Best intentions...

I started today with sunshine and the goal of starting this blog.
It is now dinnertime and dark. I ate breakfast at the computer, skipped lunch, have 14 windows open to various sites I either need, don't understand or am afraid to close. I write in the hope that this really is It - my blog, the one I've been meaning to start since August. If you're reading this, it is: Yahoo!
And that is as good an introduction to what When I'm 64 is about as anything. At my age, technology is something I work with as comfortably as a scorpion: as long as I don't make any sudden moves (or hit the wrong key or X a site I need), we get along pretty well.
This is my prequel year to senior citizenship and I expect I have a lot to learn. I hope to get advice from Those Who Have Gone Before as well as Fellow Travellers. I promise to share anything I learn. We are a strange generation of (some of us) post war babies but not-quite Boomers. I like it because were I a little older, the computer revolution might have left me behind completely.
Off the top of my head, we prequelers face applying for Social Security/Canada Pension (this is a North American site as I am a hybrid, aka dual citizen), the dynamics of becoming An Elder (a term I much prefer to senior citizen), the Granny Two Step with grandkids & their folks, What's Next and what others come up with/face/feel is important/find funny.
Funny is key. After all, if you're not having fun, what's the point?
I had a brilliant post about the media-fuelled panicdemic of Swine Flu vaccinations, but today's frustrations sapped my good will and I need to replenish it by practicing our holiday concert with my chorus and playing my egg. Music soothes...etc.
Signed (today only): The Savage Beast