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 👀
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #goldameir #acceptance #calm #gettingold #aging #growingold #henoed #inevitability #oldage
I’m ‘Where’s my phone?!’ While Holding My Phone years old.
I heavily dislike being reminded that IDE is a legacy tech.
It feels great to be 95. I mean, for those parts of me that still have feeling.
Bob Hope (1903-2003) American comedian, actor, humanitarian (b. Leslie Townes Hope)
“95 Years of Hope,” press kit, joke sheet (1998)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hope-bob/76820/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #age #aging #decrepitude #feeling #gettingold #growingold #henoed
1985 seems so long ago.
And the early millennials are making their first jump into their 40s now!
#40 #memes #gettingold
Vroeger keek ik naar MacGyver en The A-Team en werd uiteindelijk zelf ingenieur.
De huidige generatie die naar Baby Shark, Paw Patrol, Rubble and crew en consoorten kijkt, ik weet het toch niet hoor.
Voor mij is dat vooral overprikkeling ipv stimulatie.
#GettingOld
When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 363 (1820)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #age #caution #gettingold #growingold #maturity #mistrust #overconfidence #rashness #selfconfidence #timidity #trust #youth
I'm "You weren't there when X Y Z happened" years old.
Ya know how, sometimes, you need your reading glasses so that you can fix your reading glasses?
Every time I wake up I feel like I’m hosting a show called Mucus in the Morning. #GettingOld
Part of me wishes I could be a kid again, because I made the mount everest of chicken nuggets and I couldn't even eat half of the plate. #GettingOld
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/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aging #decline #gettingold #growingold #henoed #living #oldage #senescence #usefulness #uselessness #utility
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…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #age #agelessness #aging #gettingold #growingold #henoed #oldage #tree #truth #youth
Today I decided to rearrange my home office. I have two bookcases and a 2m long walnut desk…I am broken now #GettingOld
That's it, it's happened.. I'm officially "Bought fluffy slippers for the winter from Kmart for click-n-collect" old..
#Musings #ShowerThoughts #Age #Winter #Australia #GettingOld
Well there goes my 43rd Trip around the sun.
