seventy seven

          Some time during the day today, I became seventy seven years old.  To be honest, I never expected to reach that age.  When I started blogging and titled the blog “THREE SCORE AND TEN OR MORE”, I was a little over a year more, now I find my self asking, if I make it three more years , should I change the name of the blog?

What is really strange is the fact that I have lost almost seventy pounds in the past year or so, and, I am really in the best functional health I have been in for four or five years.   I can walk all the way across the yard without support, using walking poles (something like ski poles) i can walk almost a mile for exercise , I may try mowing the lawn  Monday.  Janet and I are flying out to Salt Lake City to get to our family reunion (it feels strange to be the oldest sibling in the family now).  Janet had such a miserable flight coming home from Washington she had decided to let me go alone to the reunion, even though we had paid for the tickets  several months ago.  She has relented and decided to go with me, but I think this may be our last airplane ride ever.  People may just have to come visit me.

I have given much of my old wardrobe to Good Will.  At first it was giving away the size forty six inch waist trouser (I am a bit embarrassed I how many pairs I had).  Then I gave away the forty fours, and forty twos, and now I am down to forties, with a few size thirty eights, though the thirty eights still take an effort to button.  Whee, aint life fun. 

Computering is getting difficult.  My best computer has slowed to a walk, so I invested thirty bucks into one of these “clean your registry programs, and it went from slow to stop.   I only got it running again by un-installing the program, but that took almost two hours.

I will now go back to writing about something else.  I am making slow progress on NOT DADDT’S LITTLE BOY”, it takes lot more effort since much of this new material came after Eric move out or our home.  I promise that I will try to write something interesting at least once a week.  More than that, I can’t promise (I have trouble even thinking about something intersting, let alone writing it.   I wish I could recover more of my mental strength that was I have recovered physically.

*To top off the rest of my whining, I wrote the above post on July 23, but when I tried to post it, it got all messed up because Georgia Southern University, dumped its E mail server and converted to Google, (g mail and other things) and my post to blogger now had duplicate Google accounts.  I took me this long to get my account name straightened out..  Sigh!!