"If I had known I was gonna live this long....
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:30 am
....I'd have taken better care of myself."
That was a quote from early Broadway and Ragtime composer Eubie Blake (1887-1983). Of course, he was a dried up old raisin of a human being by the time he said it, but he did live a long and fruitful life, dying at age 94. His grandparents had been slaves, and he earned great fame. He was the only suriviving child of eight children, the other seven having died in infancy. I suppose that, even in the face of Jim Crow, he must have felt that he lived a charmed existence.
Anyway, like Eubie Blake, if I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. I woke up this morning with my usual throbbing back and limped out to the kitchen for a cup of medicinal coffee, to find a birthday card from my insurance agent propped up at my place at the dining table. I downed 500 mg of Etodolac and a 10/350 hydrocodone with my coffee, like I do every morning, and in about 45 minutes or so, I'll feel like the 60 years old I am today, instead of the 94 years old I woke up feeling like. Then it will be off to shower and dress for a workout, and off to physical therapy for my thrice weekly flogging on the Alter-G, in preparation for the Run4Justice 5K I'm training for at the end of the month.
I made it. I'm 60 years old today and still alive.....and a little puzzled by that.......and for you young bucks, don't get cocky. Old age and cunning will beat inexperience and youthful enthusiasm every single time.
Happy birthday to me. I love you guys.
That was a quote from early Broadway and Ragtime composer Eubie Blake (1887-1983). Of course, he was a dried up old raisin of a human being by the time he said it, but he did live a long and fruitful life, dying at age 94. His grandparents had been slaves, and he earned great fame. He was the only suriviving child of eight children, the other seven having died in infancy. I suppose that, even in the face of Jim Crow, he must have felt that he lived a charmed existence.
Anyway, like Eubie Blake, if I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. I woke up this morning with my usual throbbing back and limped out to the kitchen for a cup of medicinal coffee, to find a birthday card from my insurance agent propped up at my place at the dining table. I downed 500 mg of Etodolac and a 10/350 hydrocodone with my coffee, like I do every morning, and in about 45 minutes or so, I'll feel like the 60 years old I am today, instead of the 94 years old I woke up feeling like. Then it will be off to shower and dress for a workout, and off to physical therapy for my thrice weekly flogging on the Alter-G, in preparation for the Run4Justice 5K I'm training for at the end of the month.
I made it. I'm 60 years old today and still alive.....and a little puzzled by that.......and for you young bucks, don't get cocky. Old age and cunning will beat inexperience and youthful enthusiasm every single time.
Happy birthday to me. I love you guys.
and many more returns. 
