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VANITY: So I Hit 50 Today....
My addled brain | 10/28/2005 | RightOnline

Posted on 10/28/2005 8:20:07 PM PDT by RightOnline

No big deal to hardly anyone but me, but today.....ol' RightOnline turned the Big Five-Oh. The Half Century Club. Halfway to centenarian and greetings from the fat guy on the Today Show......

I just thought I would take a few moments, after a thoroughly wonderful day, to share a few things I've picked up or things I've reflected on today with my beloved fellow FReepers (and you ARE just that, beloved ......well, as a group....some of ya.....well.....)

1. Whatever 50 is supposed to feel like, I don't feel it. I lift weights 5 days a week and am in better shape than when I was 25. So there.

2. No gray hairs.....nary a one. I feel cheated. I've earned plenty.

3. Nothing.......absolutely, nothing......is more important than your family. My lovely wife of nearly 28 years who has put up with me all these years and still looks 20 years younger than she is, my seven children who have ALL made me proud (ranging from a 26-year-old 2nd Lt. in the Army leading a Stryker platoon to a 4-year-old hooked on Spiderman and Batman). Cherish them, people, and keep them close.

4. Republicans don't have a corner on morality or good ideas or decency or common sense. It's merely that Democrats lack all of the above.

5. I've been playing rock guitar since I was not quite 14. Production and marketing have moved ahead rapidly since the late '60's music industry, but today's music that passes for "rock" largely sucks. I'd take "Live at the Fillmore East" to anything that has been released in the last 15 years.

6. Have a job? Great. Keep it and do the best you possibly can at all times. Have a career? Even better.......just make damned sure you enjoy it. Aim to work for yourself, but plan for it like you've never planned for anything in your life.

7. The most fun I ever had professionally was when I was flying for Uncle Sam (I'm an AF Academy grad). The responsibilities I had as a pilot in the Strategic Air Command during the Cold War have been unequalled in all the intervening years. I don't say this out of regret or a sense of loss; I say it from a sense of pride and to encourage young people to seriously consider the military in their younger years. It'll help you tremendously.

8. Don't number your close friends in the dozens. That's disingenuous. Number them in a small handful and keep them very close, no matter how far away they live.

9. Don't try to keep up with the Jones'. The Jones' are idiots. Set your own goals, care what YOU think, and live well within your means.

10. Love your God and His Son and try your best to live for 'em. You'll fall short as we all do (you wouldn't believe what my church puts up with from me). I WILL say that Jesus took a bullet for me, and I'll never, ever forget it. He'll get my best.......for life. I hope you feel the same.

I've been on this Forum for seven years now, and it's better, more vibrant, more interesting (if a tad less cerebral....no complaint there) than it has ever been. God bless all of you, God bless your families, and let's continue to have fun kicking Lib behind on a regular basis. See ya over the next 50......


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KEYWORDS: aarp; canstillkickyourass; geezer; happybirthday; oldfart
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; RightOnline
And she maintains ya gotta have grandkids before you're realllllllly old.)

the only way i graduated high school before you is if you were HELD BACK, ya weirdo. and the above statement is a true fact. i have an 11 yo and your kids are all grown, that makes you ancient compared to me. and it makes rightonline a virtual TEENAGER because i KNOW he has little ones yet!

221 posted on 10/31/2005 3:32:51 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: RightOnline
I said: "Mrs. Jimfree was game enough to make the celebration extend across about five days."

You said: You KIDS you............jeez........gonna have to wipe the steam off of the monitors and rate this thread MA. :)

and, (Good for you!!!!!!!)

Oh, it did sound that way didn't it? I don't remember much about the steamy part - - I probably should have said that there were two surprise parties as well as going out to dinner on the actual date of my birthday.

222 posted on 10/31/2005 5:03:43 AM PST by jimfree (Freep and Ye shall find.)
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To: Howlin; RightOnline
...And he's always so tan ...

Having read his intemperate remarks about my lack of integrity and general moral pustulence I have determined that there is either a great deal of bovine excreta in his system or that ...Dorian Gray is not just a book on his memorial wall...

I will decline to offer a salutation not on the grounds of personal insult, but just because at 50, he isn't old enough to matter.

[:>}

223 posted on 10/31/2005 5:23:37 AM PST by harrowup (almost NEVER GUILTY OF lugubrious THUGGERY while still being naturally PERFECT and HUMBLE of course.)
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To: RightOnline

I'm certain now, I haven't slept with you.


224 posted on 10/31/2005 6:13:53 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: TC Rider

LOL...........


225 posted on 10/31/2005 6:25:17 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: RightOnline

"Cool. Do I need really long hair and will chicks dig me 'n' stuff like the old days??"

Ixnay on the long hair, short is hot. And yes the chicks will dig you but most of them will be in their 70s.


226 posted on 10/31/2005 10:48:13 AM PST by TexanToTheCore (Rock the pews, Baby)
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To: RightOnline

I just hope you didn't hit fifty in a zone marked thirty.

Just kidding. Happy Birthday, and may there be at least fifty more.


227 posted on 10/31/2005 3:10:47 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Better an empty seat on the US Supreme Court, than seating anyone the liberals would gush over.)
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To: RightOnline
"So I hit 50 today..."

What did you hit it with? (I'm planning to use a tire iron in a few years!)
Anyway, happy birthday. Don't stay up too late! ;-)

228 posted on 10/31/2005 3:22:09 PM PST by Pablo64 ("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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To: RightOnline

Happy birthday! I hope it's your best day ever!


229 posted on 10/31/2005 3:24:57 PM PST by Xenalyte ("Every day should be the best day ever!" -Frank DellaPenna, Cast in Bronze)
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To: Xenalyte; Pablo64; F.J. Mitchell; TexanToTheCore

Thank you all very, very much.....:)


230 posted on 10/31/2005 3:34:36 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: RightOnline

Welcome to the 50+ RightOnLine. I'm not in the 50+ club however. Actually I'm in the 60+ club.

God Bless your family, and FR too.

gpapa


231 posted on 10/31/2005 11:14:14 PM PST by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: gpapa

Thank you, sir. :)


232 posted on 11/01/2005 4:07:42 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: maranatha

So hey.....I posted a pic of me on my 50th for ya after all.


233 posted on 11/04/2005 3:41:28 PM PST by RightOnline
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