’m forecasting very little to no rain at all for the next 5 to 7 days (until perhaps early next week). Let’s see if I’m right.
8. I saw my hot new laptop on sale at a Best Buy in Plano Texas last week. The longer I wait the cheaper it gets with more power. Laptops with 4 GB of RAM are pretty much standard nowadays. So are desktops with 8 GB of RAM.
9. I survived my 5TH cold in 8 months. It lasted 6 days. I kinda knew that I was getting it before I got it, and it was pretty much gone before I realized it. Here’s hoping that I don’t have to be blogging about my 6TH cold in 10 months come Labour Day Weekend !
10. THIS JUST IN - My brother and his wife (my sister-in-law) now have a cold. My 6-DAY cold ‘peaked’ on its 3RD day. That was my last full day at their house. I felt a little bit better on the 4TH Of July - the day that I left them behind and flew back home. A single contact with my nasty cold germs left behind and it was pretty much all over for the both of them. They’ll probably infect each of their coworkers.
Monday, July 7, 2008 at 8:41 PM
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OBJECT:
Create a short story using only the TOP 10 search engine terms (that were used to find this blog on the web) for each of the past two days.
PRODUCT:
So here I am in my double-wide mobile home trying to figure out where I can buy groceries this Saturday morning. I know that I have a whole bunch of these all-new dollar coins sitting here, so maybe I should head on out to RaceTrac. I wonder what kind of espresso they have for sale there ? I read somewhere on an E-Mail that I once received that I should boycott them because they don’t sell American gasoline, but I know that’s just an Internet hoax.
I can’t wait for the MASSIVE Homestead Pavillion to open up right there on Campbell Drive at Florida’s Turnpike here in Homestead Florida. I’m especially looking forward to Kohls and Staples.
Back during the 2003 blackout I was eating orange chicken at Panda Express with a Pastor from Nebraska (who incidentally shares the same name as me - Chris Day), and he was telling me all about how he was locked out of his own church door on a Sunday morning. He learned a lesson from that morning, and he passed it on to me which I went on to blog about 4 years later. He said, ‘Christopher, a modest man never talks to himself.’ If I only knew that back during my former Air Force life !
I often wonder what are the names of the large companies out there that would be willing to publish my autobiography. These are the things that I think about as I spend quality time here at home in Homestead in my beautiful gardens outside.
1. I arrived at the movie theatre at around 7:25 AM on this glorious Sunday morning, but you’ve got to wake up mighty early to beat Anne J. to the punch. Why she already had her dependable fuel-efficient maroon car (AKA the ‘LPC-Mobile’) emptied out and parked in a legitimate (legal) parking space by the time that I arrived. She’s expedient like that !
2. I decided early on that it would be in my best interest to attend the 9 AM service for the first time ever, and then (perhaps) go home and continue on to the road of recovery from my 5TH cold in 8 months. I did just that - attended the first service that is - but then due to a torrential thunderstorm (in which we received nearly 3 inches of rain in about an hour) I decided to stick around and serve during the 10:30 AM service. As it turns out I very much enjoyed the split serve / service / serve morning so much that I asked Anne J. if it would be OK to switch permanently to attending the first service and serving during the second service. She stated that it would be coolio, and so now I am a hero for giving up my prime seat at the second service.
3. As the 9 AM service began I saw J.T. directly in front of me, and maybe 3 or 4 other people in the ‘cheap seats’. There were more people up on stage performing ‘Praise & Worship’ than there were down in the ‘banana section’. People then started to flow in at a rather steady rate for the next 30 to 45 minutes after that. We finally hit our ’summertime slump’ this week. That’s right - instead of the upper-400s in total attendance we (unofficially) only made it to the lower-400s. Blame it on the rain - oh yeah - and the 4TH Of July holiday weekend.
4. Pastor Travis spoke on Temptation this week. I think that it was one of his most sensible messages in a long time. Temptation is a fact of Life. Recognizing temptation to sin is a gift from God. It is the absolute power of the Holy Spirit in our Life. If we stray from what is right and then blow it then we must acknowledge it and move on. Even when nobody else is looking we must always act like a true follower of Jesus Christ if we claim so. We must not be a follower for a mere 90 minutes on any given Sunday morning, or just when our fellow believers are all around us. It must be always and forever. Our walk with God must match our talk about Him. It’s OK to be angry at one another temporarily. It’s never OK to be sinful. To be sinful is to be tragic.
