I decided to add my age to my profile. I was on another forum, and the subject of age and fandom came up. I was surprised to see how many people in their thirties and older are still active in it. It really made me feel like I wasn't the only one, because the way it seemed, I was in the company of only teenagers and college students. That's certainly not a bad thing, don't get me wrong. It's just great to see that I'm not the only "older" person who still has fun with this stuff, and that the fun doesn't have to stop once you reach a certain age.

So I posted my age so that others won't feel like they're the only one, and that the young'uns won't get the idea that once you hit, say, 25 you have to turn in your fun card at some specified time. You might have bills, a job (even though I don't as I'm one of the many millions whose jobs went bye-bye in the last year), lower back pain, a growing sense of mortality and all the other lovely responsibilities that go along with being a real live grown up, but that's no reason to go dead inside. As the saying goes, you're only as old as you feel, and though I've been thrown plenty of reasons to feel hundreds of years old, I don't. Does this mean I'll live forever?