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Re: The DTF Old As Mold Club v. 40 IS The New 30! Kids Stay Out!
« Reply #2030 on: December 01, 2016, 09:51:25 AM »
Pshaw, that cheap bastard goes to the Dollar Store.

As I said, nobody's that rich.

You hurt me to the core.


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« Reply #2031 on: December 01, 2016, 10:15:03 AM »
Fellow old fogies who need glasses for distance...when you are not wearing them on your eyes, do you store em on your head, in the case, or hanging on a necklace/off your shirt? I put them on my head, but I hate it. Fucking things always fall off, and then I look like an idiot trying to block off the area so I can retrieve them.  :rollin
I always keep glasses (shades, mostly) hanging off my shirt. If I put them on my head I'll spend 15 minutes looking for them before I walk past a mirror and see them. Of course hanging off my shirt I can't see them through the beard, but that's where I'm used to my glasses being so I know to check their first.
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« Reply #2032 on: December 01, 2016, 10:33:32 AM »
Fellow old fogies who need glasses for distance...when you are not wearing them on your eyes, do you store em on your head, in the case, or hanging on a necklace/off your shirt? I put them on my head, but I hate it. Fucking things always fall off, and then I look like an idiot trying to block off the area so I can retrieve them.  :rollin
I always keep glasses (shades, mostly) hanging off my shirt. If I put them on my head I'll spend 15 minutes looking for them before I walk past a mirror and see them. Of course hanging off my shirt I can't see them through the beard, but that's where I'm used to my glasses being so I know to check their first.

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Re: The DTF Old As Mold Club v. 40 IS The New 30! Kids Stay Out!
« Reply #2033 on: December 01, 2016, 12:01:39 PM »
I also hang mine off my shirt.
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« Reply #2034 on: December 01, 2016, 12:48:49 PM »
I do and all my tee shirt neck lines are stretched.
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Re: The DTF Old As Mold Club v. 40 IS The New 30! Kids Stay Out!
« Reply #2035 on: December 01, 2016, 03:36:03 PM »
My God, how did we get here? Somehow our life's discussion went from where do we stash the weed and the porn to where do we store our reading glasses.
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Old. Fogeys.
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« Reply #2036 on: December 01, 2016, 03:37:41 PM »
Now that I'm older I don't hide my porn. :hat
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« Reply #2037 on: December 01, 2016, 03:41:03 PM »
My God, how did we get here? Somehow our life's discussion went from where do we stash the weed and the porn to where do we store our reading glasses.
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Old. Fogeys.
A natural progression since I don't even stash mine anymore. It's my place. If you don't like it GTFO. Damn shame, too, as my stash box/tray is pretty fucking cool.
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« Reply #2038 on: December 01, 2016, 04:01:25 PM »
Half and half here.  I don't "hide" the porn so much as keep it in a specific area of the hard drive on the PC my wife rarely uses.  She knows it's there, but out of courtesy to her, it's just as well that she doesn't stumble upon it.

As for the stash, we still keep that on the down-low, which is probably dumb since our daughter's off at college and our son is 24 and knows we partake anyway.  But if we do it in front of him, he might ask and we'd have to share, and he can buy his own damned stash.

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« Reply #2039 on: December 02, 2016, 01:07:20 AM »
The problem is, if you don't find your glasses, your porn is useless because everything is blurred  :biggrin:
Must've been Kwyji sending all the wrong songs.   ;D

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« Reply #2040 on: December 02, 2016, 04:11:38 AM »
I have my special $10 pair at my computer.  :lol
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Re: The DTF Old As Mold Club v. 40 IS The New 30! Kids Stay Out!
« Reply #2041 on: December 02, 2016, 05:15:13 AM »
Watch once and delete, folks. Because I forget it's there and it just clutters up the harddrive...  :coolio
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« Reply #2042 on: December 23, 2016, 07:50:14 PM »
So, one of my guys is watching youtube videos of a 1000 degree knife cutting through stuff and starting fires. My other son says, "yeah, I've seen those videos."
I say, "Well I haven't seen those videos."
To which my 13 y/o replies, "Well, you're not up to date."

would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #2043 on: December 23, 2016, 08:42:18 PM »
Well, you're not. Hence you being in this thread.  :biggrin:

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« Reply #2044 on: December 24, 2016, 07:26:56 PM »
So, one of my guys is watching youtube videos of a 1000 degree knife cutting through stuff and starting fires. My other son says, "yeah, I've seen those videos."
I say, "Well I haven't seen those videos."
To which my 13 y/o replies, "Well, you're not up to date."
He's right.

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« Reply #2045 on: December 24, 2016, 07:42:52 PM »
Also check out the Hydraulic Press Channel.  Quality Youtube content there.
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« Reply #2046 on: December 25, 2016, 12:21:14 AM »
The problem is, if you don't find your glasses, your porn is useless because everything is blurred  :biggrin:
As opposed to Japanese porn, where only the good parts are blurred.
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« Reply #2047 on: January 04, 2017, 08:17:30 AM »
My God, how did we get here? Somehow our life's discussion went from where do we stash the weed and the porn to where do we store our reading glasses.
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Old. Fogeys.

