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1 hour ago, Wally Fairway said:

You don't have a hat?
Try this one 
 

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One of these might be more practical.

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6 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Just checked into the airbnb. Great spot at main and Braeswood. 

Herman park would be amazing if it wasnt for golfer cunts. 

 

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Bonus tip:

you can make extra money pointing out dead bodies in Brays Bayou while you are in the area.  Call Crimestoppers. 

14 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Just checked into the airbnb. Great spot at main and Braeswood. 

Herman park would be amazing if it wasnt for golfer cunts. 

 

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Blackbelly whistling ducks -- one of my favorites, because they're a year-round Texas resident.  Super cool.

43 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Just checked into the airbnb. Great spot at main and Braeswood. 

Herman park would be amazing if it wasnt for golfer cunts. 

 

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1. fuck you, golfers are super cool 

2. the plan is to rebuild the golf course. full front 9, back 9 is a par 3 only course under lights, and expand the running trail 

3. plan pissed off someone and a lawsuit is brewing 

 

on the flip side, they want to take park acerage to build a new ben taub hospital

houston zoo is worth the time 

 

17 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

1. fuck you, golfers are super cool 

2. the plan is to rebuild the golf course. full front 9, back 9 is a par 3 only course under lights, and expand the running trail 

3. plan pissed off someone and a lawsuit is brewing 

 

on the flip side, they want to take park acerage to build a new ben taub hospital

houston zoo is worth the time 

 

The golf course eats up the best parts of the park and the best trails are for golf carts only. According to the signs anyway. I ignored that bullshit.

33 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

The golf course eats up the best parts of the park and the best trails are for golf carts only. According to the signs anyway. I ignored that bullshit.

 

you need to let a well off / trust fund rice prof run you over on that trail. it's a rom com in the making 

all that will change. they're remodeling the golf course to widen the trails 

don't austin houston !!!!!

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18 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Just checked into the airbnb. Great spot at main and Braeswood. 

Herman park would be amazing if it wasnt for golfer cunts. 

 

 

Back when I lived above a bar in downtown Houston (20 years ago before moving to Austin) a buddy and I rode our bikes from downtown to Hermann Park drinking the whole way- vodka/drank in multiple water bottles with a stop at the Smith St. Spec's to load up a bit more. 

When we got to Hermann Park we commandeered a golf cart from the tournament that was in progress. We drove the cart around the course and various non-golf parts of the park getting absolutely hammered for a couple of hours- it was one of those gorgeous spring days that you only get a handful of in Houston. Great time. 

After that we rode our bikes down to Valhalla for (a bar on the Rice campus) a few beers and then over to The Ginger Man... and then bike/bar hopped back to downtown w/out getting run over somehow. Anyway, that was the last time I was in Hermann Park.

/csb

MIA- definitely take advantage of your location as much as you're able and keep kicking cancer's ass!

 

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56 minutes ago, KaiserSoze said:

Back when I lived above a bar in downtown Houston (20 years ago before moving to Austin) a buddy and I rode our bikes from downtown to Hermann Park drinking the whole way- vodka/drank in multiple water bottles with a stop at the Smith St. Spec's to load up a bit more. 

When we got to Hermann Park we commandeered a golf cart from the tournament that was in progress. We drove the cart around the course and various non-golf parts of the park getting absolutely hammered for a couple of hours- it was one of those gorgeous spring days that you only get a handful of in Houston. Great time. 

After that we rode our bikes down to Valhalla for (a bar on the Rice campus) a few beers and then over to The Ginger Man... and then bike/bar hopped back to downtown w/out getting run over somehow. Anyway, that was the last time I was in Hermann Park.

/csb

MIA- definitely take advantage of your location as much as you're able and keep kicking cancer's ass!

 

I believe the Ginger Man is gone. 

Back when I lived above a bar in downtown Houston (20 years ago before moving to Austin) a buddy and I rode our bikes from downtown to Hermann Park drinking the whole way- vodka/drank in multiple water bottles with a stop at the Smith St. Spec's to load up a bit more. 
When we got to Hermann Park we commandeered a golf cart from the tournament that was in progress. We drove the cart around the course and various non-golf parts of the park getting absolutely hammered for a couple of hours- it was one of those gorgeous spring days that you only get a handful of in Houston. Great time. 
After that we rode our bikes down to Valhalla for (a bar on the Rice campus) a few beers and then over to The Ginger Man... and then bike/bar hopped back to downtown w/out getting run over somehow. Anyway, that was the last time I was in Hermann Park.
/csb
MIA- definitely take advantage of your location as much as you're able and keep kicking cancer's ass!
 

