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120 years, calisthenics, continence, daily routine, exercise, living long, living well, moses, numbers, old age, pushups, rock stars, situps
Have I ever mentioned that my plan is to live 120 years, just like Moses and twice as corny?
coming after you, big guy…
Well, in my mind, to do that I got to keep in shape. No, really, I do. Heck, for that matter, you do too. I mean, wouldn’t it be fun if we all lived to be 120, together, rocking through the ages, still with our teeth, our senses, and, of course, our continence?
just like these beloveds, only different…
Okay, so, this is my plan. Each day, in fact each and every day, at the least, I do a set of calisthenics. This year, to date, I have done 30,590 pushups and 30,590 sit-ups.
bracing for the pushup…
bracing for the situp…
How did I get there you ask. Well, I started out on January 1, by doing 10 of each. Over the next two days following, I did 20 apiece. From January 4 through January 6, I completed sets of 30, and, well, I’m guessing you can see the pattern.
view from a pushup…
view from a situp…
Of course, the deeper question is why. For that I have no answer, other than there is great joy to be found in rhythm, routine, number counting, and living to be 120.
The Gentleman Farmer 
Hello,
Now, let us think…….rhythm, routine and number counting………..playing cards whilst wrapped around a deliciously chilled, crisp, dry white Hungarian wine…….no bracing required. Seems like the best of summer sports to us! Cheers.
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Is the game, perchance, bridge, and the wine, a furmint grape?
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Bridge definitely. Hungaria feher szarasz bor………the Hungarian ‘Champagne’. All the fizz and less money than its French counterpart. Lifting glasses can be so energy consuming in the heat!
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I must say that it is important to conserve your energy. You would not want to falter if, in the middle of a steamy Hungarian evening, at a table with friends, and a glass of your favorite Hungarian bubbly, you looked at your cards and saw a four no trump hand. At such moments my friends, it is most important to be at the top of your game, the drink, the glass, the moment…
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GF, I like your style, ambition, and peek into your lodgings but I think that parched camel could also do with some of J & L’s deliciously chilled, crisp, dry, white Hungarian wine as his hump looks more than a quart low.
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Brother G –
Good call, at this point in the day, at this point in the week, I’m thinking both my good friend, the camel, and me are more than a quart low. Where is that deliciously chilled, crisp, dry, white Hungarian wine when you need it?
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….in Budapest, of course……you must try it one day!
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Ah, be careful what you wish for, before you know it, two drinkers at your door, one a bon vivant from Chicago, the other a hillbilly from the south…
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My father also used to want to live until 120 but I don’t see the appeal. especially if most of the people i care about is passed…I want to live a good amount but well. I want to live fully functioning and that is why I am now walking 5 hours a week and got the app may my run so I can tally up my steps. I am going to start muscle building next! PS I like your walls 🙂
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Dear Naomi
You know that expression, right? Make new friends but keep the old some are silver and the others gold. I totally get the friend and family concerns, but I am not sure anyone we know and love ever really leaves us, even in death. I also totally get the completely fully functioning concern. Good Lord, I’m not even fully functioning now and I still have another sixty-something years to go! It is so hard to stay on the regimen but, at least theoretically, it is worth it. Good luck with your new resolution, I promise to cheer you each step along the way.
Mrs. GF, trained in decorative finishes, sponged the whole room one weekend when the boys and I went off to a football game. It was quite the job and I will pass along the compliment. Thank you so much…
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120!!!!!!! Sounds nice on paper, but I don’t know I’d want to. I am not good with pain. And how be vain, while I’m good now, Who knows what the future holds.
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Mistress
Vanity and pain are two good things to consider, then again, so is being six feet under…
Here is to long lives, full and rich, no matter how long, just full and rich!
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Inspired! No pain..no gain..and for every yin there’s a yang! xxx
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Dear Mrs. MBS
Right you are, though the older I get the less I’m able to tell what comes first, the yin or the yang…
Not the brightest light bulb, I have managed to convince myself that all this hither and thither is a good thing with glorious benefits paid down the road. On that one, we will just have to wait and see, one of those I’ll let you know in sixty years or so deals.
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