Another 34?

We just celebrated our 34th wedding anniversary; an impressive achievement in this day and age when it's more common to see people married two or three times than staying more than twenty years with the same partner. At any rate – as I always do when crossing major time thresholds – I was looking over the horizon at the next 34 years and wondering if together, we'll make it unscathed. I called my “possibility forecaster,” explained the scope of the challenge and without hesitating much, that guy who knows me so well and is on top of almost everything, didn't waste time and snapped back: "You'll make it, but this time you'll be really old, pretty boring, quite stiff and will ski like a tourist." I smiled and told my wife...