Re: getting up from the floor.
If this is not a problem for you now, keep doing the things that let you be able to do this. This is definitely a case of use it or lose it.
I broke my wrist 11 years ago at age 52. It took a year to get all the function back. I will never take mobility for...
The Overhead Projector!
At the photolab where I worked, we had a customer who wanted 100 copies of a presentation (20?30? slides long) made on 8x10 Ektachrome film, then mounted in the holders. We are talking some SERIOUS bucks in film, processing, and labor.
The show was computer generated...
And as someone else mentioned, ditto machine! That's what we called it in our school.
And the ink ran if it got wet. Spill a glass of water, and the page became illegible.
My mom once told me that one of her childhood memories was the sound of her dad scraping the "burn off his toast." During the Depression, you certainly DID NOT throw it out!
Sometimes when I'm having a blah day, I look for a way to brighten up someone else's day. And that brightens my day too.
Last week I stopped for gas and when I went in to pre pay (I'm so old, I don't pay at the pump), a young lady who worked there was collecting the trash out of the bins. She...
I remember my sister singing this and some lines about
Eeny weeny it's a teeny
Yellow polka dot bikini.
Which she might have gotten from the song Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.
I learned all my "Girl Scout camp songs" from my sister.
I went to GS camp once... it wasn't any...