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I ran outta steam.

Tuesday...

Many thanks to everyone who left well-wishes on my unfortunate wall encounter.

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I've had a hell of a day, starting yesterday, when I did this to myself. I tripped and fell against a wall, destroying my glasses as well as giving me this great shiner. (Too bad it didn't happen right before Halloween, that would have been perfect.) I have several scrapes, too, but don't know exactly how I got them. Then aches and pains arrived Sunday and it was very low energy until late in the day. When I started to post, I kept getting a message about cookies. I could not for the life of me figure out how to correct that. Finally, I thought to use a different fucking browser. By then it was too late, I was exhaust. I'll catch up on Monday morning.

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Sorry, but I ran out of energy and time to schedule posts for Tuesday.

I'll post after I get up in the morning.

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I'll post when I get up in the morning.

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Saturday's posts will be several hours late. I've had a hell of a time after that cystoscopy.

Friday...

The cystoscopy went well. There was a numbing agent injected first, then the camera. It was fascinating observing the interior of my bladder. The urologist pointed out what was most likely my major urinary problem: a big prostate. I joked with her that I'd rather have a different big thing. She chuckled. Anyway, she pre­scribed yet another medi­ca­tion to try to shrink the prostate. I'll try it for a few months but, honestly, I'm ready for "a procedure" to relieve this urgent half-ass pissing all of the time.

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Today I have the pleasure of having a camera inserted into my penis so the urologist can peek inside my bladder.

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I'll post more 

after I wake up and 

have my coffee.

Monday...

Today I Am A Man...

Today I Am 73

Friday...

I have always liked this story. When I used to go to Sauvie Island, I would pick up some of the freshwater clams that were left high and dry during low tide and throw them back into the river. I couldn't pick up each and every one, but I did what I could. I sometimes wondered if the clams got dizzy while spinning through the air.

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About 10 days ago Jerry and I attended a fund­raising ban­quet for the orga­ni­za­tion that sup­ports the gay elder group we've become involved with. We were un­aware the roaming pho­tog­rapher had taken a pic­ture of us hold­ing hands until it arrived in an email attach­ment. We think it's very special.

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I ran out of steam.

Will post more in the morning.

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I took my first HIV test in December of 1985; it came back positive, as I had expect­ed. The partner I had at the time figured that we both contracted the virus a year or more earlier, when he and I were into threeways. I was fortunate to have lived until good medicines came along. (As far as I know, that partner is still alive too.) I'm no longer concerned that HIV will take me, but I'm sure COPD (chronic obstructive pul­mo­nary disease) certainly will.

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One last creepy picture...

Jerry and me at our gay senior Halloween dance.

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Yesterday I went to have new glasses made. (It's been five years since my last prescription was filled, so it was time.) The distance glasses weren't a problem because I wanted to update the frames anyway.

However, I wanted to keep the frames for the computer. Unfor­tu­nately, they had to send them to the factory to be fitted, since they're so old. I have double vision on top of blurry vision.

The long and short of it is, I'm creating posts with one eye closed and it ain't easy. It'll take about ten days to get the computer glasses back. I don't have a spare pair.

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I want to give a Great Big, HUGE, Thank You! to the two men who stopped to help Jerry and me when we experienced a flat tire on our way home from the naked beach.

About half-way home we picked up a giant screw. I mean, the head was as big as my thumbnail. Since the tire had not gone flat, I hoped the screw would stay put until we got home and could call AAA. Alas, the screw worked itself out and the tire immediately went flat. We safely pulled over and called AAA.

While we were waiting, a white van pulled over and two men got out. I thought, "What an odd truck for AAA." Turned out to be two painters who were offering their assistance. Jerry and I had already pulled everything out of the trunk, including the spare, so they went to work right away. In no time at all they were done, and they wouldn't accept any payment.

Turned out, both of them were from Ukraine.

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Portland Pickles vs Walla Walla Sweets

Jerry and I went to this ball game a couple of eve­nings ago because the senior group we belong to was able to get free tick­ets, which allowed us to sit in a "VIP" section. I'm not a sports fan of any kind and had never been to a base­ball game before. How­ever, Jerry grew up one block from Yan­kee Sta­dium, and he even sold refresh­ments there for one sum­­mer as a teen­ager. He thought it would be fun to go, so I agreed. He had a lot of fun visit­ing with all of the les­bians there. We were the only men. It's really not some­thing I need to do again. (BTW, the Pickes were ahead 8-0 in the 5th inning, when we left.)

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Many thanks to everyone for participating in my little survey, and for your comments, as well. As of this evening, desktops have only a slight lead over laptops; tablets and smartphones were left in the dust; and there were even a few "Other" for some reason.

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In the old days, Blogger had a widget for setting up a survey. Not now.

Still, I've been curious for quite a while about which device people are using to view my blog.

So I came up with this idea...

If you use a smart phone, click on the second star in the rating.

If you use a tablet, click on the third star.

If you use a laptop, click on the fourth star.

If you use a desktop, click on the fifth star. (A desktop is what I use to assemble this thing.)

The first star could be for "Other", but I don't know what that would be.

Does that seem simple enough? I hope so.

Like I said, I'm mostly just curious.

Thanks, Rick

P.S. - I realize that not everyone will be able to utilize the stars.