I saw the name Fyfe, and couldn't help but correlate it to Barney Fife. Two of a kind.

I've worked around govt. employees for 38 years. It's not a unique situation, it's commonplace.

Um, no. Even the Forest Service says so on their permits page.

The Forest Service offers many activities such as hiking, biking, skiing, camping, birding, using cabins, driving for pleasure, harvesting mushrooms, and gathering firewood. Many of the facilities and services associated with these opportunities are free. Some do require fees or permits to help maintain, manage and improve the amenities that you enjoy.

This is the typical kind of crap that people wanting more government completely miss. These kind of jackasses are often finding phony problems in order to justify their positions.

Okay, so if you look at it in the opposite direction, is it still to the right? Is there a standard starting point, like when we say the right side of a car, we're assuming the orientation is from the driver's point of view. Facing the vehicle from the front would reverse that.

Why would the video portion be any different than someone snapping a photo through the window? I believe that part is completely legal. The audio, on the other hand...

Not that it would be a good thing, but wouldn't the warming of areas that are currently less habitable due to cold offset some of that? Maybe portions of Canada, Greenland, Siberia?

Reminds me of the time (mid 90s) an interviewer asked me to write code for a bubble sort on a piece of paper. I told him that off the top of my head, I couldn't, but that we could discuss the basic principle behind it, big O, and inefficiency.

He didn't like the answer, and it was one of the rare interviews where I didn't actually get an offer.

I feel for you, having had to deal with precisely the same. But semantically, what does it mean to be "in a state of decline". At nearly 56, I'm in a state of decline, but nowhere near being unable to contribute. Some cases are clear, others not so much. As we all edge nearer to death, it's not always clear where the turning point is.

Wow, bad mods today. Whoever marked this Flamebait needs to grow up.

I'm just piling on here... Dramatic improvements in the management of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and treatment of heart disease have already extended life for many of us.

If you're just doing things to keep you alive, you're not living. The whole point of a bucket list is to live life to the fullest.

Did the same...155mph on the autobahn removes a lot of stress.

As another 55'er, I'll say that I agree with much of your commentary. My family genes don't favor my odds of making it much further than 70. Both grandfathers died of heart disease, high cholesterol runs in my family, Grandmother died from Alzheimer's and my oldest aunt is living with it. Type II diabetes is common in my family as well.

All that said, statins have significantly improved the cholesterol situation. I recently ran a half-marathon, and am watching my diet. And while I question the value, I actively do mental exercises (Lumosity, chess, etc.). So, I suspect my odds are better than my predecessors.

Do I want to live to 100? Sure, but only if I'm not in pain, and don't want the family to take a second mortgage to keep me in a nursing home with feeding tubes.

So I'm intrigued by the name. What were her interrogation techniques? Did she use an Analintruder? Cavity searches?