My Year of Turning 50

Enjoying dog park Originally uploaded by John Cutter.
A new dog park opened in our town today, and here is Louie, his tongue out after chasing any dog who would play. A dog’s life is a good life.

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Thanks to Rhea at the Boomer Chronicles for the link. She might have the best blogroll on boomer blogs I’ve come across. Check out the blog here. (The blogroll is down the right rail.) And since the people who come to this blog apparently are seeking turning 50 jokes, here’s a link to Rhea’s Humor [...]

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Here’s an old one for turning 50 joke: The five best years of my life were when I was 39. (Or you could say it about someone, as in “Bob said the five best years, etc.)
Anyway, I’m hoping my five best years are still ahead of me.

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Just watched the end of Vertigo and that scream and the bells get me every time, even when I know they are coming…more things from 1967, Chick-Fil-A was founded and the Supreme Court struck down laws that barred inter-racial marriage…more signs of the boomer apocalypse: heard on NPR today that there will soon be a [...]

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I helped cover the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis yesterday, blogging here and shooting some video here. It’s hard not to get enthusiastic when you see something like a rocket launch. I feel as excited at it now as I did as a kid, when they would stop class to let us watch the [...]

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I mentioned in an earlier post that I am playing around with Twitter. One of my early favs to follow is comedian Steven Wright’s posts. Yesterday he had one that easily could be “adapted” for a turning 50 joke: “My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn’t get a birthmark until he was eight years [...]

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I trying out Twitter, so you can see in the box on the right rail what I’m doing and thinking. You can scroll back to past items using the little arrows at bottom of the box, or if you follow this link you can see them all and join my network. It’s another way to [...]

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It’s the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love, a year when those of us who are turning 50 were a mere 10 years old. I don’t have a lot of specific memories of that summer — baseball was big, I recall, and I probably was in day camp. We didn’t go anywhere in the [...]

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On my ride though my hometown tonight, I spotted this saying in front of a church: “Some questions can’t be answered by Google.” That might be true, but you can check out here what you find if you search for that saying in…Google.

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