craigb
He doesn't like to wear dresses in public Pedro.

Excuse me? WARLOCKS wear ROBES, not dresses!

Moshkito
Hi,
 

 
Every time I see this I get shivers ... over the hills and far away, we will bury you, and forget you, like the plants ... the roses all look the same after all, and tomorrow another dog, will sniff at the spot, and a cow will step over it ... and then, of all things, tomorrow the snow comes, and we will be buried further still ... we can always imagine our next gig ... the words barely coming out of all the slobber ... but the notes were there ... were they in order? ... while the old song ... was heard ... over the hills and far away ... feeling like it was buried ... somewhere ... in the back of our soul ...

I feel like putting together a poem ... but goodness ... it would sound so damn scary and weird ... it must be Halloween! I'm surprised that Craig didn't dress you up!

 
I've buried quite a few animals in that field. I even waited till they were dead.
 

kennywtelejazz
The reading glasses thing was an easy one to adapt too and I've been there for about 10 years and counting …
Getting gray , I'm OK with that even though the tree line is thinning out a little on top of old smokey …
One change that is effing me up the most is I used to have a nice round butt that used to hold my pants up just fine.
Now the thing decided to get flat and move over to the front where my stomach is  
I'm like WTF …I'm way to young to be wearing  suspenders …
 
Kenny

 
LOL Kenny, I'm sitting here cracking up at this thread and where it's gone. :) I can relate on the butt thing....it's probably because we sit at our computers for too long! LOL! I always got told "you got a perfect butt for a dude" (whatever that means) because when I sat in a chair, it left little heart prints. LOL! Now that I'm getting older and I've been smoke free for almost 3 years, the ole butt just ain't what it used to be. Hahaha! I wear those one size fits all sports pants...they seems to be perfect for butts that become tenants in our stomachs! ;)
 

Rain
I made peace with the notion of wearing glasses, even though I recently had to get a second pair, this one for reading.
 
Up until my late 30's, I was blessed (or cursed) with an extremely fast metabolism. No matter what I did, I never gained weight. Then I quit smoking and turned 40. And I have to work a lot harder not to put on weight, even if I have a most healthy diet and workout an hour a day every day.
 
The hairline IS receding, but I can't say that I'm too worried about it.
 
But you know what my pet peeve is? Hair in spots where there used to be none. I even bought my own tweezers a few years ago (too bad I couldn't find zircon encrusted ones).
 
And hair in those spot seem to grow thicker and quicker all the time.
 
One of the worst spot is just around the ear hole - those drive me nut, though they're easy to pluck.
Top of the ear - some long ones grow there... Thin enough but that spot is surprisingly sensitive.
Nostrils. Thick as heck and driving me crazy. First couple of times were painful but my nostrils are now immune to pain for the most part.
 
Shoulders and back. Why oh why? I leave the pleasure to my lovely lady who loves to pluck them.
 
BTW, suspenders are cool. They've been a part of my attire for well over 10 years. Love them. :)

Rain...man, this is me to the T! Fast metab still thank God, can relate to what happens after quitting the cigs, (I've gained 12 lbs...but so far it's been better for me. I was 146, so 158 makes me look and feel a little less scrawny lol) I use reading glasses and the hair thing.....dude, let's just say, we all need to embrace man-scaping because it is the in thing today anyway. That "No No" thing is pretty killer. If you can't afford one at like $250, there's a "Yes" for $40 that does the same thing. LOL!!! It actually keeps hair from coming back in those places where you never dreamed of getting it. After 4-6 times, it gets less and less.
 
I've always hated hair on the back on my triceps....I never had much, but still never liked seeing anything there. That Yes thing.....5 times, it's not grown back. Hair anywhere you don't want it....5-6 times and it gets thinner and thinner and comes back super slow.
 
For Susan: Yeah, our eyes are definitely getting worse...but I'm going to challenge you with something. If you have time, try this and you'll see I'm not crazy. Ok, well I am a little...but....lol....
 
One day, I was cleaning my basement up. I found magazines from the 80's. Music mags, car mags, old books etc. Upon examining them, one thing jumped out at me that I have never noticed......
 
The fonts were WAY bigger! Today, they jam and cram as much as they can in a book or magazine. There are less pages and smaller text. This keeps costs down. So it's not just that we are losing our vision.....we are losing text size as well. Do you have any old mags? See how well you can read them without any glasses or magnifying glasses.
 
Here's another. I'm in a Chinese restaurant with my girl. The menu there even has small text. She's laughing at me telling me I need glasses because she's a bit younger than me. I do something simple that changes the game. Yeah, ok....I'm losing my vision but I have quite a few things against me as I approach my 50's....text size and......darkness! I turn on my cell phone flashlight, and low and behold....I can see the menu clearly! I don't seem to remember ordering food in the darkness years ago. Probably because years ago, the economy was good and the restaurants were nice looking. Now that they are older and the economy is crappy for most people, they dim the lights so you can't see what the place looks like. It's not just there, but I notice this everywhere I go, even the 5-star joints that end up costing me $400 for me and my girl.
 
