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Guy on the news said “I had a blister the size of a half dollar…”

How many kids know what a “half dollar” is? I do but can’t remember the last time I saw the actual coin… maybe 20 years ago?

Gonna need some new comparators folks…

Yesterday would have been my dad's 91st birthday. He died in May and so didn't live to make it. 90 is a good innings. He did a lot of things in his life, was generally successful and happy right to a few weeks before the end. I'm glad he went then. There was nothing we could do for him anymore and I don't think that he wanted to hang around any longer.

I was really concerned that the care home might try to keep him alive for longer but they did the right thing and didn't.

Now to help look after my mum who is 87. My sister is doing most of the heavy lifting, for which I am very grateful, and I just make sure I say yes whenever asked to do anything.

Obviously I'm still tech support for everyone.

Getting old requires a lot more planning than being young but at 60 I'm slowly getting the hang of it.

Most important thing? Stretching and exercising mind and body every day..

May I live as long as my dad and die even quicker.

Aging person computer tip:

If you're a mac user either on a laptop with a touchpad or a separate touchpad,

head to "Accessibility -> Zoom" And enable "Use trackpad gesture to zoom." Then you can doubletap with three fingers to zoom in on part of the screen if the print is too small. Same gesture zooms out. Super useful.

Part of getting old appears to be the ability to afford higher-resolution monitors but a declining ability to read off them.

....sigh....

I think I've been suffering with some sort of heat related illness this afternoon.

I've had aching arms and legs, a bit of a headache and an upset stomach. I'm also feeling quite weak.
I drank quite a lot of fluids, had a packet of salt crisps and damped myself down with a cold wet flannel.

I'm feeling a bit better, but not quite right.

Assuming it's not a viral thing - heat related unwell-ness is something that seems to be an increasing problem for me as I get older.
I need to be aware of this tendency and try to work out how to mitigate it.

Take care people.

Another fun thing about getting old is that putting my black mobile device 📱, on my black desk makes it invisible 🧐

It's really the strangest thing. I can be looking right at it, and not see it 👀

A quotation from Golda Meir

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, you can’t stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.

Golda Meir (1898-1978) Russian-American-Israeli politician, teacher; Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974)
Interview (1972-11) by Oriana Fallaci, Ms. (1973-04)

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/meir-golda/77084/

A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Let mine not be the saddest fate of all,
   To live beyond my greater self; to see
   My faculties decaying, as the tree
Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall.
   Let me hear rather the imperious call,
   Which all men dread, in my glad morning time,
And follow death ere I have reached my prime,
Or drunk the strengthening cordial of life’s gall.
The lightning’s stroke or the fierce tempest blast
   Which fells the green tree to the earth to-day
Is kinder than the calm that lets it last,
   Unhappy witness of its own decay.
   May no man ever look on me and say,
“She lives, but all her usefulness is past.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1882), “Uselessness,” Maurine and Other Poems (1882 ed.)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Little of all we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
Without both feeling and looking queer.
In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Poem (1858-09), “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 4

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…