tamarjacobson

Quote of the day:

• Try to include walnuts and blueberries in your daily diet.
• Consider
  increasing your daily intake of caffeine.
• Avoid the principal
  factors shown to be associated with a decline in brain
  information-processing ability: insufficient physical and mental
  activity, a decreased number of friends, too much empty spare time,
  infrequent opportunities to converse, and excessive alcohol use.
• Increase
  your capacity for sustained attention and concentration.  To do this,
  resist the pressures to multitask.
• Increase your hand and finger
  dexterity.  
• Develop an appreciation for art.
• Engage in
  reminiscence exercises.
• Develop a magnificent obsession…take
  up something that interests you but is far removed from your background,
  education, or life experience.
• Every day find an hour to
  improve through practice a specific aspect of your performance in an
  activity that interests you.
• Use music to elevate your mood.

Just in from CCIE!

How on earth did they guess that today I whizzed passed the 60-year-old mark?

I think today I will give myself the gift of a few of the suggested points above. Definitely blueberries and walnuts; certainly some caffeine; lots of physical activity; always some reminiscence activities (those are ongoing!); music, music, music; and, well, yes, I think I will resist the pressures to multitask.