St. Germaine Lofts? Also, I drank too many nights at Valhalla. Bar tender was a buddy. (Around 2001 / 2002ish)
20 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Just checked into the airbnb. Great spot at main and Braeswood. 

Herman park would be amazing if it wasnt for golfer cunts. 

 

If you want to walk around without the golf cunts you should try: 

a) Houston Arboretum & Nature Center, it's North of woodway/Memorial and West of the train tracks. 

or

b) Memorial Park trails, accessed either from the picnic area or the running center parking lot. But beware, if you think the golf cunts are bad you better wear buddy armor here because of the mountain bike riders.

Note: don't walk the path around memorial park, or the Eastern Glades because they are way more crowded.

9 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Right or left? 

Right. The muscles/shoulder joint kinda come and go in twinginess, either old injuries or new horrors. I was moving heavy junk all weekend and maybe got it inflamed, doesn't feel like I bashed the elbow and forgot.

Though as swellings go, it's nothing compared to how my balls swollt up half a year ago

Got an oncologist appointment Wednesday. I'll tell her about it and let her worry about what to do. May be some cancer drug side effect. Anyway, the sore shoulder goes back more than a decade, on and off. Maybe I can snag me some physical therapy with She-Wolf Ilsa.

9 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

"Moving heavy junk". Nice humble brag.

I am scrawny but persistent.

I started buying my Art Show gear right after my tumor-plucking in 2018. I was still at about half-strength, knew I'd get stronger but predicted "this is how I'll feel when I'm old-old, so do a favor to the 75-year-old me." Instead of one big-ass heavy table, I bought four little tables. Same with most other components.

So no, I probably can't (can't means won't!) do one correct push-up, but my slow-ass can set up and break down mighty art show booths, clangy weights and all. Probably the only healthy thing I do.

2 hours ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

I believe the Ginger Man is gone. 

 

valhalla is still there

5 hours ago, Goofyboy said:


St. Germaine Lofts? Also, I drank too many nights at Valhalla. Bar tender was a buddy. (Around 2001 / 2002ish)

Hah, yep. I was in #203 which was directly above Flying Saucer. It was a corner unit that had something like 16 almost floor-to-ceiling windows and spanned half of the building fronting Main and wrapped around the corner on Capitol. Awesome spot and that was the year I met @mycox

Hell of a post-divorce year before moving to Austin during spring/summer 2005.

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Started Round 3 Day 1 today, which means I officially am more than halfway done. My white blood cell count is still a little low (but higher than he thought it would be)/will need the Neulasta equivalent for Rounds 3&4, but the doc said I should be good to go TX/OU and to Kentucky the following weekend as long as I feel fine.

Hah, yep. I was in #203 which was directly above Flying Saucer. It was a corner unit that had something like 16 almost floor-to-ceiling windows and spanned half of the building fronting Main and wrapped around the corner on Capitol. Awesome spot and that was the year I met [mention=1103]mycox[/mention]. 
Hell of a post-divorce year before moving to Austin during spring/summer 2005.

Awesome. I was the door guy there (Saucer) on weekends in late 2002 / early 2003. Dated a couple of different waitresses. They were all nuts. Nice place to live man.
On 9/29/2025 at 3:27 PM, RDCanecutter said:

Got an oncologist appointment Wednesday.

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23 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

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wut.

Oncology nurse was supremely uninterested in my elbow booboo. Something about "wrap it up until the swelling goes down." Compared to some of the truly suffering people I see going in and out of there, I kinda came across like Ben Stiller giving a little cough and thinking he had black lung. Nurse said "Check with your regular doc, maybe your shoulder hurts because of the rotator cuff."

Science Wife found a diagnostic checklist for shoulder pain and thinks my Tater cuff is fine, but my biceps tendon is injured. Really only hurts when I'm pushing up the center pole of a tent, or flangin a banana peel out the passenger window. So maybe I need to imitate a sorority girl, and ask some nice boy to do all the heavy work, and drop the banana peel somewhere for the maid to pick up.

2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

Well…

I didn't know we wuz usin' code hieroglyphs...

