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A few moments ago, I turned 30.

I am home alone, surfing on f13.net and the first half of my life is over.

I am not depressed or sad, just bored. :-D

And suddenly I feel old.

Oh, btw. I will have a semi-big party in a week from now, so if you are is in the neighbourhood ... :evil:

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Happy Birthday, 4 years minus five days after me :)

What makes you think you will die at 60? Shitty lifestyle or bad genes? Personally I try go past 90s.

Wait till you're 45. You're even more bored, with the added bonus of random parts of your body aching for no reason other than they're just tired of working.

Happy birthday!

Just a joke some friend of mine made not so long ago.

Personally I plan to live forever. :-D

Thanks everybody. Especially Signe, as always :-D

Happy birthday!  Thirty sucks for a little while until you realize the next nine years are cake, nothing to worry about until you hit forty!  Got a nice easy decade in front of you, grats.

I turned 31 on May 19. I was only shittier than turning 30 if you really buy in with all of that over the hill claptrap.

Fear not, waggling your cane at THOSE DAMN KIDS is largely satisfying -- just get some good bourbon.

Unless you are a woman, you are not old until you can sneeze and pee at the same time... accidentally.   :|

I turn 24 in 2 days. I'm depressed already.

Happy Birthday! 30 is awesome. It's been the best year for me so far!

I turn 26 next year. I feel like I'm 200.

^^^^
 :-(

you fuckin' kids.

I'm actually 150 in monkey years, which explains my wisdom.

30 almost killed me with depression.

Good Luck.

Right, I forgot all that "respect the eldery" and wisdom stuff.

Anybody knows a good place to get some decent canes ?

I even found some grey hairs today!

Retirement here I come :-D

The only depression I got at my 30th birthday was about me not getting depressed like promised by so many other people. Well, maybe at 40.

Happy birthday! I hope you were wearing a helmet when you posted that. A saftey helmet.  :thumbs_up:

:rimshot:

 :-D

Pfft, you kids keep off my lawn!

Happy B-day.

You don't really feel old until you flip boxes in the 'age bracket' demographics on surveys and such. 

Grrr...

the 30's start really great. My dentist just decided that there was no more hope for one of my favourite teeth

(http://people.uncw.edu/newlink/tooth.jpg)

Ouch!

There's a tooth in that picture?

Your dentist is geek hot.

Actually she looks a lot like his assistant. What a coincidence.

Btw. the fucking wound is still bleeding a little, is that normal ? :-D

You stabbed her?

Happy Birthday!!  Sorry I'm late.  Hope the party is a smashing success!

Milestone birthdays are fun.  I get one in September, and I can't decide if I'm not going to be depressed like I was turning 30 or if I'm going to be depressed and make the husband nuts in the process.  I'll probably just celebrate by teasing my mom about how she now has 2 of 4 children over 40 with another one to hit next year.   :lol:

Congratulations, you're still here!

I didn't find turning 30 to be a big deal. When we have a kid, THEN I'll feel old.

Happy Birthday.

Suprisingly, 30 didn't bother me. 35 was depressing though, for some reason. Just giving you something to look forward to.

35 sucks it. 30 you still have some hope, if only that all the shit talking you hear about being "over the hill" is just bullshit. It's not. Prepare for the desparate, slow slide into old age.

Happy birthday!

Great angry.bob and I are the same age

/salute to 1961

And freaking 30 is young so get over it.

You should see my dentist then.

Pics or she's just a failed doctor.

I'm betting "dental hygienist".

:-P (http://riveroakscenterfordentistry.net/aboutus.aspx)

Click the raspberry.

I'm 16 days older than Slack. 

Damn young punk lawyers.

Maybe she's just an oral specialist.

Yegah.

Sorry, I don't speak gibberish.  Translation?

I think that was a "yee-haw!" said while drooling.

35 hit me a bit harder than 30, too. When I hit 30, I had just gotten this job, so things were going really well. And 35 wasn't 'bad', more of an epiphany, and it's been really great ever since. Sure, my teens and twenties were fun as hell, but I'm so over that phase. I've enjoyed the last few years more than anything, and it keeps getting better (37 now).

