I'll begin this week with a quick summary of what is happening in the U.S. and World. The U.S. Supreme Court went into session today. Don't expect much this year. How to survive President Trump will be their primary goal. The Nobel Prize announcements have begun. Six of them are awarded in physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, peace and economics. Established by the will of Swedish inventor ( dynamite ) Alfred Nobel since 1901. The award in economics was added in 1969. Swedish organizations select the winners in all categories, except for peace, which comes from Norway. Why? No one knows for sure, except that this was specified in Nobel's will. Today, U.S. scientists Mary Rundow (64) and Fred Ramsdell (64), and Japan's Shimon Sakaguchi (74), were named recipients of the prize for medicine. Their work relates to how we keep our immune system under control. They each get $400,000, but more importantly...
I've now resided at 15 Craigside, a retirement community, for 11 years. I lived in an adjacent tower ( the brown one in the bac k) for 32 years, and saw my present building coming up. A few years after it opened, one Saturday morning, I dropped by to investigate my neighbor. They gave me a tour, and at one point mentioned that an apartment that had long been reserved and never moved into had suddenly been made available. There are two tall towers on the sea side of 15 Craigside. That tiny building in-between is 15 Craigside. However, the apartment shown to me was in between them, the conformation of those buildings was such that they couldn't see my apartment. Most important to me, I could view the Pacific Ocean. There are graveyards on the mountain side, which I can't see from my apartment. Most determining of all, if at the beginning, there was a sign-up list to reserve an apartment, this is the one I ...