Well, Kevin Is Seeking To Stop Pole Vaulting

It wasn't that he couldn't do the pole vaulting; it was because he wasn't getting over the bars. Yes, he was doing pretty well for a while there, but his high school didn't really have the equipment, and the other schools were galactically better.

He was getting really stressed out, and is likely going to ask his coach if he could stop vaulting. It's a shame because he really liked it, but I think he realized it wasn't for him.

Kevin told the missus that he was getting really stressed, and he wanted to make running his primary sport. He will run indoor and outdoor track and focus on cross-country.

I'm glad he told us, and his coach will be fine with it. His vault coach really liked Kevin, and he did his best to get Kevin ready. His head coach and vault coach are great people, but I think Kevin would rather lose vault than running.

I think Kevin will realize that running is his real passion.

He was in a meet on Friday, and missed his personal record by one second. He still can run like the wind.

I'm glad he made the decision. He was the only male pole vaulter at his school, and he always tried to do his best. I'm so proud of him.

P.S. - It appears I won't be able to see Kevin in indoor races this year beause of my schedule and the fact we are not allowed to take days off if the POS Eagles make it to the Super Bowl.

P.P.S. - Kevin will continue practicing pole vault, and decide if he will do so in outdoor track.

Oh, Kevin also got his photo on January 9th's track meet at the University of Pennsylvania.

Happy New Year 2025

Well, 2024 has come and gone, and while I am a little late on this post, but I wanted to wish everyone a great 2025. Lord, it can't be any worse than 2024.

My therapy went great. My knee is much better now, and it only took a month to get my leg moving like butter. Speaking of moving, I finished 2024 with 893.54 kilometers between walking, jogging, running, and cycling. I wanted to make it to 1,024, but the therapy cut me short for that.

Kids are still doing well. I cannot wait to leave this job. And I really want to do something else from here on out.

Hopefully you are all well, and I an trying to get more posts up as often as possible.

May God bless you all.

The Birth Of Jesus Christ

Today is the day that Jesus Christ was born in a manger in Bethlehem. According to Luke 2:1-21...

The Shepherds and the Angels..

8 In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: 11 to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.” 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying,

14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favours!”

Enjoy your families and your friends, but remember the most inportant thing... that Jesus loves us all.

Christmas Time Is Almost Here

This is the first time I have been working during the Christmas season. I have always been the top dog - as far as years working - at the division and since I did not think I would have taken the extra year.

It'll be weird, but I'll show up. The kids don't mind, because they wanted to sleep in on Christmas. I don't blame them.

As always I want to remind those with younger kids can follow Christmas throughout the world. You can check it out at Norad Tracks Santa. Our kids watched it every year, and we wait for Santa to fly over Slovakia.

Nevertheless, I still mention my favorite Christmas songs for Christmas Eve.

Because blogspot doesn't allow music videos, I will simply suggest you listen to Run-DMC with Christmas in Hollis.

The better song, in my opinion, is Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses. It's my favorite Christmas song. Sadly, Patty Donahue passed away at the age of forty of lung cancer. Such a shame. Her vocal were fantastic.

I hope you all have a terrific Christmas and have a Happy New Year.

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.