It's going to be a fairly quiet one, because I don't expect my husband home from work until after 1 AM. But I'm one year closer to my 100th birthday party, which will be held either in an orbital habitat or Luna City, whichever has the best restaurants ;-D
Though, if any part of me is still around at that point, it'll probably just be my personality uploaded into the computing cloud. I hope you don't mind a little transmission lag.
I'm totally serious about reaching 100. I'm now 61, and I seem to be in reasonably good health, aside from being fat and out of shape. And my great-grandfather lived to be 96, in full possession of his faculties until the end. According to current medical predictions, I can already expect to live into my late 80s - and with every year, those numbers go up. Forty years from now, making the century mark won't even be especially remarkable.
Actually, in the words of R.A.H., "I intend to live forever, or die trying." But if the meatware ever does get too worn out to repair, I'll upload myself so fast that the electrons will get warm ;-)
OK, that makes you only a few months younger than me. Dad died at 79, though, and I have cancer and heart disease on both sides of the family. Uploading's probably a better bet.
Good grief, you are older than I am! On the internet, that's extremely rare.
My dad died just a month shy of his 80th birthday, but he was a smoker. I don't have any discernable genetic pattern of disease - every one of my relatives died of different things. Which means I'll probably get hit by a meteorite or something...
And stroke. I've had a couple of TIAs, and Mom had a small stroke two days ago -- my brother called last night and assured me she's recovering OK, but it's still scary. Yes, I take blood thinners and aspirin.
I think my maternal grandfather died of a stroke, although it could have been a heart attack - it happened before I was born, and he died a week after his wife, my grandmother, died from TB. My paternal grandmother died in an insane asylum, probably of neglect; my grandfather, from lung cancer after fifty years of smoking. My father was pretty healthy, except for "smoker's cough", until he dropped dead of a massive heart attack. My mother died from complications of diabetes, which she developed after a weight loss procedure that was popular in the early 1960s destroyed her thyroid gland. She had two sisters and a brother; one sister died of lung cancer after being married to a smoker for forty years, the other of congestive heart failure resulting from high blood pressure, and her brother died of colon cancer in his eighties. So I don't know what in particular I should be taking steps to prevent... and I'm too lazy to be paranoid about everything. (I was even nearly struck by lightning once, but it missed, so I know that's not what's going to kill me.)
My word, another internet weirdo who's older than I am!
It appears that my hundredth is going to fall on a Wednesday. That means we'll have to start the party the preceding Saturday, and keep going until the Sunday after the day, in order to accommodate everyone's interplanetary travel plans.
I see from your profile that you live in Sunnyvale. My son lived there for a year while he was going to grad school. I'll have to ask him if he ever met a bubble-blowing poet.
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Date: 2008-12-11 02:22 pm (UTC)It's going to be a fairly quiet one, because I don't expect my husband home from work until after 1 AM. But I'm one year closer to my 100th birthday party, which will be held either in an orbital habitat or Luna City, whichever has the best restaurants ;-D
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Date: 2008-12-11 02:34 pm (UTC)Though, if any part of me is still around at that point, it'll probably just be my personality uploaded into the computing cloud. I hope you don't mind a little transmission lag.
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Date: 2008-12-12 04:29 am (UTC)I'm totally serious about reaching 100. I'm now 61, and I seem to be in reasonably good health, aside from being fat and out of shape. And my great-grandfather lived to be 96, in full possession of his faculties until the end. According to current medical predictions, I can already expect to live into my late 80s - and with every year, those numbers go up. Forty years from now, making the century mark won't even be especially remarkable.
Actually, in the words of R.A.H., "I intend to live forever, or die trying." But if the meatware ever does get too worn out to repair, I'll upload myself so fast that the electrons will get warm ;-)
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Date: 2008-12-12 05:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-12 01:59 pm (UTC)My dad died just a month shy of his 80th birthday, but he was a smoker. I don't have any discernable genetic pattern of disease - every one of my relatives died of different things. Which means I'll probably get hit by a meteorite or something...
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Date: 2008-12-12 02:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-13 09:36 am (UTC)Happy Hundredth
Date: 2008-12-12 09:10 am (UTC)But that's just over 31 years away, so there's plenty of time to plan.
Re: Happy Hundredth
Date: 2008-12-12 02:09 pm (UTC)It appears that my hundredth is going to fall on a Wednesday. That means we'll have to start the party the preceding Saturday, and keep going until the Sunday after the day, in order to accommodate everyone's interplanetary travel plans.
I see from your profile that you live in Sunnyvale. My son lived there for a year while he was going to grad school. I'll have to ask him if he ever met a bubble-blowing poet.