If you had told 11 year old me when I was starting out that one day I would own a computer I would have been wowed, at the time we were making a long distance call to a university mainframe, using a teletype machine with a papertape reader to program it. If you had told me that I would end up with some many that I had to break out the label printer to keep track of what each one was doing, and which button on the KVM was which machine, I would not have believed you.
#gettingold
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I've become that person that brings a swimsuit/workout clothes when traveling so I can get my walk in.
And soaking in a hot tub after driving for three hours ain't bad.
Good morning!
We must go to our allotment today - I'm guessing that there will be a lot of greengages ready to pick, so we are taking The Big Buckets!
In case you don't know - greengages are a type of plum, once very popular in England but now uncommon. They are highly prized by a certain older demographic. They are very easy to grow, but crop all at once!
The other, non-urgent, #allotment job is to get a lock on the new shed door. There's nothing of value in there, but I'd like to get it done.
Thankfully the weather is forecast to be similar to yesterday, dry and pleasantly warm with little wind.
I've chronicled my anxiety in a separate toot so won't dwell on it.
Sacha's heart issues seem to be setting down - I'm suspecting the heatwave may have played a part. However she's suffering with her arthritis as well just now.
My son has taken his wife and children to Edinburgh on a last minute trip - and is complaining about the cost of hotels. Duh!
A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright and critic
(Attributed)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
I did IT in an IT company for 7 years, worked as a teacher for 14 years, and have now done IT in the educational sector for 5 years.
I wonder what's next?
There comes that realization your bodum is actually older than most of your co-workers.
You know you’re getting old when your birthday cake is a fire hazard and your doctor refers you to an Archealogist.
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
My buddy...wanting to play #dog #buddy #gettingold #play
Too wide to fit your pants comfortably, while also being insufficiently wide enough to hold them up.
Every so often I'm reading some non-fiction and realise that the 1920s were a century ago, and that comes as a shock. For a long time they seemed about 60-70 years back.
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@RobeeShepherd Yeah, I've been corrected all over the place.. Frak! was very muchly a BBC Micro game that I've played at least One Million times!
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.
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 
Jaws is on AMC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its release. It is in color. I thought the only movies that were 50 years old had to be black and white...
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/
I’m ‘Where’s my phone?!’ While Holding My Phone years old.