I turn 31 next month (on a rather infamous date). Someone here is the same age as me!
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Could be worse.
You could be the same age as @japhroaig and @beschizza.
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Please say itās 9/11
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It is.
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Thatās my wedding anniversary from 1999.
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Oh, and if it wasnāt obvious, we are taking it back 
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Oy, yes, but I figure that the same conditions that lead to me having zits in my 40ās is what keeps me looking 20 years younger than my peers.
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In one hour and 46 minutes (PDT), I will be another year older.
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and many moooooreā¦ 
Iāll probably still be awake then, but just in case: happy birthday!
I am old, but not as old as Iām gonna be. Havenāt been older than the President yet, and itās not going to happen this election, but it wonāt be too much longer, I expect.
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Happy birthday! Iāve always loved the convenience of aging being quantized into one year increments.
No Iām not 45 damn it; that happens tomorrow. 
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Happy birthday! (in an hour)
Weāre in our way homeā¦ We can stop somewhere and grab a cake and be in Long Beach just in time.
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to you as well!
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It was a rhetorical element, but thank you. Iāll hold it in reserve, for when Iāmā¦
Oh, letās not talk about it right nowā¦
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Sorry, i was posting-while-sleepy, I missed that. 
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Awww, thanks @Nightflyer, @piratejenny, @tropo and @anon29631895!
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Flew to Norway on a whim, planning to cycle back to Hamburg. Got lost in Oslo because I didnāt have data for GPS and I couldnāt follow the map (my short term memory is bad). Had to be rescued by my host. Got tired, skipped Sweden completely (I took a bus to Copenhagen) and made it a Denmark trip. Last year I could do a week long tour without a break. How did this happen?
Iām old.
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My maternal grandmother and her family were born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm. She and her sisters looked much younger than they were, and four of her sisters lived to see 90, one turned 100. I suspect the more complete consumption of livestock (i.e. organ meats, full of Vitamin A and glycerin) on a regular basis bestowed anti-aging properties.
Ray Peatās article on gelatin is a long, scientific piece on the beneficial properties of gelatin (cooked collagen), the degenerative and harmful properties of amino acids cysteine and tryptophan (released in high quantities during stress) and the broad range of protective qualities in amino acids proline and glycine,
Some points I found interesting:
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Restricting only tryptophan, or only cysteine, produces a greater extension of the life span than achieved in most of the studies of caloric restriction.
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Tryptophan is the precursor to serotonin, which causes inflammation, immunodepression, and generally the same changes seen in aging.
The topic argument is āIn the industrialized societies, the consumption of gelatin has decreased, relative to the foods that contain an inappropriately high proportion of the antimetabolic amino acids, especially tryptophan and cysteine.The degenerative and inflammatory diseases can often be corrected by the use of gelatin-rich foods.ā
Some years ago I saw the documentary āJiro Dreams of Sushiā and learned that, in his forties, Jiro Ono started wearing white cotton gloves to protect his hands from the sun. The octogenarianās hands, dedicated to handling oily fish for generations, are a study. I vowed to get cotton gloves for my hands for the same effect. Maybe some Japanese seafood restaurant will hire me to massage the oily fish for them (Jiroās underlings massaged fish flesh for at least 45 minutes daily).
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Olay actually makes a super-high-end skincare for the Japanese market called SK-II thatās based on what they call Pitera ā a fermented rice extract ā which they say they discovered when they noticed that the hands of people who made sake were extremely smooth. It might work beautifully, but Iād rather massage fish than pay $385 for skin lotion.
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The Japanese restaurants wouldnāt have to pay me much. Having frequent meals of sashimi would be reward enough.
Your contributions from Olayās Inner Sanctum have altered my perception of skincare and inspired a new regimen for me.
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