Good morning!

We must go to our allotment today - I'm guessing that there will be a lot of greengages ready to pick, so we are taking The Big Buckets!
In case you don't know - greengages are a type of plum, once very popular in England but now uncommon. They are highly prized by a certain older demographic. They are very easy to grow, but crop all at once!

The other, non-urgent, #allotment job is to get a lock on the new shed door. There's nothing of value in there, but I'd like to get it done.

Thankfully the weather is forecast to be similar to yesterday, dry and pleasantly warm with little wind.

I've chronicled my anxiety in a separate toot so won't dwell on it.
Sacha's heart issues seem to be setting down - I'm suspecting the heatwave may have played a part. However she's suffering with her arthritis as well just now.

My son has taken his wife and children to Edinburgh on a last minute trip - and is complaining about the cost of hotels. Duh!

There comes that realization your bodum is actually older than most of your co-workers.

You know you’re getting old when your birthday cake is a fire hazard and your doctor refers you to an Archealogist.

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

Every so often I'm reading some non-fiction and realise that the 1920s were a century ago, and that comes as a shock. For a long time they seemed about 60-70 years back.

Jaws is on AMC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its release. It is in color. I thought the only movies that were 50 years old had to be black and white...

#GettingOld
#Jaws
#WereGoingToNeedABiggerBoat

I’m ‘Where’s my phone?!’ While Holding My Phone years old.

That's it, it's happened.. I'm officially "Bought fluffy slippers for the winter from Kmart for click-n-collect" old..

Phase 2 of the wood store complete. It’s looking a bit like a temple at the moment. I was hoping to get the roof on today but last night I fucked my back up. And how did I do this? I bent down to push a button on my dehumidifier. I like getting old, I think I’m a much nicer person than I was 20 years ago, and I know myself much better - but the physical decline that comes with old age is shit. What I wouldn’t give for my 18 year old body with my 60 year old self. #allotment #making #GettingOld

There's Nothing Good To Watch Anymore.

https://mtwb.blog/theres-nothing-good-to-watch-anymore/ #TV #gettingold #NowWatching #television

Wednesday.

The dog has been struggling with her back paws over the last few days. vet unsure if it's a temporary thing but charged me seventy quid for the opinion and a few antiinflammatories.

I've very much enjoyed revisiting those fanfictions from 2003 this week, all done with that now.

Work's been ticking over nicely enough, winding down to the long bank holiday weekend which we are spending near Blackpool in the company of some old friends. We'll be a house of 8 (3 us, 5 them), although technically that should be 3 and a bit, I suppose. Baby was 8cm long 2 weeks ago. I have such banalities on my "going away from the house" list as "put out both garden waste and rubbish bin", and "finalise grocery for evening of return". Holidays used to be "Ooh! wake up early and have fun!" and now it's all "did I turn off the TV and shut the windows?" #GettingOld.
Not looking forward to returning home via manchester on a bank holiday, either, and kinda wishing I'd extended my holidays off work for a day of downtime after my time up there.

Have started watching Severance on Apple TV in my lunch break. We're up to 507 in our DS9 runthrough, very much enjoyed Quark and odo having a physical bash at each other.
I don't remember terribly much about the upcoming episodes; Rapture is An Emissary thing of course, The Darkness and The Light is about Kira's old resistance pals being killed off? and the shiners (from memory) of the upcoming ones are the Bashyr hologram and the Les Mis thing with eddington. Lots to look forward to!

This is going back some years… Daughter is foreground is about to graduate high school is a few month, the other in background, college in the summer.

Day 44 of #365in25

Hmm. The one after next Chinese Year is "Year of the Fire Horse". That's my year. #GettingOld

It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.

My 13-year old made me confront my own mortality this morning I don't like it. She's a big fan of TikTok Radio on SiriusXM, so I've heard "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs many times over the past couple of weeks (it's a meme thing). I did the math this morning and realized that the song is almost 22 years old...

I also had to explain files and directories to my kids...
https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll/113638797375286510
ElenLeFoll - I am only now realising that some (many?) undergrads do not understand the concept of sending a file via e-mail because they are so used to files being saved in clouds. It's the first time I've had to explain that, if I send you a file, then you now *own* that file and, if you modify it and then (accidentally) delete it, your version of that file is gone (or in the trash, if you're lucky). #GettingOld

Oh man it’s so great when your knee is like, “I don’t wanna do this one step while you’re walking. Ima just bow out for this one step” and then you kinda flail-step like a muppet slipping on a banana peel.

So great.

#GettingOld

I have reached an age and health where I have to consider that my next car will likely be my last car. I am lifelong poor. I have never bought new, I have always paid cash. What do I want to hold out for? Can I wait and save another year to be able to afford a specific feature? What is important to me?

Along with that comes the feeling that my current hobbies might be my last hobbies, and many nice things I don't use ought to be thrown away, just to make cleaning easier.

My fun Saturday night includes searching on the best way to remove a repository that's giving update errors.
#GettingOld

Just a lightbulb

Every now and then, I realize that some piece of technology that has become a normal part of life really is mind-bending advanced compared to my childhood.

Take lighting. When I was a kid, lighting was just electricity running through a wire filament and heating it up until it incandesced. Basic sparkgap transmitter era technology. Stone knives and bear skins, as the esteemed Mr. Spock would say. And the lantern we used for backyard cookouts was a Coleman gas lantern that you had to pump occasionally.

Whizzing through all the transitional phases of fluorescent tubes, and compact fluorescent, we arrive at LED lighting. We had LEDs in my teens. Dim, red things. Probably 660 nanometer. And now we are into past me science fiction territory. “In the mid-2020s, the science of light emitting diodes has been so drastically advanced, that they can produce both light of a single wavelength and, with the use of phosphors, white light or light of any color. The technology is so advanced that they can reduce electricity usage for lighting by tenfold.”

And it seems like just a light bulb now.

#TechnologyChange #GettingOld

[Edit: corrected Dr. McCoy to Mr. Spock]

I used to be sweet and cute. Not so much anymore.
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#GettingOld