I'm officially old.

**MacGyver1968** · 05-30-12, 07:39 PM

Yes...I'm now over the hill and gaining speed. Today I bought my first pair of reading glasses out of necessity. DAMNIT!! This isn't fair!!! Fuck...next thing ya know I'll be wearing these damn things on a string around my neck! Anybody know what time Matlock comes on? How much fiber do these have in them? Where's the nearest restroom?

What a drag it is getting old.

**~~seagypsy~~** · 05-30-12, 07:46 PM

May as well head out for a cardigan sweater and turn up that thermostat while you are at it then lol. I'll send you some prunes.

**Epictetus** · 05-30-12, 07:48 PM

You look youthful in your picture...or was that taken in 1985? Anyway, as Groucho Marx said,"You're as young as the girl you feel."

**Gremmie** · 05-30-12, 07:54 PM

Passes out the Geritol...

It happens sooner or later...Usually sooner.

**Grumpy** · 05-30-12, 08:23 PM

Yeah, getting old sucks. But it beats the alternative of not getting any older.

Grumpy

**scheherazade** · 05-30-12, 08:45 PM

Now quit your whimpering, you darn cub. Ladies don't generally discuss their age but let's just say I've got you by some years and I've only came in from tearing down an 800 lb round bale of hay into convenient sized meals for horses.

Use it or lose it, sweetie. Eat proper food, cooked from scratch, drink enough water and do something physical each day and you will postpone the prunes and Depends for a decade or so yet.

As for needing reading glasses, I've been a 'four-eyes' since I was about fourteen. Flexon frames and graduated lenses are where it's at, I tell you. A huge improvement from the coke-bottle thick lenses of my youth.

On the bright side, the world now has indoor plumbing, public transit, fresh produce year round and central heating. Now if you were cutting firewood with an axe and a crosscut saw, hauling water from a hole chopped in the lake ice, using an outhouse and wiping your hind end with moss or corn cobs and scrubbing your soiled drawers on a scrub-board, I might have a teaspoon of pity for you......

Now, suck it up, Buttercup.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

**~~seagypsy~~** · 05-30-12, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by scheherazade

Now if you were cutting firewood with an axe and a crosscut saw, hauling water from a hole chopped in the lake ice, using an outhouse and wiping your hind end with moss or corn cobs and scrubbing your soiled drawers on a scrub-board, I might have a teaspoon of pity for you......

If we were all living like that we would more likely than not be in a helluva lot better shape than we are and obesity would be unheard of. I spent a year in a culture where life was almost as inconvenient and I lost a lot of weight and kept it off until I came back to the US and got back into the more modern lifestyle of getting my dinner by clicking a mouse.

**~~Neverfly~~** · 05-30-12, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by seagypsy

... and got back into the more modern lifestyle of getting my dinner by clicking a mouse.

Been downloading pizza, again?

**~~seagypsy~~** · 05-30-12, 09:20 PM

The domino's order progress bar is awesome!

**scheherazade** · 05-30-12, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by seagypsy

If we were all living like that we would more likely than not be in a helluva lot better shape than we are and obesity would be unheard of. I spent a year in a culture where life was almost as inconvenient and I lost a lot of weight and kept it off until I came back to the US and got back into the more modern lifestyle of getting my dinner by clicking a mouse.

Yes. I think that I should start one of those lifestyle vocations and teach people some of the nearly forgotten arts from my days of living on the land.

Hmmm.....could start with fencing the acreage, thin the regrowth pine for fence rails, teach them how to use a chainsaw to fall and limb....maybe even peeled poles....get some blisters on those soft little hands.

I've raised chickens for eggs and rabbits for meat in the past, grow quite a few of my own veggies, a bit of wild harvesting....

Maybe in my dotage. Not sure I'd have the patience for this mission.

Then again, if I charge LOTS of money, perhaps I could cultivate some.

**Fraggle Rocker** · 05-30-12, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by MacGyver1968

Yes...I'm now over the hill and gaining speed. Today I bought my first pair of reading glasses out of necessity. DAMNIT!! This isn't fair!!! Fuck...next thing ya know I'll be wearing these damn things on a string around my neck! Anybody know what time Matlock comes on? How much fiber do these have in them? Where's the nearest restroom? What a drag it is getting old.

