Getting old sucks
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When I was younger, Detroit diesel heads were easy to throw around.
Last week, 175 lb heads let me know that I am getting old.
I tore up my shoulder installing the heads. The first lift to the top of the front tire went fine, the second lift from the tire onto the engine block, not so much.
So muscle relaxers, pain pills and anti-inflamatory meds and off til Tuesday.
So much fun.
Last week, 175 lb heads let me know that I am getting old.
I tore up my shoulder installing the heads. The first lift to the top of the front tire went fine, the second lift from the tire onto the engine block, not so much.
So muscle relaxers, pain pills and anti-inflamatory meds and off til Tuesday.
So much fun.
In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Wylaff said:
Atmospheric pressure and crap.
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That sucks I hope you feel better1
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Yep getting old sucks. Hang in there my friend!
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt— Abraham Lincoln0 -
Thanks guys.
Getting worried though.
Year before last I found out I was no longer invincible. I can be broken.
I KNOW, right?
Now I find out that I am no longer "strong like bull". LOL!
What's next? Man, I don't even want to think about it.
In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.1 -
Blue pills
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue pills
Do I see......
Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?8 -
Should be a 4 letter word..... olde.
Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.1 -
M-uTh-A F-V-cK-A-'Z.....damn it.0
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Op, hope you get healed up soon.0
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Besides older your supposed to get" wiser ". Delegate that bull work to the young bucks. Get well soon.0
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I had my right shoulder rebuilt a couple years ago. Rotator cuff torn in a couple places, labral tears, gleno-humoral head is badly eroded, biceps tendon was stretched and frayed, what else...? That's all I can remember right now. It's a beetch. Got through all the rehab, great range of motion, not as strong as I once was, but, none of the other parts are, either. Fell off a step at my nieces house 4th of July and landed heavy right smack on it. I've been afraid to have the doc look at it, just keep doing the exercises and hoping.
For the last couple weeks I've been re-facing my garage. Get the nephews over for heavy lifting, but I still end up having to climb up on the scaffolds and show them how. Pain. Just a way of life.
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Cane. I fall down a lot. Little pink pills.
But we new it was coming, right?0 -
Cheer up. Seriously.
If I had known it was going to be this much fun to get old, I would have gotten old years ago when I was still young enough to enjoy it. My age, every day's a gift. Makes you want to jump out of bed before dawn, run downstairs, rip open your present, and find out what you got today. Half everyone I knew is dead, & the dead don't get any present.
Anyone who thinks otherwise only needs to stroll back down memory lane honestly. What was life like when you were in your prime? Never enough money, never even close to enough p*ssy, never enough pot, never enough time, always worried about the kids, the car, the wife, bills, the job...
One thing I never worry about any more is the future. Have to take care of itself. I'll trade a bum knee for that.
So. Your resident contrarian advises you: Thank God & stop ****.
He likes it and you'll like it too.
Me, I'm running my bum knee down to the Y this afternoon & play handball with Rick. Sure: Thirty years ago I coulda kicked my azz today. Don't matter: Today I will kick Rick's azz.
Now I'm riding my Indian Scout to work.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Yes, getting old sucks, but, it sure beats the alternative!!
Hope you feel better soon
Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-50 -
It does beat the alternative. Keep my motto in mind, "Getting old in mandatory, growing up is optional!"
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I'm very glad I'm going on 63 and not 23."I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis2
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My 68-year old stepson uses the saying, "Life's a b itch, and then ya die". Then he adds, "And then they say funny things about your hair at the funeral"......
Profound, right??3 -
<Elvis voice> Thankya, Thankya ver' much......
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Always good to hear from you young man.A little dirt never hurt0
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I just found out that I am the oldest person at the college. The one guy older than me just retired, bummer!
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