For the second day running I peed my pants while on a walk through the park.
This confirms my suspicion that I have to ignore the money-saving tip that tells me that Rxs are efficacious beyond their expiration dates...and start taking meds that have not yet expired.

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#PhilosophyOfOldAge

@ivalaine
Increasingly, my perspective seems to be:
outside, looking in...

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On my return from the grocery store I was able to ascend the hill whose descent had been blocked earlier this morning.
(Finding the previous post representing this situation is left as an exercise for the scroller.)

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Out on my first walk outside in days, I am thwarted in my normal path through the park and must seek a path less taken.

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#PhilosophyOfOldAge

I seem to have been spending a lot of time, over the last few weeks, trying to make sure that I remain on friendly terms with my mortality.
It's not that I feel my death is imminent.
It's just that the fact that my end is always closer has been figuring more centrally in the way I conduct of my daily life, for some reason.

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#AlterKackerLife

As my (moderate) frenzy of

setting up,
configuring, and
testing
the various new sites which I hope to somehow knit together into one, multifunctional community platform
proceeds
I am, even in retirement, confronted with something like a work/life balance quandary.

I've been spending so much time setting them up that I have to remind myself to conduct a... normal ... life.

It's 90° outside, here in Upper Manhattan -- in APRIL!
I'm going out for a walk!
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#AltaKackaLife

@juglugs

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Sure, okay, #OldPeopleOfMastodon -- but, personally I identify more with:
#AltaKackaLife
#PhilosophyOfOldAge and aspire to multi-generality with
#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

My wife has been cutting my hair for over a decade. She won't let me go near her hair, preferring a long subway ride from 215th St. down to Lafayette St., on the Lower East Side, to have Jeffrey cut it.

Below, the results of this morning's shearing, in reverse chronological order.

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My wife has been cutting my hair for over a decade. She won't let me go near her hair, preferring a long subway ride from 215th St. down to Lafayette St., on the Lower East Side, to have Jeffrey cut it.

Below, the results of this morning's shearing, in reverse chronological order.

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#PhilosophyOfOldAge

‘We have money and power’: older Americans to blockade banks in climate protest

Demonstrations at 90 sites are billed as first major action by older activists: ‘It’s not fair to ask 18-year-olds to solve this’

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#OKBoomer

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/19/climate-crisis-protest-environment-third-act-bill-mckibben

It occurs to me that,
contrary to the old song,
I don't "got a lot of living to do".

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I'm OMW downtown to discuss with my gastroenterologist what last year's endoscopy and my recent SIBO breath test tell us about the state of my gut biome.

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For Older Americans, the Pandemic Is Not Over

Seniors are increasingly left to protect themselves as the rest of the country abandons precautions: “Americans do not agree about the duty to protect others.”

“I don’t think people understand how Covid affects older Americans. In 2020, there was this all-in-this-together vibe, and it’s been annihilated."

#Covid
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#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/health/covid-pandemic-seniors.html

My wife has informed me that she cheated on me.
She ate her half of the cranberry tart purchased at the Farmer's Market this morning before we could sit down and share it over coffee.
I will console myself over a cup of coffee and half a cranberry tart.

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In a family videochat, my wife asked "Why do charities send cards? Who sends cards anymore?"
As part of her #DeathCleaning today, she uncovered evidence substantiating her contention.

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I decided to celebrate my 65th straight day of studying Yiddish on Duolingo...

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Turns out that I was supposed to administer a covid test this morning before I left the house. They sent me to a local pharmacy to buy one. They administered it.

Once I tested negative they collected a baseline breath sample and had me chug-a-lug (more or less) 8 oz of sugar water. I'll be tested again in awhile, to see what impact the sugar had.

This is my first trip downtown in months.

Yay.

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I'm on the downtown A (first time since my bout with COVID), traveling to a unit that will be administering a SIBO breath test over the course of several hours. I've been on a whitebread, black coffee and water diet for the last 36 hours, so I'm in a particularly good mood!
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My wife, as part of a death-cleaning sweep, has decided that this 2012 copy of "Medication and Mothers' Milk" is past its use-by date.

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