I got bifocals in 1983 when I was 40, and trifocals in 1996 when I was 53. I had to get the optician to reconfigure the lenses so the center one was for reading a computer screen. He'd never seen that before. Now all trifocals are configured that way. I should have patented it so now I'd be rich off the royalties.

You don't need the string around your neck if you never take them off. I only take mine off to sleep and shower. Well, and also...

**~~seagypsy~~** · 05-30-12, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by scheherazade

Yes. I think that I should start one of those lifestyle vocations and teach people some of the nearly forgotten arts from my days of living on the land.

Hmmm.....could start with fencing the acreage, thin the regrowth pine for fence rails, teach them how to use a chainsaw to fall and limb....maybe even peeled poles....get some blisters on those soft little hands.

I've raised chickens for eggs and rabbits for meat in the past, grow quite a few of my own veggies, a bit of wild harvesting....

Maybe in my dotage. Not sure I'd have the patience for this mission.

Then again, if I charge LOTS of money, perhaps I could cultivate some.

Ahh, motivation of financial reward, the great equalizer lol.

Once my kids are all grown up, I want to move to the mountains and live on the land. The only convenience I will go nuts trying to maintain would be internet access. Gotta have a means to telling the world I am right. Otherwise, what's the point of living.

**MacGyver1968** · 05-30-12, 09:43 PM

You god damn whippersnappers get off my lawn!!! Ah...to hell with ya'll....the only thing that makes me happy is watching cops beating up hippies to the Glen Miller Orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...=j1JC_p2EVJw#!

**scheherazade** · 05-30-12, 09:44 PM

Originally posted by Fraggle Rocker

You don't need the string around your neck if you never take them off. I only take mine off to sleep and shower. Well, and also...

You are so cute when you're quaint, Fraggle.

**R1D2** · 05-30-12, 09:57 PM

I may not spell it right. Laysicks, a eye procedure they do now. My aunt had glasses all her life under went the procedure. Now she has reading glasses. Supposed to be a short time though. An I recently in the past 6 years got driving glasses. I'm

near sighted.. Good luck Mac an HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

**scheherazade** · 05-30-12, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by seagypsy

Ahh, motivation of financial reward, the great equalizer lol.

Once my kids are all grown up, I want to move to the mountains and live on the land. The only convenience I will go nuts trying to maintain would be internet access. Gotta have a means to telling the world I am right. Otherwise, what's the point of living.

Yes, I talk a good line but if I were comfortable financially, I'd probably do it for nothing, both to preserve the old knowledge and for the chuckles of running laps around these youngsters, spoiled by soft living. A genteel kind of cruelty, lol...

Internet does add a whole new dimension to the experience of life, I agree.

**scheherazade** · 05-30-12, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by R1D2

I may not spell it right. Laysicks, a eye procedure they do now. My aunt had glasses all her life under went the procedure. Now she has reading glasses. Supposed to be a short time though. An I recently in the past 6 years got driving glasses. I'm

near sighted.. Good luck Mac an HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Now I'm confused as all get-out. His birthday, on his profile page is Feb. 5th?

Never too late for belated birthday wishes though....

**MacGyver1968** · 05-30-12, 10:03 PM

In my day...we walked to school in the snow...uphill both ways!

ETA: Yeah Sche...it's not my birthday...just another day getting old.

**scheherazade** · 05-30-12, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by MacGyver1968

You god damn whippersnappers get off my lawn!!! Ah...to hell with ya'll....the only thing that makes me happy is watching cops beating up hippies to the Glen Miller Orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...=j1JC_p2EVJw#!

You are a sick puppy, MacGyver.

At least in the Yukon, some of my best friends are hippies and my father-in-law used to be the C.O. of the RCMP for the entire Yukon. Peaceful co-existence.

**R1D2** · 05-30-12, 10:09 PM

Oh my apologies. I should have looked again. I guess its belated. I thought it was by the way he "felt". Heck my b day is coming up I feel old even at my young age.