Sixty-four, Bog help us all. The lyric “When I get older, losing my hair / Many years from now” no longer applies.
I’m not that handy mending a fuse, and Herself doesn’t knit sweaters by the fireside. Still, just last Saturday we were doing the garden, digging the weeds. Who could ask for more?
The 64km birthday ride is going to have to wait, though. The weather appears to be taking a turn for the worse. If I’m lucky I may be able to manage 64 minutes of running before the rain comes.
Tags: Birthdays
March 27, 2018 at 6:28 am |
well, happy birthday!
March 27, 2018 at 6:35 am |
Feliz cumpleanos!!!
March 27, 2018 at 6:37 am |
Happy birthday Patrick!
March 27, 2018 at 6:58 am |
Happy birthday, young sprout – It seems we share the date (70 here today!) and a few attitudes as well!! Cheers!
March 27, 2018 at 7:22 am |
Happy Birthday. Hope you have a wonderful day, week and upcoming year! And hope you get a ride in later after the weather passes.
March 27, 2018 at 8:04 am |
Happy Birthday! Damn Right! Enjoy!
March 27, 2018 at 8:28 am |
“Sip your lemonade.”
“Rain”, so young!
McCartney marched “for a friend” this past weekend.
March 27, 2018 at 8:54 am |
Happy birthday OG. Remember, age is only a number. In my case, I just wish it wasn’t such a damn big number.
March 27, 2018 at 8:56 am |
Buoncompleanno from here in Sicily. Seems you’re one lap ahead of me as I wasn’t dropped until 1955.
March 27, 2018 at 9:25 am |
Happy birthday, extremely young man!
March 27, 2018 at 9:29 am |
Congrats on yet another successful 365.256363 day, 583825190 mile, 66610 mph lap around the big ball of fire.
March 27, 2018 at 9:48 am |
Happy Birthday, Patrick! Thanks for keeping your posse informed, entertained, and engulfed in laughter one more year.
March 27, 2018 at 9:50 am |
Feliz cumpleaños, Senor. And many more.
March 27, 2018 at 9:51 am |
Fortunately I had a nice day this year.
http://labikes.blogspot.com/2018/01/annual-ride-your-age-day.html
March 27, 2018 at 9:56 am |
happy birthday to you. Turned the 64 also on Mar 26 time fricking marching on
March 27, 2018 at 9:56 am |
Happy birthday, you old bastard!
Chris
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March 27, 2018 at 10:03 am |
Congrats, youngster! Remember, every day above ground is a good day!
March 27, 2018 at 12:29 pm |
Happy Birthday & have a great day.
May you have many more trips around the Sun
March 27, 2018 at 1:35 pm |
Happy Birthday, Patrick! Enjoy your day. Mine was last week, another Aries baby.
March 27, 2018 at 7:06 pm |
Ain’t pushin’ up the posies, bro. Good on ya! We are what the Germans call “zeitgenosse”. The translation is “contemporaries”, but German is a simple language. It really translates as “time comrades”. Kinda cool, mein zeitgenosse, no?
March 28, 2018 at 6:15 am |
Thanks, all. As long as we’re on the right side of the lawn it’s all good, que no?
That lawn is all wet at the moment because it rained a good deal of yesterday, putting the kibosh on my birthday ride. But nobody who lives in a tinder-dry desert should complain about rain.
March 28, 2018 at 6:56 am |
If you complain about the rain in SE Arizona, especially during fire season, you are shunned.
The weather is quickly improving here; my lower back injury is not. No riding for me the rest of the week. Now that I can complain about, but no one will listen save the folks here in Mad Dog’s house.
March 28, 2018 at 8:40 am |
Good reason to procrastinate on the Great O’Grady Caper. Get well soon.
March 28, 2018 at 2:48 pm |
Of concern to me is as you age the number of miles/km goes UP! Shouldn’t there be some form of a senior citizen discount or handicap formula applied like golf? I’m worried if I try to ride my age next August I’ll keel over dead.
March 28, 2018 at 4:05 pm |
How about a 10% senior discount for every year starting at age 65?
March 28, 2018 at 6:25 pm |
Works for me
March 30, 2018 at 2:01 am |
I made the switch from miles to kilometers awhile back so my rides average speed is about 25 and I go 40-60 most times. Just like when I was 30 years old – but of course that was using the antiquated (does any country other than the US use ’em anymore?) system of miles. Seems fair to me though I’ve never paid much attention to riding any set distance on my birthday.
March 30, 2018 at 11:45 am |
There was a wonderful Frazz cartoon a while back where the idea was floated for developing a cycle computer that measured in Furlongs, (1 Kilometer = 4.9 furlongs).
March 31, 2018 at 4:31 am |
Gotta love Frazz. Jef featured CycleItalia in a color Sunday strip years ago and nicely sent us the original artwork, which is framed and hanging on our office wall.
Geez, now I’m going to have to figure out how to haul that over to Italy…
March 31, 2018 at 7:45 am
Any way to post a link for photo of the strip? Would love to see it.
March 31, 2018 at 9:25 am |
Back in grad school, we wrote an acceleration conversion from metric to furlongs per fortnight squared.
March 28, 2018 at 9:38 pm |
It’s all downhill from here dude…