Think Positive

Down Town San Diego/Photo Duane A. Donecker

Thinking positive is probably the most important of the habits to share with you, because you know that everything starts in the mind.  Thoughts turn into feelings, which then turn into actions.  If you tell yourself you can do it, you have increased your chances of accomplishing that goal.  Keep your mind clear and your thoughts positive.  This habit will bring great success to you in your personal and professional life.

GOYA Tip:  When a negative thought comes into your mind, instantly swap it with a positive one.  An example of this would be thinking about a child's smile or someone you know.  This will keep the mind clear of any negative thoughts.

Here is what happened to me, back on 31 Dec 2005 I retired from the navy, found out I had FSH Muscular Dystrophy which because the pain was so bad I had to leave my job in Wyoming  and suddenly I landed into a pit of negative attitude and things went terribly down hill from there, especially when doctors started filling me up with narcotics for the pain with the FSH I couldn't handle what was going on and with the negative attitude I was caring my life seemed to become unmanageable and when I thought that it really happened.  Today I am keeping a positive attitude and things are already looking up which I will take with you more later.

God Bless All Of You

Positive Attitude

Picture From Terry Walk

As some of you know the last few years have been rough for me, so I have been trying to keep a positive attitude, if I don't and I get into a negative funk bad things start too happen.

In today's world, we are experiencing more uncertain and troubling times than ever before.  Every time you turn on the TV or get on the computer, it seems there is always more news that just weighs you down.  On top of that, you have your own personal issues to deal with.  this "negative storm" can cause someone to feel stuck, lost and full of anxiety.  It is the fear of the unknown that builds up in our mind and takes over like a dark cloud. This dark cloud follows us and rains on us, making us negative in our personal and professional lives.  As humans, we sometimes focus on the negative and stay under the negative cloud that we created. We must understand that we can walk from under this cloud at anytime, and we have the power to make our days sunny and bright.

There are 7 habits that are found to be the most effective when creating and maintaining positive mental attitude along with GOYA (Get off Your Attitude) Tip to get you moving.

In the next few days I will go over these 7 habits.  I have found that if I walk around with a negative attitude bad things tend to happen, so I am now trying to always keep that dark cloud away from me.  If you are having problems with negativity please check back the next few days and we will work on keeping a positive attitude.

I love life and don't want to walk around all day being negative, I try to constantly keep a positive attitude by thinking of my wife and my five year old son.  I love you guys too, please keep positive and remember I pray for you all every day!!!

San Deigo Home Sweet Home

Flag of the State of Wyoming

Hello my friends, did a lot of soul searching today and decided San Diego is and always be the best home
I've ever had. There is a lot to say about San Diego.

1.  99% of the people here are awesome and very friendly
2.  Sunshine, Yes it's been raining a bit more often lately but Hey we needed it.
3.  Close to the beach, love the beach even the freezing 58-60 degree water
4.  You can go to the desert in no time to play with your toys
5.  Snow, if you love snow and skiing hit the mountains in about an hour.
6.  Close to Mexico, great food there, can't get more authentic than that
7.  Number one consideration is this is were my wife, son and of course myself are most happy

Since I retired from the navy on 31 DEC 2005, I have traveled the world and have seen so many different things, I've been to places like Hawaii, Japan, Australia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, East Timor, Kuwait, Pakistan, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Kenya, Israel, Jordan, to name a few.  Then after retiring in 1985 we just went crazy and traveled the country and find someplace else to live. 

1. Gillette Wyoming:  This job was great, great benefits and great pay (27 bucks an hour), however the commute was 60 miles one way.  My job was mechanics working on the 3 story high dump trucks, huge bulldozers, massive cranes.  You name it I worked on it, however after 30 degree's below zero and your outside trying to work but you get pulled off from the mine once temps reach about -31 which happened quite often and they would stick us on cots for anywhere from a few hours to a few days, the most I stayed was 16 days, the thing was though because you were snowed in they paid you for a 12 hour shift daily. The problem became my FSH muscular dystrophy, the cold was killing me so as soon as the son came out in the spring we where heading back to San Diego.

