just a comment for you northerners that spend time outside... make sure you have a yearly dermatologist visit... just lost a friend to malignant melanoma...and another found in early stages...you expect it down here, probably not so much in the northern climates.. I've had 3 basal cell and one squamous removed plus a half dozen or so cryro treatments per visit, so I'm on the 6 month schedule

get the shingles shot, the pneumonia shot, and the dreaded colonoscopy

I have to grow older but I refuse to grow up!

-Eric

Fast cars and younger women. Think that those combined is usually a catastrophe waiting to happen, so it's easy to plan for

Most survival car kits can probably handle this. You can even jump start your own heart if she's too much for you. Your water collection pouch originally had another use, you know.

Let's not exclude the mature ladies, though the thread is about "guys getting older." Would fast cars and younger men work for the aging gals? I suppose young men are invariably "fast," but are they too fast for cougars to catch up with?

Black Ice & being stubborn enough to keep going toward class taught me well that I don't bounce as well as when I was younger and managed to do it before I hit 40.

How to compensate for me is best summed up with "work smarter, not harder". If you don't have to, don't try to do a heavy load in one trip - make two or get some friends to help or get mechanical help.

Every so often the weather forcaster knee that resulted from three patches of black ice gets ibuprofen

I spent nine days in the hospital two years ago with acute kidney failure. My nephrologist has me off all NSAIDS (with the exception of 81 mg of aspirin daily) to give the kidneys less stress.

Problem is that acetaminophen barely touches my back pain.

And I turned 70 yesterday. This getting old stuff sucks.

I'm 60+. One of our admin staff, a friend, asked me how I faired against younger adversaries in long complex matters. I conceded that its a challange. I noted my regular physical workouts to stay fit. I also noted that whatever loss of stamania I may have suffered due to age has been more than offset by the cunning gained from long years of experience.

“Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill”

I never appreciated this wisdom until I went past 60.

acropolis5 and bws48... I always had 3 books on my desk.. occasionally an inquisitive student would pick them up and ask to read them...after 9/11/01 the last two were recommended to any of them going to the military academies.. where hopefully they would be in the curriculum

A Brief History of Time...Stephen Hawking

The Art of War, Sun Tzu...translation by Samuel B Griffith

Seven Pillars of Wisdom... T E Lawrence

More focus on exercise, general care, nutrition and planning.