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I can't keep up ... baseball isn't helping

  This blog is full of laments about the increasingly fast-paced world and my inability to keep up.   I look back on my moaning about this topic from 10-15 years ago and smile to myself, "you have no idea, younger-than-you-think night owl". I also mention how old I am in those long-ago posts. But now, it's really the truth. I am old. By virtually any definition  (Unless you're 80 and reading this).   I can't keep up in whatever aspect of life we are addressing. And any moment it's time to learn something new -- usually related to some gadget -- I want to crawl under the covers and sing '70s songs softly to myself.   This feeling of falling increasingly behind is with me almost every day. Baseball isn't helping either. The amount of transactions seem to be multiplying every year. I came across some transaction list recently that absolutely illustrated the quickening rate at which players move now, but in typical old-person fashion, I can't remember ...