35 and right on schedule: Part I

Getting older is a funny thing.  

It blows in some aspects but it's possible to find the humor in that as well.  

I view myself as being externally eternally 22 years old, I don't think that's a huge problem either.  Sure, I may have recently given up the fantasy that I could be a walk-on NHL player for the Philadelphia Flyers.  I mean I wasn't thinking top line 50 goal scorer, maybe a 3rd line, 20 goal role player who would occasionally drop the mitts in defense of a teammate... sigh... nope that isn't going to happen.  

yes, a fantasy of mine was to have a Trent Klatt type NHL career...

I crossfit, which is a pretty intense class orientated workout program.  Intense being the keyword.  Following just about every workout I find myself panting in a pool of sweat and sometimes gore* laying on the floor in muscular anguish.  It can be a little difficult realizing I am older than a lot of people in the gym and (ugh) it can be harder for me.  Dang wippersnappers!!!!

*gore - I was doing handstand pushups, which means stand on your hands, lean your feet against the wall, then lower yourself by bending your elbows, raise yourself back up and repeat.  While I was doing this I thought i started to get a bloody nose but it was just my sinuses draining out of my nose and on to the floor.  Seriously it was like a faucet...

I am really yammering and I dont even think I am near on topic yet....

It's funny how growing older works... when I was young I thought that I would never "act" older.  I would always be hip, down with the popular music and culture and so on, basically keeping it real with my homeys.  I thought I was doing this or at least i wasn't aware that I was not doing it until I realized all the music I listen to is, with a few exceptions, 15 years old!  I was born in 1974, the top song 15 years prior to that, in 1959, was Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife".  And there I am, bopping around town to the 2010s equivalent of "Mack the Knife".

 This new Tool record is rad

I think I am being a littler generous with the 15 year approximation, it's probably longer.  Recently I saw The Pixies in concert, the tour consisted of them playing the entirety of one of my favorite albums of all time. That album, Doolittle, was the first CD i ever got and that was in 1992.  That's 18 years...  I still listen to this album all the time while I Charleston... 

I could go on and on right now... I think this is going to be a series bc i have more to get to...

Let me finish this part with this:

I didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning

(To be continued...)

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Speaking of to be continued... I think my favorite 2 part television show episode of all time is the What's Happening with the Doobie Brothers.  To me this episode is like the Woodstock of 70s sitcom episodes, people act like they know it but do they???  

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