Recent content by EmptyCup

I went on a 10 day small group adventure trip like this years ago. There were only two guides. One couple was an 83 year old man and his sixty something girlfriend. The guides were constantly checking on where he was on the hikes and how he was doing. I heard them saying later they were...

I would get this quite often from surfing. Didn’t have a problem with pools. There is a lot of bacteria in the ocean water though. It was so bad once I lost hearing in my right ear for a few days. Took lots of sulfa drugs to tame that infection. Doctors still remark on how scarred up my ear...

Ambidextrous. My signature is identical with both hands. Tennis, better left handed. Switch hitter in baseball. Bowling is equally good with both hands. Sanctioned leagues make you choose one though. Golf better right handed. Although putting is equal. My father was ambi also. Must be something...

Something I remember older relatives say when I was young “I don’t want to end up being a burden”. It was a real thing. Multigenerational households can be a great thing but … sometimes a lot of stress and seething resentments, even fights. Not all families are a Hallmark channel story. Yes, I...

I’ve seen a couple YouTube documentaries on Japanese companies who specialize in cleanup and disposition of what they call “lonely deaths”. It’s quite interesting and also pretty awful. The one guy they interviewed took his work very spiritually. He considered this work a special calling and was...

No. I feel lucky to still have hair so I am going to leave it be. The color didn’t start to go until I was about 60. Then it seemed to go all at once. Divorce didn’t help. Now I know why they call it gray divorce. It turns one’s hair gray in a hurry.

Before Social Security and Medicare, widows were taken in and supported by family members. Usually female relatives. Men worked until they died or were so disabled they could physically no longer do anything. If your family couldn’t or wouldn’t support you, one ended up at the poor farm -...

Ah, yes. That would have been my second guess. Lost a tree to fungus as well.

Are they susceptible to bark beetles? That’s what killed my Aleppo Pine. Nutrients could not get to the limbs. It was a beautiful tree, but the annual needle fall clogged the valleys on the tile roof. Not cool.

I’ve been told by coworkers at two different workplaces that I was the only honest person they knew there. Also, one of my children told me that I did all the heavy lifting in raising them. Good thing her mother wasn’t around when she said it.

They used to come in a booklet. The coupons would be torn out as needed. They were different colors for denominations. I don’t know why they called them stamps. Not like they were small like S&H green stamps and could be licked. They were more like ration coupons - a little smaller than the size...

It was 27 cents and then came the embargo. A friend and I were in one of those long gas lines when the car in front of us ran out of gas. On a hill of course. We helped push his car all the way to the station. Took most of an afternoon to get through the line.

I believe one can be along in years but youthful in attitude. I known plenty of people that acted “old” when still chronologically young. Time to be bold.

They have multiple services here: Veyo, SunVan, and of course, Uber. As someone else mentioned, can’t use these for anything involving anesthesia. They insist on a family member or a person who will sign to be “responsible”. My three children live in town but are quite busy 8-5 with work and...

Just like home? I did a five mile hike today. At one point I had to crossover the river/wash to continue. The walkway runs parallel to a busy road. I saw a shuttle bus with a slogan on the cab-over: “Not “just like home”, it is home.” Apparently a bus for an assisted living facility. I wonder...