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Post by Mag2024 on Jan 8, 2024 16:31:29 GMT
The older you get the faster time seems to go. I was shocked and dismayed when I reached 70. But when I was 69, 69 was 'just another number', no big deal. 40 was the biggest shocker.
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Post by Mag2024 on Jan 8, 2024 16:33:56 GMT
Depends on what's on it I suppose, plus the price and how you sell it. I do not promote. I haven't sold any that I know of since last March/April.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Jan 8, 2024 18:02:43 GMT
40 was OK for me. I think 38 - 40 were the very best time. 50 Gave me pause. ("Really? A half a century?!") But it was OK... 60 Hit me hard. ("Hey! I JUST turned 50! I was robbed!") 70 Is just another blink away, I suppose. I guess I should be thankful that I am still healthy and functional. A lot of my Boomer buddies have pushing up daisies for a long time already. Yes. Time flies.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 8, 2024 21:13:17 GMT
Each point in time has advantages and disadvantages.
10, each day is eternity.
20, healing quickly and being young. 30, still healing quickly but more experience and making fewer mistakes of inexperience. 40, starting to slow down a bit, healing a bit slower, few illusions. 50, starting over like deja vu all over again. 60, having someone's back and keeping their graces from running amok. 65, daughters declaring they need training bras when it feels like I was changing diapers yesterday. And yes, a lot of my boomer cohort are under the daisies now. Time flies whether you're having fun or not.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jan 9, 2024 0:00:12 GMT
You have kids of that age when you are 65?! I thought my mid 30s lads were young compared to me.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 9, 2024 0:14:38 GMT
You have kids of that age when you are 65?! I thought my mid 30s lads were young compared to me. My oldest turns 44 this month. My youngest turns 6 this month.The other two are 10 and 7.5 years of age.
Life is what happens after you've made other plans.
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Post by potet on Jan 9, 2024 12:06:54 GMT
I retired when I turned 60 on the 24th of September 1999 with a great sense of relief and the firm intention never to return to the school where I taught. Then during the following decade, I made nightmares that my pension had been overcalcultated so that I had to resume teaching for at least a year as a compensation. In one of those nightmares, while crossing the yard, there were students into some hanky-panky behind a hedge, and one of them was saying about me: "don't worry; he is too old and stupid to understand what we are doing."
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jan 9, 2024 23:41:41 GMT
Strange why moderately young people don't assume that we also did stuff ... and at times still do.
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Post by Mag2024 on Jan 11, 2024 1:53:45 GMT
40 was OK for me. I think 38 - 40 were the very best time. 50 Gave me pause. ("Really? A half a century?!") But it was OK... 60 Hit me hard. ("Hey! I JUST turned 50! I was robbed!") 70 Is just another blink away, I suppose. I guess I should be thankful that I am still healthy and functional. A lot of my Boomer buddies have pushing up daisies for a long time already. Yes. Time flies.
The funny thing is, I stopped caring that time flies. So what - it's been a busy life.
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Post by Mag2024 on Jan 11, 2024 1:55:37 GMT
You have kids of that age when you are 65?! I thought my mid 30s lads were young compared to me. My oldest turns 44 this month. My youngest turns 6 this month.The other two are 10 and 7.5 years of age.
Life is what happens after you've made other plans.
Lucky you
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 11, 2024 17:31:25 GMT
My oldest turns 44 this month. My youngest turns 6 this month.The other two are 10 and 7.5 years of age.
Life is what happens after you've made other plans.
Lucky you They do keep things interesting.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Jan 12, 2024 1:57:15 GMT
40 was OK for me. I think 38 - 40 were the very best time. 50 Gave me pause. ("Really? A half a century?!") But it was OK... 60 Hit me hard. ("Hey! I JUST turned 50! I was robbed!") 70 Is just another blink away, I suppose. I guess I should be thankful that I am still healthy and functional. A lot of my Boomer buddies have pushing up daisies for a long time already. Yes. Time flies.
The funny thing is, I stopped caring that time flies. So what - it's been a busy life.
That's great attitude to have. It's not like we can do anything about it but choose to enjoy the ride.
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davidatthegrove
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Frickin' cold riding the "polar vortex"!
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Post by davidatthegrove on Jan 12, 2024 3:03:10 GMT
The funny thing is, I stopped caring that time flies. So what - it's been a busy life. And when you're faced with five days of -30 being the day's high and -40 for the day's low (like we are currently faced with in our neck of the woods) you want those days to pass by as fast as possible!!! LOL! In fact, if I could just skip over them altogether, I'll take that, please.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Jan 12, 2024 13:59:39 GMT
We're suffering under the Canadian Invasion here, too. But at least our high breaks above 0 F. Low = minus 20-ish. A heat wave compared to you, davidatthegrove!
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Post by Mag2024 on Jan 12, 2024 19:32:52 GMT
The funny thing is, I stopped caring that time flies. So what - it's been a busy life. And when you're faced with five days of -30 being the day's high and -40 for the day's low (like we are currently faced with in our neck of the woods) you want those days to pass by as fast as possible!!! LOL! In fact, if I could just skip over them altogether, I'll take that, please. Where are you? Alaska? It's been a warm winter here, almost no snow and mild.
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