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Chamomile - Gangnam Style parody

2025-04-19T00:31:41Z

A little something to make you smile, maybe.

Luckily not all of the things mentioned in the song apply to me so far, but several do!

I am still working, really!, I just opened Youtube to turn on some background music.

Video title: Chamomile - Gangnam Style Parody Song for us Older Ones!
Posted by: Shirley Șerban
Date posted: 2025/03/05

This is what I'm going to be listening to:
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals *FULL ALBUM*
My clock radio played the last song, "Red Cave", this morning. The sound was special and intrigued me about the rest of the album.

That's happened a few times lately. Google Sound Search comes in very handy to identify the songs. Twice, it was able to identify a song based solely on the last two seconds of the song (when I was slow to open the app), with only the winding down sounds of the instruments - that seems so amazing (especially with audio from an over-the-air radio which has a certain amount of static rather than perfect digital sound quality).

One of those other songs is worthy of mention here too. But it is not light-hearted so I'll leave it for possibly another time.

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toasty

2022-01-28T07:21:27Z

I've started having what must be hot flashes. They don't last more than a minute or so. I feel the heat mainly in my torso, easily abated by untucking my shirt.

It is an amazing feeling, like all of a sudden Wow! I'm so toasty warm like a little heater! Where did that come from? Who knew I had it in me?

I also still get chilled at night sometimes in spite of having plenty of warm blankets on me. But having a folded electric blanket at the foot of my bed to warm my feet up is heavenly.

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this happens too often (but not usually to this extent)

2021-12-10T01:56:41Z

I think of cooking this whole wheat couscous for dinner.
The container is about 3/4 empty, so I could finally use it up.
The contents smell stale, but maybe not too bad. I think fresh couscous may smell the same way?
I read the date on the container...
"BEST IF USED BEFORE MAY 21, 2010"

What, 2010!!!??? How can I have had this in my cupboard since 2010!??

Well then, it probably really is stale and better not to be eaten.

..

I could have sworn I bought these 2 boxes of Matzo Ball mix 2 years ago. I thought that was when I made matzo balls for the first time, for Christmas.
But no, the date on these packages is JUN 27 2018.
And when I check my notes, it was Thanksgiving of 2017 when I made them last, not 2019.
Sigh.
At least these aren't too old to still cook. But it would require more effort than I want to do tonight. Maybe this weekend.

..

So I open a can of stuffed grape leaves to eat with the leftover canned Delhi Saag and Pigeon Peas which I opened yesterday.

But then while heating that I think to myself:
That couscous has been patiently sitting in that cupboard since 2010.. All the things that have happened in my life since 2010!... patiently waiting.
HOW CAN I POSSIBLY just throw it away!? No, I have to at least cook it and see how it turns out.

..
Update, 2021/12/11:
I cooked the couscous with a bouillon cube and a tablespoon of margarine (instead of the teaspoon indicated by the instructions). It tasted pretty good, better than when I cooked it in the past; that must be the right way to cook couscous.

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as I get older

2020-02-07T07:07:02Z

the past grows nearer
what used to be a span of ten lifetimes ago
becomes five
becomes four,
three,
two

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i can't remember my exact age anymore without doing a quick calculation each time

2019-12-04T05:48:40Z

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepping down as CEO and president

They look so young in that photo, I checked their ages.
Sure enough, they're both more than a year younger than me.

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This morning I saw a senior citizen discount offered to anyone 55 or older, and realized that would be me in a mere 7 years. Inconceivable. I still feel like the same young person inside, just with more experiences and a worse memory.

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you know you're old when

2019-04-04T04:23:37Z

Shortly after watching a short preview of Killing Eve, season 2, I switched the channel to an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The episode was "True Q", and had a character who looked like a young version of Villanelle from Killing Eve. I wondered if it could be the same actress. Even though ST:TNG must have been around 20 years earlier... if the ST:TNG actress was in her teens then, she'd be maybe in her late 30s now... so it could be possible. Villanelle might be in her late 30s, right? Aren't she and Sandra Oh around the same age?

