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The Goals Throwdown has been great, It's more in the spirit of the original Throwdown. Let't go with it as the regular fare here. I no longer have any real goals beyond getting out of bed in the morning. If I get another dog, I will just do my dogwalking blog outside of vr.org. So carry on, guys...

Well, I will have to adopt a goal of relearning how to walk without being accompanied by a dog on a leash. My rescue dog Ellie passed away last night in her sleep curled up at my feet at this computer. Her heart just gave out. She has walked me almost through my 70s. My previous retriever dog...

Going into my first OHS in 2005, the breathing tube was one of my biggest fears. But as I learned on that day, it can be a lifesaver. Through the fog of the ICU, I heard a nurse say of me, "His oxygen intake level is catastrophically low!" Had I not had that tube to help me out, I might not have...

Watched the Tour de France this morning as part of my Independence Day celebration. Remember, France was an important ally in the USA winning its independence. And talk about endurance athletics! It boggles my mind the way those guys tackle the mountaineous sections of the competition. A guy...

I am going to defer to Chuck C's post just below this one -- "Let's Set Some Goals -- a Throwdown!" Great idea! Whether you respond here, or in his thread below, or both, it matters not to me. He has revived some of the spirit of the original Throwdown, which was basically a weight-loss...

Yep, my favorite fitness instructor of all time -- Sarah -- is still there. We are good fitness buddies and getting back to her class will be a big boost for morale.

Sounds good (except maybe the deductibles). Meanwhile, several clanks up the age and down the fitness ladder, I had my first session with a home PT today. He had me doing some back-and-forth, sideways, and backwards walking, which I managed to do without falling down, and then some knee-bend and...

I was -- at the biz office though, not the poor soul assigned to bring in to drugged-up me in my hospital bed. In retrospect I could see she was upset herself at bringing it in. I called the biz higher-ups to come back and talk to me directly and personally but they just called and said the...

Happy Mid-June, hearty and merry Coursers! Just wanted to let you know that I made it through my incisional ventral hernia operation (up high in abdomen, scarily close to the aortic region) in evidently good shape and now am one week into recovery. My grown-up daughter, an IT specialist, drove...

Greetings, fellow Coursers! The experiment with putting up a starter post for each month (and then just letting discussions run freely) seemed to work just fine with May. So we proceed with June, the sixth month of the year and the month that brings us everything from weddings to Wimbledon...

Talk about an inspiring happening along sundry courses this merry month of May, how about Phil Mickelson's unlikely winning of the PGA championship at age 50 (oldest ever) at the ultra-challenging course on Kiawah Island down south of here a bit? Ten years ago, when he was diagnosed with...

My wife and I, both well along in our senior years, got our two Pzifer shots (the second one in late February) and neither of us has had any bad side-effects. While getting the vaccine is a choice for the individual, it would help us all if enough of the population would get fully vaccinated to...

Oh goodness, Duffey, so sorry about Bob's unexpected knee surgery and A-flutter. Makes me happy though to know that my advice about Medigap insurance proved to have a timely and beneficial impact. With my incisional hernia surgery coming up June 9, I am glad to have the security of still having...

Greetings, fellow Coursers, wherever you may be. Been a while. Wonder if my bright idea of doing a starter post just once a month might be having the unintended effect of causing STC to wither on the vine. Maybe if there is interest, I will try to refresh semi-weekly or perhaps weekly. April...

April 12 I love all the suggestions here for staying the course with Staying the Course (and Superman's spectacular photos!). So why don't we try posting a starter each month, and carrying our observations and conversations through each month? If things lag, we could have a mid-month restarter...

Good ideas, Rich and Martin. I could open a new STC the first of each month and go from there. We do sometimes have extended discussions that go well beyond a week. So I will plan to start the next one May 3, unless someone else would like to take over. Thank you for your input.

April 10, 2021 I'm fine, but was feeling kind of burned out this week as far as starting a new STC Week. I am going to be preoccupied with my next surgery two months hence, and I don't know that that would make exciting reading. Looked back tonight and discovered I started Staying the Course...

Thanks, Tom. I've read up on this and am forewarned to expect some pain. Almost surely mesh would be used to keep my wayward parts back in their place. But all in all, are you still glad that you "got 'er done," rather than just trying to live with the condition? Does the pain still recur to one...

Trying to decide whether to play an April Fool's prank on my DW or not. We've had so many twists and turns in our senior years that I hesitate to risk upsetting her. Maybe I'll just say I saw a bear in our backyard early this morning. That's plausible. People see bears around here a lot. We are...

Hello, fellow Coursers! Greetings from the Wednesday-is-the-New-Monday guy. Today I sing the praises of sports, warts and all. The seasons of sports are a major factor in keeping my sanity at least partially intact. And this week two seasons converge: the conclusion of college basketball's...