2. Returned to San Diego and was doing roofing job's with a small business man, what we were doing was nail gunning roofs of new factory's and where house being built.  I was getting paid about 10 bucks which was good and we were living on Seacoast Ave, with the sandy beach right across the street.  However and you will find a lot of however's in my story one morning I got to his office to get the keys to his truck because it was my responsibility to go pick up all the other employee's at home, when I got to his house I knocked, Knocked until his wife answered and said he wasn't going to make it because he was sick, we were all pretty well able to work independently so we asked to see him, she shrugged and said he was in the Garage.  We opened the door and he was out of it.  Come to find out he was strung out on pills, crystal and alcohol and he got out of control the night before.  So no work for the next three days than I will never forget he asked to see us and let us go because he said he was going crazy.

3.  Because of that we couldn't pay our rent on time and Kathy, Sand's mother invited us to move to Hawaii with with them.  At first I was totally against it, but Sandi at first I was against it, as Sandi and her mother have never gotten along and she can be very verbally abusive to her and I, saying things like "I know Duane's not Jesiahs F----- Dad some wet back Mexican you S----- right in front of him. I ended up having a long talk  with Kathy and she said the old days were past and she won't get on us about money (which is her addiction) because I took care of her for 5 years before she married Sandi's 6th step father.
We arrived in Hawaii and with in a week the fights between Sandi and Kathy began. We got out of there as soon as we could.

Well there is more, it's getting late and I will update it tomorrow, God Bless You All

Republican or Democrat

I have a new poll on this blog, tell me will it be a Republican, Democrat or tell me you don't fricken care, come vote on my poll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where Have I been?

Hello to everyone and I just want to say I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and ate a lot, because I know that I did, sorry it's been so long since I have posted in any of my blogs but once again I went into the hospital for 30 days and am doing good, I am really trying to beat this muscular dystrophy, but I am doing good.  I have some pain but not as bad as it used to be. I am trying to walk at least 3 miles a day so my legs and hips stay strong, and now I am living in Spring Valley, Ca. and my walking path is nothing but hills now so my hips should stay strong.  I never went and got the cane my Neurologist recommended I don't want to have to rely on any thing but myself and my family. well this is it for now but I will post more later now that I am settled again.

Confusing

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Hello all, here I go confusing my self again, but that i besides the point, I hate it if there is even a possibility I let someone down or didn't do my very best to assist someone.

Oh yeah back to the confusing part, just back at the beginning of Sept I posted on this blog that me, my wonderful wife Sandi, and the best son a man could have and that is 5 year old Jesiah Raine, that we were moving Permanently Indianapolis, In how ever once I arrived it started off like a dream, like everything was going to work out great, yet this is just the start of the story!

You bet, myself, Sandi and Jesiah are back in San Diego after spending a month and a few days in Greenfield, In and although it was a really nice little town, it is not settle down and buy a house material. Now don't get me wrong because the majority of the people living in Greenfield and the near by city of Indianapolis are very nice and help you the best of their ability if they can do it.

The one good thing that did come from us "moving" to Greenfield is that first I got to see my sister, Teresa Washburn for the first time in 27 years, that is how busy my 20 years in the navy kept me. Also I was able to meet some of my nephews and nieces, who are Crystal, Kayla, Jennifer and my nephew Johnny.

As I write this right now I am sitting in San Diego, Ca knowing I will never try to move out of San Diego, I may travel because Sandi and I love road trips, but as far as moving from San Diego if I can prevent it, it will never happen, unless it is my wife Sandi who requests to try somewhere else.

OK my friends I will  say again, sorry for the confusing blogs entries but my goal really is to make at least one post in each blog I have up and running, down deep in my heart I am a writer, and as it may be, probably not a very good one at that, but as anyone you want to ask that knows me I really try to updates these for my readers, of course that is assuming over the last year or so I do have readers.

OK everyone until next time have have a great few days until we shall meet again.

Have moved

Hello everyone, for those of you that havent figured it out yet my family and I have moved to Greenfield, Indiana. We had to get out of California as things just werent working out.  Things here are going good, matter of fact 4 days after arriveing I began working at MS Industries, this company does quality assurance inspections at factories that manufacure auto parts, so it is not a hard job consdering it is only nine bucks an hour.  But the good news is that I have also been hired by Black and Decker at one of their factories about a mile from the house and I will be starting at 11 bucks an hour working nights running a press and packaging and labeling parts for shipment, the bad thing is the hours are going to be 3 pm to 12 am but at least I will be home to see Jesiah off to school.

