The unofficial SJ.com age poll

Spurs won Game 1 here in the Alamo City this weekend and MSU won the SEC Conference baseball tourney.
Pretty nice birthday for this Gemini, who turned 48 on Friday.

 

Did you refer to her as a "kid" in your next story and harp on her "inexperience?"

 

You know what? I'd settle for that just once. Despite turning 30 this coming December (Pearl Harbor Day -- One disaster after another as my Grandma put it when I was born), I still look early 20s. Damn baby face. I still get ID'd every time I turn around. Had one liquor store checkout guy tell me I looked 21 or 22 about a month ago. I also get the feeling when I meet a source in person for the first time they think I'm just out of college when I am just about finished my 10th year in the business -- graduated high school at 17, two year community college J-school, got my first job at a paper at 19.

I get the standard, one day you'll take it as a compliment line, but it isn't that day, especially when you are looking for respect from the people you are interviewing -- the respect does come, but rarely in that first impression in a face-to-face meeting.

 

People call me Mr. Myers or "Sir" and I still turn around looking for my dad, even though I'm almost 40.

 

I'm 38 and feel like 58 this morning.

 

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When I turned 30 and 40, those days were just like any other; no big deal at all. When I turned 50 it was like, 'Holy *&#()^!, I've got a ton of stuff to do and not much time.'

 

Happy Memorial Day to you I guess! LOL

 

I wish that to be the case. A good time was had by none.

 

I'm sure the parents who were unhappy with her one-win season would have been pleased to see me harp on her inexperience.

 

I've had gray hairs since I was 15, and my goatee is half white. At least I'm not going bald like my brother, though.

 

I do that too, though I've been looking for my dad for 38 years now.