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baitcast
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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
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
My wife was complaining the other day about a up-coming birthday and her aches and pains,she hates the idea of turning 60 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
BAITCAST
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FARASHA
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- and I thought turning 50 is a big Deal!
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Cypress
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baitcast!!It's gonna get better!!! Spring is on the way! About those glasses...
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Osprey
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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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Dave
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Lloyd Bridges
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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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Mike Supino
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Lloyd Bridges
Therianthropic
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Cypress
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Osprey!
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Capt. George
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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!
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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FARASHA
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A witty doodle Osprey. Gives me something to look forward to - GP>f<
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baitcast
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Thanks
The spelling goes just like everything else
Thanks Osprey I feel better already
BAITCAST
P.S. maybe I,ll just stick to the fishing.
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vandenberg
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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.
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vandenberg
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And Bait, you don't just "FEEL " old . You "ARE" old
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Skeet/Loreto
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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
Alderman
Stableboy for Wife
Fisherman on theSea of Cortez for 40 years
Skeet/Loreto
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baitcast
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Skeet I thought I was the oldest person I knew of until I ran into you
Hang in there amigo.
BAITCAST
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Bajalover
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Well said. Can't add anything to that. Guess 58 isn't so bad after all.
- shall get
there too !!
Sometimes you really do question; why you are and where you are.
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DENNIS
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You are old
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Capt. George
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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
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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boe4fun
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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!"
Two dirt roads diverged in Baja and I, I took the one less graveled by......
Soy ignorante, apático y ambivalente. No lo sé y no me importa, ni modo.
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danaeb
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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
Traveler
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Sallysouth
Super Nomad
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Location: Capo Beach
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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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