One small flaw

[Gene Howe]

Those voices are often heard in the shop. But, I have to go in the house for intelligent conversations.

[steven newman]

Used to have a 2-1/2 car garage as a shop...with a woodburner for heat......never made a mistake, just made more heat

 

Reason I tend to work so slow nowadays.....avoids the mistakes from happening.... in theory....

[hatuffej]

46 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Used to have a 2-1/2 car garage as a shop...with a woodburner for heat......never made a mistake, just made more heat

 

Reason I tend to work so slow nowadays.....avoids the mistakes from happening.... in theory....

My recent qualification as an Old Fogey in the Ancient Order of Fossilhood requires that I work slower.

hat

[Gene Howe]

Age diminishes my speed but, not the quantity of mistakes. However, the mistake quality may have improved. But, that may just be my aging eyes...or, my attitude.

Edited February 1, 2019 by Gene Howe

[Gerald]

2 hours ago, hatuffej said:

My recent qualification as an Old Fogey in the Ancient Order of Fossilhood requires that I work slower.

hat

And all this time I thought my membership in the AOF was in the Association of Old Farts

[Nickp]

 

Be grateful your name isn't Richard and belong to the Dicks of America (DOA)...

[hatuffej]

3 hours ago, Gerald said:

And all this time I thought my membership in the AOF was in the Association of Old Farts

The AOF is the husbands equivalent of the wives group, the Association of Old Fluffettes! Hubbies progress to Old Geezers while wifeys move on to Old Hens.

hat 

[Artie]

7 hours ago, Gerald said:

And all this time I thought my membership in the AOF was in the Association of Old Farts

I think they just offered me a lifetime membership.

[Stick486]

8 minutes ago, Artie said:

I think they just offered me a lifetime membership.

and yur not even retired.. yet...

you sure got the jump on it...

[Gene Howe]

• C'mon guys. Age is just a number. Like, like how many aches and pains, how often ya get up to pee, how much ya forgot to do....etc.

[hatuffej]

1 hour ago, Gene Howe said:

• C'mon guys. Age is just a number. Like, like how many aches and pains, how often ya get up to pee, how much ya forgot to do....etc.

Yeah, I know. I'm 27071 days old today! Aches and pains have merged in a continuum not requiring counting, night-time peeing is a given, and memory is, welll.....I forget!

hat

[Gene Howe]

Well, a very happy birthday, Hat.

 

[hatuffej]

5 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Well, a very happy birthday, Hat.

 

Thanks, Gene, but its not my BD. When I get up in the AM, I check the obit column, and if I'm not listed there, I know it will be a good day. Then I check my age in days and thank my lucky stars I have made it this far!

hat

[Gene Howe]

Well then, happy 27071st day. I'm at 28429. Don't get a daily paper. If there's no flames, I'm good.

[hatuffej]

Gene, I like to play with time numbers. When I was working, I built a retirement spreadsheet that calculated how many years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, and seconds I had left when I entered the current workday, correcting for holidays, weekends, and days off. Did the same thing manually, counting only days to discharge, when I was in the Army. It was a humorous way to keep positive. Have you ever seen one of those pictures of a beautiful woman with a calendar imprinted over her entire body? Yeah, that.

hat

 

[DAB]

well, now that we are doing math....

 

2018-1963 = 55 years.

 

55 x 365 = 20075 days.

 

but don't forget the leap years (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 - that's 13 more days)

 

20075+13+ (number of days from april 28, 2018 to today = 281) = 20369

 

oddly, this answer is different from that given by this website:  https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=4&d1=28&y1=1963&m2=2&d2=2&y2=2019&ti=on  which gives 20370 as the correct answer.

 

did they count 2000 as a leap year?  it wasn't!

[Gerald]

Like Hat when I get up , after contemplating the idea for a while , thank the Lord for another day on this earth (pitiful tho it is). Then after the shower I feel like I can move around a little. The really hard part is getting up from the floor when something falls , happens more every day. Oh not me falling ....dropping something .

[Stick486]

15 minutes ago, Gerald said:

..dropping something .

[Grandpadave52]

4 hours ago, hatuffej said:

When I get up in the AM, I check the obit column, and if I'm not listed there,

Need to change your routine...don't read the obits until the end of the day...if your name is there you still had the extra day. So far it's working for me.

Edited February 2, 2019 by Grandpadave52
typo

[hatuffej]

28 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Need to change your routine...don't read the obits until the end of the day...if your name is there you still had the extra day. So far it's working for me.

OK, OK, but the suspense might so me in!

hat