And I always look forward to them. Worse, I have no recorder of any kind.

I couldn’t help it. I spent the previous two days very much sick. Now my chest hurts when I laugh. This is very significant for a 78 year old. I have been using muscles I have not used in years.

I had begun being falsely convinced that I was too old for that sort of thing. I mean, we do outgrow many things, right. Why can’t we outgrow getting sick? It seems we only outgrow the good stuff. You know, the stuff like being able to jump and run.

I guess that my first big realization that I was getting old was when I was forty. I thought I was loosing my eye sight. I went to an optometrist and she explained it’s normal for 40-year-olds. It’s when we start using reading glasses. It is caused by a combination of hardening of the lenses and weakening of muscles.

There’s that word, muscle again. It seems as if it always is used in combination with aging. Did you know that you use muscles for coughing? It is true. They are rarely used. They are used when we get something caught in our throat or when we get a lower respiratory infection. I know. No one needed to tell me. I sort of figured it out.

The thing is, these muscles are used so seldom that when we get a lower respiratory infection, the muscles start really getting used hard. If it’s one or two days, not a big problem. For us oldsters, beyond three days, those muscles start getting wore out. And then again, there is that word muscle.

Hence, I have figured out how to slow down aging, at least in theory. All we need do is figure out a way to keeping our muscles from atrophying. NOW. I am open to suggestions on how to do that.