Smiley Anders for July 6, 2009

• By SMILEY ANDERS
• Advocate staff writer
• Published: Jul 6, 2009 - Page: 1B

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As I approach my Golden Years, my wife and daughter have started looking for signs of geezerhood.

“We want to know when it’s time to put you in ‘the home,’” they tell me jokingly — I think.

I always laugh this off, but the other morning I felt I was ready to check myself in.

I tried to change the channel on the TV — with my electric toothbrush …

Look up!
Freda Yarbrough says NASA has announced that the International Space Station will be visible in the Baton Rouge area as it orbits 220 miles above earth.

“Many locations will have unusually long sighting opportunities of as much as five minutes, weather permitting, as the station flies almost directly overhead,” says NASA.

“To find out when to see the station from your city, visit http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings.”

The station circles earth every 90 minutes.

“This is cool,” says Freda. (The sightings listed at the NASA Web site are for July 6-11.)

Getting together
For readers who asked, the 12th annual Old North Baton Rouge Reunion is at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Sheraton Atrium. It’s for folks who lived in north Baton Rouge in the ’30s through ’60s.

Cajun connection
After Tom Terrific told of his son meeting a fellow Ascension Parish guy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and enjoying local food, I heard from Doug Johnson of Walker:

“My wife is a Russian from Tashkent. Every time I describe one of our favorite Uzbek foods, plov, as being like jambalaya, she gets upset with me.

“Thanks to Tom for agreeing with me.”