About This Blog

Uncle Fred's Prostate Blog 

This blog has one purpose: to allow me to vent a bit so my head doesn't explode.  I have assumed the lightly-fictionalized persona of "Fred Murts" to save my friends, family members and coworkers the embarrassment of knowing who I am.  I haven't gone to any great lengths to technically anonymize this blog;  I don't blog through proxies, etc..  I am sure that I have left a trail of IP addresses and profile clues that a blind dog could follow easily.  But I advise you not to do so.  If you do, one of two things will happen: either you will think "Huh, who's that?" or you will think "Oh, no!!! Uncle Fred and Aunt Ethel -- Ewwwww!!!!" and you will wish you could somehow claw the knowledge back out of your brain.  No fun will be had either way, and no hacker cred will be gained.

Warning Labels:

The following marks may appear before the start of the text of any posting to warn you to avert your eyes if you find the subject troubling: [LANG] Language that might offend sensitive readers, [SEX] Descriptions of sexual acts, functions, etc., [SCIENCE] Information that might be boring for people who slept thought science classes in high school, [TMI] Personal information that you will definitely find creepy if you suspect that Uncle Fred might actually be your uncle.

Types of Posts:

Journal Entries: Journal entry posts will be things that occur to me, posted more or less at the time they enter my mind.  They will have titles starting with the word "Journal" and I usually won't go back and change them except to fix tyops.

Sidebars: Sidebar entries will subjects that I expect to come back to and change.  They will have titles starting with the word "Sidebar".   They are works in progress and you can't count on their having the same content tomorrow as they have today.   I generally won't bump them (change their date so they appear as a new posting) when I change them  but I may post a Journal entry about the change. 

Disclaimers:

The Sex Life of Someone Over Forty: This blog will occasionally present first-person information about my sexual life -- my relations with Ethel, my favorite porn sites, what is going on with Mr Unreliable (a euphemism for my penis) -- and such information will be presented in a straight-forward, brutally plain fashion.  Since Ethel and I are both over forty this will make everyone uncomfortable.  Sorry about that.  Can't be helped.

No Medical Advice Here -- Move Along:  I should mention, as will become obvious if you read any of the stuff I post here, that I am not a doctor and nothing you read here will in any way, shape or form resemble medical advice.  From time to time I will link to research papers or to abstracts or to other presentations from people who are doctors; I do that because the diagnosis of my prostate cancer has given me insomnia and I use some of my "five AM waiting for the damn sun to come up" time in Lorenzo's Oil style online research, looking for ways to improve my odds.  The links are the residue which that research leaves behind.

References to Real People: Most people portrayed in this blog will be fictional, in varying degrees, including myself.  The image at the top of this page isn't me. It's an image I bought from a clip-art site for two bucks.  Unless I say otherwise you can assume that any photograph appearing in this blog is bogus and that all of the names of characters -- mine and my wife's (Fred and Ethel Murts), my urologist (Dr. Flabio Cavernosa) and anyone else who appears -- are made up.