You know you’re getting old when…
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You know you're getting old when.... doing a 20Hz to 20kHz frequency sweep on an R2R, monitoring it with speakers, and the dB meter shows +- 2dB for both channels but you no longer hear the high frequency tones very well or at all.
I had a good run, 72 now. Everything else still works.
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SeleniumFalcon wrote: »The teacher's lounge at my high school had the strongest smoke smell that I can remember.
My high school had a smoking ring for the students
Yes sir, we did too.....shouldn't this go into the "You know you're old" thread lolSet up: 11.2 HT + 2ch
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EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
Oh dang, it is...^^^^^
Well, I guess this is another indication I'm old Set up: 11.2 HT + 2ch
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Cables: Mogami AES from CDP to DAC - AQ McKenzie XLR from DAC to AVP to amp for 2ch, Emotiva XLR's for the rest - Douglasconnection: Furutech Alpha 36 12g speaker wire for 2ch, Furez 10x2/Canare 4S11 speaker wire for the rest - AQ Forest48 HDMI for the display, AQ Carbon48 HDMI from BRP to AVP - VR3 filtered power cables for CDP, BRP and AVP, Emotiva power cables for the amps - AudioQuest 707 power conditioner.
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
Oh dang, it is...^^^^^
Well, I guess this is another indication I'm old
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That's the PC version of what we used to call it in high school!!Set up: 11.2 HT + 2ch
AVP: Marantz AV8802A - Sources: BRP Panasonic UB9000/CDP Emotiva ERC 3 - DAC: Denafrips Venus - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-6, XPA-2 x 2 - Speakers: Focal/PolkAudio, Mains/2ch - Kanta No2, C - Sopra, SS - LSiM702, WS - RTiA9, RS - RTiA9, FH - RTiA3 - Subs: Epik Empires x 2
Cables: Mogami AES from CDP to DAC - AQ McKenzie XLR from DAC to AVP to amp for 2ch, Emotiva XLR's for the rest - Douglasconnection: Furutech Alpha 36 12g speaker wire for 2ch, Furez 10x2/Canare 4S11 speaker wire for the rest - AQ Forest48 HDMI for the display, AQ Carbon48 HDMI from BRP to AVP - VR3 filtered power cables for CDP, BRP and AVP, Emotiva power cables for the amps - AudioQuest 707 power conditioner.
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
Same at mine -- smokier than even the boy's bathroom.SeleniumFalcon wrote: »The teacher's lounge at my high school had the strongest smoke smell that I can remember.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »
Same at mine -- smokier than even the boy's bathroom.SeleniumFalcon wrote: »The teacher's lounge at my high school had the strongest smoke smell that I can remember.
Pretty sure Calvin was smelling smoke.
Either that or chili was served in the cafeteria for lunch.
Chili that can untarnish a penny as good as new.
A penny that can wreak havoc in the giant Hobart food disposal Sarlacc pit much to the chagrin of blue-haired women in tight white dresses. -
^^^ When five or more people agree people with one of these items, it's an old indication."Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA
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People in their 50s call you sir.
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That dudes going places!!
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ken brydson wrote: »
This has to be the funniest picture in this thread.
Ken, it came at a very opportune time for me to use. You always are out there with your pics.
Today February 6, my best friend is 87 years old. He got the picture in an email with a birthday wish.(Sent it to my best friend of 53 years. His name is Orville Madison "last name" Jr. )
Told him, I ordered one for both of us.
His reply:
I really appreciate it but I already have one. Brand new in original box. My damn shoulders are so bad that if I got it over my head I'd have to wear it all day.
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
Genius.
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"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
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"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
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When you're bending over the sink, washing your face and you hear and feel a pop in your lower back which nearly takes you to the floor in pain. Guess I'm going to admit defeat and see the doc. It's been almost a week.
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Ouch! I can appreciate that.
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That sucks!
Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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When you're bending over the sink, washing your face and you hear and feel a pop in your lower back which nearly takes you to the floor in pain. Guess I'm going to admit defeat and see the doc. It's been almost a week.
Down with a bad back now as well. Mine came courtesy of hoeing some weeds out of the flower bed. Yeah, getting old stinks.Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden -
When you're bending over the sink, washing your face and you hear and feel a pop in your lower back which nearly takes you to the floor in pain. Guess I'm going to admit defeat and see the doc. It's been almost a week.
