Crazy Drummer Stuff

  As I’m writing this on Friday the 21 st of November, 2025, we got quite a bit of rain this week, so it was time to get new raincoats for our two huskies, Lars and Misha.   The old dog raincoats that we have had for over a decade had finally got tattered and pretty much lost all of their waterproofing, so off to the Walmart website we went!      Lars’ old raincoat, complete with a trash bag for waterproofing, held in place with duct tape!   It works, but not very attractive!       Misha and her old raincoat; pretty much all the elastic straps are gone, and it is not very waterproof anymore…     Even though we probably only use the dog raincoats some 10 days per year (gotta love that wonderful Mediterranean San Clemente weather), you don’t want a wet husky in the house!   Because of the long, dense husky fur, it usually takes hours for a husky to dry, and ev...

  As I now enter into my seventies, I’m well aware that for me and my contemporaries, there will be some “normal” age-related cognitive decline; I myself experience situations where I can’t think of the right word, can’t remember somebody’s name, or I lose stuff that I seemingly had right in front of my eyes just a few seconds ago.   All of this is annoying to say the least, but I’m thinking that maybe we can slow this “normal” state of affairs a little bit, maybe with some new ways of thinking, and maybe doing!   Caveat; I’m not a neuroscientist, I’m not an MD, I’m not a psychologist or psychiatrist, I’m just a guy that’s been alive on the planet for seventy years, and I’m hoping to be on this side of the grass for as long as possible! So, as I’ve been “slowly” (ha, ha, ha) thinking about this, I’m going to share some of the things that I’m planning to do (or have recently done) in order to keep as mentally sharp as possible, for as long as possible, even though I may no...