Boomer Randomness

I saw as report on television a few days ago about a woman celebrating her 105 th birthday.   Can you picture yourself at that age?   I can.   When I hear friends and co-workers between ages 35 and 50 talk about being old, I laugh and growl at the same time.   Thirty-five is definitely not old and neither is 50, in my opinion. I have joked about wanting to have a 100 th birthday party when I get there but I am dead serious.   Wait, let me rephrase that … I am completely serious.   Many family members one or two generations ahead of me made it to their 90s.   Health and lifestyle changes over the past century have significantly increased average life spans, so I think 100 is an achievable goal. One comment this very alive and aware woman made regarding turning 105 is that so much has changed in the world.   She mentioned email as one example but there are many equally significant inventions and events that have occurred since 1908, h...

Danica Patrick at the track She is not the first woman to race in NASCAR but Danica Patrick is the first woman who experts say has a chance to win the Daytona 500.   She is also the first woman to win the pole position for that legendary race. The Daytona 500 kicks off the 2013 NASCAR auto racing season Sunday and there is much more mainstream coverage of the event this year because of Ms. Patrick’s involvement.   There are assumptions that she is a role model for young girls who are interested in auto racing.   Many men snicker at the thought of her ‘sitting on the pole’.   There are skeptics who think her first full NASCAR season will end as lackluster as her previous two partial seasons.   Some experts point out that just because she did well in Indy car racing in the past does not mean she’ll succeed in stock car racing.   Other experts believe this will be a good year for her because she has more experience now; and it doesn’t hurt that...

I am really loving my improved vision.   It’s a miracle. The computer I’m writing on right now is more than five years old.   That’s ancient for computers.   I can get a new one with better specs for half the price I paid for this one.   That’s crazy. The Daytona 500 is this Sunday.   Seeing that race in person one day is on my bucket list. I don’t really have a preferred physical ‘type’ of woman I am attracted to.   Although I notice mid sized red heads and brunettes the most, I’ve been involved with all shapes, sizes and colors of females as friends, lovers or some combination.   But today I interviewed a woman of Indian heritage (India Indian not Native American Indian) and it was hard to concentrate on the interview because she was so beautiful. And she reminded me of another beautiful female acquaintance who is also of Indian heritage.   Pattern or coincidence? My DVR (digital video recorder) enables me to pause or rewin...

Do you keep a diary or journal?   If so, what do you write about?   How often do you write in it? Do you document the mundane, such as the day’s weather, or do you write deep, private thoughts?   Is it paper or computer-based?   There is a line in the Tony Robbins self-help series that goes something like ‘a life well-spent is a life worth recording.’   That’s not the exact quote but it’s close enough to illustrate my point.   A journal can be a great record of your life, no matter what happens in your life.   It can be shared with others if you so choose or it can just be something to help you learn later what you were thinking about when you wrote something.   It can document progress toward your life goals. Some of my Mother’s diaries and my Dad’s ‘life story’ were among the few things that survived my sister’s flooded house after Hurricane Katrina.   I knew about Dad’s four-page life story but never read it till we salvaged it ...