I learned this when I was doing side remodeling jobs with my cousin at Denny's, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Carraba's, Outback Steakhouse, Longhorn Steakhouse etc. What you see when those lights are bright...will scare the heck out of you. Dim those lights....it's like you are in a completely different establishment. So yeah, we may be losing our vision a bit....but we are getting help and are being tricked into believing we're worse off than we are.
 
Last thing Susan....I just looked at one of my old cable boxes that Comcast never took back. I can read the serial number without glasses. I just looked at my current one....it looks like ants ran through mud and walked all over it. I needed a magnifying glass to read it. You're fine, trust me. :)
 
-Danny

sharke
I have this one freak eyebrow hair that gets about 2 inches long if I leave it. 

That may be useful when the time comes for a comb-over Sharke. 

jamesg1213

Moshkito
Hi,
 

 
Every time I see this I get shivers ... over the hills and far away, we will bury you, and forget you, like the plants ... the roses all look the same after all, and tomorrow another dog, will sniff at the spot, and a cow will step over it ... and then, of all things, tomorrow the snow comes, and we will be buried further still ... we can always imagine our next gig ... the words barely coming out of all the slobber ... but the notes were there ... were they in order? ... while the old song ... was heard ... over the hills and far away ... feeling like it was buried ... somewhere ... in the back of our soul ...

I feel like putting together a poem ... but goodness ... it would sound so damn scary and weird ... it must be Halloween! I'm surprised that Craig didn't dress you up!

 
I've buried quite a few animals in that field. I even waited till they were dead.
 

Hey Pedro , I got a nice little pic coming along for you real soon  
 
Kenny

jamesg1213

Moshkito
Hi,
 

 
Every time I see this I get shivers ... over the hills and far away, we will bury you, and forget you, like the plants ... the roses all look the same after all, and tomorrow another dog, will sniff at the spot, and a cow will step over it ... and then, of all things, tomorrow the snow comes, and we will be buried further still ... we can always imagine our next gig ... the words barely coming out of all the slobber ... but the notes were there ... were they in order? ... while the old song ... was heard ... over the hills and far away ... feeling like it was buried ... somewhere ... in the back of our soul ... 

I feel like putting together a poem ... but goodness ... it would sound so damn scary and weird ... it must be Halloween! I'm surprised that Craig didn't dress you up!

 
I've buried quite a few animals in that field. I even waited till they were dead.
 

 
Kenny

TheMaartian

Hi Bert , 
It's funny you should bring up the high school days and the reunions ….
I've been  sort of MIA from that whole thing . 
Just this week on a whim I decided to do a search on my old high school girl friend , sure enough I was able to find her online …
Aye Car rumba  , apparently she also suffered from a severe case of "what happened"  

This was one of the few "surprises" from my past that I'd actually been able to forget. Until now. Thanks for nothing.
 
...
 
I'm a (not too badly) disabled vet. I get most of my healthcare through the VA system. Many years ago, when I was still living in Chicago, I used the VA hospital in Madison, WI instead of the one in Chicago (it was as bad as the one in Phoenix is now). I'm missing some internal body parts, and the VA docs like to take the occasional look-see. So, I'm lying on my side, facing a wall, waiting for a nurse to insert the alien probe in me, when I hear the following:
 
"Hi, John!"
 
WTF?!?!? I look over my left shoulder back into the exam room and for the first time in my life, see a female shaped EXACTLY like a Bartlett pear. There must have been a look of surprise/shock/lack-of-recognition on my face. I tried looking at her badge to see who she was.
 
"Oh. I got married. I'm Sharon Dxxxx!"
 
"Oh. Hi."
 
OMG! Sharon Dxxxx! My high school senior class president. And a hot one, at that! Girl, WTF did you DO to yourself? How does a person get to look like THAT?
 
That's when I got the probe!
 
Hateful experience. 

Well with you and Bert , i didn't mean to bring you guys there …. 
I'm no prize after all these years and the HS sweetie thing was a fluke .
 

bjornpdx
I'm going to be 70 next birthday. Looking ahead at where you'll be in 10 years sure doesn't mean the same like when you were 30. Ten years takes on some major significance from now on.

Like everyone else it seems, I still look out at the world in the same way as I did back in the younger day.  I get reminders tho of where I am on the lifespan scale.  There are the hearing aid and retirement community ads in the mail, as well as reverse mortgage and cheap cremation pitches. Everyone calls me Sir. I get the senior discount without asking. And yeah, there's the nose and ear hair that needs trimming at every haircut.

