It might make sense for you to wear a bicycle helmet and leather gloves with padded palms when you go out. And clip-on flashing lights from dawn to dusk. Only half-joking…
Humorous read. I enjoyed. Even without thinking too hard I see real parallels to life. Especially related to older life. We indeed fear getting run over by the fast pace of life. If we have lived to a realatively older age we have seen many of our friends and family depart this earth. I have watched several go slowly. This may seem grim but I feel like there is a point in life where we start going downhill and though the fall may be slow it is certainly determined. At 75 I am definitely going the wrong direction. However I have just enough money to finance one good adventure almost every year. Last year was my cancer year which I fortunately survived so no adventure other than surviving the cancer and the radiation and Chemo. I don't have the money to go first class on my adventures but part of the adventure is roughing it a bit anyway so maybe not a bad thing. I'm actually going prospecting this year out west. It's a bit modern day prospecting as I have a couple metal detectors and now a sluice/hibanker set up and will be getting a dry Washer for to process Gold from the desert sand once I get out west. Due to the shipping cost it just makes more sense to buy it out there than to ship it back east. I don't mean to drag this out, my real point is that life is more encouraging if one has something they look forward to doing every year. Living certainly can be good going day to day but my plan of playijng in the dirt and camping and living outdoors for most of a month definitly isn't everyone's dream come true but that's mine. My wife will be going on a cruise, her first ever. Thats her dream. She's going without me, that's probably her dream as well! LOL. Semi-retiring is part of that dream too as she retires from her job just before her cruise. I guess we shouldn't be pedestrian when it comes to politics either. I feel like we are being run over by the latest plans by the latest administration. People sometimes want change, well, we sure enough got it. I'll never complain again about a administration who doesn't do anything.
Hi Garrison. This episode didn't inspire me to finally write or maybe it did. It was your monologue from 12/01/2001. I saved it. In it you talked about a wonderful season it is, the holiday season. Then you subtly address us SAD sacks with three questions. Are you interested in Music? Are you interested in charity? Do like to cook? Don't make a pumpkin but make a berry pie. Thank you. https://www.prairiehome.org/shows/57731.html
Thanks for the warning. I have never had the desire to move to NYC....too much for me, however I've heard that it has everything you could possibly imagine and then some. A place for the adventurous soul perhaps.
There has got to be a medical or legal term for "lying in the street, covered in garlic sauce". Sounds like a great NY Crime Novel: "Death by Garlic Sauce: The Mystery of the Drive-by Delivery Cyclist."
Aging is entropy at work. My own cytoscopy last week revealed no recurrence of the bladder tumor, but-! A side effect of the proposed, "emptying aid" medication was "retrograde ejaculation," simply reverse jac. Every time I try to wrap my head around r-e, my mind recoils in horror! Ignorance truly can be bliss.
It might make sense for you to wear a bicycle helmet and leather gloves with padded palms when you go out. And clip-on flashing lights from dawn to dusk. Only half-joking…
Humorous read. I enjoyed. Even without thinking too hard I see real parallels to life. Especially related to older life. We indeed fear getting run over by the fast pace of life. If we have lived to a realatively older age we have seen many of our friends and family depart this earth. I have watched several go slowly. This may seem grim but I feel like there is a point in life where we start going downhill and though the fall may be slow it is certainly determined. At 75 I am definitely going the wrong direction. However I have just enough money to finance one good adventure almost every year. Last year was my cancer year which I fortunately survived so no adventure other than surviving the cancer and the radiation and Chemo. I don't have the money to go first class on my adventures but part of the adventure is roughing it a bit anyway so maybe not a bad thing. I'm actually going prospecting this year out west. It's a bit modern day prospecting as I have a couple metal detectors and now a sluice/hibanker set up and will be getting a dry Washer for to process Gold from the desert sand once I get out west. Due to the shipping cost it just makes more sense to buy it out there than to ship it back east. I don't mean to drag this out, my real point is that life is more encouraging if one has something they look forward to doing every year. Living certainly can be good going day to day but my plan of playijng in the dirt and camping and living outdoors for most of a month definitly isn't everyone's dream come true but that's mine. My wife will be going on a cruise, her first ever. Thats her dream. She's going without me, that's probably her dream as well! LOL. Semi-retiring is part of that dream too as she retires from her job just before her cruise. I guess we shouldn't be pedestrian when it comes to politics either. I feel like we are being run over by the latest plans by the latest administration. People sometimes want change, well, we sure enough got it. I'll never complain again about a administration who doesn't do anything.
Funny & true
I cannot remember the last time I heard or read the word “ stickup”
used.
And I. would add, to live like this in NYC you just need a shitload of money.
😊 but such an unnatural way to live but who am I to judge I live in NC only because of cheap electricity and AC
Death by drunken noodles has a nice ring to it.
That’s the title of my novel!
For real??
Pedestrianing my way to hands off...
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanbrownson/p/sober-up-or?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=gdp9j
Hi Garrison. This episode didn't inspire me to finally write or maybe it did. It was your monologue from 12/01/2001. I saved it. In it you talked about a wonderful season it is, the holiday season. Then you subtly address us SAD sacks with three questions. Are you interested in Music? Are you interested in charity? Do like to cook? Don't make a pumpkin but make a berry pie. Thank you. https://www.prairiehome.org/shows/57731.html
Gosh, Garrison, were I not 83 myself I might not understand precisely how you feel.
Storefront medical assistance, what an excellent development, not available when I lived in NYC
lol is it PedestrianNation or Pedestrianation ?
Thanks for the warning. I have never had the desire to move to NYC....too much for me, however I've heard that it has everything you could possibly imagine and then some. A place for the adventurous soul perhaps.
There has got to be a medical or legal term for "lying in the street, covered in garlic sauce". Sounds like a great NY Crime Novel: "Death by Garlic Sauce: The Mystery of the Drive-by Delivery Cyclist."
Ditto.
Aging is entropy at work. My own cytoscopy last week revealed no recurrence of the bladder tumor, but-! A side effect of the proposed, "emptying aid" medication was "retrograde ejaculation," simply reverse jac. Every time I try to wrap my head around r-e, my mind recoils in horror! Ignorance truly can be bliss.
Is pedestrianism like Presbyterianism but there is still a choice , it’s not all predetermined?