I need to ask y??all a question or two now that I am in the ??disposable? age bracket in accordance with the new norm. The questions are juvenile as you would expect so here we go.
- When walking around the house in sock feets or barefoot do you ever think you stepped in something wet only to realize you didn??t?
- When SWMBO is talking to you do you forget what she is talking about?
- How many times a day do you ??lose? something??ÿ
- Does SWMBO tell you to get your hearing checked more than twice a week?
And one final question for all you Mensa folks: Why hasn??t wireless energy transfer been invented?
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1. Yes
2. Yes
3. 0.04
4. No.
5. It has been. SWMBO can give me that look and I am immediately shocked into action.
1. No. I haven't had that feeling without cause, and the usual cause (previous cat) died.
2. I often don't understand what she is talking about, but that gets me to asking clarifying questions.
3. A plot of the number of times versus the duration of the search goes down rapidly. Lost for 15 seconds, several times a day. Lost for several minutes, maybe every other day. Lost for a long time, once a month.
4. No. Hardly ever. But when traveling in the car I ask her to repeat quite often.
X. I'm not Mensa, but will tkae a stab at it. We transfer small amounts of energy all the time. It's called radio/microwave towers/cell phones/wifi. But enough energy to power something all by itself is difficult because of the very low efficiency. The waves spread out and get absorbed by everything in the world. The cell tower broadcasts watts and the amount picked up by phones is microwatts.
N. Tesla tried and demonstrated a concept but couldn't get the efficiency to be useful.
And people already are afraid of the fields generated by the electric grid, devices we use, and coming 5G wireless..
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There are 3 ways to tell you are getting old. The 3rd one is you loose your memory. I can't remember the others!
We could probably use a section on this forum: "old, senile, ingernt, and behind in technology". And, ok to spell werds how we like. Without any repercussions.
Old age is not practical.
Thank you,
Nate
I knew wireless energy transfer had been invented the first time I got punched in the face.
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Where is the fun in miswherespelling words.
5. Oh contro. Wireless electricity transfer has been around a long time, e.g electric tooth brush chargers.
You forgot "Can't remember the correct word so either completely stall while trying to think of it or substitute in a similar word which is usually understandable as to what your point really was."
Wireless electricity transfer = wireless charging pads already available for various small electronics like cell phones.?ÿ
As I get older, I have gotten on an "efficiency" kick. Trying not to waste much energy on minor task, I try to complete a few other things while I am there to make my trip worthwhile.
2 or 3 weeks ago, or maybe about 3 months ago, I was calculating superelevation transitions using the HP42 app on my phone using the statistic function . I had several to do and I figured it would go faster if I got the real HP42 out of the truck. I knew it was sitting on the center console and I could save about 5 minutes using a real calculator that did not turn off every 15 seconds. My truck was parked under a shade tree about half way between our house and Mikey's house.
We own Mikey's house now, Mikey has moved on. The house is in sad shape and we just use it for storage. It's about 200 foot away but that is where I keep my soft drinks in the fridge. I had to quit drinking coffee so now it is Mountain Dew usually twice a day. I had several empty cans under the carport and it was about time for another Dew so I figured I would take the empties to Mikey's to crush and put in the bucket, get me another drink, get the calculator out of the truck on the way back, then go back to work. The bucket was almost full so I tied up the bag and started looking for another bag to put in the bucket. No bags anywhere so I got my drink and went back to work.
As I sat down and looked around to figure out what I was working on, it dawned on me that I forgot the calculator out of the truck. Not wanting to waste a trip on just one task, I found a bag to put in the bucket. This time I got the calculator first, then went and put the new bag in the bucket. There was something else that I decided to do while I was there. I just don't remember what it was. The Lions club has a bin in town right beside the fire station that everybody puts cans in. They take a trailer load at a time to the next town for recycling and use the money for local projects. I put the full bag in the truck so I could set them out later, then went back to work.
After checking my email and twitter, once again I didn't?ÿ have my calculator with me. Fortunately, I couldn't think on anything else I needed to do on the way. I finally found the calculator on the counter at Mikey's where I sat it down to do something, don't remember what. The end result was walking about a quarter mile and wasting about an hour. There was also some letting dogs out, letting dogs back in, letting dogs out again involved.
I carried those cans around in my truck for 3-4 days before I put them in the Lions Club bin.
James
You realize if this thread takes off, I may need to start a new website called ElderlySurveyorConnect.com.
The most noticeable thing to me is how I can lose someone's name.?ÿ I may have known them for 60 years.?ÿ I can tell you 87 things about them and their family.?ÿ Two minutes after I really need to know that name and move onto something else............BANG............Elsie.?ÿ That's it, Elsie.?ÿ How could I ever forget Elsie??ÿ She was one of the best school cooks of all time and had a tremendous sense of humor.?ÿ She also loved all kids.?ÿ How could I forget Elsie??ÿ Her husband was Homer.?ÿ Her children included Dale, Don, Phyllis, Wayne, Louise, Kenneth and Earl.
If I have to bend over to tie my shoe I always ask myself "Is there anything else I can do while I'm down there?"
I knew I was old when I never passed a restroom without using it, never passed up a breath mint, and never ever trust a fart.
The ability to distinguish a wet fart from a good fart diminishes rather quickly. ?????ÿ
I have figured out that I must be getting taller.
The ground is a lot farther away and harder to reach than it used to be!
James
I no longer hear female voices.?ÿ This is blamed on growing up with an older sister and my mother and occasionally my grandmother telling me what to do all the time.?ÿ All but one grade school teachers were females.?ÿ In my adult years I have had two wives, one mother-in-law, three daughters and two granddaughters all trying to tell me what to do.
Men's voices usually come through fine, even when I don't want to hear what they have to say.?ÿ Of course, half of them can't hear my reply.
Two wives and only one MIL?
I once claimed one wife and three mothers-in-law. Wife's birth mother, adoptive mother, and her ex's mother who was friendlier than the ex and insisted on including me in some gatherings.
I have had two wives, one mother-in-law, three daughters and two granddaughters all trying to tell me what to do.
I??ll bet you dollar??s to ??Cheezits? my SWMBO could out talk all of ??em. ?????ÿ
Two wives and only one MIL?and only one MIL?
Must have married sisters or it??s something similar to the Polish, 5 day, 2 night, ??vacation package? I purchased.
Yup.?ÿ And only one father-in-law.?ÿ The first wife's father died before she was ten and her mother never remarried.?ÿ The second wife's mother had died of cancer a few years before I met her and her father never remarried.?ÿ So only one of each.
