Primarily I plan to share my journey to becoming an old fart. No, I don’t take myself all that seriously most of the time and getting old is a helluva lot better than the alternative as long as I am healthy and have most of my faculties intact.
I plan to continue to be active (actually do things besides sitting or look at a screen), talk a little about tech, write about getting old, and share information about things I learn. I also plan to have some fun while living the best life that I can and delay as much as possible the ravages of Father Time.
While I cannot control the aging process, I would love to believe I can slow down getting older. There is a difference in my mind.
However, I plan to do things a bit different than most blogs. This is my personal blog, not someplace where I will be selling things, making lots of money and becoming famous. If I go off on one those “I can get rich too tangents”, please bring me back to reality, that ain’t why I created this blog.
Who Am I?
My name is Harold and yeah I can be weird at times, but I believe that I am pretty well grounded in who I am and where I am going with my life as I get to enjoy my dotage.
I am retired and have had a pretty normal life up to now. I went in the U.S. Coast Guard a long time ago, got married, had kids, retired from the Coast Guard at 38, got divorced, found a new life and wife, worked with troubled youth, became a Special Education teacher, got fat and unhealthy (physically & mentally), so I left teaching.
I took time to get healthy, became a professional blogger for a while, didn’t like the underside of that profession and retired again. Then I went back to work for a local University and when my Brother-in-Law died suddenly at age 66 a couple of years ago, we decided to retire and focus on living a better life.
No, I don’t have any special initials behind my name, so I don’t claim to be an expert at anything, but I am still alive after more than 60 years, run too much, eat fairly reasonably, use technology to complicate my life and at the same time am trying to simplify my life wherever I can.
I don’t worry about living up to a carefully constructed online persona that doesn’t resemble the person I really am, there are enough of those people and blogs out there. I am here and have a real-life that has warts, pimples and sometimes expels noxious green clouds.
I am getting old and do struggle with some of the physical and/or mental changes that I have no control over. Also, I know that at some point in the next 20-30 years that I probably will die and I think about that a bit more than I used to. However, the way I look at it I have a great life and I am enjoying most of the things about getting to be old in today’s world, despite what the media might have us think.
Unfortunately, because I am a stubborn old fart and don’t want to believe that I am getting this old, I might lose touch with reality sometimes (actually quite often). As a result, I often do stupid stuff and then write about it for your reading pleasure. Yeah, I don’t mind you laughing out loud or smiling at some of my latest escapades of Harold being Harold.
Father Time or the Grim Reaper if you like, is unbeaten as far as we know, but I have a feeling he enjoys a good laugh now and then. So I plan to keep tinkering with the gonna keep living forever idea and have fun, while he chuckles at my lame efforts to stay half a step ahead of him, at least until he finally decides to catch me.
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