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lol.gif posted on 1-24-2007 at 10:05 AM
I feel old


Where has all the years gone?........It was only yesterday I was in school and dad bought our first tv,there were no stations on line yet so we just sit in front of that thing and watched test patterens for two weeks:lol:

Sea Hunt became our favorite,Floyd Brigdes my hero,I still watch alot of tv,and to much time in front of this thing.

I know I should get out and move around more but I have this catch,you older folks know what I,m talking about don,t you:lol:

My wife was complaining the other day about a up-coming birthday and her aches and pains,she hates the idea of turning 60:lol: I would kill for 60

I have a few suggestions for you older folks and baby boomers as you enter the twilight zone.

Never leave home without a bottle of ADVIL
Don,t get up to answer that knock at the door it was more than likely your hip or knee or.
Buy many pairs of glasses and leave them all over the house,saves time.
What you can,t hear,hey thats good,can,t get upset about something you didn,t hear,right.

I could go on for some time,but I,m to busy:lol:
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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 10:54 AM


:lol: - and I thought turning 50 is a big Deal!:biggrin:



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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 10:58 AM


baitcast!!:biggrin:It's gonna get better!!!:biggrin: Spring is on the way!:biggrin: About those glasses...:tumble:
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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 11:05 AM


Bait, just for you I'll reprise my 2005 New Years Eve doodles for the aging.

Olding



Through The Learning Channel, Discovery and National Geographic I stay in touch with the world. So much to see and be amazed by. Recently I learned that early man had very short life spans -- Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal both about 40 years on average. I’ve known for a while the sad statistics of the short life expectancy of people in countries like Niger (29) or Uganda (33) and others ravaged by drought, disease, war.

I live in Mexico. Life expectancy here, for a man, is 68.42. I’ll be 66 years old in October. I’ve already beat the curve for a lot of countries. Now that I have, I begin to feel another kind of sympathy for those who die young, before their time --- whatever the hell that means.

When I was a young man, I did youthful, energetic things. Now I can wallow in the sloth of old age, do all the things old people are famous for. I shall always consider myself lucky to have lived long enough to reach this age, live in this way.

Those unlucky souls who died while still very young, who were simply worn out, worn down by the conditions under which they lived and labored could only have their youth to remember. I give them no dishonor when I speculate that a man of 35 years, living in a country where his life expectancy is age 40, does not consider himself old by my standards. He will die before he can look old, feel old, be old. That’s the sad part.

He will never feel the pleasure of the complaint. His ills and ailments will never become his welcome bedmates, his friends and constant companions. This man can never know the satisfaction of being the victim of time, the joy of grousing about how ageing gnaws away at the body and the mind.

It is not possible for a young man to fully appreciate the satisfaction in scolding, chiding, advising a 60 year old son or daughter -- a special kind of fulfillment found in sharing one’s hard-won wisdom with the foolish, wrong-headed youngster. One of life’s precious secrets, learned at the age of 25 is no more than a fuzzy footnote to the sum and substance that man would take to the grave if he died a mere 15 years later.

The same secret, about women, politics, the human condition, carried about, polished, cleaned, tuned for 60 years, takes on the importance, the majesty of The Rosetta Stone, Hammurabi’s book of laws.

What of serious dialectic, discussion, argument? The young-old man has only children to talk with, to lecture to. A man of 80 or more years can and will argue with anyone who has ears, vocal chords, a tongue and soft palate, lips. His most eloquent pronouncements are soliloquies -- what we sometimes hear as mutterings, gibberish, are actually arguments won and lost with the master of the argument, the old man himself.

I’m coming of age myself. Last year I took some visitors, friends and family from the states, fishing in my little boat. We saw some marlin that wouldn’t bite, caught two small tuna. Rays were jumping everywhere. One of the youngsters asked me why the manta rays jumped. I said “because they can.”

Later that day my grandson Greg said “Grampa, why don’t we all go down to the beach, go for a swim?”