Jesiah going to school is another thing that happened. This is his thrid week going to Kindergarten and I am so proud of him, he really loves his school which is J.B. Stephens Elementary. His teacher is Mrs. Carson and she seems to be really nice and Jesiah is doing really good in her class. I was afraid that on his first day he would be scatred, but oh no not my little man he was roaring and ready to go. Well I am curently at the Hancock Community Hospital getting a biopsy done on a couple of moles so this is all about I can write at this current time however I do have a computer at home and will be taking Jesiah to the library today so we all three can get library cards so I will write and update more when I get the time.

I pray that everyone is doing well and hope to hear from you all soon

Again

Ok now you are probably thinking, Oh there Duane goes again saying that he's going to catch up on all his blogs, well I just want to say I am sorry for not keeping up on my blogs, however I am starting to feel better now and really want to try and work on each and everyone of my blog at least once a week.

Currently my favorite blogs are this one, the military of the world blog, Navy's of the World and side stepping through life. So I am not giving anyone a promise because my health can drop dramatically with out warning.

Again and Again

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It seems every time my schedule appears clear enough to start working on my blogs again something new happens to take away the few precious minutes I have to work on blogs and other projects I have going on in my life, I won't go into detail but let me just say the latest drama to enter the stage of my life is a serious one and it's going to take some time to get the situation taken care of so that I have time to stop by and add something to my blog.

There has been so much going on in the world that I have wanted to get on here and talk about, and now those "old" news stories are piling up behind all the new stories that come out every day, so much so I don't know what to touch on first.

With me being a Christian and claiming Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, the first thing I need to hit is the false teachings of Harold Camping, now any of you who are professing Christians I'm sure know who this man is, and the many false teachings he is spreading to honest people who are truly searching for the Savior Jesus Christ. He has a long history of prophesying things to come that never happens and can never happen in the manner he predicts these events to occur. Let me list some of these for you.

1. Harold Camping proclaimed the Lord's return would be in 1994!
2. Harold Camping again proclaimed the Lord's return would be on May 21, 2011!
3. Harold Camping teaches that the world will end in fiery destruction on October 21, 2011!
4. Harold Camping (Family Radio) has aired Mormon advertisements!
5. Harold Camping taught that NO ONE was saved between 1988 through 1994!
6. Harold Camping teaches that the church age ended in 1994!
7. Harold Camping teaches that the Holy Spirit is NO LONGER working in the church!
8. Harold Camping teaches that EVERY church in the world is apostate!

Now let me tell you this man is a false prophet as is predicted in the bible that many will come, as outlined in the following scripture.

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” —Matthew 7:15

In these years I have no doubt we are facing the imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ, I myself am excited about the prospect of Jesus returning to bring his church home during my life time, I am not frightened I am 120% prepared for that day to come, but know this, no one knows but the Father in heaven the date and time of his return, don't listen to false prophets like Harold Camping, get out your bible and read for your self, be prepared now by asking Jesus into your heart, to become your Lord and Savior right now; because we do not know the day or the time, it could be 5 seconds from now. God loves you and doesn't wish one human to miss His free gift of Grace.

Right now, today I urge you if you do not belong to a bible believing church, find one near you now and the best advice I can give you is that you compare what your pastor is teaching to the true words from God, The Bible.

God bless everyone who stops and reads my blogs, I want to say that I will be posting more often, I pray that my life will settle down and I can get back to business. Please come back and check often and for now I will see you next time.

Out For awhile

Hello everyone, just wanted to make a little note in my blogs since I haven't worked on them basically since Jan 24th when I went to the hospital, and since then there has been a lot going on, I am healthy enough now that I am back in college, for the summer semester I am at South Western college, normally I am a student at San Diego City college, but because it is a public school with the largest percentage of their income to keep the school open and students in class and California is having a serious budget problem, all summer classes at San Diego City where cancelled because the state and the city of San Diego it's self are broke.

At first I about had a heart attack because besides my navy retirement the 9/11 GI Bill is my main source of income, however luckily City farmed out the veterans attending class there so we wouldn't loose our GI Bill income.  The good thing is that we didn't have to do the normal transferring of records, all we had to do is get a Parental letter from our original  school.