Getting old means learning to live with all those decisions you've made over the years. Things could have been better (or worse) but there you are.

bjornpdx, 
 
You bring up some very good points and you have a lot of wisdom  last sentence wow …
 
Kenny
 
 

Danny Danzi
Yeah, ok....I'm losing my vision but I have quite a few things against me as I approach my 50's....
 
-Danny

That's about the right age Danny.  At 54....I'm full time glasses these days.  

Danny Danzi

kennywtelejazz
The reading glasses thing was an easy one to adapt too and I've been there for about 10 years and counting …
Getting gray , I'm OK with that even though the tree line is thinning out a little on top of old smokey …
One change that is effing me up the most is I used to have a nice round butt that used to hold my pants up just fine.
Now the thing decided to get flat and move over to the front where my stomach is  
I'm like WTF …I'm way to young to be wearing  suspenders …
 
Kenny

 
LOL Kenny, I'm sitting here cracking up at this thread and where it's gone. :) I can relate on the butt thing....it's probably because we sit at our computers for too long! LOL! I always got told "you got a perfect butt for a dude" (whatever that means) because when I sat in a chair, it left little heart prints. LOL! Now that I'm getting older and I've been smoke free for almost 3 years, the ole butt just ain't what it used to be. Hahaha! I wear those one size fits all sports pants...they seems to be perfect for butts that become tenants in our stomachs! ;)
 
-Danny

Hi Danny , 
It's nice to hear from you .
Regarding the disappearing butt thing , I knew something was seriously wrong one day while standing in the checkout line at the supermarket . I no longer had any decent looking senior citizen lady's rubbing up against me in the checkout line trying to cop a feel of my butt on the down low  …Oh well , it sure was nice while it lasted 
 

jamesg1213
Hi,
 

 
 

I'm glad you like that James 
 

kitekrazy1
Best title of a thread I've come across in a long time.

@kitekrazy1
 
In October I had my 60th B Day and it kicked up some stuff …thanks for the kind words 
 
Kenny
 
 

sharke
I have this one freak eyebrow hair that gets about 2 inches long if I leave it. Never had that when I was younger.

Skin gets less elastic too. There's the classic test where you pinch a bit of skin on the top of your hand and watch it snap back - I remember doing this in my 20's and you couldn't even see it move it was so fast. Now I see a noticeable lag - it still snaps back fast but I can see it moving.

Sorry it took so long to get back to you …. 
 
@sharke 
 
2 inch long eyebrow hair ? WOW  , Donald Trump may pay you out some good money for that 
 
Yes , I also got some freaky stuff going on with wild hairs in a few places .   
My right ear has a few long white hairs growing out of it , I'm hoping to put them in a braid when they get long enough ..
The skin test , I haven't tried that one out yet .
I'm still trying to get used to the idea that my body was once built like a Corvette .It was fast sleek and sexy .
Now that I'm getting older my body is built more like a Volkswagen Beetle . It is slow , round , still sexy , with a trunk up front  
 
Kenny 
 

mudgel
Ah, getting older.

I remember when I hit 60. Actually it was more like 60 hit me and every year since smacks me stupid.

My poor old dad only made it to 56 but when I look in the mirror, I don't see me anymore. My dad's taken over my identity and looks back at me. I have so many of his mannerisms and habits it's uncanny. I don't wonder "where did the years go?" I wonder "where did I go?" Still if he can live on through me that's OK with me.

This was such a great post, Mike! I lost my dad a little over a year ago. Going through all his stuff, I'm seeing myself in him as well. Especially when he was really young and was around my weight. As I age I too am starting to see him looking back at me. Not only that, but I was really strict with him when he got into his 70's. Not because I wanted to be tough but I just wanted him to always be aware.
 
For example, he'd stir his coffee and make it overflow leaving a coffee ring on the table. I'd wipe it up but mention that I saw it just to let him know "hey, take a look at the table after you stir". Funny thing....my girlfriend is telling ME that now. All the stuff I made my dad aware of is coming back to haunt me! But....like I had hoped with my dad with the whole "stay alert thing"....that is exactly what it's doing for me..
 
On another note, I too wouldn't mind my dad living through me....but after my mom passed, the last place he'd want to be is here in this crazy world. They do leave me little signs here and there that I can't even explain....so whatever happens after, they are enjoying themselves. :)
 
I'm actually not afraid of getting old at all. My life has been a blessing with no regrets. My only fears are losing those I love, and I myself getting sick and possibly being a burden to those in my family. But, today is a good day and I'm thankful and very happy. Older, wiser, a little grey (dying hair works wonders....no sense looking older!) a little heavier than I'd like to be, and a bit more stubborn. BUT...I'm in a great place in life so it makes it all worth it. :)
 
-Danny

I'm now old enough to steal a saying from a secretary I used to have: "Middle age is ten years older than whatever I am!"