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bitch 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Gilmore is awesome, been a fan for 50 years.
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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Close to 50 for me, too. Although I only discovered Pink Floyd when I first heard DSOTM in 1973. #MindBlown
Here I am, trying (in vain) to be Gilmour[^]. 
/ravi
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Very nice, you got some talent Ravi. I first heard them when I got back from 2nd tour in 70, A saucer full of secrets.
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2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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I too am taking the slow descent into old age -
Just finished an appointment with the audiologist - I now know bad hearing is not an excuse to ignore my wife (and now, so does she  )
I have completed visits to the podiatrist, the eyeball doctor (lenses removed, replace with plastic ones), the colonoscopy doctor, the arthritis doctor (got it, mostly hands and knees), and others. Lucky that my insurance pays for all this
My boat just goes around in circles since I only have one oar in the water 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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I know what you mean. Just don't have a stroke.
I can attest that those are no fun at all!
I mainly survived, but sometimes I'm not so sure!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Had a minor stroke some years ago left arm is still weaker than right and you're right it ain't no fun.
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2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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Don’t worry about getting old...
I have heard it doesn’t last!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Amen !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Old age is not for sissies.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Quote: "Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so." Jorge Borges, essay: "On Blindness."
You're in good company, Brother Stoneyowl2; I'm lucky enough to have survived a major cancer 13 years ago with no recurrence; one leg has some permanent nerve damage from being multiply fractured by a hit-and-run driver 14 years ago; one eye is unusable, and, can't be repaired. Tinnitus is something I've learned to live with.
Those existential "facts" seldom weigh my spirit down; when they do, I meditate, and look around me at people who are suffering more than I can imagine to try and "adjust my perspective."
At age 76, my memory is actually keener than it was pre-cancer, my ability to concentrate greater. Loss of my taste buds due to radiation treatment has led to a divorce from food and weight loss that I am convinced has partially enabled increased mental facilities ... I used to spend a lot of time on food !
I feel fortunate that I can delight in 12 or more hours per day of intense mental activity, using the net to explore the latest in linguistics, neuropsychology, physics, archaeology (ancient trade routes, artifacts, Buddhist iconography in SE Asia), and literature, programming, and, of course, manifesting here
Truth be told: I could not have imagined, before age 65, how satisfying the life I have lived since then: is. How satisfying it is to need less, and find more delight in the dance with that elusive "miraculous in ordinary's" shape-shifting presence 
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I'm 64 and I'm gonna print that out and post it on my fridge.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Borges would be happy to see his words on your fridge !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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This year I reached 60. I have survived 60 years and am still trying to pay off my mortgage.
I plan to live to be at least 256 years old just so I can see all the computers that hold age in a single byte get very confused that a 0-year old exists!
So far, so good...
However, by then I expect to be a solid lump of arthritis that I look at nostalgically now and then from my young and healthy replacement android body.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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When we wake from this finite dream, perhaps we'll have an infinite moment when we see we were always eternal ... just before the next dream begins ?
Meanwhile, enjoy the best of the many best years of your life to come.
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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~
no oars here fit my fingers,
winds, tides, don't move me:
where's the boat going
memory rocks me,
side to side, and keel to prow;
which moves: boat or clouds
i remember salt
in your long dusk kiss,
lasting until stars came out
this is age: i'm half-submerged,
half eyeless, afloat
on half-perfect grace
now, i'm spending as much time
bailing as i am rowing !
~
"the boat of age," a sonnet: published under the terms of CPOPL (Code Project Open Poetic License) © 2019, Bill Woodruff
an experiment in using 'modified haiku' form in a sonnet where each stanza contains one line of seven syllables, and two lines of five syllables. the final couplet composed of two seven syllable lines
i set myself the challenge, of making the seven-syllable line move sequentially in the order of the stanzas, beginning in line one of the first stanza, and, finally, reappearing as line one in the last (fourth) stanza ... just for fun
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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There's a story by Poul Andreson, The Boat of a Million Years, that deals with immortality and immortals. Did you ever read it?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hi, Daniel,
I haven't read sci-fi in so many years; although the name rings a bell, I can't remember ... maybe when the tide goes out ...
There is a "psychic" influence on this poem from the late Agha Shahid Ali's masterpiece , "Farewell:"Quote: excerpt:
I am being rowed through Paradise in a river of Hell:
Exquisite ghost, it is night.
The paddle is a heart; it breaks the porcelain waves.
It is still night. The paddle is a lotus.
I am rowed- as it withers-toward the breeze which is soft as
if it had pity on me.
Agha Shahid Ali (1949 ~ 2001)
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Actually it was 55 mins ago but I'm not sure of the time because my phone is still installing it.
xkcd: Compiling
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I went super quickly on my 8+.
A quick look at changes ...
The App store does not have a tab for app updates (replaced with the new Arcade?) ?
The Mail app, there's no way to directly move a mail to a mailbox ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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but 13.1 beta 4 ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I love the alerts. I just got an emergency alert about floodinbghere untuil 3 PM. It was at 4 PM, but I gues I haven't drowned yet!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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