Now that I am back on me feet completely and going back to school, you should see more posts from me in all my blogs.  God Bless everyone of you and I pray everyone is doing well.

This semester I am only taking

New State Department Warnings For Travel In Mexico

Mexican Police investigate murders/Photo LaJornada

 Today I read on CNN that the US State Department has increased the severity of their travel warning for Americans traveling into Mexico, I can't help but ask, how many warnings do US citizens need to keep them from traveling right into deaths doorstep?

Of course because I am living in San Diego I hear a lot of the stories that don't make the news because they were close calls, and because of the fact that violence south of the border has become so common place not all of it gets reported. There is large amount of violence that can be attributed to drug activity that is committed by small time gangsters not directly related to the cartels themselves, many of the small time drug dealers and gangs in Tijuana; as well as other border cities  take advantage of the fact that so little of their crimes are prosecuted they can get away with just about anything, and if the big cartels can get away with mass murders these small time characters know they can get away with armed robbery, car jacking and even kidnapping.

Now things we do know as being fact is for instance, back in 2010 one-hundred eleven Americans where killed in Mexico, the total murder rate however was 34,600. All this has been reported in the news with their flashy stories about Mexican troops raiding buildings and farms where they discovered mass graves of mostly immigrants in the middle of raging gun battles, or the bit more quieter story not to long ago about a San Diego area teacher who was kidnapped south of Tijuana and when the family couldn't pay the ransom the teacher was killed.

To add to what we hear about in the news, we also have our ever vigilant US State Department and their fearless leader Hillary Clinton putting out these warnings. As it stands now with the new warning put out today the state department is warning us to pretty much stay out the two Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Michoacan, as well as part of the following nine states; Durango, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Jalisco, Nayarit, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora and Zacatecas. Now what I find strange about this new warning is there is again no mention of the busiest border crossing in the world being on the list, and that would be the border between San Diego (San Ysdrio) and Tijuana, which by the way is also the most concentrated drug and illegal alien smuggling port in the world.

Why isn't Tijuana listed? I'm sure it's not because the area isn't considered dangerous, most likely it's totally political being this is the busiest tourist crossing area for people crossing into Mexico, just keep letting us think that the violence hasn't spread here and people will keep crossing and spending tourist dollars on both sides of the border, loss of those dollars would mean complete economic disaster for both sides of the border.

This is basically what the new warning is saying, first to stay clear of the areas listed in those eleven states, second don't drive at night any where in Mexico and third any time you are tr4aveling on the highways in Mexico stay on the main highways and toll roads, because one of the favorite tactics of carjackers, highway robbers and kidnappers is to blockade a road pretending they are police or soldiers and taking advantage of travelers as well as blocking other parts of main thoroughfares to delay the response of the police or soldiers to the actual crime scenes.

All though the government of Mexico hasn't yet offered a comment on the new warning, many Americans living and working in Mexico have not agreed with these warnings whole heartedly. For example Howard Feldstein who is the head of the Lake Chapala Society a expatriate community in the state of Jalisco said that "Mexico itself is still a great place to retire despite security concerns" and that " Life goes on. The people that live here do not live in fear of moving around freely. We're just, perhaps, more cautious.

Despite of all that is going on down south in Mexico, and the likeliness of the violence spreading into cities like El Paso and San Diego, I am floored daily as I am commuting around the San Diego area when I hear people having "private" conversations on their cell phones talking how they plan to cross the border to party, shop or even to get medical procedures; such as plastic surgery and lipo-suction despite the fact that the dangers are so real. Many people have the same reaction as Mr. Feldstein

Chris Hondros Dies From Injuries in Libya

Photojournalist Tim Hetherington/Photo The Rory Peck Trust

Earlier today Vanity Fair reported that photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed and three other journalists were injured during a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya, however as of 10:50 p.m. eastern time CNN is now  reporting that photojournalist Chris Hondros a photographer for Getty Images has succumbed to a fatal brain injury incurred during the same attack, Hondros was an American citizen born in New York City.

