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LOL that's fair. Considering I won't be getting that old I try to look on the bright side. I'll never need a walker or diapers.
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Sorry - I hadn't realized you were vitality challenged. Please accept my apologies if I caused any offense or upset: it was not intentional and I will endeavour not to do it again.
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Oh don't worry about it. I'm not in poor physical health. It's just that for whatever reason none of my family make it to 60. I don't know what it will be that takes me out if anything, but I'm just not making plans.
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modified 28-Nov-20 10:19am.
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As they say with the stock market: "past performance may not be indicative of future results".
My father died young - under 40 - and my mother only made it to her 70's.
That doesn't mean I can't reach the ton, or more (Covid / Fall Of Civilization permitting).
Remember that diet and environment were much worse for our ancestors than they are for us, so "past performance" means nothing unless the same known incurable genetic condition took them all!
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My situation is complicated by my mental health, and because i am a queer person. All of which statistically leads to dying pretty young but of various causes that are more or less ancillary to those core traits.
And the mental health stuff certainly runs in my family. The more serious cluster As are no joke.
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So true. As a friend of mine remarked the other day, "When I wake up in the morning I think, 'Oh that's nice, another day in my life'".
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A very healthy way to start the day.
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honey the codewitch wrote: if my family history is any indication I won't see 60
I can empathize, as I'm in the same boat. Depending upon which branch of my family tree you traverse we die from either lower GI cancers or early-onset heart disease exacerbated by diabetes.
There's a common factor in all of this: everyone who died before threescore-and-ten refused to take care of themselves. They rejected simple basics like proper diet and a moderate amount of physical activity.
My hope is to fall over dead in the finishing chute of a 10K run after 90 minutes on the course, celebrating my 90th+ birthday.
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The wee hours are the best time: it's quiet, peaceful, and there are few distractions.
Best of all, nobody tries to contact you! 
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I do like it, and maybe if I lived alone I'd feel that way but having to be up in such a way that I don't wake my hubby - esp since my dev machine is in the bedroom (his request) I'd be lying if I said it wasn't kind of a bummer.
But sitting in a dark room for hours isn't the greatest way to start my morning.
It's better in the summer when it's light out and I can go for a walk without it being all depressingly dreary.
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honey the codewitch wrote: all depressingly dreary.
You misspelled "all BEAUTIFULLY dreary"!
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Gosh you would love it here.
Or London for that matter.
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I wish I could do with four hours, but I need at least seven, preferably eight, and if I don't set an alarm I get nine.
Nighttime is the best time and mornings suck, but unfortunately, I have to be up in the morning for customers.
That said, my alarm still rarely goes off before 9:00 
During my two week Christmas vacation, which is kind of a thing for me, I usually don't get out of bed until 12:00 and I stay up till at least 2:00, but often later.
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I envy your ability to sleep like that. I used to. As I get older I sleep less and less. I think I may slowly be turning into Margaret Thatcher. 
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honey the codewitch wrote: I only sleep for 4 hours at a time
I've had pets that would do that.
6 of those 4-hour blocks a day.
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Gotta love cats!
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honey the codewitch wrote: I know a little Spanish but that doesn't help me as much as most of the speakers I know are in a similar time zone.
Not all 
That's why I always played MMROPG in USA Servers, they were mostly active during my night 
Now I don't play them in such level anymore, so I switched back to EU Servers for the little time I am online
I usually sleep an average of 5 hours, but I could sleep longer.
It is just that I wake up very early (first alarm is 4:30 am) to be back home after work at 15:00h, this way I can still see / play with my kids or do things at home a couple of hours before having dinner and bring them to bed. Then "my time" starts so around 20:30 or 21:00h, and I go to bed between 22:00 and 01:00 depending of the day.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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For some reason I just don't run into a ton of Spanish speakers from Spain online. All my major haunts seem to have a lot more people from elsewhere. And y'all say your "b"/"v"'s funny. 
I know more Mexican Spanish than anything, and just enough to be dangerous. It's a wonderful language to swear in.
Edit: Then again, I bet a lot of Spanish people speak English so maybe I wouldn't notice. I don't go around asking.
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modified 28-Nov-20 11:04am.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I bet a lot of Spanish people speak English
you would lose the bet 
Foreign languages are not that extended in Spain, at least not in my generation. I am a huge exception on this.
Maybe the younger people? But I would still not bet on it, because the probability of losing is high.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Fair enough.
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Just noticed: every Christmas Day falls on one of the few days the angle is at 180 degrees (clockwise from North).
Couldn't find another reference (off the top).
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Colour me confused!
The Solar Azimuth Angle hits 180° everyday at local noon, in the Northern hemisphere outside the tropics.
The Solar Right Ascension on Christmas day is around the 18hr:15min:00sec mark, with 00:00:00 hitting on the vernal equinox in the following year.
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And me ...
Wikipedia: The solar azimuth angle is the azimuth angle of the Sun's position. This horizontal coordinate defines the Sun's relative direction along the local horizon,
So unless the earth rotates but skips a bit in the middle just to be annoying, 180o will occur every day in the Northern hemisphere.
Or is this a "40% of your sick days were on Monday and Friday!" type wind up?
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I dint need no Wikipedia! 
I first used a sextant when I was 8 years old, and was proficient by the time I was 11. Before the age of satnav, I took a year off to go sailing after 4 war-torn years in Baghdad, and wrote a full astro-nav program - a complete ephemeris for sun, moon, the four navigational planets and the 58 navigational stars, plus Polaris - for the HP25C in HP BASIC, and I am just now putting the finishing touches to it for Android and Windows as a retirement project, although I sold my last boat a couple of years ago - 15 metres is a bit much for single-handing at my age!
This stuff is as natural to me as left and right! 
... now the sun - it rises in the ... er ... wes east, doesn't it? 
Don't blame me - it's lock-down fever!
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