$hit, I had that in my early 30s. Learned how to protect the lower back and have been largely back trouble free (severe pain at least). -
Getting old for me came when I was 28? (give or take a couple of years). I bent over with approx. an 85LB box and placed it into a 4'x4' box. Well, me and the box fell into said box, after I felt, "something" give in my back.
I am not saying this to say, "Oh, woe is me". **it happens.
Please allow me to tell you the rest of the story. It took me over 20 years to get back to the point of being able to do things that were unthinkable at the time. Normal things. Like getting up off a toilet at times, quicker than a 2 minute time span, just to get from sitting to a complete and upright position. Times of distress because the beer was 3 feet away from me, yet I could not move....as tears rolled down my eyes because of this. I thought at many times that this was my life moving forward.
It was reality at the time. It was what it was. I thought that this would be normal from here on out.
Fast forward 24 years or so and I don't know exactly what happened, but my back all of a sudden stopped with the BS it had put me through. I didn't do anything specifically to help it (beyond what was recommended)...it just "self healed". No rhyme, no reason, and I am still perplexed.
Getting old has nothing to do with it. I think it's just your body doing things to you at the wrong time. Just roll with it. Make the best out of it and keep the faith. Do what you can do to help, but don't expect miracles.
Getting old can be a b*tc* or what you make of it. Your attitude can either be a Debbie Downer, which is the way it will go....OR....it can be one of positivity, that you will make today a great day!
Tom
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Sweet, back stories (sorry @DaveHo and @PSOVLSK). I was 30, racing up in Canada suffering bad tire wear on the rear. Started sliding like a dirt bike out of the hairpin each lap, getting worse as the race went on.
One lap, came through, the back slid so far I felt like I was on a dirt bike, all crossed up, cracked the throttle back too much and the back end snapped back so violently that it ripped the mid and upper fairing completely off as it tumbled upright facing back down to the corner.
I got launched over the top doing the old flying W with a nice slow flip. Landed square on my back and knocked the wind out of myself so bad, I couldn't say anything to the corner worker that was on me in seconds asking if I was okay. I started doing the robot while lying there as if to say, nothings broke lol.
I was wearing a back protector, but I still sprained my back so bad I couldn't sleep on my back for about 6 months.
What did I walk away with?? It's what I didn't. I was informed a fellow rider had the exact same crash as me a week earlier and fractured 3 ribs and punctured a lung. I was very fortunate.
Later, my fellow American riders came to me and said, "Geoff, we came through the corner and saw your bike, thought you coming back the wrong way". Lol, it wasn't the bike, just the fairing, the bike was with me up the road a ways off to the side.
I've had a few tumbles between the ages of 26 and 48 while racing. Got spit off at 120mph three different times, fell off between 80 and 100mph a good handful of times. I turn 66 on April 1, if you met me in person, you'd never know what all I've survived. I walk upright without a limp, of course my hips are pretty stiff when I first get up, and I've got some pretty bad knee pain in both knees but that was from football at an early age.
I thank God I'm able to tell you boys about it
This was a little tumble on the liter bike at age 46, got if fixed and made the next race that same day lol
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Cables: Mogami AES from CDP to DAC - AQ McKenzie XLR from DAC to AVP to amp for 2ch, Emotiva XLR's for the rest - Douglasconnection: Furutech Alpha 36 12g speaker wire for 2ch, Furez 10x2/Canare 4S11 speaker wire for the rest - AQ Forest48 HDMI for the display, AQ Carbon48 HDMI from BRP to AVP - VR3 filtered power cables for CDP, BRP and AVP, Emotiva power cables for the amps - AudioQuest 707 power conditioner.
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
Wow! Can't top those stories but will share that I once put my back out by being bent slightly and having a major coughing fit on my way to class in college.
Lost my 1st full time job due to back situation when carrying a heavy load into my parents basement and had to bend slightly to clear a low ceiling in the stairway. After a few days of agony went to the doctor and said to her I think I pulled something in my leg as I can't bend much w/o getting major pain...this is when I learned about sciatic pain. Wound up in the hospital for 5 days in traction and went home with lots of pills.
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“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
How many flies need to be buzzing a dead horse before you guys stop beating it? -
Damaged an L3 disk when I was about 42 when lifting a short wet log (150 lbs estimated) into the back of my Cherokee. Was having trouble and decided to power through. Was successful with the log but in the process heard a thunk from my lower back and felt a shift that I expect was the disk rupturing. Was largely recovered in 9 months but 23 years later it still seems to sap my energy about 30%. Whole lower back becomes tight with moderate activity that includes bending over.Expect that there will be bumps in the road. Choose to not let them rattle you.
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