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I just turned the big 4-0. This is not fun. Everyone keeps saying that your forties are the new thirties. I don't ever remember anyone saying that the idea of turning 30 sucked this much. I woke up this morning and my hips hurt, my back ached, and my knee was twinging. My doctor's service left a message reminding me to get some blood work done yesterday, and that reminded me that he keeps threatening to make love to me with a camera. And holy shit my kids have twelve years before they even begin college. Will this ever end?
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
-James C. Harwood, Science Fiction Writer, Straight (March 5, 1956 - May 25, 2010)
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My friends at work all welcomed me into the "protected class" of workers who cannot be fired for ageism. Lucky me.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Sounds good to me! I can sit in KJA's chair and fart. When is the next time you swing by the SacredTomato?Mr. Teg wrote:I hit 40 next year...
How about the Firehouse next time Omph?
(It is Pinky & the Brains favorite place when in town )
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A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Wait a minute. I calculated you at 42 the other day, Omph, when we were talking about that Prince song. Guess one of us was off.
I was talking to a friend of mine the other night and moaning about getting old and she told me, in all seriousness, that 50 is the new 40. I kinda like that. (She crossed the border herself a few years back.)
40 was nothing, really. (AFAIR!) I remember 30 as being far more traumatic. As I sneak up on 50, I've noticed myself engaging in thought patterns that might be a kind of coping mechanism: even though I still have over two and a half years left before I get there, I'm already starting to THINK of myself as 50. By the time it becomes a reality, I'll be used to it.
I don't mind growing old...at least not so much so far. Being able to do less than before is somewhat annoying, but it's also freeing in some ways. It also feels in a strange way like coming home....
Wait a minute. I calculated you at 42 the other day, Omph, when we were talking about that Prince song. Guess one of us was off.
I was talking to a friend of mine the other night and moaning about getting old and she told me, in all seriousness, that 50 is the new 40. I kinda like that. (She crossed the border herself a few years back.)
40 was nothing, really. (AFAIR!) I remember 30 as being far more traumatic. As I sneak up on 50, I've noticed myself engaging in thought patterns that might be a kind of coping mechanism: even though I still have over two and a half years left before I get there, I'm already starting to THINK of myself as 50. By the time it becomes a reality, I'll be used to it.
I don't mind growing old...at least not so much so far. Being able to do less than before is somewhat annoying, but it's also freeing in some ways. It also feels in a strange way like coming home....
"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
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It was surely me. Didn't I say how old I was when I heard it? Something like that. I was in high school, IIRC. I started that in '82 when I was..mmmmmmmm. 14? Yep. A month before I turned 15. I don't remember that album coming out when I was in Jr. High.SandChigger wrote:A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Wait a minute. I calculated you at 42 the other day, Omph, when we were talking about that Prince song. Guess one of us was off.
EDIT: Oops! Nope. I was 13 when I entered H.S. I must have been 14 right after that school year started, and that's when I heard it. Sorry!
Man, I have really not been paying attention to much lately! I gotta get back into my groove.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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We should dress up like 'em (pick up our custumes down the street at the gag shop ) and act like total assholes so they're not welcome there anymoreOmphalos wrote:Sounds good to me! I can sit in KJA's chair and fart. When is the next time you swing by the SacredTomato?Mr. Teg wrote:I hit 40 next year...
How about the Firehouse next time Omph?
(It is Pinky & the Brains favorite place when in town )
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I figured you for mid-twenties at most.
Well, anyway, a belated round of HBDs to you, Omph & Rakis & Mandy & Robbo!
Welcome (to three of you) to the 40s Pool. Wallow right on in, the water's fine!
"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
I don't think this is funny and I'm not playing.
Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.
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A high school cheerleader came to my door yesterday afternoon selling tickets to a cheeleader car wash... and I didn't have any cash!
I thought I was going to have a stroke. She was SO hot!
