Scott Behson is older and wiser.
Then:
I stayed up until 2am obsessing over my fantasy baseball team
Now:
I watch a few innings of the Yankees with my son before putting him to bed. Doze off during the next inning or two. Wife turns on some girly show like Project Runway or Dowtown Abbey and I get sucked in, staying up until 2am anyway.
Then:
Exercise meant 3 days a week at the gym, plus racquetball, volleyball and pick-up hoops
Now:
Exercise means parking at the far end of my work’s parking lot and making sure to use the stairs instead of the elevator
Then:
New Year’s Eve was an all-night party at some one-price-for-unlimited-food-
Now:
New Year’s Eve is spent with my wife and in-laws at their ski cabin in New Hampshire. We all struggle to stay up for the ball to drop.
Then:
Dinner was snarfing down a giant burrito (from Bombers on Lark Street—folks from Albany NY, you know how awesome these are!) with my roommate while sitting at tray tables and watching a Simpsons re-run that we knew by heart.
Now:
Dinner, which involves more than two ingredients, is something I am often in charge of preparing. I generally eat at a table in a room without a TV, and with silverware, a placemat and an actual napkin (as opposed to a ripped 1/2 of a paper towel). During dinner I actually talk to other humans: my wife and son.
Then:
Listened to a steady stream of 90s alt-rock like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Toad, and Cracker on CDs
Now:
Listen to a steady stream of 90s alt-rock like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Toad, and Cracker on satellite radio and Pandora.
What’s different in your life?
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I turn 40 in November and I still listen to my angsty 90s music but only on Lithium on Sirius, Pandora and Spotify.
‘Mr. Wrong’ and ‘Dr. Bernice’. If I had a nickel for every day I have had this Cracker album on loop, I’d have a ton of nickels.
Music is one’s companion forever!
I think the music you listen to at agres 19-24 ois the music that stays with you.