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The tallywacker pictures are available in the Private Gallery. Who knows if they are his-or for that matter whether the guy advertising is actually real? I'm thinking the pictures are TGTBT (too good to be true). Gman

Someone just liked the comment I posted back in January. I decided I would take a look at Brett's ad again to see if there was anything new. His ad says he is versatile. That's new to me. I thought he had always advertised as a top over the years. Gman

Keep checking back. There's a good chance it's only expired due to this being the beginning of the month and it being time for the ad to renew ( I base this on 1. RM says the ad has 'recently' expired. I don't think they say that on long-expired ads. 2. He just visited his ad on April 3rd. 3. He has upcoming travel listed. ) Gman

Please remember me, and don't forget to tell all the gang ...:p:p (I couldn't resist.) Gman

But haven't you heard it's better to light a candle than to curse a cruise? Gman

I'm not sure if Grindr follows up on things anymore since they've been sold. It seems to that in the old days, if you reported scammers, they deleted the account. I reported several over the last few months And nothing has ever been done to them. Gman

Years ago they had something called the Norman Rockwell Museum which I quite enjoyed. I tried to see it about 10 years later, and they told me they were no I'll get open to the public. They only dealt in sending out posters and memorabilia. Gman

They definitely can. Gman

With that name all I can think of is Jake Gyllenhaal in Donnie Darko. Gman

Thank you QTR. Most of the hamentaschen I've had over the last few years hasn't been great. They usually have some at my Mom's retirement community. But it's not the greatest. When it's done well, I love apricot and prune hamentaschen. I hope you can get ahold of some of the good stuff (hamentaschen I mean). @BabyBoomer you may already know this, but as an agrarian people (originally) the Jews (or rather the Hebrews) depended on the moon for determining harvest times. So the Jewish Calendar is based on a lunar cycle/month of 28 days (actually 29.53 but what's 1.53 days among friends ). But considering a lunar year would only have 354 days, that's going to really screw things up eventually. For example , unless I'm mistaken, Fall months would eventually be occurring in the Summer. So to keep things on track the Jewish Calendar has lunar months put into a solar year. The corrections involved in this (are beyond the scope of this post;)) are the reason why the Jewish Holidays fall on different dates yearly on the Gregorian (= civil ) Calendar although they always fall on the same date in the Jewish Calendar. Gman

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This totally took me by surprise until someone just mentioned to me that Purim begins tonight. In my mind Purim is usually a February Holiday, so I didn't even think to expect it now. Gman

I was a bit weepy the second week of taking the prednisone, but on the other hand due to the myasthenia (or possibly the prednisone itself-in about 50% to 75% of people with myasthenia-prednisone causes increased muscle weakness in the second week of therapy before it starts to help) I wasnt able to hold my head up, had no grip strength in my hands to the point that I couldn't even turn a washing machine knob (I would put both hands on the knob to try to turn it, but they would slip off without the knob turning), I couldn't hold a pen to write-or at least not easily, and eating was incredibly difficult. Plus in addition to my muscle weakness I was having to get rid of 95% of everything I owned-personal things, clothes, furniture-things I had had since college and before to move back to family. So I had ample reasons to be weepy without the prednisone. Other than that period last March, I'd say in general, the prednisone has not affected my mood or sleep patterns. I did notice that everything seemed to taste bland when I was first on it. And I've heard prednisone can cause that. Now my cousin had this weird lung disease that they aren't quite sure what causes it. It used to be called BOOP (bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia). If I understand it, basically your air sacs in your lungs start scarring over, so they can't transfer air into your lungs. He was on a higher dose than I've ever been-my max has been 60 mg. He talks about getting mad for no reason-like road rage although he never acted on it. However, he has a more volatile temper than I do anyway. When my part of the family discussed it, we wondered how much was the prednisone and how much was just Hank as usual. Gman

Who is Scotty Marx? Gman

The loss of libido is due to the suppression of testosterone. Gman

I'm most likely not going to be having anyone over. I don't think the owner would like it. And while my usual form and figure is not really the type to inspire lustful fantasies in most guys, it's even less likely now that I'm on prednisone. My face is round enough to be a full moon, my jowls have been supersized, and the line from T'was The Night Before Christmas about the stomach jiggling like a bowlful or jelly when he laughed was obviously inspired by me. Since I am broke and can't hire, there's most likely not going to any action unless a handsome muscular feeder sees my picture on hook-up app and falls head over heals. As likely as that scenario isI don't think I'm going to be holding my breath until that happens. Gman

