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34 thoughts on “I am old”

  1. MattBallAZ

    I'm 10 years younger than you, and I am old!
    Glad you are still with us. Here's to many more years of charts and cats and photos!

  2. roboto

    I remember Drum saying at the end of 2014 that because of his bad cancer diagnosis that he "probably won't live to collect social security."

    I thought then that with the potential to get new treatments, he had a 50% chance of collecting social security - and here he is!

    1. Ken Rhodes

      My mother in law said the day she finally felt old was the day her daughter went on Medicare. That day is coming for me, but it’s still a couple of years away. When my oldest turns 65 I may be ready to say I’m getting old. Maybe.

      Until then, it’s just the inexorable progress of advancing middle age.

  10. Adam Strange

    I first started to feel my age when my hair started getting thinner. (Age 38.)
    Then, my hair started to turn grey, and my knees and ankles wouldn't let me jog anymore. (Age 45.)
    Then, I became invisible to the young women at the supermarket check-outs. (Age 55.)
    The most recent change is that I now have to shave my ears. SMH.

    I've sometimes thought that life just insults you more and more, and then you check out.

    Weirdly enough, even with everything breaking, I still feel like I'm about 27, inside. I'm still looking ahead. There's a lot more that I want to do.

    I don't think that people are "old" until they start looking back, more than they look forward.
    I'm fortunate there. I can't remember anything, so I have no choice but to think about the future.

  11. MikeTheMathGuy

    a) Happy birthday! (Sometime this month.)

    b) I don't know what your experience with Obamacare has been, but going on to Medicare simplified my interaction with the health insurance industry by orders of magnitude, and rendered it a lot less expensive, too. One of the more celebration-worthy moments in my recent life.

  12. KJK

    Join the club, the water is just fine! I remember with some nostalgia to the days of the quant old Tea Party protests, with nonsensical signs saying "keep your government hands off of my Medicare"

  15. cld

    Honestly, I'm the same age I was when I was about 20, it's the stupid biology that gives itself a pain.

    I look forward to replacing most of it, that's why I applaud the work of Dr. Frankenstein,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKrBhMoh0lk

    It's a steampunk version of Bride of Frankenstein directed by Yorgos Lanthimos!

    A bold step in the right direction.

      1. cld

        I think you're on to something, I don't even have a brain.

        There is no one who will tell you differently.

        As for planning, --well, planning. We'll see how that works out.

  21. kaleberg

    I remember my childhood and teen years as being full of aches, pains, colds and infections. Every damned thing hurt. I'm nearly 70, and, honest, it was worse back in high school. I'm old, but I probably won't really feel old until it gets as bad as my teen years.

  22. lawnorder

    "Old" can ambush you. Periodically, I will be remembering something that happened in my youth, which is to say fairly recently, and then I realize that was FIFTY YEARS AGO? How did I get old enough that I can not only remember things from fifty years ago, but remember them as recent?

  23. futurballa

    As it is every year, I'm just a few weeks behind you on hitting the current milestone. Happy birthday. Glad to have you around.

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