You know you're old when...

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Because of the heart failure, they are keeping me on the knife edge of dehydration with diuretics. My doctor recently upped my weekly dose of Mounjaro to fight the diabetes caused by the diuretics, which for three weeks in a row caused, well, let's skip the graphic description and say that I quickly became dehydrated. I had a regular doctor's appointment scheduled for 9 am yesterday, and my doctor took one look at me and sent me straight to the ER with an express admission form to get an IV.

My kidney function is back to normal for me as of this morning's lab work, but the potassium is still too low to let me leave today. The poor nurse this shift has been slammed with no PCA and psycho woman with a service animal who needs constant attention a few doors down.

On the bright side, I negotiated myself off of NPO to chicken broth to solid food in less than 24 hours, which is a hospital record for me.....

Glad to hear you’re doing better. Hope it continues and you are home soon.

Best of luck. 🍀

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

A simple hack for the aging population.


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Originally Posted by M_Six

I'd still be looking everywhere for them.

I've got them stashed all over the house!

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I had a rude awakening today. The kid across the street hit a tennis ball into my yard. I picked it up and tried to throw it back into his yard and it barely cleared the street. It's like the muscle memory for throwing a ball is just gone. Gawd, I'm getting old.

I hear you! I joined a senior softball league this year. I hadn't played in 52 years! They put me at third base in my first practice and a grounder came to me. I threw to first base and the ball bounced twice on the way! Before practice I'd warmed up playing catch, but we were much closer together. It turns out the distance from 3rd to 1st is much further away than it was when I was a kid!!

After that humbling experience, I started working on my throwing to get some of the mechanics back. I'll never have the arm I once had, but I can easily throw from 3rd to 1st. on the fly and that's good enough for me.

[Esteban]

For all the grandparents.

I'm just jealous 'cause I don't have any (grandchildren).

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Llarry

My much-loved Teac X-700R open-reel tape deck stopped functioning years ago, leaving me without a way to listen to my large collection of tapes. I couldn't find anyone who could fix it. I ended up selling it for a pittance and dumped something like 70 tapes into the landfill.

I started with open-reel audio in 1965 and continued to record for about 20 years. That X-700R had dbx noise reduction. It was probably my 10th open reel recorder.

Now I feel old...

In 1969, my college roommate had a Teac 7" reel to reel. I don't remember the model number, but it was amazing. He had a great amp, pre amp, and tuner. One day the local FM station announced it would play the yet-to-be released Beatle White Album without commercial interruption starting at Midnight. We stayed up and taped the album. We had it on tape before it was released.

As I write this, I'm thinking I already shared this story sometime back. That's the great part about getting old. You can share the same old story and nobody stops you!

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Llarry

I went through open reel tape decks like water; let me recap:
1965 - Sony tape recorder with speakers
1966 - Akai tape recorder with speakers
1971 - Teac tape deck (top-of-the-line A7010 with 10.5" reels)
1973 - Sansui tape deck (quadrophonic QD5500S)
1974 - Another Sansui QD5500S deck
1975 - Pioneer RT-1020 (10.5" reel-capable) tape deck
1977 - Teac A-4300SX tape deck
1981 - Teac X-7R tape deck
1989 - Teac X-700R tape deck

Speaking as a layman, I thought the highest quality tape decks in the 1970s were the Sansui units: They were rock-solid. Although I bought 4-channel units, I don't think I ever used them in 4-channel mode. But I think Sansui did not play in the open-reel arena for long.

What made this all possible was the insanely low prices I could buy audio equipment for in the military exchanges -- basically half of the U.S. list price. I would buy a piece of audio gear (tape deck or turntable or receiver), use it for a year or two and then resell it for about what I had paid. I suspect your Dad and other Canadian forces members had a similar good deal going on during their European tours of duty.

My roommate was in the Air Force and got his gear at great prices too. The turntable was Sansui and it was flawless. I miss the vinyl days.