Total BOINC Credit -- 2M (2,000,000)
Einstein Credit -- 1M (1,000,000)
Climate -- 300K
Seti -- no milestone but 680K
Oh, a couple of other milestones
25th wedding anniversary last week
Completed chemo and a clean CT scan last week.
Barry,
My personal congratulations to you on the clean CT, and hopes and prayers that the remission is for keeps. Two questions, if you don't mind, from a newbie to the quagmire. What kind of cancer? and, how long had you been in it's crosshairs?
Michael R.
microcraft
"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice" - MLK
Hmm -- ok -- colon cancer -- stage 2 -- (no involvement of lymph nodes or any other organs). Surgery was last July. Chemo involved 12 sessions of three chemo agents (the combination is called something like Folfox 3) once every two weeks. In theory that would take about 6 months. But the side effects reduce white blood cells and platelet count so that I needed to push back after 3 sessions in sequence, that added an extra 6 weeks or so.
With the type of cancer I have/had there is a good chance that the surgery cleared it out, but the protocol includes the chemo -- in case some bad boy cells got loose. The chemo makes for a nasty environment for those *possible* cells (and also of course has some pretty miserable side effects) so that *if* there were any, they might have gotten nailed by the chemo.
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My personal congratulations to you on the clean CT, and hopes and prayers that the remission is for keeps. Two questions, if you don't mind, from a newbie to the quagmire. What kind of cancer? and, how long had you been in it's crosshairs?
Hmm -- ok -- colon cancer -- stage 2 -- (no involvement of lymph nodes or any other organs). Surgery was last July. Chemo involved 12 sessions of three chemo agents (the combination is called something like Folfox 3) once every two weeks. In theory that would take about 6 months. But the side effects reduce white blood cells and platelet count so that I needed to push back after 3 sessions in sequence, that added an extra 6 weeks or so.
With the type of cancer I have/had there is a good chance that the surgery cleared it out, but the protocol includes the chemo -- in case some bad boy cells got loose. The chemo makes for a nasty environment for those *possible* cells (and also of course has some pretty miserable side effects) so that *if* there were any, they might have gotten nailed by the chemo.
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My personal congratulations to you on the clean CT, and hopes and prayers that the remission is for keeps. Two questions, if you don't mind, from a newbie to the quagmire. What kind of cancer? and, how long had you been in it's crosshairs?
Michael R.
Barry,
I think that's one outstanding milestone in and of itself. For you and for all those who've lent you their support through your ordeal, I wish you many extensions upon it.
Michael R.
microcraft
"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice" - MLK
After 6-1/2 years of seti@home-ing I joined einstein@home December 1 (#2 in the class-of). Recently went through 100,000 total credits. Top of my team of 50 (France) where yesterday I had contributed 39% of the total credits and 75% of that day’s recent credits. #21 in country (also France) but climbing that table from now on is going to be much slower than before!! At #21 in the RAC world ranking for CPUs, seems my Pentium D 840 is the most productive non-Xeon Intel box out there right now!
My stats show 10 processors. In fact, I regularly run just four; Pentium D 3.2, Pentium 4 1.9, Athlon 2000+ 1.2 and a Duron 1.1. The others are friend’s PCs I’ve worked on; I tell ‘em I need them an extra week to run ‘em in!!
Grateful thanks to Akos for getting me this far so soon!! Tom
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Congratulations on all of your milestones Barry...especially the last two!
RE: Multiple milestones in
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Barry,
My personal congratulations to you on the clean CT, and hopes and prayers that the remission is for keeps. Two questions, if you don't mind, from a newbie to the quagmire. What kind of cancer? and, how long had you been in it's crosshairs?
Michael R.
microcraft
"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice" - MLK
Hmm -- ok -- colon cancer --
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Hmm -- ok -- colon cancer -- stage 2 -- (no involvement of lymph nodes or any other organs). Surgery was last July. Chemo involved 12 sessions of three chemo agents (the combination is called something like Folfox 3) once every two weeks. In theory that would take about 6 months. But the side effects reduce white blood cells and platelet count so that I needed to push back after 3 sessions in sequence, that added an extra 6 weeks or so.
With the type of cancer I have/had there is a good chance that the surgery cleared it out, but the protocol includes the chemo -- in case some bad boy cells got loose. The chemo makes for a nasty environment for those *possible* cells (and also of course has some pretty miserable side effects) so that *if* there were any, they might have gotten nailed by the chemo.
40K for Einstein and counting
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40K for Einstein and counting :)
Thanks Akofs
Anders n
RE: Hmm -- ok -- colon
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Barry,
I think that's one outstanding milestone in and of itself. For you and for all those who've lent you their support through your ordeal, I wish you many extensions upon it.
Michael R.
microcraft
"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice" - MLK
After 6-1/2 years of
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After 6-1/2 years of seti@home-ing I joined einstein@home December 1 (#2 in the class-of). Recently went through 100,000 total credits. Top of my team of 50 (France) where yesterday I had contributed 39% of the total credits and 75% of that day’s recent credits. #21 in country (also France) but climbing that table from now on is going to be much slower than before!! At #21 in the RAC world ranking for CPUs, seems my Pentium D 840 is the most productive non-Xeon Intel box out there right now!
My stats show 10 processors. In fact, I regularly run just four; Pentium D 3.2, Pentium 4 1.9, Athlon 2000+ 1.2 and a Duron 1.1. The others are friend’s PCs I’ve worked on; I tell ‘em I need them an extra week to run ‘em in!!
Grateful thanks to Akos for getting me this far so soon!! Tom
I just passed 30K for
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I just passed 30K for Einstein. :-)
Physics is for gurls!
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Well done!
and this despite the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, eh? :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Today 28000 total Boinc but
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Today 28000 total Boinc
but my RAC goes down since a week (-;
100K on
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100K on Einstein!
Congratulations to everyone on your personal milestones!