5. After 5 hours of serving, service, and more serving at the LPC I enjoyed a nice Lunch at Chili’s with Tammy. I then proceeded over to the LPC office suites in olde historic uptown Homestead for a couple of hours of follow-up work related to all of the new guest forms and connection cards that were turned-in at both services this morning. It is now time for me to populate this fresh-new-and-improved EXCEL spreadsheet o’ mine !
That’s your ‘Tossed Salad’ for this glorious Sunday at Life Pointe Church in Homestead Florida. Be sure to join me again next Sunday for more on the continuing excitement that is the steady expansion of God’s Kingdom here in the big city. We’re making it really easy to find, hop on, and navigate His fantastic journey. Won’t you join us as we follow Him ?
It’s great to be back home in Homestead. I’ve been home for a little over 24 hours now, and I’ve used this (Satur)day to relax and return to a more normal routine.
I’m looking forward to a lot of ‘normal routine’ things during this upcoming week. I’m looking forward to serving at Life Pointe Church for 3 hours starting at 7:25 AM tomorrow (Sunday) morning. I’m looking forward to attending the 10:30 AM service right after that. I’m looking forward to blogging the ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’ on here tomorrow afternoon. I’m looking forward to returning to work at 6 AM on Monday morning. I’m looking forward to the weekly staff meeting at the Life Pointe Church office suite right after work at 4 PM on Monday afternoon. I’m looking forward to a visit from the Orkin dude on Tuesday afternoon because he keeps my home bug-free. I’m looking forward to hangin’ out with my Life Group at 7 PM on Wednesday night.
I’m looking forward to all of these things and everything else in-between that makes this Life the best Life that I could ever imagine. All of these great things are possible because of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He has made this Life especially for me. I am forever greatful of Him and what He did for me, and what He is doing for me. There is no-one and no-thing that is greater than Him !
This morning I didn’t get out of bed until (a SHOCKING) 9 AM ! I’ve already set my alarm clock for 6:30 AM tomorrow (Sunday) morning. Despite the late ‘getting up’ time this morning I’m gonna try to get back to bed at a reasonable time tonight (such as 10 PM). It felt so great to be back in my own bed last night. In fact it felt so great that I was in it for nearly 12 hours (from 9 PM to 9 AM) !
May each and every one of you have a safe and peaceful Saturday night, and until we hang out again here on the blog or LIVE and in-person - remember this (and turn up the volume LOUD !):
Gricelda recently spent some quality time with family and friends at Robert Is Here (just west of Florida City), and the proof is in all of the loving pictures that were taken of that day. Check out her 6-PART blog entry of it all.
Just because I’m not there doesn’t mean that I can’t do this:
1. It’s 10 PM EDT in Homestead - and 9 PM CDT here on the River Walk en San Antonio as I begin posting this blog entry, and that makes it a true ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’. Normally these weekly thoughts are compiled and published late on a Tuesday afternoon, but that’s not the case this week. I was busy being a tourist on this particular Tuesday afternoon.
2. As the 10:30 AM service was just getting started at Life Pointe Church this past Sunday morning me and my brother were just getting started with our 5-hour / 300-mile trek from Allen Texas (north of Dallas) to San Antonio. (We’ll be making the return trip back to Allen on Wednesday afternoon.)
3. I saw this on a billboard on the President George Bush Turnpike north of Dallas - ‘YOUR WIFE IS HOT !‘ (in big bold letters). Underneath that it read (in much smaller letters) - ‘Better Get That A.C. Fixed’. Now that’s effective advertising that grabbed my (short) attention (span) !
4. We stopped by my brother’s office in a generic high-rise office building in Dallas to pick up a few items. My immediate observation of the joint - he’s got absolutely no pictures of me in his office. Hopefully this public thought right here will give him a substantial guilt complex that will remind him to go home and retrieve a picture of me so that he can proudly display it in his office.
5. Parts of I-35 southbound away from Dallas and towards Waco, Austin, and San Antonio kinda sorta reminded me of parts of I-4 westbound away from Orlando and towards Lakeland and Tampa. Central Texas looks a lot like Central Florida in many areas.
6. We hit 100,000 miles in my brother’s 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee while driving southbound on I-35, and my brother actually captured the flip-over from 99,999 miles to 100,000 miles on video while driving about 75 MPH in the fast lane and passing an 18-wheeler. (I was slightly terrified during those couple of minutes.)
