Is there anything you feel too old to do anymore?

sadly, I feel too old to go to heavy metal concerts. It's too loud, so I'm too old. I feel like, if the venues were in better locations, I could just set myself up with a cooler and a lawn chair and enjoy the concert from outside. Also, some venues have trouble with smoking (and the smoking of herbal cigarettes, if you know what I mean), and that bothers me as well.

Monday night is busy for TV. Shows we've been watching for a while:
- How I Met Your Mother (rerun tonight)
- House
- Castle
new shows:
- Alcatraz
- Lost Girl

Lost Girl kind of fits into this season's trend of urban fantasy with Grimm (which i also like), and I think it's going to be a little WitchBlade meets Angel.

http://oneminutewriter.blogspot.com/2011/12/todays-writing-prompt-birth.html

I know my parents were practicing for natural child birth, but at the time it was still not common for the father to come into the delivery room. They used to have to wait with everyone else! On the way in, my mom got some kind of charlie horse, and dad walked her through stretching it out. When the doctors saw that, they told my dad to suit up, he was going in.

saw this in Knoxville with the inlaws over Thanksgiving weekend.

( slightly spoilery )

http://sivers.org/andor (via shareaholic)

an awesome way to tweak my thinking -- if I can remember to use it

The essay I submitted for my e dan (second degree black belt) test last weekend. Sometimes candidates have to read them out loud to the testing class, but this time we were on a strict time schedule, so the masters (fourth degrees or better) will read and grade the papers.

( What the Five Pillars of Tang Soo Do Mean to Me )

Ren Fair - Ordo knighted L. He had to run a gauntlet of 12 fights, then was awarded a short rest, then had to stand a one-hour vigil by the lake. After that, his sponsor knight Sir E knighted him. K is in a good position to be the next knight, as long as he gets his gear finished (arms and legs, shield, weapons). If he'd just leave the computer and get out to the workroom, he'd be done in a pretty short time. Sir E told him today to get cracking. I think he's given himself a private deadline of January.
Next week we'll test for e dan. I started thinking about my essay today -- five pillars of Tang Soo Do and what they mean to me -- and I won't have a lot of spare time to work on it this week, so I need to get it fleshed out. Maybe later tonight though -- I just finished dinner, and I'm a little tired from standing around all day (I can only imagine what L is feeling right about now).

I never said much about last week's events. K fought well enough as I recall, but didn't earn a stone. Both Sundays were nice weather, a bit warm for November, but better warm and sunny than rainy and muddy.

http://www.uah.edu/society/events/2001/fall/poetryreading2.html

(Aeneid I. 565-568)

Quis genus Aeneadum, quis Troiae nesciat urbem
virtutesque virosque aut tanti incendia belli?
Non obtusa adeo gestamus pecotra Poeni,
nec tam aversus equos Tyria Sol iungit ab urbe.

Who knows not the race of Aeneas; who knows not Troy’s
city and her brave deeds and brave men, or the fires of so
great a war? Neither do we Carthaginians carry such dull
hearts nor does the Sun yoke his horses far from our Tyrian city.

(Aenied III. 10-12)

Litora cum patriae lacrimans portusque relinquo
et campos, ubi Troia fuit. Feror exsul in altum
cum sociis natoque, Penatibus et magnis dis.
Then with tear I quit my native shores and harbors and the
plains, where once Troy was. An exile, I fare forth upon the
deep, with my comrades and my son, the household gods and
the great gods.

http://www.thejackol.com/2004/05/29/the-livejournal-backup-toolkit/

http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml

it was easy, but repetitive and time consuming.  (one month at a time?!  LJ, please!)  three of my months gave the toolkit trouble, and I have not looked into what is making it get stuck, nor have I tried any of the other archiving programs yet (LJ Dump  or LJ Sec or LJ Archive).  I'm not abandoning LJ at all, but I really have dropped off my postings -- during this year I actually went over a month without posting something.  I blame FB or tumblr or g+ or all the other methods for sharing links that are out there.  At the same time, I guess I tend (like everyone else) to go where the eyes are.  Why bother to share links where so few people will see them?

Now if there were only a quick and easy solution to backing up or digitizing the random sporadic hard copy journals I've kept off and on throughout my life....