I committed my first error of Spring Training: I momentarily mistook Justin Jirschele for Garrett Guest. Jirsch played along admirably when I told him about my new car purchase. It's not like I've covered him for a decade. At least I had the right organization #gettingold(er)
#Gettingold
A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)
More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
#Gettingold
I am not afraid of getting old, if our humor stays like that …🤔🫣😉🤣
www.instagram.com/reel/DUJ6hRh...
Plant Parenthood on Instagram:...
Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
At last they steal us from our selves away;
In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?
[Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #erosion #failing #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #steal #take #time #years
Getting old is a crock of shit. I wear "readers" now. I was today years old when I discovered I cant see shit. On top of that trying to be kind to technology when in all reality I want to sometimes put a hole in my monitor.
I realized I'm getting old. A team needed a holding page for their project. Some place to publish their final work on the Intranet.
I went full Geocities under construction. Included a MIDI of Men at Work.
No one understood why I was so pleased with myself.
I keep having this little revelation, when I see recent photos of actors I've grown up watching:
"Man, they're getting old.
Wait a minute... that means I'm getting old..."
Me in 2012: "Hey, it’s only 23:30! I can still work on some servers and updates!"
Me in 2026: "Hey, it’s 21! I can finally go to bed and rest my eyes!"
My IG algo is blasting me with excel tips and I could not be happier #gettingold
The older I get the more I appreciate being wrapped up warm.
The first episode of "One Foot in the Grave" is on the TV.
It's funny as ever, but I just looked up Richard Wilson, who played Victor Meldrew, and realized that he was five years younger than me when this programme was made.
Yes, I'm older than Victor Meldrew.
By several years...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Foot_in_the_Grave
#onefootinthegrave #victormeldrew #gettingold
Well, I was planning on going to do some planespotting tomorrow - that would mean I would be able to do an OTD post next year, I have far too many gaps to fill! - but more snow is forecast overnight, with heavy rain forecast tomorrow, which means ive reached the age where I would be indoors, warm, and comfortable, rather than cold, wet, and miserable.
If skies are clear, I'll be glued to fr24 or globe.adsb.fi, and possibly nip out if anything interesting is going overhead, but that will be about it.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
(Attributed)
More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/35981/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #brain #dementia #exercise #fitness #gettingold #growingold #meme #mentalhealth #oldage #mind
Had a little evening snack earlier of very crisp rye bread thins which were super crunchy and I spead crunchy peanut butter on them. Om nom nom this is so crunchy I thought. Hmm. Where's that tooth????? Mastodon, I just ate half a tooth and thought it was crunchy peanut butter... #whoops #GettingOld
I had to put my reading glasses on so I could wrap Christmas presents.
One thing I was looking forward to while getting older is losing the ability to hear higher frequency sounds. I'm not that far from 60 and can still hear them, yet other older adults in the same room don't and wonder why I sometimes can't hear them well.
Bloody hell, forgot the name of an app I've used thousands of times over the last 10+ years but in the process of trying to figure out what it was ("Union"), found a TinRocket app that I'd not purchased ("Photo Tape"). Tch. Rectified that now and will experiment with it later.
(I have also used TinRocket apps thousands of times: Popsicolor is a huge favourite.)
#TinRocket #Union #GettingOld
(I have also used TinRocket apps thousands of times: Popsicolor is a huge favourite.)
#TinRocket #Union #GettingOld
A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin
It’s like all the time I was working keeping house and raising the kids and making love and earning our keep I thought there was going to come a time or there would be some place where all of it came together. Like it was words I was saying, all my life, all the kinds of work, just a word here and a word there, but finally all the words would make a sentence, and I could read the sentence. I would have made my soul and know what it was for. But I have made my soul and I don’t know what to do with it. Who wants it?
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19
More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8061…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin #gettingold #growingold #meaning #meaningoflife #memory #oldage #retrospect #selfactualization #soul
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