On Jan. 27th I turned 64. It amazes me to find myself at this age. When I was a child of ten, I can remember thinking that I would be fifty years old in 1995 and even stretched myself to think of being fifty five in the year 2000 but that is where it stopped. … Continue reading
Category Archives: About life in the last third
Dear Blog
I feel like I have neglected you to hang out on Facebook and even sneak off with Twitter. Continue reading
Supper Senior
My dad turned 85 in April. We were having lunch before he was going out on a date with a woman 14 years younger than him. My dad works out about three hours a day and can bench press abut 160 pounds. I was was telling him that I am planing t have a major … Continue reading
Goodbye Roy Moffa
I was just looking for some old and important contacts and discovered that the man that gave me my first major chance in the computer industry had died recently (see). I wanted to remember him here and tell the story about how Roy opened the door to my future. In 1979, my wife and I … Continue reading
Life is a limited time offer. Use yours while it is still available
I have started to write music again. The last time, I composed was about twenty years ago. Then like now, I used a computer to help me although the technology has advanced so much during that time, it is hard to compare. I stop writing because it took more of a kind of concentration that … Continue reading
Bill Gates and me
As you probably know, Bill Gates is leaving the employment of Microsoft the company he founded in 1975. Bill and I have had overlapping lives. I actually started working on computers a few years before Bill (being 10 years older then Bill helped). And while I am not Bill Gates I can imagine what it … Continue reading
12 step program to go from Microsoft to Apple
I am on step 11. Step 1: Buy vista an become convinced that not only will things not get better but they will only get worse. Step 2: Stop thinking that your Mac friends are delusional and imagine that they might be on to something Step 3: Stop thinking about all the problems you might … Continue reading
One glass down and seven more to go
I am actually in pretty good shape. I work out about 10 hours a week (weight training two hours, Pilates, 3 hours, yoga 1 hour, four hours of aerobics). My resting heart rate is 60 or under and max is almost 180 (remember I am 63) RealAge thinks I am in my mid 40s … Continue reading
The internet is a miracle maker
How my family was reunited after more than a hundred years. Continue reading
I am not bionic (yet) but I am slowly falling apart
I am slowly falling apart. As you can see from the sub title of this blog, I am 63 years old. I am not even a boomer. They started being born about nine months after me. I am an actual WWII baby (that is world war two for those of you so young that you … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 