At least you have the doctors number.

It's hard to know what's the better, going out or staying in ?
There was a time when there was no question, we had to be out investigating the runners and riders. Often it was a fruitless search trying to find some sort of stimulation, some relief from the mundane but staying in was never on the agenda since we always felt we were missing something, that indefinable something which like the pot of gold is never discovered.
Out we would go defying the weather to tramp the streets, a visit to the local or, on a Friday a trip to the Mecca and a night of dancing. It was all based on the expectancy of meeting someone who would be significantly special for you to spend a bob or two and take her to the pictures. Or very special and you would pull out the stops and take them to a restaurant but, so much was riding on the last bus home or a wet thoughtful walk home.
Today with so many years experience and often disappointment it's easy to see why staying indoors has its attraction. Not only do you stay dry, not only do you keep the cash in your pocket but above all you avoid the disappointment.
The opportunistic person will take the chance of a convivial night out with strangers, they will continue to keep in the game like a Lottery player ignoring the odds and chancing to luck just one more time.

Of course the home bird would increase his chances of a satisfactory evening simply by playing red eleven, statistically proven to come up more than any other he plays it safe by gathering the familiar around him and risking nothing more than an early night in bed with his favourite book. Boring I hear you cry but if you have accepted that life has its moments, old age is not one of them and invisibility, whilst attractive to the sniper is crushing to a sensitive soul. 
I hear the sound of a jet plane overhead "fasten your safety belts we are about to take off", a portent of adventure and discovery but also a portent of isolation and bewilderment. The trip to who knows where carries the same bag of bones from here to there, at least here you have the doctors telephone number.
As you board the Cruse Ship for a three week trip to sunnier climes perhaps that's enough. Perhaps a change of climate is all one needs, to revel in the warmth to throw off the gloom and revisit the half full glass of optimism that we all need.
But genuinely, there can be few more satisfying places to be than in your own home, with an iPad writing a blog to an expectant audience !!! :)