Some Thoughts About Turning 51

Well, I've been 51 for almost a month now, so it's time to set down my deep musings about this milestone...
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I did read today that a group of astronomers has decided that the Milky Way Galaxy weighs about half of what scientists previously estimated. Way to go, Milky! What's your secret? And how many dress sizes is that, anyway?

Oh, actually I guess I did want to mention that the years seem to go by more quickly the older I get. My brother-in-law, Virgil, used to say that time seems to move faster because each year that we live represents a smaller percentage of our total lifetime than any year before. That's a very logical and well-reasoned argument and it's probably true.

That doesn't stop me from blaming Daylight Savings Time. All those hours of daylight we save every year have to come from somewhere, and I think we're just taking them from the future. That way, every year we enter has already been shortened by the number of hours we daylight-saved from it. And every time we run into a short year we have to borrow even more time from the future, so we're draining hours at an accelerating pace. This is really distressing for those of us who live in Arizona and don't switch to Daylight Savings Time - we're paying the price for all those extra hours everyone else gains.