Born in the 80s crowd (previously known as the 30s thread)

This will be my last year starting in February. Then it's on to the midlife crisis 40's thread.

 

Don't get too excited! 30 hurts! No lie, New years before last (Jan1 before I turned 30 in April) I woke up after a very mild new years eve. Wearing a pair of Under Armour sweats I had just gotten for Christmas a few days before...going down a flight of hardwood stairs, the new pants got caught up under my heel and I go heels above my head 7 steps from the bottom. Land square on my back on the final 2-3 steps. I feel like before (especially early 20s) I would have just chalked that up as a hungover morning, feel it right then, then itd be over. I limped around for a damn week before that got any better. It was almost like an omen to be what my 30s would be like

 

! Hope you are ok!​

 

Haha oh yea I'm good with no lasting effects except to my now 31 year old pride....and knowing that the older I get, falls like that might kill me next go around

 

Honestly, I feel ready to exit my 20's​

 

I'm definitely showing wounds longer than I did in my twenties. They just don't heal as fast anymore. Body aches more and more now too. The effects of having an active childhood and young adulthood.

 

I play soccer three times a week. Every time, 1-2 days after, I can barely move.

 

It used to be as long as I exercised I could eat whatever and be fit.

Now I work out and have to watch what I eat just to maintain my current weight...

 

Save me a seat too. I'll be moving there in July of next year.

 

Wish I could go back to my 20s healed up fast an was easy to manage weight. Now I think about a burger I gain weight an recovery time is longer from a hard workout. An food is I eat chuys or hula hut I’m screwed for the rest of the night.

 

I said I’d never go back to Apple, but after buying an iPhone 8 Plus and an Apple Watch 3 I feel a bit like being in an episode of Star Trek lol.

 

I've never owned an Apple product. I think using the Apple II's in school turned me off. At the risk of sounding pretentious, my opinion of Apple was soured the moment they used a trash can instead of recycle bin.

 

Just got the iPhone 10 last week after using the 6 for several years. I feel the same way with the Face ID been eyeballing the watch maybe for Christmas.

 

I couldn't pull the trigger on the X. On Black Friday my carrier had a sale at a certain store that put the 8 Plus to $0 while the X stayed at $600. Given they are exactly the same phone apart from the screen and a minor change to the secondary camera I couldn't justify dropping money on the X.

I think Apple made a huge mistake releasing the X at the same time as the 8 Plus. The X is too expensive for 90% of the market yet it attracts all the attention. I've heard rumors that the 8/8 Plus sales are way down and the X sales don't even come close to making up for it. This could be the first huge mistake since Jobs left/died.

 

Dude I was exactly the same way. Work forced me to get a 3GS and I hated it, I bought a 5 when they came out since Android wasn't mature and it was one of the ones with a defective battery from out of the box, and in general I hate the arrogance/elitism that Apple and their fan base tends to give off. That being said the 8 Plus absolutely stomps the competition speed wise and does it while being more power efficient. After playing with one... I had to buy it lol.

 

I agree with you my dilemma was no 8+ was in stock color an memory size I wanted this one was. The price didn’t sway me I tend to keep phones for a while I would still have the 6 but I broke it. I must say though the new screen to me it worth it I’m not oggeling my wife’s S8 screen brightness anymore.

 

What's funny is I came from an S7 with an amoLED screen. While the colours are truly awesome from those screens the bleed through when reading on a white background drives me nuts. Samsung almost has it fixed but I still saw pink lines when I played with the S8+ and V30. In the end I'm happily going back to the LED screens for a few years until the tech catches up.

I'll be stuck with this phone for a while. Due to the discounts and how the new contracts work up here I'll get raped in the ass if I try to get a new phone before the 2 year deal is up.

 

I will say though that the X is a huge step forward... but I think Apple should of held it until April when the Samsung S9 will come out. From a marketing stance it would of made a lot more sense.