Trousered Ape
An exercise in presumption.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
State of the Ape XLIX
Once more, thank you for your prayers for me and my family.
Had my seventh dose of chemo on 03/12. Still not much in the way of side effects, save that, increasingly, any kind of activity leaves me tired and short of breath. Eighth dose on 04/02, the day after tomorrow.
Blood work on 03/10 showed my PSA was down again, to 1.57.
As to how long the effects of the chemo will last: it’s anybody’s guess, from a few months to over a year.
I made a lot of progress on Edwina 3 during March: I’m up to Chapter 11 of 27. The book is over 70,000 words now and climbing.
The proposed arrangement with the new cover designer fell through, so it’s back to square one.
Will the clerihews stretch out to the crack of doom?
Said Mr. to Mrs. Herodotus,
“Now that the preacher has knotted us,
Go make dinner — mind, do it properly —
While I write up the Battle of Thermopylae.”
Jacques Cousteau
Fell out of his bateau.
At this, his crew
Cried “Sacre bleu!”
There’s no disputing
That Rasputin
Was Russia’s bizarrest
Tsarist.
And because it’s funny:
Had my seventh dose of chemo on 03/12. Still not much in the way of side effects, save that, increasingly, any kind of activity leaves me tired and short of breath. Eighth dose on 04/02, the day after tomorrow.
Blood work on 03/10 showed my PSA was down again, to 1.57.
As to how long the effects of the chemo will last: it’s anybody’s guess, from a few months to over a year.
I made a lot of progress on Edwina 3 during March: I’m up to Chapter 11 of 27. The book is over 70,000 words now and climbing.
The proposed arrangement with the new cover designer fell through, so it’s back to square one.
Will the clerihews stretch out to the crack of doom?
Said Mr. to Mrs. Herodotus,
“Now that the preacher has knotted us,
Go make dinner — mind, do it properly —
While I write up the Battle of Thermopylae.”
Jacques Cousteau
Fell out of his bateau.
At this, his crew
Cried “Sacre bleu!”
There’s no disputing
That Rasputin
Was Russia’s bizarrest
Tsarist.
And because it’s funny:
