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Getting Old

#61
One real big perk of "gaining more experience" is that you no longer have to care about so much stuff that you cared about passionately when you were young. Fashion? Pop culture? Current slang? Who are the "now" celebrities? Keeping up with the latest in electronic gadgetry?

All of that mental effort and strain, gone, just like that, poof!
 
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#63
GwenOnBass said:
I certainly hold little patience for screwing around with computers anymore.

... those tales, epic they may be, are how I sit quietly with a coffee in full trust of a drama-free day ahead.

Oh yeah they pulled both cataracts when I was 50.
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The computer in your coffee maker is smarter than the one that was on your desktop in early 80's. I'm a fan of the drama but not the trauma. I'm hoping for a dirt nap before they have to do my cataracts. Fortunately I don't have any, yet. Rest of me isn't so hotsy-totsy though, lots of gym-damage.
 
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BassicJazzy said:
The computer in your coffee maker is smarter than the one that was on your desktop in early 80's. I'm a fan of the drama but not the trauma. I'm hoping for a dirt nap before they have to do my cataracts. Fortunately I don't have any, yet. Rest of me isn't so hotsy-totsy though, lots of gym-damage.
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But the programming in 1980 was much tighter.
 
#65
Major Seven said:
Lots of people complain about getting old. How it takes away from you. It also gives some things.
I recently started thinking about what is good about getting old. It surprised me how I could go on and on,
so I just stopped here.

Senior discounts (except where it counts like music stores).
Medicare.
I Have accepted that I can't physically go back to work and thats ok, I am no longer expected to.
Most of my time is actually mine. I can fill it up with more things of my choice than I can finish.
I can keep a fourty year old car. If it won't start in the morning, thats ok.
Not driving to work at ten degrees in the snow with other traffic. I find it great fun listening to the morning traffic report.
The speed limit is ok with me.
Don't need the weather report. Looking up at the sky tells me all I need to know.

I have seen the same trends come around five times at least so I know what to expect next.
People are in awe that I am fluent in vacuum tubes.
I can play something "old" like from the british invasion and people don't recognize it and think I'm genius.
There are lots of inspiring old (especially rock) musicians around (however obsolete) who refuse to give up and quit.
I can dress like a bum so I am no longer a target on the street
I no longer expend large amounts of time (and money) chasing skirts.
I can be cranky and people let it slide.

I am aware, completely lucid and sharp as ever but people don't think so, so they leave me alone.
I see a young person making the same mistake I did. If I tell them so, one in ten listen. That is a success.

I am afraid for the long term welfare of mankind. I won't get to see what happens for much longer.
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I read the title to the post and decided it wasn’t for me. I’m not getting old.

I AM OLD!!!
 
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#68
Major Seven said:
Somewhere on a 3 1/4 I have a copy of Lotus 1.0

The .exe file is 100 K. (thats kilobytes)
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That might be worth $$$.

IBM Europe was a client back in 1981, and thought the IBM PC was a toy, "nobody would want to come home and sit down to a computer" after working on a terminal all day long. They saw is as good for nothing but simple spreadsheet, for home budget, and playing pong.

Therefore they missed most of the market, especially on software.
 
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BassicJazzy said:
That might be worth $$$.

IBM Europe was a client back in 1981, and thought the IBM PC was a toy, "nobody would want to come home and sit down to a computer" after working on a terminal all day long. They saw is as good for nothing but simple spreadsheet, for home budget, and playing pong.

Therefore they missed most of the market, especially on software.
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That ranks up there with Decca Records rejecting the Beatles because "guitar bands were on the way out".
 
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Major Seven said:
That ranks up there with Decca Records rejecting the Beatles because "guitar bands were on the way out".
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I'm no better. Son-in-law came to visit with his new iPhone, when they were first released. He was developing software for it, showed me the most successful app developed to day, the "fart app." All the fart sounds you could ever want. He said "buy apple stock." I laughed and basically put my money into other things, like bank stocks, many of which went bust.

What's money good for anyway, except buying more basses? Food is good too. Can't eat basses.
 
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BassicJazzy said:
I'm no better. Son-in-law came to visit with his new iPhone, when they were first released. He was developing software for it, showed me the most successful app developed to day, the "fart app." All the fart sounds you could ever want. He said "buy apple stock." I laughed and basically put my money into other things, like bank stocks, many of which went bust.

What's money good for anyway, except buying more basses? Food is good too. Can't eat basses.
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I remember when Apple was teetering on the edge and their stock was dirt cheap, back before Jobs returned. If I had sunk all my retirement savings into Apple stock, my lifestyle now would be quite different. 🤑
 
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#79
Michedelic said:
When was Ringo on junk? Hadn’t heard that…I thought that he was just a lush for awhile. Now, Charlie apparently dabbled for a bit, because he was bored.
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Yeah, he admitted in an interview that he had a heroin habit for 20 years. That's the difference between street heroin and medical grade heroin. Medical grade won't kill you unless you abuse it. Remember, heroin was invented to wean soldiers off morphine, which will kill you, medical grade or not.

I am fortunate that any opiates make me sick, therefore I never had any draw to them. When I was waiting for my physical for pre-op clearance to get hip replacement the guy in next room told Dr he was talking 25 Vicodin a day. He was still talking normally, and must have driven there, I assume. The Dr said "well, we have to start cutting that down now."
 
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