Our World

Author: cmolnar

  • Facebook Post: 2017-01-01T15:58:27

    I just counted 3 dogs (none of my pack) that had seizures overnight and this morning that have never had them before.

  • Facebook Post: 2017-01-01T07:30:24

    Happy New Year everyone!

  • Facebook Post: 2016-12-31T21:40:35

    I love my greyhound vet and vet tech friends. You know who you are. It would be a positively awful evening for an ER vet visit. THANK YOU!!!!

  • Facebook Post: 2016-12-31T16:31:51

    Happy New Years Eve everyone!

    I wrote this a couple of years ago, I have been struggling on coming up with a New Years post for this year and decided that I really cannot do better. I did go back and change the dates and made a few minor updates.

    To all of my friends I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! I know for many of you 2016 has not been all that great! I hope 2017 brings new joy and new successes for all.

    To my friends in the Greyhound world, may your kennels and dogs be healthy, may your racing be safe and fast, may your pups grow strong. It is my hope that all of you that work taking care of the dogs on the tracks and on the farms do get some time with your friends and families before you have to go back and do it all again tomorrow (oh, don’t forget where you left your keys). Give the brats an extra treat tonight.

    For those in the amateur circuit may your year be filled with nice, clean, and safe races. Doesn’t matter if it’s a turtle or a ribbon, may our dogs always have fun. {note for 2017 – My pack is too old and we will not be joining in the fun this year.}

    For those in adoption thank you so much for everything you do every day. It takes love and dedication to take care of, fund, and place the retirees every day. It has been a great year for adoption.Let’s hope that all of those lost dogs are found before the next major snow storm hits the country. As always let us know if there are any trips we can make to help.

    Let’s also look back and remember those that have passed. This includes both people and pets. It has not been a good year for many with the number of dogs that we have lost to accidents, sickness, and cancer. It is my hope that in 2017 real strides are made in curing some of these issues and that we do not loose as many.

    For everyone, please have a safe New Years Eve! The safest place is to stay home with your loved ones, your pets, and your family! Please let’s keep our friends who are unable to stay home because of their jobs in our minds. The police officers and our military that have no choice other than to be away, please keep their safety in your thoughts.

    What are we doing for New Years Eve? What we do every year. Avoiding the drunks on the roads. No, seriously we may or may not watch the ball drop, we may or may not be awake for New Years 2017. We will be at home, with each other, with our 6-pack (Includes our visitor Rambo and 7 if you want to count the cat). The dogs will get some bones to spend the evening with. The cat may get a can of tuna. And we will all have a Happy New Years and I hope you all do the same!

    -Christopher Molnar

  • Facebook Post: 2016-12-31T08:47:45

    So…. who is in with me for 2017?
    http://www.mapmyrun.com/challenges/yvsty2017/

  • New Project

    I am starting to work on a new research project that I will tie in with my 2017 presentation at the HVAC Excellence conference in Orlando, FL. The title of the presentation is, “Instructional Technology: The good and the evil.” Almost six years ago I gave my first presentation on instructional technology and at that time I believed what we were seeing was the next best thing to the invention of toast. It was new, it was exciting, and the thought of students happy in a classroom, the happy instructor wandering through mentoring them, using individualized education was a dream.

    Well, over the last six years I have lived instruction technology as a classroom instructor, as a department chair, as an administrator. I have seen to positives, the negatives, and some of the struggles of adoption. In order to quantify my conference talk I am working on a small research project. I hope to answer one primary question:

    • Does 1:1 Instructional Technology add educational value in the post-secondary vocational classroom?
      • If yes, how? If not, why?
      • If different for a specific set of students, why and how?

    I would really like to have feedback from instructors and students that have worked in a 1:1 technology environment. I want to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly of these experiences.

     

  • Facebook Post: 2016-02-03

    This is pretty good:

    What Is My Greyhound Trying To Tell Me?

  • Facebook Post: 2016-02-03

    Good morning all!
    It is 70 degrees here in Babson Park, FL according to the backyard weather thingy. I suspect it is going to be a warm one today!! Well, Ranger still limping a little on his hurt pad (I hesitate to give the boy to much pain med for it because then he acts like an idiot and tears ass around the back yard). On todays agenda: Try and pick up the rest of my meds from CVS. Somehow they are out of something relatively important. I did figure out that yes, I can give myself that shot. Honestly, I was afraid that I would be too much of a wimp to do so, but I had to try last night and it is nice I can handle it.

    Anyways all…. have a good day.

  • Facebook Post: 2016-02-02

    84 degrees this afternoon. Air conditioning on for second day in February. Ranger tore a pad on his right front paw today. He was not impressed when he had to walk in a sock this evening. Ever seen a grown, 90 pound black brindle dog sulk (Jennifer and Heidi)?

  • Facebook Post: 2016-02-02

    Well…. not right on or close.