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« Reply #2048 on: January 15, 2017, 02:58:54 PM »
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #2049 on: January 16, 2017, 06:27:01 AM »
Nice!  :metal

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« Reply #2051 on: February 15, 2017, 11:48:14 AM »
 :lol

Nice!
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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« Reply #2052 on: February 17, 2017, 05:35:57 PM »
...and then one day you find 10 years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run.  You missed the starting gun.


Yeah, that was a hell of a shock, wasn't it?  All through grade school and childhood in general, there was someone telling you "Okay, you need to do this now..." and "Hurry up, or you'll be late..." and other stuff.  Your parents, teachers, whoever.  Get the form signed or you don't get to go, pay the bill on time or they'll cut off you power, whatever.  But unless your high school or college graduation came with a nice sit-down talk from a parent or grandparent or someone, no one sat you down and said "Okay, your real life begins now.  Get your shit together, get a real job, start getting serious."  Or even if they did, you were too young and stupid to listen.  And because that never happened, you were somewhere in your 20's or 30's when you looked around and all your friends had real jobs, salaried not hourly, or better cars than you, or had bought their first house while you were still renting shitty apartments and splitting the rent with two other dudes.  They were taking their hot wives out to dinner while you were sitting on your ass eating pizza in front of the TV.  Wait, was I supposed to be doing something?  No one told me!

But eventually you got your shit together.  What's the next milestone, retirement?  As far as I can tell, that's one of the few officially recognized moments in life to celebrate that you've "made it".  Congratufuckinglations.  You worked a job for 30 years and have a bunch of money saved up for this moment, and now you're old and many of your body parts no longer function correctly and you're tired and achey all the time so you'll never really enjoy it.  But there you go.

In between graduation and retirement, though, at some point, the truly observant might notice that life is actually pretty good.  I think that that's what they mean by "stopping to smell the roses".

I work, and sure I'd rather not work, but my job isn't horrible.  I've done it for a while now, I'm pretty good at it, and they pay me well.  My kids turned out okay; they're not drug addicts or criminals.  I don't drive a Tesla or anything, but it's a nice sedan with a good sound system.  I can drive for hours and listen to tunes I've loved since junior high, loud and clear, sounding better than ever.  My iPod is basically a chip that holds hundreds of my favorite albums, and I can pull up any one of them in seconds.  I can take my family out for dinner once in a while just because I feel like it, just because today sucked and I need something good, or because today was good and I feel like celebrating.  I get to play rock and roll on weekends, and my band is getting pretty good.

I've always been pretty good about keeping my eyes on the prize.  In school, pass these classes, get these grades, and you will graduate.  At work, get this done, get that done, and you'll (hopefully) work your way up the ladder.  Do this for xx years, and you get to retire.  But what about in between?

My point is that just as no one told you when your "real life" started, no one's gonna tell you "by the way, things are pretty good right now."  You have to notice that yourself.  I'm 55 years old and there's no telling how much longer (or shorter) I have to live, but right now, things are pretty good.

I visited the secret stash recently, and stepped outside the back door to smoke a bit.  While I was standing there, it hit me.  This is my backyard.  It's not huge, and my house is not a mansion, but this is all mine.  My shed, my trees, my garden.  This is my SUV.  I live in a nice neighborhood in the suburbs, with good schools and low crime.  I've done it!  This is the life.  Yeah yeah yeah, only xx more years and I can retire.  But right now, this moment, things are pretty damned good.

Take time to smell the roses.  Don't be so focused on the next deadline or meeting, or doctor's appointment, or whatever the next short-term goal is, to not notice that years are passing by, they're pretty good in general, and you're missing it.

Enjoy life.  You've earned it.

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Re: The DTF Old As Mold Club v. 40 IS The New 30! Kids Stay Out!
« Reply #2053 on: February 17, 2017, 06:00:57 PM »
I visited the secret stash recently, 

Obviously! :lol
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #2054 on: February 18, 2017, 03:00:21 AM »
So true and so obvious but we, as people, too often forget it.

Yeah, life is good.  :tup
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« Reply #2055 on: February 18, 2017, 08:31:01 AM »
It just seems to me that as you get older, life seems to go faster, and part of that effect is because we learn to plan things out for longer and longer terms.  When you're little, every day is an adventure.  Spending an entire day doing something is awesome.  A week vacation lasts forever.  Once Monday comes, next Saturday is way off in the distance, and you'll drive yourself crazy thinking about that big thing next month.

Then you start to think about things longer term.  In school, you have projects which are assigned now but due weeks or even months from now.  That takes planning.  At work, you have projects which last months, sometimes years, on a regular basis.  When you buy a car, you're tied into payments for 3, 4, 5 years, but along the way, there are checkpoints.  You're now halfway through it, then 3/4, then just a year to go, etc.  House payments are even worse.  We're 10 years into a 15-year mortgage.  I remember passing the halfway point and celebrating just a little bit inside my head.  Now we're 2/3 of the way done, and all I can think about is that I still have five years to go.  Let's just hope I still have a job for the next five years.