So I looked it up. The ST:TNG character was played by Olivia d'Abo, born in 1969. Villanelle is played by Jodie Comer, born in 1993. The "True Q" episode came out in 1992, a year before Jodie Comer was even born!

They still look so alike to me, at least in those 2 TV shows:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Olivia+d%27Abo+true+q&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jodie+comer+killing+eve&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

Sandra Oh was born in 1971, so at least I'm not too far off the mark in regards to her age. She's slightly older than me even.

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eternity

2013-12-18T05:19:59Z

I'm over 40 years old. Thinking about it the other day, it seemed to me that 40 years isn't that long at all. 40 winters. 40 Christmases. 40 summers. Four sets of double-handprints. You could put down a mark for each year it wouldn't take up much space at all.

And yet, when I was 10 years old, didn't it seem that those 10 years were an eternity?

And these 40 years have been an eternity too.

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Nasal rhymes with Basil*. Where that thought came from? Oh, I was misreading the 2nd word in "Africa Brasil".

*Now that I think of it, they wouldn't rhyme in a British accent.
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11 audio cassettes laying on the table. I recorded them to the computer, but still need to process the files. Need to do that before I record any more.

A German/English dictionary. For when I get back to reading the family letters.

A washcloth. For wiping off tears. Left on the table from the last time I had a cry, quite a while back. I rarely cry anymore, in comparison to how much I used to. I still feel like it once in a while, but it seems pointless, and I can usually distract myself from it.

A lamp socket. There's another lamp that I need to fix.

Xylitol wintergreen mints. For my teeth. The mints taste so good I could eat them all up at once. Some of my teeth are eroded at the gum line, and I want the enamel to grow back. I'm experimenting. Since my last dental cleaning, every evening after brushing my teeth, I've flossed, and then swished with a mild children's fluoride rinse. Plus xylitol mints and gum during the day.

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It's as if I'm determined to go to bed late every time.

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Oh and these weird sudden itches out of the blue. Like on the back of my knee, yesterday. Right now, on my left ankle.

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the culture of age

2013-10-27T18:10:35Z

It has occurred to me that my impression of what it is like to be "old" is based on the older people I've known during my "youth" (which includes my life up until now). But these people are/were of a different generation than me. So, some of the qualities I associate with being old are actually based on generational differences, rather than on age itself. For example, how old people dress, the music they like to listen to, and the activities they engage in.

Long ago, I used to have a vague anxiety / incomprehension about getting old, as I couldn't picture myself as one of the old people I knew. I couldn't picture myself wearing the clothes they wore, for one thing. Once I consciously realized that getting older didn't mean that I'd start wearing completely different clothing and shoes, some of the incomprehension faded.

Today, a few more realizations clicked into place. When I get old, my musical preferences won't suddenly shift. When I'm old, there will be other people my age who enjoy listening to death metal, and rap music, and techno. Probably via headphones and ear-buds. There will likely be old people chatting away on their cell-phones just like younger people do today. Old people will surf the internet and send emails, and will still seem incomprehensibly old-fashioned to the youth of the future.

In the same way as I feel pretty much the same now as when I was younger, I'll feel pretty much the same as I do now when I'm older. Except for the physical changes.

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mathematical intelligence & aging

2013-05-26T20:25:20Z

My alma mater's mailing list sometimes includes a mathematical brain teaser in their emails. Often, when I first look at the brain teaser, it seems like it should be easy to solve. Sometimes, it is. Other times, it takes me a long time to figure out (or I may even give up, deciding I have other pressing things to do with my time).

I wonder if I could have solved these problems quicker/easier, when I was younger. Or if they would have been the same difficult for me, back then.

Latest brain teaser:
There is a number less than 3,000 that when divided by 2 leaves a remainder of 1, when divided by 3 leaves a remainder of 2, when divided by 4 leaves a remainder of 3, when divided by 5 leaves a remainder of 4, when divided by 6 leaves a remainder of 5, and so on up to nine.
What is that number?

( How I finally solved it )

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