Bookmarked. Hope I remember to go back and read it, but I rarely do.
yet another activity to fill a slot in my day planner ... ;)
I will confess that I have to look at my business card to remember my tele #. But I just don’t need it enough to commit it to memory.
But I’ve had to so that for many many years. Otherwise, I guess I’m still OK. I remember the wifes B’day and our wedding anniversary date. So that keeps me out of major trouble...:)
I went back for a PhD at age 48. Brain seems to be working pretty good so far into my mid-50’s - at least at work.
At home it’s a different story. I should probably carry a small notebook around w/me, but I find it more entertaining to stand in the middle of the room and wonder why I’m there.
I remember that when I was younger, I used to chase pretty young girls. Now that I’m more mature, I still do, but not as often - because I can’t remember why I was chasing them in the first place.
Is that what they call “having a Senior moment”, LOL.
;^D
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Good idea. I take my brain out for a walk everyday. Of course, I keep it on a leash.
Mark
Baloney. As people get older, their brains are more chock full of data, and tend to get over-exercised. That’s why at odd moments they are disconnected from their short-term memory processing abilities. It isn’t exercise they need, it’s daily visits of totally relaxing the brain. Not sleep, not TV, not reading. But just disconnecting from overuse of the brain. In a time past folks would set on the porch and rock for a spell in the evenings. Good medicine. It’s like rebooting your harddrive.
You will forget it
An 80 year old couple were having problems remembering things, so they decided to go to their doctor to get checked out to make sure nothing was wrong with them. When they arrived at the doctor’s, they explained to the doctor about the problems they were having with their memory.
After checking the couple out, the doctor tells them that they were physically okay but might want to start writing things down and make notes to help them remember things. The couple thanked the doctor and left.
Later that night while watching TV, the old man got up from his chair and his wife asks, “Where are you going?”
He replies, “To the kitchen.”
She asks, “Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?”
He replies, “Sure.”
She then asks him, “Don’t you think you should write it down so you can remember it?”
He says, “No, I can remember that.”
She then says, “Well, I also would like some strawberries on top. You had better write that down cause I know you’ll forget that.”
He says, “I can remember that, you want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries.”
She replies, “Well, I also would like whip cream on top. I know you will forget that so you better write it down.”
With irritation in his voice, he says, “I don’t need to write that down, I can remember that.” He then fumes into the kitchen.
After about 20 minutes he returns from the kitchen and hands her a plate of bacon and eggs.
She stares at the plate for a moment and says, “You forgot my toast.”
Decaying brains, or the fear thereof, have inspired a mini-industry of brain health products -- not just supplements like coenzyme Q10, ginseng and bacopa, but computer-based fitter-brain products as well.Yeah, buying snake oil is so much more dignified than accepting some inconveniences of growing older. We wanted greater longevity...
Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll ... Uh ...
Vote Democrat?
I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, look over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only 1 check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Coke is getting warm and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water. I put the Coke on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.
I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
* the car isn't washed
* the bills aren't paid
* there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter
* the flowers don't have enough water
* there is still only 1 check in my check book
* I can't find the remote
* I can't find my glasses
* and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damn day, and I'm really tired.
I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail. Do me a favor. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who the hell I've sent it to.