Chris Hondros/Photo digitaljournalist

The other photographers injured in the mortar attack are Guy Martin of the Panos Agency and Michael Brown a freelance photographer. As of the last report Martin, a British citizen,  was earlier reported to be in very serious condition has suffered shrapnel wounds to the pelvis and underwent vascular surgery Wednesday night, according to The New York Times. It said his prospects had improved. A rebel source said Martin was in critical but stable condition.

Michael Brown suffered non life-threatening shrapnel wounds to his left shoulder.

Tim Hetherington Photojournalist Killed In Libya

Firebase Phoenix/Photo US Army

The Civil War in Libya has struck home for Vanity Fair Magazine and the photojournalism community in general when award winning photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed in a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya today . According to an article by Vanity Fair reported his death and listed three other journalists as wounded.

Chris Hondos a photographer for Getty , Guy Martin of the Panos Agency where both seriously wounded with Mr. Martin being listed in very serious condition, and Michael Brown a freelancer was slightly wounded in the same attack. Hetherington, 40 who was an American and British citizen was best known for his work in Afghanistan, won the World Press Photo of the Year Award in 2007 for his work covering American soldiers in the Korengal Valley.

The Korengal Valley is located south of the Pech River in the Pech District of Kunar Province in northeastern Afghanistan. To the east is Asadabad, capital of Kunar Province, to the west is the Chapa Dara District, and to the south is the Chawkay District (Diwagal Valley). In the south east there is Narang wa Badil District (Badeil Valley), and in the south west Nurgal District (Mazar Valley), which includes Shumast Aret.

Firebase Phoenix (later called Firebase Vimoto) was established in the village of Babeyal to act as a security buffer between the villagers and active anti-coalition militia (ACM) fighters in the valley. Firebase Phoenix was established in the Spring of 2007 by 2nd Platoon, A Company, 1-32d Infantry, 10th Mountain Division, while fighting waged in the villages and mountains. Medical aid was brought to the surrounding villages. The Firebase Phoenix (Vimoto) is the area that Hetherington was covering when he won the 2007 award. He had also created short films about the G.I.’s he encountered in the Korengal and released a book of photographs, Infidel, examining the lives of the men of a battle company of the 173rd Airborne.

Vanity Fair released a statement from Hetherington's family Wednesday. "It is with great sadness we learned that our son and brother, photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, was killed today in Misrata, Libya, by a rocket-propelled grenade," the statement said. "Tim will be remembered for his amazing images and his Academy Award-nominated documentary 'Restrepo.'

James Hider, Middle East correspondent for the Times of London, told CNN the four journalists were documenting fighting on Tripoli Street in Misrata.

After Hetherington's death, Jalal al Gallal, a spokesman for the rebels, issued a statement saying, "This is no longer the Gadhafi regime taking on Libya's people. This is Gadhafi taking on the world. He has spared no one, not women, not children, not journalists. This is now everybody's war."

Various news agencies are also reporting the frustration felt  by the rebels fighting Gadhafi because of the lack of response by NATO in protecting the citizens living in Misrata from forces loyal to Gadhafi. In my oppionon this demonstrates the ineffectiveness of NATO and the United Nations operating on the world stage, and though Americans are burned out from being the police force of the world, it just show's that the United States is the only entity that can do it.

Schwarzenegger Strikes Again

Schwarzenegger & Fabian Nunez/photo CBS8.com

Wow, life gets so hectic and busy sometimes things just seem to get away from me, I love to work on my blogs but it seems like something else in life always gets in my way. Now not all of it is bad, many times its because I am spending time with my wife and son which I wouldn't trade for anything. I love the two of them so much I would give up anything for them.

Again I say I am going to try to keep my blogs up to date, now I don't even know if I have a loyal "fan" base or not who read my blogs faithfully, I like to pretend that there are, and to them I want to say I am sorry for not keeping my blogs up to date. There is so much going on in the world today, that I can find probably billions of things to write about on this blog, which by the way is called Ramblings of a 44 year Old College Student, how ever how that I am 45 I guess that title isn't exactly correct but hey, I just told you I am 45 now and this blog will keep this name even until I am 199 years old.

So to my loyal "fan" base I just want to say give me a chance, I am trying my best. Although part of my problem may be just the fact that I am trying to keep eight blogs going at once, just on blogger itself and to be honest I don't know how many blogs I have all together on other web sites. So please just bear with me and I will keep on plugging away at my blogs. My wife says maybe I should drop a couple of the blogs, and I have thought of it, yet I like writing on all them, but if I do decided to give one up, it will probably be my
Astronomy blog, but somehow I doubt I will drop any of them.

