In a few months, I’ll be turning 40. I think this is supposed to be a big deal, but so far it’s eliciting a big old “meh” from me.

I’m pretty sure there is no way that my generation will be as insufferable about hitting middle age as the Boomers were, but everything is relative, and we won’t be the ones to make the final determination. I guess time will tell.

Anyway, I came across a few good screeds about the malaise of the Gen Xer. Read on, and remember how we used to have to read about what a bunch of slackers we all were in periodicals printed on paper.

• Generation X gets really old: How do slackers have a midlife crisis? Sara Scribner, Salon, August 11, 2013
• Millennials just don’t get it! How the Muppets created Generation X, Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Salon, April 5, 2014
• 22 Signs You’re Stuck Between Gen X And Millennials, Leonora Epstein and Doree Shafrir, BuzzFeed, July 17, 2013