My Year of Turning 50

I’m probably the last guy to see this, but it is both fun and scary — it’s the AARP rap. Unlike other stuff on YouTube, this isn’t a parody, unless you consider it self-parody, since it appears made by AARP. For whom? I wouldn’t want to guess with lines like “One thing you have to [...]

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I like life lists. I’ve made them here and there, mostly in my head. Apparently (surprise!) I am not alone as an-obsessed-with-how-much-time-I-have-left baby boomer turning 50. The New York Times this weekend wrote about such lists of things to do before you die in an article with the funny headline (and story structure) called “Ten [...]

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Here’s a toast or roast joke about someone turning 50 years old. (Yes, it’s a real groaner but what toast/roast is complete without one or two of those.) Insert the name of your favorite birthday boy or girl:
“I was talking to John the other day and he said he was changing his last name to [...]

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Spider 2 Originally uploaded by John Cutter.
I mowed the lawn today — something that is about my only exercise these days — and came upon this amazing spider. Looked it up, and it’s a black and yellow argiope spider, which is sometimes called a black [...]

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Under 90 days until my birthday. Happy Happy Joy Joy…tonight’s the first night I came up No. 1 in Google search for “turning 50 jokes,” but you know Google, its love for me might quickly fade…This isn’t a turning 50 joke, but I love it (maybe because I know some of these people, and it [...]

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Down the right side of my blog, I have an RSS feed of Google News stories on boomers. One today was a column in the Chicago Tribune by Mary Schmich called, “Basic premise for a column Boomerangs.” It opens:
If I hear the term “Boomer” one more time, I’m going to go kaboom.
That was going to [...]

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Just got tipped to Animoto, new slideshow/video maker in beta. Check out this video of Lake Dora in my town, Mount Dora, Florida.

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I was in NYC this past weekend for the 50th birthday party of my friend David. We went to high school together, and despite distance and time (and my poor skills at staying in touch), David and I have kept up with each other all these years. I would have expected more jokes about age, [...]

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Our office at Kennedy Space CenterOriginally uploaded by John Cutter.
This is a photo of our office at the press area of the Kennedy Space Center. I’ll be there in couple of hours to help cover the space shuttle launch of Endeavour at 6:36 p.m. We’ll be blogging, sending our Twitter alerts [...]

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I’ve seen a few versions of a list on how you know you are turning 50, but maybe because I’ve had a few unexpected medical copayments and deductibles lately, I’m thinking this item is the truest (and perhaps the one for those who are glass-half-full people):
When you are over 50 years old, your investment in [...]

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