I'm also dating a girl six years older than I am (ok, I just proposed to her last weekend...so I guess it's more than dating now), so I get to work through the post-40 stuff a few years early. And some of my favorite people are in their 80s, so I'm not too worried about being old for at least another 20 years.

Plus, people in their 20s generally annoy the shit out of me. Put away your goddamned cell phone. I'll take the wisdom of age over the beauty of youth any day.

Congratulations, you old dog you!  Now, if you actually want her to marry you, stop spreading around her real age! (she said yes, right?)

Wow.  Your teeth must be very clean.  Mine would be.

That's not my teeth I'd want her to polish. /rut

Congrats, Sky! Getting married was the best thing I ever did.

Ding, Gratz Sky.

As to Lantyssa's dentist - Nah, as an after thought, I won't say anything.

(Boobs.)


Hmm, Lantyssa is a really hard (fake)name to shorten in to a nickname. Lanty just sounds lame. Oh well.

Lan is what most people use.

She looks a bit like a hippie, albeit an attractive one.  Almost like she'd try to fix a cavity using colourful crystals, magnets and herbal tea.  Instead of paying her in cash your next visit just buy her a $99 scanner so that article she scanned won't be so terribly pixelated.

That was for the magazine.  (I love the outfit though.  It's very much a style I like.)  I'm used to seeing her in scrubs with her hair tied back.  Her blue coloring is a lot easier to see that way, too.

Well, I'm 24 as of yesterday. Blech.

Happy birthday to you and congrats to Sky!  :hello_kitty: :heart: :-D :nintendo:

OK, I am gonna weigh in here just so you punks do not start trying to sob on your respective shoulders. Next month I turn the double nickel. I had my first child at 32. NASA claimbes that ability meets experience at 34 to 36. Quit complaining, you are at the peak of your power. After 40 it is a down hill ride. After 50 things really start to change. Things that you shrugged off when you were younger, like a cold? Get used to dragging for a month to shake it off. I have enjoyed a healthy life and I am healthy as I type this But I am more fragile and I recognise this. I hope all that read this live to a ripe full old age. I do not mind getting older as it is so much better than the alternative. What is the alternative you ask? Dieing young.

24, in the Jewish religion, is when a boy becomes a man and stops playing WoW.

Grats, Sky!  For a second there I had you confused with one of the "never get married" folks and was confused, though.  I blame the brain worms.

Sometimes I feel like I grew up too fast by never partying or slacking around doing the stuff that my generation does, but then I am just glad that I am no longer 20 and stuck in college wondering if I'll have a job when I graduate or if I'll pass that fields theory final in the morning.  30 may be around the corner but I feel better than I have in years.

You people and your silly holidays.

Watch your tongue, boy. We're the chosen people.

Chosen for what?

I'm sure it was a typo.  I think he meant to say "We are the hosen people." 

(http://www.waidbruck.it/Brucknsturm/Images/lederhosen.jpg)

/agree

Get off my lawn!

Happy (late) birthday, Fabricated (you young punk!) and congrats to Sky! 

Marriage is a wonderful thing, IMO.  Just got back from a marvelous lunch date with the husband celebrating our 14th a month late (last month I was busy helping to plan a funeral for my real anniversary.  Life's too short.)

I'm really glad to have found someone totally compatible, we have so much fun together.

I was very much a bad judge of women when I was younger. I thought supermodels were the physical ideal and that crazy was good. It was fun...but nobody to keep around very long. This is WAY better...though I'm glad my wild oats were well-sown, which really lets me enjoy this relationship fully.

TRUTH.  I let so many quality women slip away only to marry a trophy wife... what a mistake.  To all of you 20-somethings: Marry for personality... you'll be amazed how ugly a model can become once you get to really know them.  While initial attraction is nice, it's nothing in comparison to deeper personal qualities. 

Married my soul mate.  It's the right thing to do, and the tasty way to do it.

