Ain't No Party Like a Pool Party

You may have noticed that I've been writing about the pool a lot lately. There's a very simple reason for that. I've been at the pool a lot lately! Today was 12 days in a row of going to the pool.

Today we had our friends, Barbara and Jesse and their son, J., over. It was a great day to relax in the water. Well, we four adults relaxed; J., age 12, was a fountain of energy as usual. The temperature here in Sunnyvale peaked at 88° today. That's cooler than yesterday's 99° F (37° C)— which made yesterday the hottest day of the year so far, beating even our March heat wave.



With the water still extra warm from yesterday I stayed in longer than I expected. It was "bath tub warm", Barbara and Jesse said. With that I didn't even need a soak in the hot tub. Instead after 90+ minutes in the main pool I took my turn sitting out for a bit and cracked open a cold beer.

It was great reconnecting with old friends we hadn't seen in several months— not since pool season last year! 🤣 One topic of conversation was retirement. Jesse left his last job early this year, a few weeks before I gave notice at mine. At the time he called it a "soft retirement", expressing the possibility he might look for another job after a few months of semi-retirement. While he says the jury's still out on whether going back to work might be an economic need, he sees absolutely no need in terms of sense or purpose or fulfillment in life. On that, he and I are 💯. I quipped, "Within weeks days after retiring I found there is absolutely no job-shaped hole in my life."

I figure we'll all see more of each other now that we're all retired. 🏝️ I mean, except the 12 year old. Someone's going to have to work to pay our Social Security checks 15 years from now. 🤣