What A Drag It Is Getting Old

Gettin' old ain't for pussies 🤫

All I know is....when I was young, I wanted to be older. Now that I am old, I want to be younger.

“The last whispered wish of age is to to live it all again” -The Moody Blues  

@mapman In true Moody Blues fashion.

”l never thought l’d live to be a hundred…… Justin Hayward.

”Wait and see”

@slaw ”Gettin’ old ain’t for pussies”

Your not Sam Elliott (in disguise) are you?

@mylogic , I knew I'd heard that line somewhere 😁.... still funny.

@slaw 

Not entirely accurate on my part.

Sam Elliott said a line in “We Were Soldiers” answering Lt. Colonel Hal Moore’s question about how did Custer feel after realising he’d led his men into a slaughter. 
 

“Sir, Custer was a pussy. You ain’t”

A couple of weeks ago, I was installing pair of Super Zeros to a smaller system that is in a fairly large room. The speakers have binding posts that face downward at a slight angle, which is off the beaten path to start with. When I turned the system on, the sound seemed OK at first, but then I noticed something just didn't sound quite right. The system itself (amp/preamp/tuner/CD) was an amalgam of a couple of new pieces and one piece from a behemoth setup that I was downsizing.

I wasn't sure where to begin on solving the poor sound issue, but decided to start with the basics, which in my book is checking the connections to the speakers. Turned out that the binding posts on the Zeros are oriented exactly opposite of most speakers - looking at them from the rear, the right channel is on the left and the left on the right. I had wired both speakers out of phase, which was easy to do because I had been working in low-light conditions when hooking them up, and the right-channel binding post is a dark red that can look almost black under those circumstances. I felt kind of dumb for making such a rookie mistake, but gratified that I had solved the problem so quickly. Things like this happen when Harry Truman was still president when you were born.

@fuzztone ... plus one.  Love to see your posts, Fuzz!!

I’m there. But I’m physically active, and that truly helps. My attitude is good. I turn in towards it, like the wind. You can’t change it. The only thing you can change is your attitude. And be as fit as you can be so you can stay active.

"Old is actually when it is too hard to play an LP in the first place".

For $20, What is...what you find turning the corner of 64?

I am only approaching “mid life” (whatever that means) years, but I occasionally have moments like this. It’s funny though, it was much worse a few years back when I wasn’t taking good care of my health. It helps that are brains are rather 
malleable, even as we get up there in years. Creatine and Vitamin D supplementation works wonders. 

The ability of moving heavy objects, such as speakers and power amplifiers, that at one time, was easy....not any more

How About Trying to run a Music signal thru a Power Amp that isn't plugged into the AC outlet. Since the Power Amp Pilot light LED burned out a month before and you had it on your to Do List but later forgot you were going to do it and had unplugged it the month before but never did it.

Then one day You decide to Listen to some "Pink Floyd" and everything is on (YouThink) and for 20 minutes you play with all the knobs and switches to make it work. 

Then you light up a cigar and sit back in frustration and some Neuron in your brain finally connects and your realize I better check the rest of my body parts to make sure there still there and then plug in the Amp

The beauty of being 68 is that your speakers don't have to go up to 20 kilohertz.

+1 Mr. decibel, moving speakers and amps around is a great invitation to injury. I used to call it working out now I call it rehab.

What A Drag It Is Getting Old

But it's still better than the alternative   

I’ve forgotten my multiplication tables which I knew through most of my life.

But having memories of the ’64-’65 NY World’s Fair with the excitement of being a young boy is nice. As evil as Robert Moses was I'll always thank him for that.

Just yesterday ...

.. I was doing some performance mods on a pair of speakers for a customer.  I just finished one and ready for the second.  Since these were "mirror imaged" speakers I made sure I had them set up correctly on the speakers stands and moved them into position.  Grabbed the second speaker, put in on the bench, and c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y removed the screws mounting the woofer.  (Woofer surrounds are very unforgiving when introduced to sharp tools).  After extracting the woofer and removing the fiber fill, I realized this was the speaker l had just completed.

When the number of moving parts is reduced to TWO, and you still get it wrong, you must be getting old.  (75 next month)

@waytoomuchstuff  “Just yesterday”

Thank you for offering up your scrambled memory recipe. The trifle of growing old.

Today….

and relevant to @slaw ”Getting old ain’t for pussies”

My partner was watching a David Attenborough wildlife TV documentary when l was reading it, and l blurted a snort and laughed out loud. The problem was, just as a kill was made by a pride of lionesses. Not a well timed very sensitive thing to do out of context by her reaction, and it didn’t go down as well as the meal the big cats were having.

l have done similar things comparable with your case. More than once l have soldered up a new RCA connection to a cable and think l have made a very good clean and tidy job, only then to see l had forgotten to put the screw up plug end onto the cable first.

The hunt is on, l am catching you up fast

The exact same thing happened to me except it was the washing machine and I didn't put enough water for a full load.  You were very lucky and figured it out in time, I had to redo my laundry.  

I thought this thread was gonna be about how great it was to be on Medicare.  Most of the world is gonna be pretty darn old in about another 15 years.  Nursing homes Will be taking over old hotels.  So plan ahead and make reservations well ahead of time.

Cat Ballou Speaks

At 85 (86 in a couple of weeks,) I think my mental faculties are still pretty sharp, but my parts are all  wearing out.

Yeah like when your looking for a lp or cd and can't find it ...or you go to the thrift and find cds ....find a great one and buy it onmy to fond out you have not one but two copies of it....omg.