Don’t smoke. That day, 61+ years ago that I had a heart attack was the last day I ever touched a cigarette.
For about forty years I walked 4 miles to my office several times a week, in very nearly all weather. I imagine that contributed. Otherwise marry well and have wonderful kids.
Happy Birthday, Hari! I’m a little late, but I hope it was a good one!
Happy belated birthday.
No no, it’s in the very first book, Lord Dorwin is the imperial envoy to Terminus and his hobby is the “Origin Question”
It was the later sequels, 500 years into the Foundation Era, where they actually make a serious effort at finding Earth. At the decadent time of the Fall, nobody was actually trying to find it: They were just spending their time faffing about on whose theories (that also just came from faffing about) they liked best.
Yes, in fact Lord Dorwin’s decadence is shown by him saying that he’s not going to actually look in those planets in search of the origin of humankind, he’s just going to compare and contrast the ancient authors “who were better than us in everything”.
Good on yer, mate, as we say in the UK.
I hope I am still compos mentis if I reach that age. There is hope: people like Bertrand Russell and Roger Penrose: still sharp as a tack into their 90s.
Are you working on anything interesting these days?
At 77 I am recording original music and writing some hard science fiction stories.
Perhaps it is mostly genetic. If we were going to get Alzheimers, it would probably have shown up by now?
Cheers!
You may as well be the longest heart attack Survivor on this planet.
Also if you don’t mind my question:
you being 90 - with me how does that translate on the perception of time? I wonder if you could give us any perspective on that.
I missed this thread. Belated happy birthday!
I’m only 89. When I was born I was 0, starting my first trip around the sun.
As you will hear just about everywhere, time indeed passes very quickly. For example, it seems like just a few years ago that my youngest child started college, but it was 1991, nearly 35 years ago. On the other hand, I was headed into my third year in college in 1956, just 70 years ago. So that was twice as long ago, but it seems infinitely longer.
Although off-topic let me remark that if I could relive any 25 year period of my life, it would be from the day in 1966 that our first child was born to the day the third left for college.
Let me note that the first one was born only about 11 months after the heart attack which caused my doctor to remark that when they prescribed bed rest he didn’t think I got the message.
Until the pandemic hit, I was regularly meeting with a pair of collaborators, one local, but one who spent 6 weeks every year visiting. Two things happened. The pandemic put an end to his visits and his father-in-law died leaving him as executor of his will and he has been fighting with his wife’s family for six years over the distribution of the will.