Getting olde is not for the weak of spirit ...

[Rusty PW]

Damn hope I dont get old in my head like you gents .
Just turned 63 still chasing 40 year olds.
Good old popsicles sticks and duct tape will always keep it up.

Push a broom handle up your ass to push it out so that you can take a leak.

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[JT57]

Besides the jeep this is what I do to keep me going .Took 2 months too refurbishe the old deck and make it bigger next power wash and paint . Just turned 67 and thank God every day.

 

[cafecito]

This is exactly why I work out just about every day, and try my best to stay away from unhealthy food. My body is going to go to hell eventually, and just like a Jeep or any other vehicle, it will get there even quicker if I don't do regular maintenance.

 

[OVERLORD]

This is exactly why I work out just about every day, and try my best to stay away from unhealthy food. My body is going to go to hell eventually, and just like a Jeep or any other vehicle, it will get there even quicker if I don't do regular maintenance.

Prezactly! The side of the family I follow after, the oldest a Male has lived has been 36. All ticker issues. Outlived my Parents, Mom left at 58, Pappy left at 61. Both chemically dependent on booze and smokes. I hit the Gym four days a week, cardio and lifting. I take no prescribed meds, no need. I hit supps hard. Fast food, never. May hit a Subway rarely. My VA Doc, Doctor Chai________________, (they call him that because his Indonesian name is unpronounceable.) When he puts me on the scale he screams, "You FATBOY, no more cheeburger for you, you be 215, sposed be 185!" When the shirt comes off, he mumbles, "You ol' man, how come you have sexy pack tummy?" I do a lot of sit ups daily, Doc.

I guess I'm not the typical 66 years young VA patient.


Back to the JEEP boggle!

Everything done yesterday, 'cept this.

Instructions say connecter on driver's side where the fender liner meets the frame. Couldn't find it. I think I found one on the right side, and the wires are the right colors with the fender liner out. No can find on the left. Is it hidden under the ABS doohickie? Sorry about the technical terms. Thanks folks.

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[ShadowsPapa]

Prezactly! The side of the family I follow after, the oldest a Male has lived has been 36. All ticker issues. Outlived my Parents, Mom left at 58, Pappy left at 61. Both chemically dependent on booze and smokes. I hit the Gym four days a week, cardio and lifting. I take no prescribed meds, no need. I hit supps hard. Fast food, never. May hit a Subway rarely. My VA Doc, Doctor Chai________________, (they call him that because his Indonesian name is unpronounceable.) When he puts me on the scale he screams, "You FATBOY, no more cheeburger for you, you be 215, sposed be 185!" When the shirt comes off, he mumbles, "You ol' man, how come you have sexy pack tummy?" I do a lot of sit ups daily, Doc.

I guess I'm not the typical 66 years young VA patient.


Back to the JEEP boggle!

Everything done yesterday, 'cept this.

Instructions say connecter on driver's side where the fender liner meets the frame. Couldn't find it. I think I found one on the right side, and the wires are the right colors with the fender liner out. No can find on the left. Is it hidden under the ABS doohickie? Sorry about the technical terms. Thanks folks.

Running Lamp Wiring Adapter Harness For 2018 - Current JL Wrangler & JT Gladiator Vehicles (quadratec.com)

A book on the history of Ohio states - in different words, of course (old world English) that one of my great-great........... grandfathers "worked himself to death". "He may have lived longer had he......." they tell how he worked late into the night building cabins and such, helping others.
Otherwise most of my ancestors lived a fairly long life - on my father's side. On Mom's side, not so great in some cases.
Dad lived to be 85 and was still doing ok until killed by a sleeping young driver.
One of his brothers died at age 9, I believe it was - heart failure while playing in the front yard. Another survived Korea to come back and be killed in a car accident when he was impaled by a rail from a split rail fence. Otherwise most of that side made it into their 80s anyway.
Mom's side isn't so lucky. Her father died at about 56, pneumonia and some other complications (smoking unfiltered didn't help), she died of cancer in her 70s. Otherwise, her family is next to impossible to trace, some generations are left out of any books and there's some question about one generation that's left out of the family history, some claim it's because there's Native American ancestry involved and in those days, you just didn't admit to having that in the family.
I have my doubts about that part, however. It doesn't add up with what I could find.

