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It’s the tortoise life for me!

1.. If walking is good for your health, the postman would be immortal.
2.. A whale swims all day, only eats fish, drinks water, but is still fat.
3.. A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 15 years, but
4.. A tortoise doesn’t run and does mostly nothing, yet it lives for 150 years.

And you tell me to exercise?? I don’t think so.

I’m retired. Go around me.

 ”Aging seems to be the only available way

to live a long life.” 

Daniel Auber,

French Composer.

(1782-1871) 89 years old.

“Doctor, I have an ear ache.”

2000 B.C. – “Here, eat this root.”

1000 B.C. – “That root is heathen, say this prayer.”

1850 A.D. – “That prayer is superstition, drink this potion.”

1940 A.D. – “That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.”

1985 A.D. – “That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.”

2000 A.D. – “That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root!”

You’re only young once,

but you can be immature forever.

Germaine Greer

We (the royal we, since it is mostly me) build an occasional henge as installation art.  Henges are a great photo-op and a fun mixer opportunity.  See more henge stuff here  Yesterday for my 65th birthday which was a few months ago we had a lovely party and an interesting henge.  I have built a flickr set of the best pictures from the party which you can see here

Many thanks to Henry L. for taking the party photos.

To Lillian B for preparing the amazing food and for generally planning the event.

And to everyone who attended, actually pretended that henging was fun and finally it seems laughed with me not at me.   The theme was my arrival at the Medicare Buffet and the table centerpieces were Depends based.

Life is good at the Medicare Buffet

“We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe.”

from A Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The longer we live the less we understand.

From The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

“I don’t ever need to go bungee jumping or sky diving.

Leaving a pizza in the oven while I make a quick run to Walgreens

is about all the adrenaline rush I can handle.”

Whale Shark

From Ruminations.com

by Aaron Karo

It came in the mail yesterday and I can start using it on July 1st.

“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it is free.”

P.J. O’Rourke

I’ve often been asked, “What do you old folks do now that you’re retired?”

Well…I’m fortunate to have a chemical engineering background. One of the things I enjoy most is turning beer, wine, scotch and margaritas into urine.