Luciano Is Being Seventy

Monday Morning, September 21, 2015 I walked 7,922 steps this morning. I will complete the 10 K steps with an afternoon walk. Woo-Hoo!!  Well it finally happened, my grandson, David, (not his real name, I don't want to embarass him) had his first day at the university today. He graduated in early June with some fairly good grades and got an invitation to a UC school which accepted. This is when I feel that I am getting older. This is the boy that was born 18 years ago. I was there in the hospital room when he popped out. The first thing that I noticed were his big hands.  He had some pretty big hands for a little baby. Life is like a blur, where did these 18 years go? Woo-Hoo! David and his mom, my daughter, lived with me for the first 4 or 5 years of David's life. I would always remind him that I was the one that changed his dirty diapers, prepared his formula, bathed him, took him for bike rides, during the first years of his life. And now, his is at the university. Bef...

Sunday, September 20, 2015 My seventieth birthday day is a week from today. I am not planning a whole lot since I am going to be celebrating it with my friends and family in late November. It will be much cooler by then and the heat won't be too shocking for those relatives and friends who are coming from out of the area to help me celebrate. On my birthday, next Sunday,  I will probably go to my favorite restaurant, The Outback, and have a porterhouse steak. I don't have a steak too often, maybe once or twice a year. I love meat and look forward to this and this is definitely a super treat. Meat has always been a treat. Now that I can afford it, I find that I don't eat meat it as often. When I was growing up we were very poor and our main source of protein were beans. We had meat but it was very rare. When we had meat it was usually meat in tacos. Many times we had beans and tortillas for breakfast, beans and tortillas for lunch with potatoes and Kool-Aid and then beans...

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 I walked 7,209 steps this morning. My goal is to walk 10,000 steps every day. I am a little short on my goal this morning but I will try to make it up this sfternoon. What I got the idea to start my blog on turning seventy, I told my wife that I was going to write a blog titled "Luciano is Being Seventy." You mean she said, " Luciano is going to be seventy." No I said, "Luciano is being seventy." I got me to thinking, what is the difference of "going to be seventy" or "being seventy." The main difference in the definition of these to words or phrase according to Webster is the following: Full Definition of  BEING - It is a noun.  a living thing : the state of existing : the most important or basic part of a person's mind or self 1 a   :   the quality or state of having existence b  (1)   :   something conceivable as existing  (2)   :   something that actually exists  (3) ...

Thursday, September 4, 2015 Walked 7,782 steps this morning. My goal is 10,000 steps a day. I am a little short but I will make it up this afternoon with another walk. I have a daily average of 6,790 steps. This includes days when I have to run errands or go out of town. I am just rying to stay healthy as I approach seventy. The things that we do when we are younger really affects us when we are older. Today I feel great! I feel great because I don't have a hangover. That's right no hangover. For me it didn't take a lot of drinks to have a hangvoer, maybe one or two drinks. My body was not processing alcohol after many years of drinking. So the last time that I had a drink was on July 4, 1992. Today, that is over 23 years of being sober and it feels just great. Those of you who knew me in my youth know how much I loved to drink and all the problems that it caused for me in relationships and with the legal system. I won't go into that right now that will have to be a...

Today my iPhone6 Health ap says that I walked 7922 steps or about 3.14 miles. I walk twice in the morning, one time with dogs and one time without. The walk with dogs is slow because they want to smell everything. My second walk is much faster, My goal is to walk at 10000 steps every day. Some days I do it and some days I don't. My time is usually about 32 minutes for 2 miles but today it was about 45 minutes. Too many of my neighbors were out and about and wanted to talk about the news at city hall. But that is another story. A few days I posted the words to the song sung by George Burns, "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again" and I started thinking that if I really wanted to be 18 again. When I was 18 I was very strong, I could lift a 125 lb. barbell with one hand, I had a lot of stamina, and endurance. But was 18 a good year for me? I was a senior in high school and you know what they say about high school, "that high school is the best of times and the worst of times....