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... when you're flipping through channels and land on PBS's airing of Fleetwood Mac's Reunion Concert (10 years after they last played live) and realize it was over 23 years ago (May of 1997).
...you do a poo every morning at 07:00 but don’t wake up earlier than 08:00.
Hey, I was "only 56 back then" once. It was only a few years ago, but still...When you think about, that Clapton was only 56, back then!
Not everyone needs eyeglasses/bifocals/trifocals as they grow older. If you're already having vision issues you might need them someday, but it can't hurt to find a good optometrist near you and make an appointment for a general check-up now if you're concerned.I don't like the thought of getting nearer and nearer to presbyopia-age and bi-focal glasses.
I don't like the thought of getting nearer and nearer to presbyopia-age and bi-focal glasses.
Hey, I was "only 56 back then" once. It was only a few years ago, but still...
Not everyone needs eyeglasses/bifocals/trifocals as they grow older. If you're already having vision issues you might need them someday, but it can't hurt to find a good optometrist near you and make an appointment for a general check-up now if you're concerned.
My wife and I were driving at night in a rainstorm and she asked me..."can you see okay?". I replied..."No, but then these days I cannot see even during the day....most times I am driving either by memory or feel."....She was not impressed.I don't like the thought of getting nearer and nearer to presbyopia-age and bi-focal glasses.
Lowering the tone for a moment as my concentration lapses at midday (a hazard of home working), I have found that growing older means that farts increase in frequency, duration, volume and intensity.
"Pop" today means what "jazz" did in the 1920s -- basically, whatever the marketers say it means at any given moment. It's not a genre, it's branding.
"Pop" for me has always been the Gap of the music industry. Let me explain. For those who don't know, The Gap Inc. is an American chain of clothing stores that was founded in 1969 and grew into a world-wide organization with six divisions. For the most part, they manufacture and sell clothing for/to people who have no individual sense of style or taste so those people have a place where they can buy the same clothes that their friends wear in order to "fit in". To me that's exactly what "Pop" music has always been--a Top 40 rhythmic beat with no heart or soul, manufactured and marketed for/to people who have no taste in music so they can listen to the same rubbish as their friends and, again, "fit in".
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You get to meet the police department and the neighbors when you stupidly leave the door to the reptile building open!
This Dumeril's boa decided to go sleep under the neighbor's car last night.
Here's old Marco Polo, back where he belongs (even if he doesn't think so).
I don't like the thought of getting nearer and nearer to presbyopia-age and bi-focal glasses.
What's even worse is being past that age, and you have two pairs of glasses and your eyes keep getting worse, and you end up having to actively decide if something in front of you is worth seeing or not.
On the other hand, there are advantages. I hardly ever bother to clean my house anymore, because if I can't see the dirt, it isn't there.
I'm sorry to hear of your sister's injury, and I hope she heals fully and without too much discomfort. Yeah, breaking a bone or three usually hurts, and as we get older any injuries we incur take longer to heal. But if you're going to go through life worrying about what might happen you may as well find a very tall building and take a swan dive off of the roof now. My suggestion is to take reasonable precautions, but more importantly to live and enjoy your life.Other thing:
I never got a bone fracture. But I always heared, that the older you get, healing out fractures becomes worse and worse and you better avoid such shit.
My parents reported me, that my 44 year old half-sister broke her left arm while bicycling, two days ago. She and hubby drove side by side and they accidentally got caught up on their handelbars and she plunged. Ouch!
"Bland conformity". That's spot on!...It's funny how the Gap has become a byword for bland conformity...
Ha. I had an arcaheology professor who used to lecture with a pair of glasses in each hand, one distance, one resadin,g and be forever flipping between the two.
"Bland conformity". That's spot on!