What A Drag It Is Getting Old

Gettin' old ain't for pussies 🤫

All I know is....when I was young, I wanted to be older. Now that I am old, I want to be younger.

“The last whispered wish of age is to to live it all again” -The Moody Blues  

@mapman In true Moody Blues fashion.

”l never thought l’d live to be a hundred…… Justin Hayward.

”Wait and see”

@slaw ”Gettin’ old ain’t for pussies”

Your not Sam Elliott (in disguise) are you?

@mylogic , I knew I'd heard that line somewhere 😁.... still funny.

@slaw 

Not entirely accurate on my part.

Sam Elliott said a line in “We Were Soldiers” answering Lt. Colonel Hal Moore’s question about how did Custer feel after realising he’d led his men into a slaughter. 
 

“Sir, Custer was a pussy. You ain’t”

A couple of weeks ago, I was installing pair of Super Zeros to a smaller system that is in a fairly large room. The speakers have binding posts that face downward at a slight angle, which is off the beaten path to start with. When I turned the system on, the sound seemed OK at first, but then I noticed something just didn't sound quite right. The system itself (amp/preamp/tuner/CD) was an amalgam of a couple of new pieces and one piece from a behemoth setup that I was downsizing.

I wasn't sure where to begin on solving the poor sound issue, but decided to start with the basics, which in my book is checking the connections to the speakers. Turned out that the binding posts on the Zeros are oriented exactly opposite of most speakers - looking at them from the rear, the right channel is on the left and the left on the right. I had wired both speakers out of phase, which was easy to do because I had been working in low-light conditions when hooking them up, and the right-channel binding post is a dark red that can look almost black under those circumstances. I felt kind of dumb for making such a rookie mistake, but gratified that I had solved the problem so quickly. Things like this happen when Harry Truman was still president when you were born.

@fuzztone ... plus one.  Love to see your posts, Fuzz!!

I’m there. But I’m physically active, and that truly helps. My attitude is good. I turn in towards it, like the wind. You can’t change it. The only thing you can change is your attitude. And be as fit as you can be so you can stay active.

"Old is actually when it is too hard to play an LP in the first place".

For $20, What is...what you find turning the corner of 64?

I am only approaching “mid life” (whatever that means) years, but I occasionally have moments like this. It’s funny though, it was much worse a few years back when I wasn’t taking good care of my health. It helps that are brains are rather 
malleable, even as we get up there in years. Creatine and Vitamin D supplementation works wonders. 

The ability of moving heavy objects, such as speakers and power amplifiers, that at one time, was easy....not any more