Metamorphosis: in 29 years, this (1) becomes *POOF* this (2). I feel like a fossil.

[DFW]

We're trying to put a lot of debris in order, and are coming across some old photos that now seem so unbelievable:

Our two girls in 1985:
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and on New Year's Day, 2014:
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[malthaussen]

1. You did good work, DFW!

I know that fossil feeling well, though. These days, 40 year-olds look like kids to me.

-- Mal

[DFW]

2. That's a scary thought

I had one near consolation prize recently. An accountant who does stuff for my outfit was telling me about my retirement account, and I said I needed to start thinking about when I wanted to pull money out of it. He said it shouldn't be immediately because I faced a penalty if I withdrew it before retirement age. As I will be 62 this year, I asked just what legal retirement age was. He said 59½. I told him I was nearly 62. He had thought we were the same age (he is 56), which is weird for someone who makes up documents for me every year that have to include my date of birth, but it has been so long for him, that I suppose he had forgotten to pay any attention to that.

[WinkyDink]

3. I'm so old I tell 50-yr-olds to get off my lawn!

[WinkyDink]

4. Beautiful daughters!

[DFW]

5. Thanks! My wife's genes had about 99.5% to do with it. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. You must be very proud

What lovely and elegant young ladies. At least the passage of time in your case resulted in marvelous dividends.

In my case, I not only have nostalgic thoughts about my distant youth and wonder where it went, but what sometimes scares me is that I wish I could go back even further than my own years, to the 1890s. I'm turning into that guy in the old Twilight Zone episode who wishes he could get off the train at Willoughby and step back into the 19th century. Just this morning I was fantasizing about buying one of these early Henry Ford Quadricycles from the turn of the century to putter around town. There's a company in Spain that builds exact reproductions.



http://www.quadricycle1896.com/en/home.html

[First Speaker]

7. Ever read Jack Finney's *Time and Again*...?

...suspect it would be right up your alley...

[DFW]

10. I know a book you'd like

It's not out yet, and of DU only I and California Peggy have read advanced copies of it.

It's called The Time Cellar, and partially has to do with just what you were talking about.

[JI7]

8. in the 2nd pic they look like they could be twins

[trof]

9. Beautiful daughters. Mine is 42.

Mother of two great kids, boy 11 and daughter 6.
I'm within days of being exactly 30 years older.
Tempus fugit.

[DFW]

11. Sometimes I wish tempus would fugit a little more slowly

Somehow, it never listens.

[Iggo]

12. Yikes!

He'll of a ride, ain't it.

[DFW]

13. Fastest roller coaster we've ever been on

And we never even noticed