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I've never had much of a taste for classical music. A year ago I started playing it in the background while doing other things. Some of it is truly amazing and I wish I had started listening to it years ago.

A coffee and a crossword puzzle is really all it takes to make a great morning these days.

Didn't think I'd be telling my kids the TV is rotting their brains. Yeah, Looney Tunes wasn't educational in the least but at least the shorts had plotlines. Stuff my kids watch (mostly on YouTube) will transition between scenes within seconds and there's no point or resolution to any of it!

I don't give a single shit what people think about me anymore.

And it stems from the constantly-reinforced experience that people almost always have no idea what they're talking about.

For now, I've at least retained a basic level of decorum, but the line is blurring in a way that has me a bit frightened to be honest. Throw in some neurological degeneration and I totally understand why old people act like lunatics in public

Pill box... I have take enough pills that it helps to have a pill box to organize them. Not just any pill box, mine has separate compartments for morning and night pills.

I'm 55. Sigh...

I'm in my 30s and still feel pretty close to when I was 16-18 just more tempered.

Still a night person, still like games, still like technology. Idk I guess I'm not old enough yet lmao

Valuing the wisdom of age and experience.
I'm not 40 yet and reflect on a decision, almost every week, that I would have made wrong just a few years ago.

Wear reading glasses glasses. I never had to wear anything until the last month. Noticed I was struggling to read an old textbook. Someone handed me their readers. Wow... I've been missing out

Biggest thing is probably the switchover from night owl to morning person. I mean, I'm using morning person loosely as I still hate getting up. It's just that by 9:30 at night I'm drowsy and by 6:30 a.m. I've already been laying in bed for 45 minutes trying to fall back to sleep and now I'm so bored I get up just for the sake of getting up.

Also, weirdly vacuuming. It's a daily thing these days. Used to hate it.

Thinking a lot of new technologies are stupid and unnecessary. Of course, at least in big tech, lot of them objectively are.

When seeing a kid/now-adult I haven’t seen in 20 years, “Omg, I remember when you were this big!” When I was a kid this always made me feel weird. Like, I don’t know you, stranger. Idk why I can’t seem to stop myself!

flat out rejecting modern anything. I have zero desire to buy new phones, computers, new clothes, appliances etc... it's ALL junk designed to fail so I buy again.

I just don't now. I buy nothing and I don't care. subscriptions? get fuked. replacing anything that breaks? hell no.. I'll fix it instead.

I used to like companies, but I've learned they are all criminal scum, liars and thieves and deserve very special treatment. they pushed me over the edge and I will never return and never stop voicing my distrust and dislike for all of them. even in the stores themselves when I have to go buy food... I'm very vocal about how overly priced and absurd everything is to the point where people look at me... I want that, I want others to actively think about it especially when they are in the stores too.

I'm essentially done with 'society' whatever the hell that means

Try to identify birds and trees. How did I go through life not being able to identify my natural surroundings?

Random noises when getting up from sitting.

I fall asleep at every holiday party. My grandpa used to do that shit. Now... I'm tired and I don't want to deal with anyone's bullshit. Wake me when it's time to say goodbye.

Not want to leave the house after 9-10 PM

Eat better

Prefer getting my clothes from Costco

Get excited about new appliances okay nevermind I actually got a blender as a teenager and loved it that doesn’t count.

But still it’s funny how much of a stereotype we all become in some small ways.

Get random bruises on my hands. Thank you orange makeup!

Walks. Like just for sunshine and air. It used to be I was out on a bike from sun up till sun down. You'd see the old people just walking and enjoying life and think damn, I'll never be that lame. Well here I am. No bike. Just my legs. They weren't lame. I was a dumb teenager. Walks are awesome.

Sneeze really loudly.

not be a millionaire yet

I'm not nostalgic like that, love to hear new music, and see new shows, read new books.

But boy do I like to know what bird that is in the yard. I feed the crows. I grow things. I wear clothes with elastic waist and flat shoes.

And teatime meal >late supper, I feel so much better if I eat earlier.

Listening to smooth jazz and fusion.

I was an insufferable prog & classic rock snob in my teens and early 20s, but these days I can appreciate just about anything, including smooth jazz.

The Rippingtons fucking rule.

Waking up early on weekends. I gotta be up early for work on weekdays and its easier to stick to a consistent schedule.

Early to bed. I try to stay up until at least 9pm so I don't wake up at 3am.

So there's this weed picker tool I use that's at the end of a long stick where the grab motion is done by stepping on the lever then rocking the stick back and forth. It's too save my knees and back over the course of the lawn. My wife used to make fun of me calling it my grandpa stick but then she used it and apologized.

Haha is literally called a grandpas weeder

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