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When you get tired of someone half your age or more complaining about "injustices" that affect them, that we use to call mistakes.
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True one, Yesterday....
You know you are old when it takes 4 hours to install a new Door Lock, and Deadbolt.
Dont ask...Im still hurting! 
Quoted from Travish:Ok Art. I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you.
You needed my deadbolt kit. 15 minutes tops. [quoted image]
Too Funny! Now Im medicating my back pain to finish priming the trim.
Then on to some Electrical.....I know what to do, Im just too f)(cking old to bend so much.
Sucks when Heating Pads and Pain Meds are now my best Friend!
Quoted from MrBally:I really liked the Ilco hand crank jig and boring tool used for tubular deadbolt locks. This was prior to battery-powered tools being available. The shaft of the bit was threaded and you cranked it in and it went through the wood in no time flat, it even worked on residential steel doors.
Im not sure what brand, but I loved my hand crank deadbolt drill I had 30 years ago.
Clamp and Go!
Im putting on an 8-track tape, and kicking back on my Black and White TV and watch the Munsters!
Labor Day rest for all of us!!
Quoted from Buzz:When you turn your main breaker off to do two lamps and a switch. Because everything is blurry and you need bifocals and you don't think you can trust yourself enough not to get shocked. And it takes a lot longer than it should and you keep saying how stupid this is.
Way too True....Ive got a ton of Electrical this week, and its 95% just moving Boxes in an open Frame, or running Longer wires to Junction Box.
I know I can do this,but Im not an Electrician. I know I could do 6 hours worth, that would save me a bundle, and turn off the breakers, but is it worth it?
Nah, Shopped out Whoa Nellie Instead....Old Man Adventures in Hard Work! 
Quoted from chippe01:I still build my computers with DVD burners (Well, now Blu-Ray burners) - not 1, but 2 burners.
I started with this build in 1979...8088...4.7 ghz 128KB Ram. $5000, but I bumped to the first Color Monitor and Printer by NEC.....
Everyone made fun of me, as "Computers dont need Color"!
Ended up a Beta Tester for Windows, when started in Texas, and sold Imaging to PC ability to Wang and IBM with an Ochorus board, Betamax, and 7, 5" Floppies. Wrote a Payroll Program in Cobol, and added
images in Assembler.
Blew all the money in a week, Richard Pryor Days.....
God, where did the time go....this was yesterday!
pasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from zr11990:What does it mean when having a heart attack and dropping dead on the floor is looking like a good thing?
It means you are not getting Laid anymore.....
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...when you just find out Norman Lear.....All in the Family, Jeffersons, Maude, cold Turkey is still around at 97!
(Love the Punchcards, Just threw away my bunch when I wrote business software in COBOL used by Wang and IBM in the late 70s early 80s....where did the time go!)
Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:I know I am old, I can not even play pinball for long before I ache and pain and have to stop.
I hear you. Actually not so well. I cant hang at a pinball show with all the noise at once.
Too many Concerts standing next to speakers in the 80s....Lost an eardrum from System of a Down,
who also saved my ass in the hospital once.
Quoted from DaMoib:This piques my interest....
Im glad you asked!
I was having about 5 days of extreme Abdominal Pain.
After 9 hours in the Emergency Room, They gave me Morphine.
I spent a week in the hospital. Each day, 1 test. No answers only pain.
The Morphine kept me awake all night.....I didnt sleep for days, and was hallucinating much of the time,
trading live chickens in my room for Hospital food and pain meds.....Try to imagine that!
Well they were now up to exploratory surgery....they had no clue, and the attending old GI specialist, asks me about my pain, where i replied it feels like I have a softball up my ass!
He replies, "Did I give you an Internal Exam?"
I stated..."Dont you know?"
He yells out, "Nurse, I need Gloves and lube".
Well, now he is inside me, in a way, that there is no joy, and my cell phone is next to him and starts ringing loud. I had it set to Toxicity, I believe as a ringtone.
He yells, "What the Fuck is that!!!"
Jerks his hand up, clears an impaction, and in 15 minutes I am all better.
7 days, a huge bill, no sleep, all pain, and a big surgery avoided, thanks to System of a Down!
Quoted from TDK-WPG:I learned COBOL on these babies - also FORTRAN. We had one keypunch machine for the entire class of about 20, so a lot of time was spent filling in black bubbles on the MAPO cards, or trying to convince someone to trade for more machine time so you could keypunch instead. We used to run all the big jobs on the weekend as we were long-distance over the phone to connect to the mainframe, and weekend rates were way cheaper than weekdays. The good old days!
Oh yes, Cobol, Fortran, Assembler...RPG was my favorite.
I coded Inventory Control, Personnel Database, and Manufacturing Modules.
When I go to check my car today for repair, they still use a DOS program, and I can see a bit of me in there. At that time, when it migrated to PC Cobol, Wordstar, DbaseI and II, Clipper, standards for F1-10 were not yet normalized, nor was standards for indexing.
I added a persons pic to a database file, which had not yet been done for early 8088 PCs, and Sold that to Wang and IBM, I gave it to Microsoft, as Bill Gates was kind enough to write letters with me and our school Beta tested really early protos for Windows. Xtree was the DOS shell used then...
The gold old days, printing pictures on impact printers using charachters!!
Quoted from QuickSilverShelby:What the f#ck does that mean? You had an angry dookie lodged up there?
QSS
Thats one way to put it!
Solution.....Chew your food well! Especially a big bag of roasted Peanuts!
Quoted from o-din:I started on one of these.
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Yeah, we worked together ....You still owe me from that game of pool!
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.....when you remember family and friends telling you stories of living through the Spanish Flu of 1918.
You know you are old when you can tell Truth from Lies in the media, yet too old, to
understand why others cant tell......
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When you discuss, and it turns into garbage, with a younger person, as they
find random Youtube videos to support their "proof".
Last nights dealt with secret Systems we have that create and control Hurricanes, for political reasons.
I swear, I am living with Idiocracy....."I like Mon-eee"
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