Originally Posted by DeepPurple:
I will be 70 July 10th. I smoked 3 packs a day for 35 years and drank to get drunk many days in my 20's and 30's. I retired to Florida ten years ago. I played on a softball team for 5 years, also pickleball and golf. Then in 2016 I had pneumonia and afterwards I couldn't run to 1st base without being out of wind. I saw a pulmonary doctor and he said I had emphysema, so I had to give up softball and pickleball.
I could give you a list of ailments, the worse was in 2017 I had Lymphoma and they removed 3 bumps under my armpit. I have to take cholesterol medicine because I have a stent in my heart, but I became allergic to the pills (statins). They gave me new drug instead, it come in a needle and I have to give myself an injection every two weeks in the stomach. That was fun the first time, sticking a needle into your own stomach.
Overall I feel good. Go to the gym 3 days a week and lift weights and walk the treadmill and play golf every Friday 18 holes, I ride a cart of course.
I would say, take care of you health while you still have a chance. Don't smoke, drink moderate, maybe get drunk just once every week or two. Definitely workout with weights and cardio on the treadmill or walking/running.
That's me second from the left in 1979 (age 29), I was pretty drunk that night, it was a Christmas Party.
Here I am now with a computer photo, a week shy of 70.
You look good
Did you score w that chick you were hanging on?
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Originally Posted by DeepPurple:
I will be 70 July 10th. I smoked 3 packs a day for 35 years and drank to get drunk many days in my 20's and 30's. I retired to Florida ten years ago. I played on a softball team for 5 years, also pickleball and golf. Then in 2016 I had pneumonia and afterwards I couldn't run to 1st base without being out of wind. I saw a pulmonary doctor and he said I had emphysema, so I had to give up softball and pickleball.
I could give you a list of ailments, the worse was in 2017 I had Lymphoma and they removed 3 bumps under my armpit. I have to take cholesterol medicine because I have a stent in my heart, but I became allergic to the pills (statins). They gave me new drug instead, it come in a needle and I have to give myself an injection every two weeks in the stomach. That was fun the first time, sticking a needle into your own stomach.
Overall I feel good. Go to the gym 3 days a week and lift weights and walk the treadmill and play golf every Friday 18 holes, I ride a cart of course.
I would say, take care of you health while you still have a chance. Don't smoke, drink moderate, maybe get drunk just once every week or two. Definitely workout with weights and cardio on the treadmill or walking/running.
That's me second from the left in 1979 (age 29), I was pretty drunk that night, it was a Christmas Party.
Here I am now with a computer photo, a week shy of 70.
I’ve got a buddy from high school that is apparently a big deal in pickleball. I didn’t even know that shit existed until 3 years ago. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bob Dole:
I’ve got a buddy from high school that is apparently a big deal in pickleball. I didn’t even know that shit existed until 3 years ago.
Pickleball is tennis for people like us, who don't want run around a big court, and you're actually hitting a wiffle ball. It's not bad, go on youtube and there are videos. You cannot stand next to the net, that area is called the kitchen, and you have stay out of the kitchen. It's a lot fun and we have hundreds of courts here. They have a national championship that was on CBS Sports channel from Naples, Florida.
Originally Posted by : You look good
Did you score w that chick you were hanging on?
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No I didn't score with the chick, that was her husband to my left. They were both air traffic controllers, as was I and the guy on the right, the girl on the far right was a pilot. My wife was taking the photo, we were divorced in '88 after 14 years and I remarried in '89 and we're still together. Thanks for the compliment, "Just for Men" shampoo is a winner!!
Here's the girl I married in '89, this is a photo from '93.
Originally Posted by : I think he showed us that picture once before. If I remember right, he groped her.
You're right, I remember doing that, but don't remember the topic.
Originally Posted by : Aren't you Dan Fogelberg or 1/2 of Seals and Croft?
I kinda went into the music business. I was fired in the air traffic controllers strike of '81, all of us in that photo were fired. I open and operated a record store near Savannah, Georgia and then later an online mailorder record and CD business.
Here was the store, it was in a Kmart Shopping Center.
Here's inside, every week I updated the top 200 albums from Billboard, although only the top 174 would fit. I sold posters, tapestries, incense, T-shirts, if it rocked, I sold it. I had an Army base 2 miles away, 25,000 young and gainfully employed guys looking for ways to spend money on entertainment. I even cashed military paychecks for a 3% charge of course, and on military paydays we would do $100,000 in checks.
Here's inside, every week I updated the top 200 albums from Billboard, although only the top 174 would fit. I sold posters, tapestries, incense, T-shirts, if it rocked, I sold it. I had an Army base 2 miles away, 25,000 young and gainfully employed guys looking for ways to spend money on entertainment. I even cashed military paychecks for a 3% charge of course, and on military paydays we would do $100,000 in checks.
You'll know you are old when you wake up in the morning and everything hurts for not a single god damn reason; your back is stiff and in pain, your neck is stiff but your dick is not, your knees and hands feel swollen, your balance is a little wobbly, your coordination sucks and you can't even open a jar of pickles.
Taking a good shit is the best part of the day but remembering to wipe is even better!
That's when you know Father Time is creeping in.... [Reply]
Originally Posted by scho63:
You'll know you are old when you wake up in the morning and everything hurts for not a single god damn reason; your back is stiff and in pain, your neck is stiff but your dick is not, your knees and hands feel swollen, your balance is a little wobbly, your coordination sucks and you can't even open a jar of pickles.
Taking a good shit is the best part of the day but remembering to wipe is even better!
That's when you know Father Time is creeping in....
Pretty much all of this. Except this is CP where everyone has a 10" swinging pecker and bangs super models daily.
I've actually enjoyed the reduced sex drive as I've gotten older. It's nice not to be a horny teenager thinking about boobs 24/7. My wife and I had a rare moment alone last weekend and she flashed me in the kitchen....I opted for a sandwich and a nap. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by ptlyon:
Rock on DP - we had a place like that here too. Could even get bootlegged music.
My dad turns 90 on your birthday as well, along with another good friend of mine.
I had to close the store in 1989 for several reasons. Desert Storm took away my customers for a year, at that time CD's were coming and I needed to start stocking, and our business was down 50%. Plus in the beginning CD's had a ridiculous list of $17.98. Other factors went in to the decision.
In 1992 I open an mail order and later a online business called Buccaneer Records. I did sell bootlegs, it was gray area because real bootlegs are live shows that would never be released otherwise, and some were very good quality taken from a soundboard. KTS Records (Kissing the Stone) was a great label for those, they were from Italy and could skirt the laws. It was counterfeits that record labels would go after, because that's a copy of a licensed title.
Online I sold a bunch of import CD's, for example White Snake Restless Heart album came out here in 1997, it came out in Japan a year earlier with 3 bonus tracks. At the time grunge was taking over, a lot of people still liked hard rock, hair bands, and classic rock. Many bands were still making new albums but only releasing them overseas. Frontier Records in Italy released a lot of new albums and then eventually CMC or some other label would release them here. [Reply]
