Tell me about it!  As I experience the joys of my advancing decrepitude, I am reminded of Yankee superstar Mickey Mantle's favourite saying in his early 60s not long before he passed away.  "If I had know I was going to live this long I'd have taken better care of myself," said The Mick.

Fittingly at his funeral, his golfing buddy Roy Clark played and sang "Yesterday, When I was Young".   

Take care of your knees, folks, or you'll wind up like me wearing a brace with 34 magnets in it, spending 3 hours a week in a warm water (94 degrees) pool, bringing along a seat-cane for long walks and waits, and no longer playing the tennis that you loved and were pretty good at.

And when you get as old as me, the first thing anyone who doesn't know you and phones after 9 pm will say to you is "did I wake you?".