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CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man
So, over the years, Rob, as only true friends do, has managed to cause my inbox to explode over the years. Now, it's payback time. That's right, our very own CmdrTaco is turning 30 today. I highly encourage you to drop him an e-mail at (remove the spam parts) maldaSPAM@SPAMslashdot.org. And of course, birthday presents of single malt scotch can be sent c/o of me. I'll...uh...make sure he gets them.
... feels like 29. now, when you turn 31 you start thinking ... 'holy maturity Batman, I've been 30 for a year!'
+1 fashionably cynical
At least until you hit 40, when it is more of a "plunging off a cliff" aging process. . .
Nonsense, life doesn't even begin until 40, at least if you've done it right.
The fastest average "nonstop" (the clock never stopped) speed by bicycle across America, 15.3 mph, was set by a 43 year old nuclear engineer.
A 25 mile time trialist who competed in the American national championships from his teens into his eighties reported ( and could back it up with race results) that every year he could get stronger and faster . . . until he hit 65, at which point he started losing about a minute a year no matter how he trained.
Bear in mind that even ten years after "plunging over the cliff" of 65 he was still healthier, stronger and faster than most 20 year olds.
If you "plunge over the cliff" at 30 or 40 I'm afraid it ain't age that's done it. You have, very simply, "let yourself go."
50 is the new 30.
KFG
"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things." -- Douglas Adams