I fall asleep at every holiday party. My grandpa used to do that shit. Now... I'm tired and I don't want to deal with anyone's bullshit. Wake me when it's time to say goodbye.

Didn't think I'd be telling my kids the TV is rotting their brains. Yeah, Looney Tunes wasn't educational in the least but at least the shorts had plotlines. Stuff my kids watch (mostly on YouTube) will transition between scenes within seconds and there's no point or resolution to any of it!

Thinking a lot of new technologies are stupid and unnecessary. Of course, at least in big tech, lot of them objectively are.

Not want to leave the house after 9-10 PM

Eat better

Prefer getting my clothes from Costco

Get excited about new appliances okay nevermind I actually got a blender as a teenager and loved it that doesn’t count.

But still it’s funny how much of a stereotype we all become in some small ways.

I don't give a single shit what people think about me anymore.

And it stems from the constantly-reinforced experience that people almost always have no idea what they're talking about.

For now, I've at least retained a basic level of decorum, but the line is blurring in a way that has me a bit frightened to be honest. Throw in some neurological degeneration and I totally understand why old people act like lunatics in public

Try to identify birds and trees. How did I go through life not being able to identify my natural surroundings?

Random noises when getting up from sitting.

flat out rejecting modern anything. I have zero desire to buy new phones, computers, new clothes, appliances etc... it's ALL junk designed to fail so I buy again.

I just don't now. I buy nothing and I don't care. subscriptions? get fuked. replacing anything that breaks? hell no.. I'll fix it instead.

I used to like companies, but I've learned they are all criminal scum, liars and thieves and deserve very special treatment. they pushed me over the edge and I will never return and never stop voicing my distrust and dislike for all of them. even in the stores themselves when I have to go buy food... I'm very vocal about how overly priced and absurd everything is to the point where people look at me... I want that, I want others to actively think about it especially when they are in the stores too.

I'm essentially done with 'society' whatever the hell that means

Telling my son we need to go out. Its such a nice day, we can't spend in front of a screen...

Waking up early on weekends. I gotta be up early for work on weekdays and its easier to stick to a consistent schedule.

Sneeze really loudly.

Me sitting in a restaurant right now at 3 pm eating dinner: Can't think of anything

Gauging upcoming activity options for the day based on their likely effect on my lower back.

Finally being the Luddite. I’m a software engineer and have always done well by jumping on new technology and making it work. But my company is really pushing ai and as far as I can see, most people are just taking longer to do worse. I end up cleaning up their mess and of course that’s not something LLMs can do

For example instead of taking an hour to upgrade a dependency then investigate the test results, now you can spend half a day screwing with ai to accept its 5 minute change without looking at the tests.

Ans by the metrics, they completed the task in 5 minutes instead of an hour, and no mention about whether the tests still pass. And then they escalate to me to get it working

Even worse, I’m dreading layoffs for the first time in years. Not just because of the economy and policy chaos, not just because I lost my “sponsor”, but ai ….. not quite the way you expect though. Reviews are coming up and the people who screw around with ai instead of working have developed agents to go back through all of our online systems to present huge reports on their years activity. While I’m sure no one will read it, how can I compete with that?

While on a road trip if it's raining hard or the weather is otherwise bad, I have to turn my music down or off so I can see better.

I cackled the first time I read about something like that but now I'm that person 🫠

Also had an 8:30 bedtime for at least 10 years. I'll be 40 next year.

Today I learned how much I haven't matured in 30 years.

Early to bed. I try to stay up until at least 9pm so I don't wake up at 3am.

When seeing a kid/now-adult I haven’t seen in 20 years, “Omg, I remember when you were this big!” When I was a kid this always made me feel weird. Like, I don’t know you, stranger. Idk why I can’t seem to stop myself!

Walks. Like just for sunshine and air. It used to be I was out on a bike from sun up till sun down. You'd see the old people just walking and enjoying life and think damn, I'll never be that lame. Well here I am. No bike. Just my legs. They weren't lame. I was a dumb teenager. Walks are awesome.

Using one of those "days of the week" plastic pill containers. Also, getting impatient for my urine stream to complete.

I'm in my 30s and still feel pretty close to when I was 16-18 just more tempered.

Still a night person, still like games, still like technology. Idk I guess I'm not old enough yet lmao

Happily eat salads. Hated them as kid. I just lettuce out of bag sometimes

A coffee and a crossword puzzle is really all it takes to make a great morning these days.

Biggest thing is probably the switchover from night owl to morning person. I mean, I'm using morning person loosely as I still hate getting up. It's just that by 9:30 at night I'm drowsy and by 6:30 a.m. I've already been laying in bed for 45 minutes trying to fall back to sleep and now I'm so bored I get up just for the sake of getting up.

Also, weirdly vacuuming. It's a daily thing these days. Used to hate it.

Getting pissed at the noise kids make outside, playing.

Didn't really like how my Dad would come home, kind of glower at us, gobble up his dinner and fuck off to bed. Now here I am doing the same thing.

Wear reading glasses glasses. I never had to wear anything until the last month. Noticed I was struggling to read an old textbook. Someone handed me their readers. Wow... I've been missing out

Pill box... I have take enough pills that it helps to have a pill box to organize them. Not just any pill box, mine has separate compartments for morning and night pills.

I'm 55. Sigh...

I've never had much of a taste for classical music. A year ago I started playing it in the background while doing other things. Some of it is truly amazing and I wish I had started listening to it years ago.

How excited I am about buying a new frying pan.