RETIREMENT: WHERE IS THE TIME TO GET BORED?

31/08/2009    Day six, retirement
Today is a last public holiday in UK. When you are working this long weekend holds a very special place in your psyche. It is the last holiday before Christmas. It reminds that summer is about to end and whatever you have planned to do this summer—DIY, go on to the beach, go to Paris, visit mother in law (as if ) whatever, better do it now. It somehow creates a sense of urgency with an impending doom that summer is about to end. Anyway why am I thinking like that now that I am retired? Old habits die hard!
We did go to DIY store, bought some gardening stuff and looked at tiles for the bathroom. Plan to go to countryside for a long walk and picnic with a friend was cancelled, thanks to the weather. It was forecasted that it will be a sunny bank holiday but Nature, by nature is unpredictable. So it was all indoor activities for the last three days.
Went to Vermillion, a designer Asian restaurant. Good food and excellent service but felt a bit crowded. What else do you expect on a weekend! We had a fusion cuisine Thai and Indian. Did it work? I think so. But like in any successful marriage there were a few discordant but amicable notes. Overall it was a pleasant evening.
As I told you before I am reading "the last theorem" by A.C.Clarke. I came across an interesting fact. You can express any even number as a sum of two prime numbers. Like say 18. It is sum of 7 and 11. As you know prime numbers are not that common. So I did not first believe this but I checked with my calculator and it is true. Amazing, isn't it.
Well, it is getting late. Good night