Don’t know how, A box

As mentioned previously my knees have been very painful since last week. When I got up yesterday it was the same story. My left knee was especially a problem where I would get a sudden jolt of pain doing nothing other than just taking a normal step or so it seems. Despite waking up that way I maintained my reservation to play pickleball with my lunchtime crew later in the day.

The shots of pain continued throughout the morning but I downed three Advil and headed to the courts anyway. Even as I got out of my car at the courts there I was still feeling it yet somehow, I played. I played the entire session without a significant issue which was extremely surprising to me.

Late yesterday afternoon I was invited to play again last night with my friends that I have not seen or played with in awhile. In my mind I knew that I already had pressed my luck by playing at lunch, playing for a second time would be foolish, yet I agreed. I took my second regimen of Advil and played another 90 minutes. I had some mild pain here and there but for the most part was ok. I don’t really know how I was able to play twice on the same day where I woke up with sharp pains in the joints. I’ll just attribute it to good fortune. I plan to push my luck once again tonight by playing volleyball. After play last night the four of us had dinner at Bruninas. We sat at a table instead of the bar which felt very foreign to me. Meaghan wasn’t working last night so it wasn’t a huge deal.

Yesterday my pickleball paddle from Temu finally arrived. I have spent a ton of money on paddles since I started the sport, paying as much as $330 for one. I bought this paddle as an experiment. Some people I play with have bought these paddles and have said good things about them, saying they are basically the same thing as name brand paddles without all of the markup. I paid less than $40 for the paddle. The box that it came in was as generic as generic could be. I will definitely be doing a video documenting my thoughts about this one.