Hungarian Revolution +50

Maybe I should make up a modern scenario for my Operation Whirlwind game:

Last rioters cleared off streets after nearly 130 hurt in Hungary

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 | 8:22 AM ET
The Associated Press

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Forty-Two and Felicitous

42 today, 42 today....

Finally I am starting to feel old and my body is starting to fail me. But I know this state of affairs will not last, at least not mentally.

I was just trying to plot my mental age, which I think varies like a sine wave, against my advancing physical, or rather chronological age. For example, when I was 15 or so, my outlook was much like that of a stereotypical 45 year old - crusty and nasty and conservative. When I was about 27, I felt practically 16, full of juice and beans! At 42, I feel I have the outlook of a 34 year old, when I'm 50 I'll feel 50, and then hopefully a long slide into my third childhood and irreversible senility by age 73 or so.

Unfortunately, I can't get Excel to plot this sort of thing for me, so you will just have to imagine the chart....