Sorry about your anniversary, Rhyssa.

Congrats on 14, Rhyssa... we're not far behind you!  I like being married, too.  Well, to Righ, anyway.  Of course, he still thinks crazy is good.   :-)

See, the thing that amuses me the most about Sky, is that he's kind of this Grandfatherish version of the Hedonistic ideal. The fact that even he has found a love in his life which satisfies his soul (which i'm not entirely sure he belives in, but I do) is encouraging for all people.  He lived his life, he has learned from his successes and mistkes, and in the end he has made himself happy. I find that to be in the realm of Solomon, who also sampled the pleasures of life to find answers.

But then I find widsom in odd places.

Fuckin' A yeah you do or why would you hang out here?

(http://www.microsoft.com/games/fable/img/esrb_m.gif)

Your pic, it is broken.

I recommend we cut it in half.

Better Solomon than Paul. (do as I say, not as I did)

Ugh... I'm turning 21 in 15 days, and I feel ancient also... But then again, I've always felt old, and never hung out with my age group. People my age act like fucking idiots 90% of the time, the other 10% they are silent. I just HATE THEM SO MUCH!

...Unfortunately, I feel I haven't really lived life to the fullest. Never partied, never did drugs(edit: I did smoke pot a few times, I just don't really think of it when I think of drugs for some reason...), never gotten drunk. My sister and my mom at this age were crazy I guess, so I kinda feel like I missed out (they, trying to be good family, deny that I have). Of course, there are other things to life at this age than drugs and booze, but I still feel like I left the opportunities of youth behind.

At this age I guess I should be looking towards the future, even just for the fact that I have so little past, but I just can't seem to stop my nostalgia.

In terms of partying, drugs and booze, my life got wilder between the ages of 24 and 28.  After I had enough of that, I looked for different ways of finding excitement and adventure.  Opportunities are where you make them and they aren't the exclusive domain of youth. 

Admittedly, when I was younger I used to recover quicker!    :-(

It's not too late for sex, drugs and rock n roll, little twat!  And 21 opens up all sorts of new areas of depravity.  Work on it!

The depravity should start right away.  The last thing you want is to wake up on your fortieth birthday and realize you irretrievably suck.

I am undeniably awesome. When I'm 40, I'll be twice as awesome as I was at 20.

What if you wake up well before your 40th birthday and realize that?

Take lots of pills.

I was lucky enough to have a good head on my shoulders and avoid most of the traps of a hedonistic lifestyle. I came out with an odd mishmash of ethics, almost a Garriot-esque ethical hedonism. Also the basis of my libertarianism.

In my opinion, life is an impartial bitch. There is no fair, there is no justice, beyond what we make for ourselves. Kinda bleak, but I find it motivating and it really makes me appreciate when people do good things, and I'm very liberal with my praise for those who do. Anyway, life is also chock full of lessons for those who pay attention and think about things. Rather than get pissed and take on the victim role, figure out how you could have overcome something...and you've just become wiser rather than continuing the same patterns. Too few people take that road, because it's really difficult to be honest with yourself.

One of my favorite quotes is from a homeless guy I knew in Frisco (who knew where all the sweet soup kitchens were when I was impoverished). The closed mouth does not get fed. Basically, do not approach life passively, or it will leave you behind.

Also, know when it's time to be serious about things. The rest of the time, have fun and be silly, don't sweat the small stuff. The toughest part about becoming a wise adult is not losing your fun childhood persona. Some people stay childish their entire lives to their detriment, some get too serious.

Anyway, enough with the wisdom crap, I'm starting to sound like an old man. There was a guy in the library last week, maybe in his 60s, getting books on guitar. He had just started playing. Those are the people who inspire me.

Thanks for your kind words, I never thought I'd get married, but then, I've never met such a good match for myself, either. Until I stopped looking and realized that the girl I always talked to about stuff was so much fun to be around.

See - you should write a guitar book - then when people check it out, you can say, "Good book."

Pretty much how I wound up.  No point in having someone around whose company you don't enjoy!