You Know You’re Getting Old When…

…you spend an awesome evening at a concert with friends, and, the next day, can only remember that it was too loud and that you went to bed too late.

…the only club you want to get into now is your wife’s book club. (Some things never change, though:
(a) clubs are still full of hotties, and
(b) they still won’t let me in.)

…your friends aren’t students anymore; they’re professors.

…the lead singer of your lifelong favorite band has had hip replacement surgery.

…you don’t think myspace is k00l; you think it’s a piece of shit. (Besides, “Real men host their own blogs.”)

…you stop caring how you look in public.

…you turn… THIRTY.

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April 27^th, 2006 at 12:14 pm

The Birthday Buddy [subscribed to comments] said:

Given that I am somehow implicated in about half of these, are you sure you don’t mean “You know you’re getting old when you hang out with Danielle?” Agreed, though- my first thought after getting home from a concert at 1 AM on Monday was “Dammit, if I were a student I’d just cut class tomorrow. But I’m teaching it, so I can’t.”

Welcome back- we’ve all been horribly bored at work without new blog entries to entertain us!

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April 27^th, 2006 at 3:55 pm

Ron [author of post] said:

The Birthday Buddy [subscribed to comments] said:

…I am somehow implicated in about half of these…

perhaps. but clearly, you still care about looking great in public. (or do you just look that good naturally?)

Welcome back- we’ve all been horribly bored at work without new blog entries to entertain us!

what, you didn’t find my Password Security post entertaining?

it’s a proven fact that bloggers post more frequently when readers leave comments. (hint, hint, all you @#$! lurkers.)

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April 28^th, 2006 at 2:27 pm

Irina [subscribed to comments] said:

Welcome back! Haven’t seen your blog in ages!

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April 28^th, 2006 at 4:08 pm

Ron [author of post] said:

thanks!

we haven’t seen YOU in ages! are we going to shadfest on sunday? (it will have to be early (yuck), since we already have dinner plans. )

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April 30^th, 2006 at 3:37 pm

emanuel ferritis said:

you know you live in the sticks when… you not only know what “shadfest” is, you’ve been there.

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April 30^th, 2006 at 4:36 pm

Ron [author of post] said:

you know you’re getting old AND you live in the sticks when… you go to shadfest and are almost put out of commission by a single funnel cake. (but with age comes wisdom, too: i passed on the fried oreos.)

actually, we got back from the lambertville shadfest about 2 hours ago, and i’m just starting to recover now. had a yummy pulled pork sandwich (at the Triumph Brewery booth), a fantastic braised short rib sandwich (at the No. 9 stand), fresh squeezed lemonade and the aforementioned funnel cake.

sara honored the noble shad by eating one.

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April 30^th, 2006 at 5:12 pm

Gram [subscribed to comments] said:

You know you are getting old when you recieve moldy lemons for a present !

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May 2^nd, 2006 at 8:17 am

Sara [subscribed to comments] said:

Gram, It’s more like….”You know you are getting old when you receive moldy lemons…..and your first thought is that it’s the perfect birthday present!” Looking forward to seeing at the Mother’s Day celebration!

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