Anyway - heart doctor wants to keep an eye on me - have a hole in my heart he says has been there forever, starting of calcification of arteries, occasional irregular heart beat (whatever that term is, can't recall right now - need more coffee)
With body falling apart, I don't expect to reach the ages my father's side did, and knowing the history of Mom's side, but not giving up.

 

[Rusty PW]

Had neighbor that ran every day. Never smoked or drank. Ate all the right foods. The guy was fit. He died at the age of 42. He died healthy. I figure when your expiration date is up. That's it. A dirt nap that you will never wake up from.

 

[Gvsukids]

A dirt nap that you will never wake up from.

Oh, there'll come a day.

 

[HappyGladiator]

My son was 37, ate kale and all kinds of healthy stuff. Worked out and was a sponsored downhill bike racer. Died at 37 from brain cancer. He was ready to meet Jesus. I'll see him.
When it's time to go, you go. Be ready. In the meantime, enjoy life and be happy. Have projects. Travel.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Had neighbor that ran every day. Never smoked or drank. Ate all the right foods. The guy was fit. He died at the age of 42. He died healthy. I figure when your expiration date is up. That's it. A dirt nap that you will never wake up from.

Yeah, it happens. We were sitting in a meeting at church one AM and waiting for one of the guys to arrive. He was never late, always on time and in good spirits.
Word came to us that he had made his morning jog, showered, and died. Age - 32.

Oh, there'll come a day.

Of course, if you believe as George Harrison did:

There'll come a time when all of us must leave here
Then nothing sister Mary can do
Will keep me here with you
As nothing in this life that I've been trying
Could equal or surpass the art of dying
..............................
..............................
There'll come a time when most of us return here
Brought back by our desire to be
A perfect entity
.............................


All you can do is your best.
No guarantees.
I saw this once, can't recall where:
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

 

[Charles 236]

I look at life this way: Every day that I wake up is a good day. I also remember what a friend used to say about life: " Plan for the future like you're going to live forever, but live like you're going to die tomorrow ".

 

[Hootbro]

Had neighbor that ran every day. Never smoked or drank. Ate all the right foods. The guy was fit. He died at the age of 42. He died healthy. I figure when your expiration date is up. That's it. A dirt nap that you will never wake up from.

Your neighbor should not be a detraction from trying to be as healthy as possible regardless. Many people are born with missed congenital health defects that being in shape finds the weakest link for them.

I have seen people up and die in military physical training and athletic events and by all outside appearances were the peak of physical conditioning but things get missed.

I have my own issues and far from the pinnacle of good health, but I know the law of averages and missed opportunity of being in better health in that if my natural death came before I expected, it would not be a surprise to me.

While hope is never a good plan for life, I am using Keith Richards as my coal mine canary.

 

[Rusty PW]

Your neighbor should not be a detraction from trying to be as healthy as possible regardless. Many people are born with missed congenital health defects that being in shape finds the weakest link for them.

I have seen people up and die in military physical training and athletic events and by all outside appearances were the peak of physical conditioning but things get missed.

I have my own issues and far from the pinnacle of good health, but I know the law of averages and missed opportunity of being in better health in that if my natural death came before I expected, it would not be a surprise to me.

While hope is never a good plan for life, I am using Keith Richards as my coal mine canary.

I used that as an example. Tim was a good guy. Seen on tv news about how many kids are dying in practice and during games. Most from unknown health issues.

Keith Richards will never die. He has pickled himself with everything he has taken over the years.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Keith Richards will never die. He has pickled himself with everything he has taken over the years.

Odd, I thought he was dead.

 

[Rusty PW]

Odd, I thought he was dead.

He's 79 yrs old. Looks like death warmed over. LOL

 

[ShadowsPapa]

He's 79 yrs old. Looks like death warmed over. LOL

Yeah, that's what I meant. Last photo of him I could have sworn I saw him in The Living Dead.

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