Kids of course are the ultimate long-term project, because it never ends.  But from the time they're born, you're already looking at the future milestones.  Once they start sleeping through the night, once they start walking, talking, feeding themselves.  Once they start school, when they graduate.  At any given moment, you're at a certain point in the progress from Point A to Point B in this project, but already on the way to Point C in another.  Life becomes a constant juggling act.  You don't have enough hours in the day, enough days in the week, to do everything you want to do and everything you need to do, so it's always a compromise, always a matter of budgeting time and looking for the most efficient use of your time.

My son is 24 now.  I think of many, many conversations my dad and I had when I was growing up.  Every weekend every summer, for years, we drove to the lake to go fishing.  That's an hour and a half in the car, each way, most of it just spent talking about stuff.  I looked forward to similar times with my own son, but they never happened.  30 years later, life is more complicated, there's so much more going on, plus I don't know if I ever really got my shit together as a parent.  I was always thinking about just getting through this week, just getting through this semester, just getting through this year.  When he graduated, I wanted to be proud, I wanted to think that he'd accomplished something and feel good that I'd helped him do it, but instead I just felt relief.  It's over!  Damn, we did it!  It just felt like something to check off the list.  Okay, that's done, what's next?  It's not the same thing.

I guess what I'm saying is that life is complicated and takes a lot of attention, there's always about 100 things you've got going on that you need to keep track of, what you're doing tonight, what you're doing this weekend, what you have coming up next month, and where you are in the preparation for every one of these things, and you have to take things one day at a time, but you can't let your life be literally about getting through each day and hoping the next will be better.  You're doing all this shit, but are you enjoying any of it?

Some of my friends talk about "bucket lists".  The list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket.  You don't want to be laying in a bed dying at some point, and think "I never got to do this... I never got to do that..."  You don't want to think that you were so busy getting through your life that you never actually enjoyed it.  You only go around once.  Make it count.  Work hard, bust your ass to get some of the things you want, but be sure to enjoy it during the process.

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« Reply #2056 on: February 18, 2017, 03:14:17 PM »
If I went on an esoteric quest to the furthest reaches of the globe to find the meaning of life, scaling the greatest peak in search of the mystical guru who could give me the answers, I'm pretty sure I'd find Orbert sitting at the top of a mist-shrouded shrine.
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« Reply #2057 on: February 18, 2017, 05:03:27 PM »
If I went on an esoteric quest to the furthest reaches of the globe to find the meaning of life, scaling the greatest peak in search of the mystical guru who could give me the answers, I'm pretty sure I'd find Orbert sitting at the top of a mist-shrouded shrine.

Pretty sure he'd be sitting next to the LudwigVan statue.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #2058 on: February 18, 2017, 06:59:26 PM »
Orbert, I hope you're just stoned and not just been given months to live. I think we'd all feel pretty bad.




That said, there is nothing better than looking out over the back yard and feeling contentment.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #2059 on: February 18, 2017, 08:07:10 PM »
Nah, just waxing philosophical.

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« Reply #2060 on: February 18, 2017, 08:08:37 PM »
Nah, just waxing philosophical.

Ok. I'm glad you're not dying!  ;D
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #2061 on: February 20, 2017, 12:01:09 PM »
Orbert, you're the man.

I endeavor to keep the important and good things in mind at all times.
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« Reply #2062 on: March 07, 2017, 10:44:58 AM »
Personal Hygiene as Physical Therapy

Yeah, more philosophical meanderings from Orbert.

I was shaving, and of course that requires you to turn your head this way and that, tilt this way, lean forward, chin up, etc., and at some point my neck went "Crack!" and it felt really good.  Something that I didn't even realize was out of place was now back in place, and it felt good.  So good that I wanted to do it again, but alas.

Putting on the Speed Stick, I lift one arm at a time, and just for the hell of it, I decided to "reach for the sky".  Again, something in my shoulder or upper back snapped into place.  I thought about it, and realized that it's been a long time since I've done any stretching.  You know, just pulling your body in various directions, make sure the infrastructure is still working okay.  Getting dressed, I made a point of not just going through the motions, but when I bent down, I took a moment to hang that way, stretch the back.  Ahh!  Feels good.  Putting my shirt on, I reached waaay back, farther than I had to, just because I couldn't even remember the last time I reached around behind me.

We get into these routines, go through the same motions every day for years, and our bodies need that stretching more and more.  So now, I try to do that first thing every morning when I wake up.  Sometimes I can't because first thing in the morning I usually have to pee.  But if I can, I take a few moments and just stretch, laying there on the bed.  Left arm right leg, then right arm left leg, pull.  You're getting old, your body has been through hell and back, but you just finished your rest cycle so this is about as good as it's gonna get.  Stretch.  Get the blood flowing.  Start your day just a little better.

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« Reply #2063 on: March 07, 2017, 11:18:05 AM »
I pulled a front rib muscle while trying to scratch my back. Now every time I lift my coffee cup I make a kind of weesing-grunty sound.
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« Reply #2064 on: March 07, 2017, 11:24:16 AM »
I pulled a front rib muscle while trying to scratch my back. Now every time I lift my coffee cup I make a kind of weesing-grunty sound.

Now that's fucking old!  :lol