7. Me and my brother ate dinner Sunday night at this place in San Antonio about 9 miles from downtown. It’s a place that I’ve been to once before - in October 2003 the last time I was in town. We saw the WWE PPV ‘Night Of Champions’ there.
10. I saw “The Happening” Monday afternoon at the movies, and I thought that it was near-perfect (if you’re in to that type of box office entertainment). It was more eye-popping than it was bonechilling. What was even more horrific than the movie itself is the fact that parents actually brought their small school-aged kids into the theatre to watch the movie as well. If you know anything about this movie then you may just agree with me when I refer to those parents as ‘irresponsible’.
Monday, June 30, 2008 at 7:53 AM
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It’s 6:30 AM CDT on a Monday morning - the 30TH day of June - 2008. I’m coming to you LIVE from San Antonio Texas.
I wasn’t at Life Pointe Church yesterday morning, so if you really want to know what happened there then be sure to check out the wonderful blogs of Pastor Travis and LL Phil J The Citizen Cane in particular. Kelly J. (wife of Pastor Travis) has also gotten into the business of blogging about our Sunday morning church adventures and experiences, and you can catch her debut blog entry - the pilot episode if you will - right here.
I’ll have your ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’ back at you next Sunday afternoon, but before that I’ll have your most anticipated ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ for you tomorrow. You’re not gonna believe what’s on my mind here on the River Walk en San Antonio while on vacation. Be sure not to miss that. You won’t regret it pal !
Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 10:07 PM
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OK I feel better now. I just wrapped-up the majority of my packing for my upcoming vacation. It’s either in my suitcase or in my carry-on bag. If it’s not in either of those two then I’m either not bringing it or I still need to use it between now and Saturday morning. Some people do all of their packing an hour or two before they leave - or the night before. I do most of my packing at least 36 to 48 hours in advance, and then I use that time in-between to ensure that I didn’t forget anything. I’m organized like that.
So anyway tomorrow is a special day here on the big blog. It’s ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ time. It’s where I give back to some of my favourite bloggers in the blogosphere. Check out some of my favourite blog entries of this past week. You won’t regret it pal.
Then on Saturday be sure to check out my ‘Saturday Morning Shenanigans’ which will probably be all about my crazy adventures from Homestead to MIA to DFW to Allen Texas on Saturday morning. Look for it on here on Saturday night.
On Sunday I present to you a very special off-season edition of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ LIVE from the River Walk en San Antonio.
It’s all comin’ up this weekend - right here on ‘The Major’s Life Blog’.
Have a cool and relaxing Thursday night everyone, and until we hang out again on here remember this:
2. I attended a nice retirement luncheon at work (picnic-style outside) for a lady / colleague who has worked at the base since the mid-1970s. The base is losing a financial wizard as she walks off into the sunset.
3. I drove straight from work over to the Life Pointe Church offices in old historic uptown Homestead. Venus and I will be starring in this Sunday’s promotional video for the continuing ‘Got Funk ?’ message series. I won’t be there to see it world premiere on the big screen this Sunday morning (showtimes at approximately 9:25 and 10:55), but I’m pretty sure that you crazy cats will tell me all about it here on my blog on Sunday afternoon. I must warn you though that this latest creation from Fuser Films Of Homestead (Jesse S.) is somewhat scandalous and downright shocking. You’re not gonna believe what comes out of my mouth in the acting role of a lifetime. This is what all of Life Pointe Church is going to be talking about out in the main lobby after both services ! You’re not gonna wanna miss it pal.
4. From the LPC offices I drove straight over to Anne J.’s and J.T.’s house for Life Group. Tonight was ‘Fellowship Night’, so we enjoyed lots of food and fun and games. We played Outburst. My team (which included Venus, Nicole, Willie, and J.T. lost 62-60). It was a lot of fun though, and that’s what really matters.
5. I got home late tonight, and I realized that I’ve got a lot of work to do tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday afternoon after I get home from work in preparation for my upcoming vacation - such as doing laundry and packing. I shall GIT-R-DONE !
But right now all I’m thinking about is getting some rest, so I’ll be shutting everything down and doing just that over the next 45 minutes or so. Have a wonderful Wednesday evening everyone, and be sure to catch me again on here tomorrow night for your ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’. It’s the one that’s gonna make you tremble in fear - or not !
