Over The Rainbow

[tom67inMA]

What audacious dreams do you have for 2020, beside merely surviving the year? For what it's worth, this was a very difficult post to write as it required putting away all my fears and anxiety and worries. How can I possibly write about dreams when my next PSA test is less than two weeks away?

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[Shooter1]

Two weeks till my next one also. But my mind is more on burn rehab and future grafting, PSA has been stable for over a year and takes a back seat to daily pain as my arm heals. Best of luck with your PSA and a Happy New Year.

[tom67inMA in reply to Shooter1]

I know you've had a tough journey but burn rehab and grafting? Wow! Is that from the skin damage caused by those extra docetaxel cycles? (Assuming I'm not confusing your story with somebody else's)

Better luck to you next year, you really do deserve some stability and recovery.

[Shooter1 in reply to tom67inMA]

That's me, but burns are from a split hose on my antique kerosene weed burner. My wife tells me I cannot repair it and must throw it out. She and I agree we need no more hospital stays and long recovery periods. Still need long PT and more grafts where I am splitting scar tissue open. Have a happy and uneventful new year.

[monte1111 in reply to Shooter1]

So sorry about the burns. I can only imagine.

[tom67inMA in reply to Shooter1]

OMG, that's awful! Please stay out of the hospital if you can, and have a healthy and accident free new year.

[AlanMeyer]

I'm feeling fairly good. I'm attempting to get some unpaid volunteer work at a local high school helping kids to learn to program computers. I was a programmer for 38 years and I'm hoping to impart some of my experience to the kids and build up their enthusiasm for learning a new thing. I think it will be good for me too.

[tom67inMA in reply to AlanMeyer]

That's awesome! Yes, it is helpful to have some purpose and routine other than fighting cancer. I went back to work this past summer, and this year the holidays feel like holidays as I'm off from work and off to visit family.

What language are kids learning these days? I learned basic in high school, Fortran in college, and in more recent decades have been using C/C++. Some of the younger folk are writing Python scripts, but us more experienced guys still look at it a little strange.

[AlanMeyer in reply to tom67inMA]

I haven't gone to the school yet. They're wrapping up exams and going in to holidays, so I won't get to meet them until January.

I'll work with whatever languages they have chosen though, if I were picking one it might be Python or Java. Both are highly portable and have free compilers/interpreters for many environments. Both are heavily used in business. Both are higher level than C or C++ and don't require as deep an understanding of how computers actually work - though it could be argued that that makes them worse teaching languages than the lower level C.

Nowadays I think the languages available are 2-5 times as powerful (in the sense of 1/2 - 1/5 the lines of code required) but the environments are 10 or more times as complicated with graphical interfaces, multiple threads, Internet access, security concerns, SQL, XML, JSON, and so on. It's a real challenge for us oldsters to keep up. It may be that the kids will be teaching me.

Alan

[abmicro]

If I get some good remission out of my next chemo treatment starting in January, we are going to Argentina. Great food and tango dancing in the bars.

[MateoBeach in reply to abmicro]

Yes go! Chemo can wait. Must live: you cannot get this time back.

[MateoBeach]

Loved your blog. Yes go run that marathon, smartly this time around, no matter the placing, finish it strong and happy without hurting your body. The training is the journey. The race is the celebration.

[tom67inMA in reply to MateoBeach]

Yep, the race is the carrot on the end of the stick to make sure I stay active. I'm actually spending more time daydreaming about the training routes I can run than the race itself. Can explore a lot more territory on a 20 mile run compared to a 10 mile run.

[billyboy3]

rock on boys, as long as we breath we can LIVE large, so have fun, loved Arg, man good food, nice folks, so listen up you all, the clock is ticking so get at it!!!

[j-o-h-n]

For a cheap silver bullet that will kill all cancers............Other than that I'd like to get a hardon once in awhile.....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Wednesday 12/25/2019 10:28 PM EST

[tom67inMA in reply to j-o-h-n]

A few months ago I could still get a proper hardon with lots of effort, but now at best it's al dente pasta down there.

[j-o-h-n]

Mama Mia.... It-sa dead-a as-a doorknob-a

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 12/26/2019 5:15 PM EST

[Hidden]

In September my family and I spent 5 days hiking about 35 miles on the John Muir Trail. It was spectacular. In 2020 I hope to do another leg with them. It’s beautiful up there

[tom67inMA in reply to Hidden]

Sounds awesome. I might decide I prefer hiking after a marathon or two

[Hidden in reply to tom67inMA]

About 20 years ago I ran LA and NYC marathons. When I was finishing the first one I cried like a little baby. Keep running Tom67!

[dockam]

Rock/Fight/Run on Brother!

My plans for 2020 : Surf City, OC, RnR San Diego (as a 23 yr Legacy), Long Beach, NYC (with a ZERO CA rep) and Honolulu marathons.

Detroit Int'l 1/2 with a daughter of PCa survivor.

ZERO 5ks in Long Beach, maybe NYC again with daughter, and Bakersfield.

Gonna start Zytiga or Xtandi in 2020, gotta see how that affects my stamina - still on ADT for #stageivpca

Be well Brothers and Carpe dang diem

Randy

[tom67inMA in reply to dockam]

Well, I ran my half about 5 months after starting zytiga if that's any help in your decision making process.