Today is my father-in-law’s 94th birthday. I love this guy for a bunch of reasons…none the least of which is he brought my bride into the world and raised her with the values and perspective on life I obviously adore.

He’s in the hospital quite frail from a bout of the flu and I’ll visit him this evening. His long life, optimism and sharp-as-a-tack mind, ability to just ignore things that would’ve knocked down lesser men (blindness in one eye, knee replaced, mild emphysema from decades of smoking) and just plain goodness is an inspiration.

My own father just turned 81 after a similar life so I’m optimistic about my own chances of making it a few more decades. But after reading extensively on what Ray Kurzweil is pursuing to extend his life and the perfect timing of happening upon this Wired article called Hacking the Human Life Span, it got me to thinking: am  I doing enough to strategically prepare myself to live until, say, 100?

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