I said. “Because I don’t have to. Because I don’t want to.”

A statement not so much of prerogative but, considered against the millions who can never make such a gruff and gritty rejoinder, an obligatory declaration.

He probably mis-read my grin. He doesn’t know what it means when I rub my big belly with both hands, grin that way, open another beer. He‘s lousy at current events, geography. He doesn‘t know about the young-old people in Gambia, Ethiopia.

He’s 11 years old, lives in San Diego. Tomorrow he and I are going for a ride on the beach in my dunebuggie, sit and fish awhile. By the time we get back to the house he’ll know just how lucky he was to be born in a place where they let you live as long as you want.
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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 11:05 AM
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Sea Hunt became our favorite,Floyd Brigdes my hero,I still watch alot of tv,and to much time in front of this thing.




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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 11:07 AM


Lloyd Bridges



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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 11:13 AM


Osprey!:bounce::bounce:
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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 11:25 AM


ahh, the prose of Osprey...you said it all partner. Even left me speechless!



61, and ain't no one come back to tell me the only other option is better!




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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 11:34 AM


A witty doodle Osprey. Gives me something to look forward to - GP>f<



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thumbup.gif posted on 1-24-2007 at 11:39 AM
Thanks


The spelling goes just like everything else :lol:

Thanks Osprey I feel better already
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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 11:51 AM


Fishhawk,
Like always, very eloquently put. You do have a way with words.

Got you by a few years. Will give you a buzz next time we're in La Paz. Love to meet you while we can still maneuver.:biggrin::biggrin:
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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 11:54 AM


And Bait, you don't just "FEEL " old . You "ARE" old:biggrin::biggrin:
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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 01:54 PM


If a Poor Boy from Texas Can Still Feel and be Young, All of you should read what I have done and enjoyed it every Minute:
Farm Boy
Cowboy
Golden Gloves Champion
Navy Flight Engineer
Logger
College Student and Graduate
Policeman
Criminal Investigator
Social Worker
Aviation Accident Investigator
National Ski Patrolman
Glider Pilot
Private Pilot-6,000 Hours
Snap-On Tool Dealer
Truck Driver
Wine Grape Inspector
Rental Property Investor
Loreto Baja Resident/ Some Real Estate
Alfafa Farmer
Present Activities
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Fisherman on theSea of Cortez for 40 years

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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 02:38 PM


Skeet I thought I was the oldest person I knew of until I ran into you :lol: Hang in there amigo.
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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 03:00 PM


Well said. Can't add anything to that. Guess 58 isn't so bad after all.
:lol::lol::lol::lol: - shall get there too !!




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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 05:10 PM


You are old
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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 06:51 PM


hey Skeet

shoe shine boy
sold flags/prezels on street corners NYC
deli worker
dry clean delivery
tin shop
cement worker
painter
carpet installer
tile installer
teamster
firefighter
storm windows
roofing
operating engineer
charter captain
flats guide
etc. some unmentionables!

RETIRED!!!!!Fisherman/Nomad

wow, I'm exhausted just writing all that, think I'll take a nap




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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 07:52 PM


All this talk of aging got me to thinking. Although I'm only 59 I figured I had better start planning for my eventual demise, so I came up with my epitaph: "I told the SOB's I was sick!"



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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 08:04 PM


I LOVE this thread. I think there should be a new topic for 'my life history'.

Selling 'Heavenly Donuts'
Selling hambugers and frosties at Sea World
Theatre ticket seller
Tutor for grade-schoolers
Dorm hash-slinger
Dental assistant
Bank teller
IT analyst
Programmer

Those are the things I've done for money
The things I've done for joy:

Camper
Reader
Knitter
Beader
Gardener
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[*] posted on 1-24-2007 at 11:06 PM


Osprey, That left me doing a whole heck of a lota thinkin' What a way you have with words....Thank you , thank you!!!



Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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