So let me stop rambling here and take a look at what is going on in the world today, I'm sure there is something good out there to comment on, for example I saw on the California news scene today that Schwarzenegger commuted the sentence of Esteban Nunez  from sixteen years to seven years on the day before he left office in January. Nunez, who is the son of former state Assembly speaker Fabian Nunez, had pleaded guilty in the 2008 stabbing death of a San Diego college student, 22-year-old Luis Santos. It upsets me that a confessed killer will probably go free early just because Schwarzenegger wanted to reward a political ally, who can't even do anything for him any more. And America wonders why our murder rate is so high.

I Have Been In The Hospital

Hello my friends, just want to update you all on what has been going on, I have been in the hospital for 30 days so that doctors could take me off of narcotic pain relievers and put me on non-narcotics.  It was a slow and somewhat painful process but I have emerged all the better for the experience.  I was at Hemet Valley Recovery Center in Hemet, Ca. where the specialize on addiction medicine and chronic pain patients.  I loved it their I want to say hats off to the folks working their all the way from Brenda who did the cleaning and made sure all the patients there have clean laundry.  Also the nursing staff there was very professional and had a obvious passion for their job.  Going to a facility like this was a very scary thing for me, because even though I was there for chronic pain and to get off the narcotic pain relievers HVRC also housed other "rehab" patients who where on everything from alcohol and heroin as well as everything between.  Special mention goes to Jackie a CNA there as well as Mellisa who is a RN there at the facility.

As for me I am now doing great, I actually feel better than I have in 10 years and now back home with my wife and son and it sure is wonderful to be back in their arms again. As far as school goes it looks like I have to take this semester off because it started on 24 Jan, the same day I admitted myself in the hospital, getting my health taken care of so I could be here for a long time for my family was more important to me, so my next step will be getting a job for the next 3 months and start school again next semester, if I like what ever job I find then I will request them to take me to part time.

What Is FSH Muscular Dystrophy?

FacioScapuloHumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) is an autosomal dominant type of muscular dystrophy that initially affects muscles of the face (facio), shoulders (scapulo), and upper arms (humeral). A progressive weakening of these skeletal muscles is the hallmark of FSHD, and eventually the degeneration of muscle tissue can spread to the back, legs, and other areas as well. Symptoms may develop in early childhood and are usually noticeable in the teenage years with 95% of affected individuals manifesting disease by age 20. In serious cases, affected individuals become severely disabled and eventually must use a wheelchair. Some of those affected by FSHD are unable to lift their arms for more than a few seconds, and some lose the ability to show any facial expressions and experience serious speech impediments. While FSHD is still very poorly understood, other symptoms can include hearing loss, vision impairment, and abnormal heart rhythms.

At present, FSHD is estimated to affect 7 out of every 100,000 people, or over 21,000 Americans (almost a half million people worldwide), and is the most common form of muscular dystrophy. But the actual prevalence of the disease is likely higher since FSHD is very often misdiagnosed. Approximately two-thirds of cases are inherited, while up to a third of case seem to be the result of spontaneous mutation.
Perhaps more disturbing than what is known about FSHD is what is unknown. Although the DUX4 protein appears to be the initial culprit (see article), the pathophysiology of FSHD is still unknown, and in general a great deal of uncertainty exists given how variable the disease seems to be. Some progress has been made in determining relevant genetic factors, though little is known as to how those factors develop or what the mechanism of their effect is. Perhaps most importantly, no treatments are available at this time, though a few potential treatments are currently being researched.

The above information was taken from Friends Of FSH Page

Some Time Off

Duane Donecker/Photo Jesiah Donecker

Hello everyone, just wanted to let everyone know I haven't given up on my blogs, just with full time college and these blogs keeping me busy I decided to take some time off to spend some well deserved time hanging with my wife Sandi and my son Jesiah, school well soon be starting again real soon so now is the time for me to get back into the habit of  posting on my blogs.

I pray everyone had a great Christmas and the year 2011 is starting out as a great one for every one of you and your families, may God Bless each and every one of you this year.