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Default Is anyone here *not* over-the-hill? {was: Cooking again:) Birthday dinner.}


"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Tue 10 Dec 2013 01:56:42p, jmcquown told us...
>
>> On 12/10/2013 3:48 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On 12/10/2013 2:26 PM, wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:13:46 -0800 (PST), Bryan-TGWWW
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 10:48:33 AM UTC-6,
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 06:11:30 -0800 (PST), Bryan-TGWWW
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Males are "over-the-hill" at 39, females at 42. I'm
>>>>>>>> defining "over-the-hill" as past the midpoint of life
>>>>>>>> expectancy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's a crock - I am well over 55+ - I walk every day
>>>>>>> usually a
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> couple of miles - in the snow too this a.m. - it's a question
>>>>>>> of how you mentally regard your age. If you want to think
>>>>>>> 55 is old, IT WILL BE !!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Chronologically, you are well over halfway between birth and
>>>>>> DEATH.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Bryan
>>>>>
>>>>> Soooo ? Every day after you are born you are a day nearer to
>>>>> dying
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Could even die the day you're born. It happens all the time.
>>>
>>> What a jolly thought ...
>>>

>> We don't have to worry about it. Weird post asking who is
>> "over the hill".
>>
>> Jill
>>

>
> I'll be 69 in January and I don't feel like I've reached the top of
> the hill yet. :-)
>

I'm there and still working full time. I don't see the point of retiring. In
that I am following my grandfather and several uncles who retired when they
were pushing 80.
Graham