Last night was a genuinely frigid one with temps dipping down into the freezing range once again. I have been in a hibernating mode lately with the freezing and dark days we’ve been having. The sun goes down before 6pm and it gets so freezing cold out, making you want to just come home and stay hot the rest of the night. In the summer I was playing volleyball till about 10pm each evening, but now in the winter it feels like I am on a strange planet with the freezing weather and dark days. Soon our home’s HVAC cooling system will be running again and the volleyball nets will be up till well into the night. I am trying to heal my knees so that I can play again, but I am not sure how many more miles they have left on them. This local business did an MRI of both knees and they told me that they are about as shot as our 12 year old temperature control system in our flat. I think after 30 years of playing ball my knees have run their course and will need to be replaced one day soon. It costs a lot of currency though, and our HVAC tech acquaintance said that it is better to try and delay the surgery if possible. She had her knees done about 12 years ago and she said they are already starting to wear out themselves. She messed them up by working on HVAC ducts for too many years, and also from having to lift heavy HVAC units in the store each morning.