Time's flying.

[The_Dude]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

This song describes it perfectly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-Ms_ek-kE

Just bought the remastered vinyl on amazon

[LATB]

I have to keep moving or I get stiff.

For me it is work. I love to work. It is usually painful to my old joints and muscles but it is my bliss.

Spent the past week doing punch out/carpentry at the barn I'm finishing up. Last thing I need to be doing is broom and shovel and caulk and hammer and screw drill work. But it's what I do.

My mind has not caught up with the reality that the body is 60-something.
Freaking frontal lobe is in for a big surprise someday.

[snide]

Originally Posted by Vandelay Industries

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

@jd3 at the other place at that quote as his location. Another masshole.

[Broken Wind]

I masturbate. A lot. I mean, a lot.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by LATB

I have to keep moving or I get stiff.

For me it is work. I love to work. It is usually painful to my old joints and muscles but it is my bliss.

Spent the past week doing punch out/carpentry at the barn I'm finishing up. Last thing I need to be doing is broom and shovel and caulk and hammer and screw drill work. But it's what I do.

My mind has not caught up with the reality that the body is 60-something.
Freaking frontal lobe is in for a big surprise someday.

That's where I was -- the plan was to work until I couldn't. My shop is in the backyard, I was already on Badger Security so I didn't have to work crazy hours anymore, life was good, I could usually take 1-2 hour lunches.

Then, in April 2021, arthritis hit my wrists, hands, and shoulders (I think the docs are full of shit with that diagnosis, cuz I'm fine now). So my plan to "work until I couldn't" happened then, a few months short of my 71st BD.

It took me a good year or more to enjoy NOT working; it really bothered me at first. Oh well, I'm enjoying NOT working now, and I have more income now than I ever did when I was working.

Good luck.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Bruze

That's where I was -- the plan was to work until I couldn't. My shop is in the backyard, I was already on Badger Security so I didn't have to work crazy hours anymore, life was good, I could usually take 1-2 hour lunches.

Then, in April 2021, arthritis hit my wrists, hands, and shoulders (I think the docs are full of shit with that diagnosis, cuz I'm fine now). So my plan to "work until I couldn't" happened then, a few months short of my 71st BD.

It took me a good year or more to enjoy NOT working; it really bothered me at first. Oh well, I'm enjoying NOT working now, and I have more income now than I ever did when I was working.

Good luck.

Yeah
I need to downshift to a lower gear. I already purposefully do less to save the wear on the body. That mental gymnastics required is more effort than the work.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

Keep moving boomers. Never stop!

Originally Posted by LATB

I have to keep moving …

[markids77]

Originally Posted by Blademaker

Stay busy.
I don't watch much TV.
Or post much.

This. Fighting inertia has been the hardest part of retirement for me. I have engineered a schedule of sorts for myself so I don't end up buried in a book all day everyday... once I get started it is possible to continue through the day.

[KenHorse]

I'm 68 and still running my business. I plan on doing so until I drop (I LOVE what I do, so why stop?)

[Torqaholic]

Can't say I've noticed. I'm not a big fan of clocks or calendars. Won't even bother to track what day of the week it is unless the trash needs to be pushed out to the road.

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

Just look at how feisty the boomers get when they are reminded of their pending deaths.

I will out live your father -in-law

[Torqaholic]

Originally Posted by Anjdog2003

I will out live your father -in-law

You'll outlive him if he tries that bigoted snowflake BS IRL

[Torqaholic]

Wasn't talking to you troll.

[snide]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

I'm 68 and still running my business. I plan on doing so until I drop (I LOVE what I do, so why stop?)

Dad "retired" at age 85, but only because his doctor told him that he had 6 months remaining. So, Dad closed the doors on his business and moved to be with his younger sister. Fortunately, Dad exceeded the 6 months by almost 4 years, but passed earlier this year, at age 89.

As a workaholic myself, I probably won't "retire" either.

Ken, if you love what you do, it's not a job. Keep on working!

[Vandelay Industries]

Originally Posted by snide

@jd3 at the other place at that quote as his location. Another masshole.

What? That fugger ripped off my quote??

[LATB]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

I'm 68 and still running my business. I plan on doing so until I drop (I LOVE what I do, so why stop?)

I hope to die at 100 with a hammer in one hand and a fist full of nails in the other...and a pencil behind the ear...propped up against an old oak tree with my dog at my side.

[Frankie the Fink]

There is actually a name for that (or used to be) -- time transcendence...

When you are 10, a year is 10% of your life -- when you're 50 its 2% so the perception is that times goes faster as we age.

I've taken up music (again after 30 years) and as one of the few surviving males in my wife's family and my own - I've become a financial and personal mentor of sorts to the younger relatives. And I've reached a station in life where they actually listen.

Yes, I'm slowing down and 3-4 hours in the Florida heat is about all the physical labor I can tolerate any more and I'm lucky I remember my pants when I leave the house in the mornings...

Been with the same woman 55 years and we're compatible now - we both get headaches.

[Wathen1955]

Originally Posted by Broken Wind

I masturbate. A lot. I mean, a lot.

YouTube

[Wathen1955]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

This song describes it perfectly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-Ms_ek-kE

Lyrics
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today

And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again

I like to be here when I can

When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire

Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

[Aerovette]

Speaking of time, this woman from Christmas Vacation is now 70 years old.