What a great idea!!! Gman

I'm probably going to have a computer, TV, passport, and a tablet in there. Gman

Thank you for your input. I haven't rented a room before. It seemed to make sense. But I wanted to bounce the idea on the collective wisdom here. Gman

Currently there is only the owner and myself. But he has another room to sublet. I'm wondering if once there is another person, if I'd be out of line to ask about getting a keyed lock for my door. I mean it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to get one with just the owner being there as I'm assuming he would need a key to the lock too. Gman

There are two types of treatment for myasthenia gravis (for newcomers who didn't read my posts starting in 2017-myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune muscle disease that I was diagnosed with in 2017). One is purely a symptom medicine called Mestinon that most people are started on. It doesn't really affect the course of the disease. But it can counteract some of the symptoms of muscle weakness. However there often comes a point where Mestinon no longer works because the disease is 'too active'. In that case the person has to be on some kind of treatment that either modifies or suppresses the immune system as the problem in the disease is that your immune system is attacking your muscles. So I was diagnosed either September or October 2017. Mestinon alone worked until December. I resisted treatments with immunosuppressants until I couldn't fight it any longer and was started on high dose prednisone -60 mg -last February/March (My jaws and swallow were so affected it was taking me 3 hours to finish-or not finish as was often the case a Whopper from Burger King. In addition sometimes I was having trouble holding my head up or keeping my eyelids open) . I was doing well enough to be weaned down to 15 mg by October. But due to an exacerbation of my symptoms, I've been back up to 50 mg since January. You can tell too. My face is round enough to look like a moon. And my tummy which wasn't small to begin with could now cause me to be mistaken for Santa Claus' cuter younger brother. But the interesting thing is that last year when I was on the high dose prednisone my libido was in the toilet. It was very hard for me to get a "stiffy". I did some reading and found that high dose prednisone can suppress testosterone production. It can literally shrink the size of your testes just like taking supplemental testosterone can. This time around though, while my testes have still shrunk , I'm occasionally waking up with a morning stiffy which actually hasn't happened on a routine basis for years. And I also get easily aroused looking at the guys on Rentmen. Gman

Scott at the time I called him-would probably have been around 1999-was very nice and polite on the phone. Gman

I didn't know KC had died. I just thought he had retired. I thought I remembered someone saying he had moved out west to Arizona or somewhere. So I'm guessing if you dated, and he had a girlfriend, he was bi? I actually called Scott Klein. This was before I had ever hired an escort. I thought I would never be brave enough too. It was kind of way for me to push my boundaries and see what an escort would say. I told him if we did meet I was going to be a top-I was a total virgin at that point. I had had a few dates in my life with women. But we are talking maybe 10 if that many-and that includes junior high and high school. I hadn't even ever French-kissed anyone. But in spite of my inexperience, I knew even then I wasn't interested in bottoming. From what I remember, Scott was basically straight-and at least in our conversations -said he didn't bottom. I might have spoken with Androkid too at some point, but I don't remember. Gman

His ad is expired. Gman

Well I had the meeting. I didn't actually say I was gay. But I did ask him if he were comfortable prescribing PrEP. He asked what that was. I said HIV prophylaxis with TRUVADA. He understood that better than me saying PrEP. He was willing to do it. I told him I had been on it before several times but had stopped due to insurance reasons. He asked me if I used the 200-300 dose. And he said we could get the follow-up labs every 3 but then said 6 months which I don't think is correct unless the protocol has changed. Even with him possibly not being up On the protocol, I had a recent negative HIV test as of two weeks ago. And it's been longer than three months since I had anal intercourse-could be 5 months- and we played safe. I have had oral. But even that was in December before Christmas. My liver function tests are normal. And I've been vaccinated for Hep B and A years ago. Hep C is unlikely. And my last syphilis test was negative. So I've had basically all the tests except a Urinalysis. I actually have an unexpired unopened bottle of TRUVADA which I obtained about a year ago as my last prescription. I didn't ever take it as I knew it was going to be a long time, if ever, before I could refill it. And I knew partners were going to be scarce to non-existent-so no real reason to keep taking a nephrotoxic drug. I'll probably throw that old bottle out. I think it's been kept in the proper temperature. But no reason to risk it having subpar potency. Oh and I signed up for the Gilead copay Assistance program today. Did anyone hear that TRUVADA had gone generic? Is anyone on generic Truvada? Gman