I'm Getting Older And It Worries Me

For those of you who still read this blog - I still post here - you may or may not have seen the post about Mark Flacco, one of my coworkers. He passed away on December 8th. He was 62 years old.

In the past few years, I've seen these great people die. Meghan Mulqueen-Taylor, Sergeant Donna Jean Bachmayer, Cindy Felicitti, Mark Flacco, and the list goes on.

Most of these people above were young, and taken away at the best times of their lives. Obviously, I realize we are all going to die, but I wish I knew why these people went to the Lord so soon.

All these friends were good, decent people, mostly trying to make my city a better place. I don't understand why all my friends were dying so soon.

I understand the Lord has His ways, and I have no reason to call upon God, but the constant funerals simply just perk up my depression. I hope those who have passed on are with the Lord, and their suffering is gone forever.

You'd Think She'd Want To Pray To Jesus

Meet Sherri Chegini of, you guessed it, Florida.

Incensed that relatives were “praying to Jesus in her house,” a Florida Woman (via Tehran, Iran) who told cops she “prays using the Quran and does not believe in Jesus” allegedly battered one of the visitors, an attack that landed her behind bars.

What would Jesus do... According to an arrest affidavit, the verbal praying dispute between Sherri Chegini, 58, and her brother, Peter Chegini, a 63-year-old contractor, turned violent yesterday morning.

Peter told investigators he “was praying with his wife Nahid using their cross” when Chegini “got mad at him” and told him to leave.

Chegini, cops allege, first “picked up Peter’s phone and threw it on the ground destroying it.” When she “then went to attack Peter,” he “put up his arms to defend himself, but Sherri bit his right forearm.”

Seen above, Chegini then “threw Peter’s stuff out of the residence and broke his cross.” At one point, Peter told police, Chegini scratched her own neck and told him, “You’re going to jail now.”

When cops arrived to the Vero Beach residence, Peter had a “bite mark on his right arm which had visible bruising and was bleeding.” His phone, cops added, was “shattered” and “inoperable.”

Well, she seems nice. I wonder what she'll be baking this Christmas. Oh, wait...

Detective Mark Flacco 1962-2024

When you're working in a stressful element, say, like a police department, you are bound to see a lot of people dying. It's worse when one of those people are someone you worked with for years.

Detective Mark Flacco was one of the best people I ever knew in our division. A nice guy who always helped people, but honestly, rarely helped himself.

You see, Mark smoked constantly, was overwright, and was always under stress.

Sadly, Mark passed away on December 8th. Mark was fighting stomach, esophageal and pancreatic cancers, all at once.

Mark and I would make fun of each other, but when you needed him, he was always there. He drove a Humvee, and whenever the show was realy bad, he drove me to work and brought me back home. Just a terrific person.

I feel badly for his wife, who has to go through this in this sudden shock. It's simply not fair.

The Boy Still Has It

Yesterday was Kevin's first indoor track meet, and you may not think that he wouldn't be in shape, but you would be mistaken.

Kevin ran at the new indoor stadium at the University of Pennsylvania. Kevin said the stadium was amazing, but it was a tad too warm.

Kevin took second on the pole vault, getting over 7'6. What was really amazing was his run in the 800 meters. Kevin was second in his heat with a 2:35.15, a new personal record.

Kevin was very ready this year, and I expect him to get better from here on out.

I should be able to see at least four of his races, and hopefully he gets a ticket to Penn State at the end of indoors.

You Gotta Love Therapy

So in November I was jogging at a good pace and while jogging my knee started to stop cooperating with me. I tried to slow down, but the knee still wasn't cooperating. It got so bad that I could barely walk.

I have had problems with my shoulder and knees before, so I went to ATI Therapy. They were always great to get me fixed up, and I started getting my knee worked on. The therapists there were really great, and while they have always been super, they pushed me hard to get me as good as possible.

My therapists, Jen and Q (his nickname) pushed me hard to get myself a lot better. I still have some arthtitis in the knee joint, but I am much better than I was a month ago. I'll still do my exercises three times a week, to keep my knee in check.

Thank you ATI, for getting me back and on the way to walking again.

Anti-Semite Nick Fuentes Was Arrested After Striking A Woman

You may not know Nick Fuentes, but he really doesn't like Jewish people. He does, however, loves to assault women... for the fun of it.

