As a 40-something playing ultimate with much younger folks, I feel for you. But here, too, experience has a huge impact. I generally am at the place I need to be to make a play sooner than I was at age 27, even though I get there slower. And I know when to exert, when to coast a bit. The game has a richness and feel to it that it never had for me at age 30. I can read my team and the opponent and see which individuals and which situations are going to make the biggest impact on the outcome. And few things are more enjoyable than beating someone half your age to the disc. One such thing is the relational aspect of it - seeing these "kids" grow into amazing players and knowing I have a stake in that. Perhaps that's more related to having young 'uns of my own. If that's the consolation for mental and physical decline, I'll take it!

Most external hard drives house either a 3.5" or a 2.5" internal ATA hard drive. If you don't mind leaving the case open and swapping as needed, this is a zero monetary cost method of accessing old hard drives of similar dimensions. Do 2.5" drives have same interface as 3.5 ones? If so then even better!

Publishers who do not keep up with the 2-4 year revision cycle lose market share. I'm not saying that publishers do not also want to keep selling new books, but it's a double-whammy: not only do publishers not see any revenue from the second, third, etc. sale of a book, but if they try to be "good citizens" by deferring a new edition by a year or two, they competition will pick up from 10-40% of their business in the interim. So when they look to finally sell the new edition, it's a much tougher sell, with lower revenue. Professors in committees all say, "all textbooks are the same," yet many choose the latest, greatest, shiny new thing for their students. Open textbooks are a wonderful thing that will accelerate the downward pricing of textbooks.