Basically all my arm woes bored the Oncology Nurse and she told me to hike my weak ass over to some regular doctor. So my wife (PhD Chemistry) hit the Googles and it says the main cure is rest. So I guess when I look at porn I'll become a Leftist.

1 minute ago, RDCanecutter said:

I didn't know we wuz usin' code hieroglyphs...

Basically all my arm woes bored the Oncology Nurse and she told me to hike my weak ass over to some regular doctor. So my wife (PhD Chemistry) hit the Googles and it says the main cure is rest. So I guess when I look at porn I'll become a Leftist.

“The Stranger”

8 minutes ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

Hey…

 

you’ve had worse 

I wasn't aware that I was being videotaped!

But everybody's had 8-pint vision one time or another.

On 9/28/2025 at 5:54 PM, Brisketexan said:

Blackbelly whistling ducks -- one of my favorites, because they're a year-round Texas resident.  Super cool.

A few decades ago they were confined to the Valley in the US. Now, they are summer residents at least as far north as DFW.

16 hours ago, hookem2010 said:

A few decades ago they were confined to the Valley in the US. Now, they are summer residents at least as far north as DFW.

Yep, growing up, they were a S. Texas duck.  Kinda like whitewings were a RGV dove.  Now, my bird feeder at home in Austin is plundered by whitewings, and I've seen a huge congregation of blackbelly ducks in the Atchafalaya.

I think chemo made my balls shrink.
Anyone else?

Maybe it was listening to Taylor Swift’s entire discography on repeat.
As you often do.
44 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


Maybe it was listening to Taylor Swift’s entire discography on repeat.
As you often do.

Or your sex tape I "accidentally" downloaded.

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

I think chemo made my balls shrink.

Anyone else?

 

lot of balls experts here, post before and after pics 

11 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I think chemo made my balls shrink.

Anyone else?

No, your chemo did not make my balls shrink.

Don't forget the basics, boys.

Yesterday a break in routine interrupted my breakfast. By afternoon I was a raving stroke victim. Wife got a sammich and a 10mg Hydrocortisone in me, 30 minutes later, healed.

I think chemo made my balls shrink.
Anyone else?

No, but I found that when I went to nut, often nothing or very little would come out
22 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:


No, but I found that when I went to nut, often nothing or very little would come out

Not only this but on a 1-10 scale I haven't had an orgasm above a 2 in 3 years. For a period they were a -1 but you still have to release the pressure. 

On 10/10/2025 at 9:25 AM, RDCanecutter said:

Wife got a sammich and a 10mg Hydrocortisone in me, 30 minutes later, healed.

Hydrocortisone is some good stuff for sure.

Had a real shitty past week - had to let my dog cross the rainbow bridge, but turned the corner for the weekend and went out in public (other than errands) for the first time in six weeks and made it to TX/OU.

I have this week off (going to Kentucky for the game/fun this weekend) and then start my last chemo round next Monday, and god am I looking forward to getting this shit over with.

I have had some issues with tinnitus since this started, which I would say has gotten worse after this last round - I have felt some general wooziness/equilibrium imbalance feelings this time around related to it, which hasn’t been fun. I guess ototoxicity is one of the unfortunate side effects of the cisplatin.

Has anybody who has been through this drill had problems with this/found anything effective to help with it?

1 hour ago, KingBobo81 said:

Had a real shitty past week - had to let my dog cross the rainbow bridge, but turned the corner for the weekend and went out in public (other than errands) for the first time in six weeks and made it to TX/OU.

I have this week off (going to Kentucky for the game/fun this weekend) and then start my last chemo round next Monday, and god am I looking forward to getting this shit over with.

I have had some issues with tinnitus since this started, which I would say has gotten worse after this last round - I have felt some general wooziness/equilibrium imbalance feelings this time around related to it, which hasn’t been fun. I guess ototoxicity is one of the unfortunate side effects of the cisplatin.

Has anybody who has been through this drill had problems with this/found anything effective to help with it?

I never had cisplatin, but I had oxaliplatin.  Not sure how similar their side effects are but I didn’t have tinnitus that I can recall. 
 

What seems to have prevented me from ending up with most side effects, particularly the peripheral neuropathy in hands and feet, was lots of L-Glutamine. 

Long story, but my wife had done research to find any supplementation that would help fight the cancer, or would support my body against the treatment. 
 