It’s the most anticipated blog entry of the week. This is how we roll on a Tuesday night in Homestead Florida !
1. George Carlin died over the weekend at the age of 71. While I didn’t agree with virtually all of his political viewpoints (as he identified them in public) he was still one of the greatest and funniest comedians in American history as far as I’m concerned. I will miss his LIVE HBO specials every few years.
2. I ate Chinese Food for Lunch today. I picked it up from Shanghai & Tokyo in Homestead’s Waterstone Plaza. I’m a semi-regular there. They usually give me two fortune cookies to go along with my ‘Lunch Special’. Later tonight I’ll have your special ‘double feature’ edition of ‘The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club’. Don’t miss it !
3. Earlier today I went to annualcreditreport.com and I printed out three full and complete credit reports for me from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. annualcreditreport.com is the only site that is legally able to give you free copies of your credit report from all three of those credit bureau sites. I did all of this in less than 45 minutes this morning, and I got over 30 pages of important credit information spanning virtually my entire adult life.
4. I thrive in a hot and humid environment (such as Homestead). I could not live happily ever after in a cold and dry environment - or a hot and dry environment for that matter. It’s hotter in San Antonio (where I’ll be next week) than it is here in Homestead, but it’s less humid over there than it is over here. I’d rather have the extra humidity rather than the higher temperatures.
5. I’ve become a semi-regular of the new Starbucks in Homestead. The people that work there are now starting to recognize me and my car. So far I have received consistent great service from them - inside as well as via their drive-thru. Let’s hope that it stays that way.
7. Some people have a chronic addiction to their cell phone. They just can’t stop calling people all over the free nation and sharing their private lives in public via their loud cell phone conversations. No wonder identity theft exists. Remember the good old days when telephone conversations were done in private inside the home ?
8. Homestead Trivia - How many miles apart are Speedway Boulevard (SW 137TH Avenue) and Krome Avenue (SW 177TH Avenue) ? The answer - exactly 4.0 miles. In Miami-Dade County each numbered avenue is exactly 0.1 miles apart to the grid. 40 avenues apart = 4.0 miles. It’s that simple my friends !
9. Me, My Brother, His Wife, & Fuddruckers - That’s the plan for Lunch as soon as I touch down in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex this Saturday. After that we will all go and play a round of minature golf. I totally dig that plan !
10. Next week your ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ will come to you LIVE from the River Walk in San Antonio. I’m also planning at least a couple of special editions of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’. You’re not gonna wanna miss it my friends.
WELCOME to a fresh new week here on the big blog. TODAY - Monday June 23RD 2008 - turned out to be the busiest Monday in the history of this blog. You crazy cats shattered the previous Monday record (set back in April) by a mind-boggling 28.7%, and you did that without me. I didn’t even touch my blog until after the day had officially ended (at 8 PM EDT / 12 AM UTC).
Last week we enjoyed our busiest Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday EVER, and it was also our busiest (Monday to Sunday) week EVER by a whopping 15.5%. Keep on doing your thing on here - reading and commenting. It’s all part of the overall concept of blogging. You are all bloggers, and together we are keeping in touch with each other when we can’t be right next to each other physically. It’s like a ministry of fellowship on here. This is how we take our faith public via modern electronic means in the 21ST Century.
I was at my Saturn dealership in Cutler Bay for nearly 7 hours today waiting on my car as it was getting nearly $1,100 worth of repair work done. Luckily I didn’t pay that much (because there were exactly 3 days remaining with the original 5-year extended warranty for the car). During those 7 hours I scribbled down a few rough notes in preparation for tomorrow’s ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’. It’s the most spontaneous blog entry of the entire week, and you’re not gonna believe some of my thoughts tomorrow. It’s what everyone will be talking about around the salad bar at Ruby Tuesday on Wednesday. Don’t you dare miss it. You won’t regret it pal.
Later this week you may not want to use your cell phone ever again once you see the most SHOCKING ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’ to date ! This is the one that could really frighten you to bits and make you tremble in fear, or it could all be an Internet HOAX ! You decide - Thursday night.
So that’s what I’ve got for you tonight - an obvious ‘Blatant Promotion’ of this blog and all of you who are an important part of it. Without you this wouldn’t be. I’ll catch you all back here tomorrow - same time - same channel. Have a great evening everyone ! Good Night Friends. Good Night Gricelda.
