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cozmik_cowboy

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« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2007, 05:58:25 AM »
I always like that one Toby, but it needs updated - the kids born in 1985 aren't starting college this fall, they graduated this spring (just to make us all feel a little older)
 
Peter, whose youngest was born in '85 - and is now back from college & living in the basement with his drums and guitars and pool cue.
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« Reply #16 on: September 22, 2007, 06:08:10 AM »
I played a 2 1/2 hour gig last night with a 30 minute break in the middle. MAN I don't know how in the world I ever did those 5 hour nights.
My back was killing me half way through the gig and I'm only 44 (well 45 next month).
 
On an up beat though I was happy with my playing though. My fingers never cramped or got tired. My ears aren't what they used to be though.  
 
Peter, my youngest graduates this spring BUT she 's getting married in March so I'll have one big EMPTY house.
 
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« Reply #17 on: September 22, 2007, 02:58:55 PM »
I still can play a couple of hours non-stop, but I try to have a stool by my rig.  To paraphrase Al Pacino: SCIATICA!!!! Long live Jeff Skunk Baxter!
 
Bill, tgo

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« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2007, 10:57:16 AM »
I'm 52.  I LOVE it.  My hormones are no longer on fire.  I'm not in the big rush I was in my 20's, I've learned patience.  I SAW the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.  I have my health and age is just a number:  I probably would feel differently if I were battling some ailments.  I enjoy life now for what it is, not what it was supposed to be in my twenties.  And though I bitch about it, I'm actually liking that my body now reminds me my candle doesn't have two ends anymore.
 
I get to remind the 'kids' I work with of David Crosby's quote: I came along AFTER the Pill and BEFORE AIDs!  They roll their eyes, albeit with some envy.
 
I lived long enough to have some miles on me and I have no regrets that haunt me.  My sister reminds me at this age I know what I like and know how to steer clear of everything else that is just a waste of time.  I like that.
 
Believe me, 'old age and treachery' IS everything it's cracked up to be!
 
J o e y

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« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2007, 05:30:42 AM »
I wise man once said: We don't get old and then stop riding (motorcycles), we stop riding and then get old!
 
Get up off yer arses and ride, LOL!
 
Cheers,
 
Kevin

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« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2007, 01:54:56 PM »
I turned 55 in June 2007... On Mother's day 2002 I was home with only days to live, with family visiting. After years of treatments for Hep-C..... more than a year on transplant list....6 months at # 1 on list... My wife brought me home from hospital days earlier so I could die at home. ....  When the phone rings.....UVA hospital .... New Liver!!! Now 5 yrs 4 Mons. 12 days later I am enjoying life to the fullest. Both kids have graduated College. However I did miss my son's graduation in May 2002..( I was preoccupied) but got go to his graduation from Law School in 2005. I started playing bass again in 2004. Of course I'm now retired after 30 years with Va Power. Now I play with 3 different groups just about every weekend. I have a big wood shop and do lots of wood turning and build  custom birdhouses and other items.....Now I'm busier than I was when I was employed.......
Ain't Life Great..

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« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2007, 08:36:01 AM »
Howard, life is great.  It seems you and I have more than Alembic in common.  Thanks for the uplift this morning.
 
Sam

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« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2007, 06:26:57 PM »
Terry; to add to the list ..
Vegan diet
Daily Yoga

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« Reply #23 on: September 25, 2007, 06:36:04 PM »
While I'm not down with the Vegan diet I do agree that eating sensibly and a daily exercise regimen is a must for ?kids? of ALL ages.  
 
And Sam is right, life is good!
 
The best part of ?growing older? is that it beats the alternative!  
 
Good health and cheers to all,
Olie

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« Reply #24 on: September 25, 2007, 06:41:39 PM »
I eat vegans for lunch

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« Reply #25 on: September 26, 2007, 08:10:42 AM »
I'm an ovo-lacto-chickeno-beefo-vegetarian, is that like being a vegan?
 
Wait, I like pork, too.
 
At least I'm not protein deficient.

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« Reply #26 on: September 29, 2007, 11:20:50 AM »
Since I try to be back I can as well chime in here too!
So 50 huh???
I am 52 now and of course things changed a lot in my body!
Me too have inherited a cholesterol anomality (from my mum).
Unfortunately a diet is not an option!
For two reasons: it will noet have enough effect!
And a diet would bring me into an eating scheme that is in no way social acceptable for me.
 
Brother Joey said wise words.
I don't intent to look back.
I don't compare to what was.
I understand the melancholic feeling.
I can still be excited for what is in the future for me!
I still love to meet new people, man and women, musicians, singers, writers, scientist.
OK ...age put limits ...but then there is something to push.
My limits are more musical now.
I am with Bill on that (well on more than that. I am quite Billish tough no guitarplayer).
 
About food?
If you have no ethical problems with it: eat what you like.
But (there is always a but) to quote an old latin saying:
quantum est venenum.
 
Paul TBO
 
Oh BTW Joey: did you receive my mail package????
 
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« Reply #27 on: September 29, 2007, 03:07:33 PM »
Quantity is poison?
 
Quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur, ma il maledizione pi? orrendo in italiano suona bello

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« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2007, 01:40:25 AM »
Litterally yes!
It means it's the quantity that you take of something that makes it bad! There are as such no bad things.
In a way being addicted to water is as bad as being addicted to whisky! Addiction is about wrong quantities (in time). A sport bicyclist ovehee in Belgium has had a water addiction. He drank 10 liters of water a day!
There has been a time that smoking tobacco (I don't say cigarettes) was a relaxing thing. Again ...it is about quantity in unit of time!
As I may believe the lancet, scientifically one measure (15cc) alcohol a day lowers the risk for arteriosclerosis.
Autopsy done on a finnish lady who drank herself to dead revealed that her veins were smooth as silk but she had a liver the size of a head of a grown up man.
Well ...well ...excuse me my rambling. It's about quantum est venenum.
 
Paul the bad one