re: Subtle signs that you are starting to get old

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Wife and I visited our favorite little Uptown restaurant a few months ago. We hadn’t been in 6+ years.

Everyone was dressed in a different style than I was, but they were all dressed similarly.
The restaurant is BYOB. They all brought the same can of seltzer that I don’t think I knew existed.
Wife and I were visibly a decade older than everyone in the restaurant, but they were all adults.

When you piss it sprays everywhere except where you are aiming.

A roller-coaster with more than a 30 degree yawl, or becomes inverted at anytime, kicks your arse and you're done for the day.

I turn 50 on Friday

That ain’t subtle

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Ear hair is out of control

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Yep, I cut ear hair and nose hair more than the hair on my head.

And nothing like getting gray around the good bits. I got gray on the head and face years ago, then it started traveling south to the chest and arms, now I could use Grecian Formula on the old nut sack if I was so inclined-----but I'm not.

I've earned every damn one of that gray hairs.

Realizing what it actually means for your body to age. I thought I knew. Like your back hurts, etc. But for me it is satisfying the needs of a growing body. A deep hunger. Deep sleep. Sex. You just can't replicate that when you age.

When you realize the first computer program you wrote was stored on punchcards.

Noticing myself watching with interest certain birds in my yard. “Hey, there is a cardinal!” Damn.

My physicians seem way too young.

A simple half day project takes a full weekend or longer.

Wanting a calendar that shows only the day of the week.

Large print books seem a good idea.