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  1. 25 minutes ago on Francis

    I am one of the lucky ones. My physical health and mental health are hanging in there.

    I walk 4 miles every morning and am up to 23 pushups (on my way to 25) and 100 situps (all in preparation for pool season when I work out in the pool for 45 minutes a day).

    I am working as a contractor on a part time job (20 hours a week) automating procedures for a local company.

    Modern medicine helps. I have insurance, So one knee and two shoulders still work because of medical intervention.

    I’ll be 75 ina couple of weeks.

  2. 33 minutes ago on Francis

    Nobody should retire: Making America Great Again because the government needs to keep everything you worked your entire life for.

  3. 34 minutes ago on Non Sequitur

    The airport where I learned to fly (Ramapo Valley off the end of the Tappan Zee Bridge) is now an apple orchard.

  4. 36 minutes ago on Non Sequitur

    Back then aviation gasoline was still under $2.00 a gallon.

  5. 37 minutes ago on Non Sequitur

    Yes, but the kids liked it.

  6. about 13 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    When my son was in about the third grade he was asked to write an essay one something interesting he did over the summer.

    He wrote about the time he flew to McDonald’s for lunch.

    The teacher told us that it was a well-written essay, but that she had asked the children to write about what they actually did and not some fantasy story.

    We told her it was true. There was an airport called the Tewksbury-McDonald airport. It was a small strip, about 15 minutes flying time from the base where I was a member of the aero club. We’d land, taxi the airplane to the grass, and go through a chain linked fence into the McDonald’s parking lot. We’d get our Big Macsa and Happy Meals and sit on the picnic benches and watch other airplanes try to land (it was a challenging field to get into).

  7. about 13 hours ago on Francis

    I do not appreciate the mood in America towards older people.

    There is great discussion of both of the candidates for president’s ages and it is a legitimate concern. However, in each side’s attempt to tear down the other, we older people are depicted as being feeble people wearing bunny slippers, hunched over a walker with tennis balls on the legs, , drooling and mumbling incoherently and wetting our depends.

    Yes, some of these afflictions DO come with age, but not all of us are like that nor do these afflictions mean that we are incompetent nor does it mean that we are done making our contributions to society.

    Age discrimination is alive and well in America.

  8. about 14 hours ago on Moderately Confused

    People actually WALK to places!?

    We need a punctuation mark that combines both the interrogative and the exclamation for those instances when you are thinking, “I can’t believe I have to ask this question!”

    I don’t know what it would look like, but it should be called the interrogabang.

  9. about 14 hours ago on Strange Brew

    She: I sent you out to pick up a mammoth and you bring back a woolly rhino.

    He: Oh yeah, well yabba-dabba-do.

    She: My mother told me I shouldn’t have married a Neandertal like you.

  10. about 14 hours ago on Herman

    Have you ever seen a dog in full afterburner?