Nick Fuentes, the notorious far-right racist/antisemite, has been charged with battery for a confrontation outside his Illinois home with a woman who said she was maced and shoved to the ground by the scrawny white supremacist. Fuentes, 26, was booked on the misdemeanor count last Wednesday at police headquarters in Berwyn, the Chicago suburb where he lives, according to documents obtained by TSG via a public records request.

Yeah, he's a real good guy. /sarc

Marla Rose, a 57-year-old Berwyn resident, told cops that after seeing an online Fuentes post “in regards to women’s rights” that declared, “Your body my choice,” she decided to “record a video” of Fuentes’s Berwyn property. While recording, Rose said, a female passerby “encouraged her to speak with Nicholas, so she...rang his front doorbell.” Fuentes opened the door and allegedly “immediately sprayed her in the face with pepper spray and pushed her with both hands on her upper body, causing her to fall backwards down the stairs and onto the concrete below.” Fuentes then grabbed Rose’s phone “and momentarily went inside his house before coming back out.”

Well, if nothing else, he'll have fun with his cellmates.

Yes, I Haven't Been Posting A Lot, But I Have An Excuse

I have been jogging a lot lately, trying to get my pounds lower. As of today, I am holding at 174. I was walking, jogging, and occasionally running. After a while I started having problems with my left knee. I was getting clicked while jogging, and what appeared to be inflamation at the patella.

There is a very good therapy company - ATI - which is about three blocks from my house. I called down there and they took me that very day. This was November 13th. I have been with then for years. A really bad contusion, me throwing out my right shoulder, and not this.

The therapists there are fantastic, and while I still have issues with the knee, I'm getting better. I'm starting to worry about how I'm falling apart. I don't want to be one of those people who can't get out and do some walks, etc. I guess cross-country, ice hockey, and lacrosse took it's toll on me.

I asked the therapist today if I could walk, He said not today, but tomorrow. He also said if it starts to hurt, turn around and go home.

I do two sets of exercises in the house, and I don't mind. I just want to get myself back together.

P.S. - I had an appointment with the Prostate Doctor. I'm low enough right now that I only have to go to the doc once a year.

It's Birthday Time!

Today is Julia's Sweet Sixteen today. She is having her friends overnight on Friday.

We were at Thanksgiving last week with all the family. At one point, my mother-in-law came out with Reese's Cups and something in a box. The box was one of my MIL's friends and it was lost for years.

My MIL's friend found it, sent it to the MIL's house, and my MIL wanted to give it to Julia. My first thought is, she is going to hate it. It looked from the Roaring 20's.

Amazingly, Julia absolutely loved it. She wore it most of the evening, and sent photos of her with the hat to her friends. I think Julia, like Kevin, should have been born around the 1940's.

I'm so glad she liked it.

Ho, Ho, Ugh

So, now that I'm in my fifties, I have realized it's more difficult to put up Christmas lights at our home. I have to get on the ladder, hang the lights, then take them down because I the cord is on the other side.

Today wasn't fun, because I didn't have a lot of sleep today, and the hooks for our front weren't cooperating. It took me about an hour to get the lights up and ready, and after that I was ready to go back to bed. Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas but then there's the indoor lights, the trees - we have a main tree in the living room and one in the basement.

I decided to not go back to bed, so I decided to put up the indoor lights in our den. We have three long strings, and only one had their lights working. I only put the lights up today because it wasn't freezing as it has been for the last week. I'll have to get more indoor lights tomorrow, and we'll start putting up the Christmas flair on Friday.

Well, This Was Something New

In my thirty-one years as a member of law enforcement, I have seen a lot of awful, terrible things . Murders, rapes, shootings, etc.

On Saturday night, I found something I never expected.

I was walking out to my car at the end of my shift. As I was walking, a black male came up to me and asked if I wanted to purchase the thing he had wrapped. Now, I rarely buy things from junkies, so I continued walking to the car.

The guy stops me, and says, "Would you like to buy what's in the wrapper." I immediately said no.

The guy stops me, and opens the wrapper. Inside the wrapper was about a 12-inch log of poo. This clown wanted me to buy his dung. It was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

350 days left. They cannot come fast enough.