A yogurt smoothie with fruit and Jay Robb brand protein powder every day might have been the key.  More on that in a minute. 
 

The protein powder (egg white or whey, doesn’t matter to me) has over 4000mg of an amino acid called L-Glutamine.  The original plan was to use that to fight tumor growth because a supplement we had wanted (but was back ordered) claimed to slow or stop tumor growth due to its use of glutathione.  Your liver turns certain amino acids into glutathione.  Thats why we went with this particular protein powder.  That, and it doesn’t taste like chalk like most of them. 
 

At one point my oncologist at Methodist in Houston said “I don’t know how you are doing what you are doing, but keep doing it” because things were going really well for me. 
 

At some point I ended up seeing another oncologist in another location.  I showed her the write-up from the supplement company about the purported effects of the glutathione supplement.  She said “yeah, I know you want to believe it, but it’s one study, by a company that sells the supplement.   Show me three other studies that were able to duplicate those results and then I’ll be on board.”

Ouch. 

Fast forward a few years.  I’m at her clinic to get routine blood work and get my port flushed and she sees me and says “Hey!  Hey!  When you are done getting your port flushed I need to talk to you!  Go to an exam room!!!”

I had been in remission a few years (for the third time) by this point.

She comes into the exam room with my giant-ass file.  She pulls out the mailer from the supplement company that I had brought her.  It was tucked in there. 
 

She says “You remember how you wanted this supplement with the glutathione to stop tumor growth?  And how you haven’t had neuropathy like my other patients getting treated for colorectal cancer?”

“The ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncologists) conference just happened and they released all of their info that was shared there. One study that was shared showed the effects of L-Glutamine supplementation in patients using platinum-based drugs to prevent neuropathy!  You were taking that protein powder for another reason but it worked to accomplish something else.”

She was pumped and planned to share this info with her patients going forward. 
 

I can only share what worked for me.  Maybe that amino acid did the job.  Maybe there is more to it than that. The body is complex and we all tolerate and metabolize things a little differently.  
 

However, there is this:  https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-717/glutathione?ref=clips2click.com

 

Being so far along in your treatment, it might not be helpful.  I don’t know if you have to start ingesting this stuff before starting and keep at it or if it will help after you are already having symptoms or what.  I don’t have that kind of info. 
 

If it’s me, I’m buying some yogurt and protein and starting it anyway, but I can only go my my own experience. 

Weekend loading, driving, unloading, setting up art tent and tables, jabbering with locals, jabbering with locals again, taking down tent etc, loading, driving back to Bamalama went well with maximum burliness and well-spaced drugs. Now I go to regular Doc visit, maybe she knows what this ping-pong ball growin on my elbow is.

5 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Now I go to regular Doc visit, maybe she knows what this ping-pong ball growin on my elbow is.

I whacked my elbow and the bursa sack started growing until it looked like a Popeye thing.   My doctor said it might go away or it might not, and in any event. If it did not then draining it would not help - but surgically removing the entire bursa sack might work.

Sometimes around nine months later it dawned on me that it had completely resolved without any treatment.   Maybe it’s that.   Or the internal parasites from your street food intake are having a convention in your elbow.

17 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

I whacked my elbow and the bursa sack started growing until it looked like a Popeye thing.   My doctor said it might go away or it might not, and in any event. If it did not then draining it would not help - but surgically removing the entire bursa sack might work.

Sometimes around nine months later it dawned on me that it had completely resolved without any treatment.   Maybe it’s that.   Or the internal parasites from your street food intake are having a convention in your elbow.

Doc said mine was normal for a man my age, although larger than most she had seen.

badoom shing.

I have been sent to physical therapy where my job for three weeks is to play with a giant rubber band 5 times a week until my shoulders are tired, then we will take account of everything. After one session my wife remarked that I was already swole, and her eyes followed me around the room. Her next eye doctor visit is soon.

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One more day of radiation to wrap up 15 total sessions. The lump is just goo with a gumball sized mass left. 

Surgery scheduled for 12/3.

I have a dinner date with 3 putt tonight.

4 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

One more day of radiation to wrap up 15 total sessions. The lump is just goo with a gumball sized mass left. 

Surgery scheduled for 12/3.

I have a dinner date with 3 putt tonight.

make sure to pack your boner pills

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