Although I've now been retired for 26 years, I still enjoy Saturday the most.  Don't know why, but it still feels like a day off.  Every day these days are a day off, so it shouldn't matter, but. Not only am I retired, but I live in a senior's community, where, for an entrance fee and monthly charge, there is nothing for me to do, for we are served three meals/day, apartment weekly cleaned with bed linen changed and new towels, have guards and a lot of cameras to protect us, numerous activities to keep us occupied, or not, for I tend to mostly avoid them, and lifetime security, for they have promised to take care of me until I die.  Of course, they won't let you in unless your finances are such that they are secure. You would think I am joking, but after returning from our recent trip, where one portion was a long Oceania cruise from Yokohama to Vancouver, I came to a conclusion that the best place to eat was at 15 Craigside.  Oceania is known for its fine cuisine, ...

If you're old, you can live alone, with family or in some kind of senior's residence.  I have now been 11 years at 15 Craigside, up Nuuanu Avenue from downtown Honolulu.  Not exactly cheap to live here, for I hate the thought of my travel partner and I paying $12,000/month to the administration just to be away on a trip.  At the end of the year, we will fly to the Tokyo, spend a few days there, then take back to back cruises before returning home in the middle of January.  Our travel bill, thus, is $24,000 for the two of us,  just to be away .  But there is no other option if you want to travel, for the end is near, and I have to do this now.  As they say, you can't take it with you, even if you get to Heaven. See the tall building below?  That is not 15 Craigside.  It is a condominium adjacent to our smaller blueish building to the right.  I lived in a penthouse of that bigger Craigside for 32 years.  So I've now been on this same ...