Naming this site

We came up with doing some sort of “aging” site some years ago while working with a group to develop a local “village to village” organization. After a year or so of pondering and thinking we decided that our fetish towards doing things ourselves (diy), the reality of aging,  my almost obsession with researching things, and the need to have a unique URL, we came up with diyAgingINFO.

Parsing diyAgingINFO

Orienting toward diy

Diy – I am both an armchair and active, hands on, do-it-yourself-er, a tinkerer and a doer. Over the years I’ve designed and hand built two houses. I wrote a integrated Point of Sale System for our business before their was the plethora of systems now available. I made a more stable knee scooter  than her rental one when Susan had ankle surgery. I’ve concocted a home remedy to get topical ibuprofin to my arthritic knee joints. We do our own gardening, canning, food drying, and tree pruning. We modified our small camper to fit our travel modes. We like the lifestyle of the do-it-yourself-er. However, we are very aware that little by little we can’t diy as much as we used to. But even the aging adaptations are a bit of a diy project in that, at least so far, we’re deciding the adaptations.

We plan to write up some of the past projects as well as keep some sort of running commentary on new ones.
Aging – There is no getting around it. We are aging. What we could do just ten years ago is not in the cards now. In a way we see aging as a continuous sequence of adaptations. Mostly, we keep a smile and good humor as life style changes are needed.

Aging and adaptations

Without being too juicy or detailed about the adaptations we hope to write about what we are doing differently as we age. I’m 79 and Susan is 78. You might take a look at our thoughts on the progression, the stages, that we have been going through, since turning 65 and realizing that life continues, but changes. So far, we have immensely enjoyed our years after retirement.

Researching all things

INFO – I just plain like to research things. I like to meet people and explore, when they are willing, their lives.
I plan to provide what I am calling curated links to information I have found interesting. There is so much going on in the field of geriatrics that I make no claims or attempt to be thorough. What you’ll see are simply links and summaries of whatever direction my mind is going on that particular day. Some of you will likely find it interesting. Others completely boring. And that’s just fine!

A unique URL

.com I decided to go with a ,com URL simply because it is still the most common for people to remember. With the new new expansions their are now many, many other possibilities. Going with .com was rather arbitrary on my part.