These are the types of things I spend way too much time thinking about. On Sunday, I was having a lovely dinner when I noticed the chairs at the table next to me were arranged randomly by color.

Immediately, I started to search for a pattern but found none that was readily apparent. There were 13 chairs total – a prime number – with 3 colors of chair: 7 grey, 4 tan and 2 burgundy. If you combine the tan and burgundy you get a 6, 7 sequence, but that’s cheating. 2 and 7 are also prime numbers, but 4 isn’t. 247,274, 472, 427, 742, 724: not prime numbers. 2-4-7 maybe as (2 + 2 = 4; 4 + 3 = 7). To confirm that one I need 1 more chair or 11 more chairs in a nice chartreuse.

But I I was never compelled to run over and re-arrange the chairs to fit a pattern because I was enjoying the challenge too much. I still am. That’s good, right?