> Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
>> What is it like to be sixty?
>>
>> Being sixty is asking yourself in the morning, can I make it to the
>> ibuprofen? At night, while brushing your remaining real teeth, it
>> is looking at the left-over Percodn Rx with longing.
>>
>> During the day, it is asking yourself, does any of this shit really
>> matter, and knowing the answer is no. Why bother with your glasses,
>> since you wouldn't like it, even if you could read it.
>
> At 60? This sounds more like 80. And I've met you Chuck - you don't
> look a day over 50. Are appearances that deceiving?
i just did a 30-mile bike ride with a 62-or-so-year-old colleague. he didn't go fast, but he didn't go slow, neither, and west virginia ain't flat.
j