I thought I was going to have a stroke. She was SO hot!
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I don't know about the rest of this lot, Freak, but I promise to visit you in prison some day.
Inhuien...Nice.
Inhuien...Nice.
"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
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Fantomas is 49????? Seriously, I though he was 16 or 17.chanilover wrote:God, you're all so old.
Speaking of old, can you believe FANTOMAS is 49! He acts like Sloe Man used to do when he was 12.
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I think you meant to say:inhuien wrote:I don't think this is funny and I'm not playing.
inhuien wrote:Dee-
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Nah, I figured ole FantaPops was up there.
Drives a truck for a living, too, no?
(Not that there's anything wrong with that. My uncle made a pretty good living at it, still does as a matter of fact, owns his own trucking company and is still going strong at 70. THAT, CL, is old. )
Drives a truck for a living, too, no?
(Not that there's anything wrong with that. My uncle made a pretty good living at it, still does as a matter of fact, owns his own trucking company and is still going strong at 70. THAT, CL, is old. )
"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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I did not know that he did that. But even if I had, it would not have changed my mind much. Ive handled hundreds of long and short haul trucking cases with youts at the wheel, 18 and up.SandChigger wrote:Nah, I figured ole FantaPops was up there.
Drives a truck for a living, too, no?
(Not that there's anything wrong with that. My uncle made a pretty good living at it, still does as a matter of fact, owns his own trucking company and is still going strong at 70. THAT, CL, is old. )
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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I think I was going for an overtone of the oblique… that or I forgot.Omphalos wrote:I think you meant to say:inhuien wrote:I don't think this is funny and I'm not playing.
inhuien wrote:Dee-
Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.
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Must be the advanced years. Hardening of the arteries in the brain and all.inhuien wrote:I think I was going for an overtone of the oblique… that or I forgot.Omphalos wrote:I think you meant to say:inhuien wrote:I don't think this is funny and I'm not playing.
inhuien wrote:Dee-
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Cuban truck drivers are the worst.SandChigger wrote:Nah, I figured ole FantaPops was up there.
Drives a truck for a living, too, no?
(Not that there's anything wrong with that. My uncle made a pretty good living at it, still does as a matter of fact, owns his own trucking company and is still going strong at 70. THAT, CL, is old. )
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I just started a re-read of Hitchhiker's last night.Star Dust wrote:Fuck yeah!GamePlayer wrote:42 is a great number
42 is the new 21.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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(For the record, I thought inhuien's pic worked fine as was. I thought, "Oh, look, duh Nile!" )
"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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Record suitably made, sir! Consider it inviolable!SandChigger wrote:(For the record, I thought inhuien's pic worked fine as was. I thought, "Oh, look, duh Nile!" )
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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You must have had kids young. I think you have a boy who is a volunteer fireman? I'm still wiping my boy's nose.Eyes High wrote:I'm not that far behind you Omph, I'll be 40 in June. Half the time I still feel 17 the other half....well let's just say that I miss my younger days.
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Good memory. Yeah too young. I have three boys. 21, 16, and 11. It's the 21 year old that just made Lieutenant at the local Volunteer Department.Omphalos wrote:You must have had kids young. I think you have a boy who is a volunteer fireman? I'm still wiping my boy's nose.Eyes High wrote:I'm not that far behind you Omph, I'll be 40 in June. Half the time I still feel 17 the other half....well let's just say that I miss my younger days.
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Hey, Eyes High! I somehow completely overlooked where you wrote your birthmonth is June above. It's mine, too.
Which are you, Gemini or Cancer? (I'm the former. )
Which are you, Gemini or Cancer? (I'm the former. )
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"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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I'm a Cancer, along with my two oldest sons; however, my youngest son is a Gemini.SandChigger wrote:Hey, Eyes High! I somehow completely overlooked where you wrote your birthmonth is June above. It's mine, too.
Which are you, Gemini or Cancer? (I'm the former. )
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