#153745 - 06/07/09 06:48 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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WOW! Great skaters..sure looks like fun! That was a horrendous storm that whipped through Oregon, RR.
The weather was perfect here yesterday, so I took my power chair out for its first long journey..zipping along 4mph, up and down the new neighborhood, with the wind blowing through my hair. It was great, I went places not wheelable before, and traveled about 3 miles in no time. The best part was not straining the shoulders and hands! Wahoo!
I saw that on the news Rosebud, so glad you missed most of it as I gather it took out some pretty big trees south of here!
 I am so happy you got your 1st long run in! IT is just the most enjoyable experience to not have to recupe after, AND for once just enjoy the moment. You go girl!
Paul, a most interesting, captivating article. I know everyone at some time or other longs for their youth, but I long for the "time", perhaps not the youth. Every aspect was so very different and lost in that is the peace, quiet, safety, simplicity of life, the enjoyment of the little things. Lost forever.
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#153749 - 06/08/09 10:00 AM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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Paul I
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Yes, I know what you mean by "time" as opposed to "youth". It would be difficult to give up this great wisdom we have acquired
over the years. When do I get to use it?
I wonder if the late 40's and 50's were as great for our parents as they were for us? I remember at 15 having to help my Dad paint houses to supplement the income.
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#153806 - 06/09/09 09:34 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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Roadrunner
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Yes, I know what you mean by "time" as opposed to "youth". It would be difficult to give up this great wisdom we have acquired
over the years. When do I get to use it?
I wonder if the late 40's and 50's were as great for our parents as they were for us? I remember at 15 having to help my Dad paint houses to supplement the income.
Well, Paul, I think we use it all the time, our wisdom, schooling, etc., that is. I am no longer shocked at clerks who cannot add and subtract, move a decimal point.................... I just wonder how in the world they get along in life.
I think a lot of parents supplemented their income by making do, growing their food, and remember "hand me downs", etc.? My cousins clothes all came my way. The variety and plenty of everything is overwhelming today. Things were made "from scratch" back then!
This professer has quite a take on today.......
Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein discussed has a theory that the digital age, with its promise of instant communication and easy access to information, has actually produced a generation of young people (those under 30) who are less knowledgeable about the world around them and more self-absorbed than any that has preceded it.
http://www.dumbestgeneration.com/
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#156179 - 07/03/09 02:17 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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I wanted to look at a couple of things on this site again today and found it was not there. The only thing I can think of is that it is being updated. I'll try it again in a day or so.
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#156194 - 07/03/09 04:12 PM
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Roadrunner
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 Here's why. Are you surprised?
http://www.billsretroworld.com/
Bill's Retro World is no more.
As of June 1, this site was receiving over 20,000 hits per day.
The vast majority of visitors appreciated and respected it for what it was.
Some however, saw an opportunity to profit by copying entire pages including
logo, background, captions, and photo arrangements and posting the page as
their own work. They then add banners and advertisements to generate cash.
More and more of these sites appear weekly and there seems to be no end in sight.
Unfortunately, web pages cannot be protected against this and repeated efforts to
contact these people have failed. Those who truly understand web site design and
the internet can simply take whatever they want for their own benefit.
This site was never intended to sell anything and it will never do so.
Thank you all for taking this journey with me for the last year, and
for the hundreds of wonderful emails you've sent. Hopefully, a small measure of
healing has occurred in our hearts after sharing this great ride together.
".. American Life in Better Times".
That certainly appears to be true now.
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#156374 - 07/06/09 02:02 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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paradocs
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DARN!
Well, I'm glad a few of us got to look at it before it folded.
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#157131 - 07/15/09 01:58 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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paradocs
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I was talking with a friend about "The Good Old Days" and the conversation got around to the Sunday Comics. On Sundays, my folks got the HOUSTON CHRONICLE since our local paper was printed only three days a week. It was owned by the same folks who owned KTRH in Houston and they had a program where they read the comics to you. We would lie on the floor in front of the radio and follow the action closely.
Does anyone else remember
Mutt and Jeff
Smoky Stover
Moon Mullins
The Berries
Terry and the Pirates
Steve Canyon
Emmy Lou
Winnie Winkle
Mary Worth
Tarzan
The Phantom
Little Orphan Annie
Alley Oop
Brenda Starr
Gasoline Alley
Nancy
The Willets
Major Hoople
Maggie and Jiggs
The Katzenjammer Kids
None of these appear in my local aper so I don't know if they still exist.
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#157162 - 07/15/09 06:18 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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Paul I
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This is the part of "aging with disability" that I'm not thriled about. Had a skin breakdown last Dec. Not major. Got a wound vac for a couple of weeks and then they discovered there is a
void, cave, or whatever under the wound. Debridement and more wound vac. So here I sit at the computer just having hooked myself up to an IV of meropenum at 3X/day for possible pseudomonas infection and pondering how to deal with a wound care specialist who says the surgeon didn't do it right so it needs redoing. I wish these people would communicate with each other. There is a showdown on the horizon and it won't be pretty.Wish I'd gone up to Craig but that's problematic also.
At any rate this too shall pass hopefully before 2010. In the meantime I am privilaged to join the exclusive group of those who have had cosmetic ass surgery so that at least shooting a moon is special. Carry on old timers!
Edited by Paul I (07/15/09 06:19 PM)
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#157240 - 07/16/09 10:57 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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Paul you have my sympathy. I'm not sure that the doctors are even listening anymore. With this healthcare issue(which I won't get into), they barely have the time to see you let alone come up with an answer. I finally found an answer online for my very sick body...............doc never even heard of it! I wish you luck and remember "the squeaky wheel gets the grease".
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#157242 - 07/16/09 11:02 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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Roadrunner
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I was talking with a friend about "The Good Old Days" and the conversation got around to the Sunday Comics. On Sundays, my folks got the HOUSTON CHRONICLE since our local paper was printed only three days a week. It was owned by the same folks who owned KTRH in Houston and they had a program where they read the comics to you. We would lie on the floor in front of the radio and follow the action closely.
Does anyone else remember
Mutt and Jeff
Smoky Stover
Moon Mullins
The Berries
Terry and the Pirates
Steve Canyon
Emmy Lou
Winnie Winkle
Mary Worth
Tarzan
The Phantom
Little Orphan Annie
Alley Oop
Brenda Starr
Gasoline Alley
Nancy
The Willets
Major Hoople
Maggie and Jiggs
The Katzenjammer Kids
None of these appear in my local aper so I don't know if they still exist.
 Jeepers some of those bring back memories! Nothing like sitting on Dad's knee and having the comics read to you in the weekend paper. I do remember a good many of them. Following is a link to a comic site, butI don't know exactly which ones they have.
http://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/
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#157340 - 07/19/09 11:36 AM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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Paul you have my sympathy. I'm not sure that the doctors are even listening anymore. With this healthcare issue(which I won't get into), they barely have the time to see you let alone come up with an answer. I finally found an answer online for my very sick body...............doc never even heard of it! I wish you luck and remember "the squeaky wheel gets the grease".
Squeaky wheel is often the first to get greased, it also, on occasion, is the first to be replaced.
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