Ingineers Ramblings

I have been thinking for a while about posting something about getting older. Some things that made me ponder this are the fact that for the first time in my life James Bond is younger than me. Also Barack Obama is almost my age. At some point I got to be older than not only almost all the players in the NFL but older than some of the coaches too.

I guess I am getting to the age that it starts to sink in that you cannot do everything that you used to be able to do. One of the things that I have noticed is that I take longer to heal. If I strain a muscle lifting something it seems to take forever to stop bothering me. I am not sure exactly when I got older, but it happened, and I am sure that I am not ready to stop having fun. So I am resolving to start exercising more and give myself good reason to have aches and pains. I mean if Faith Hill can look as good as she does at 41, I should be able to get in better shape and at least not feel like a slug at 42.

Another thing got me thinking about getting older and mortality. On Friday at a project in Red Bluff that is being ran by my counterpart up there, one of our engineers that was on loan for the summer from a desk assignment pulled out in front of a big rig that had just exited the interstate and was killed. I pull out from the side of the road in work zones dozens of times a week and this guy got killed doing it. We feel pretty safe in our vehicles compared to standing on a construction project with heavy equipment on one side and high speed traffic on the other, but in this case a moment of inattention or distraction cost him his life.

Labels: Aging, mortality