MY WEEKLY OUTING DAY FROM 15 CRAIGSIDE

From Worldometer (new deaths yesterday):

DAY USA WORLD Brazil India South Africa

June 9 1093 4732 1185 246 82

July 22 1205 7128 1293 1120 572

Aug 12 1504 6556 1242 835 130

Sept 9 1208 6222 1136 1168 82

Oct 21 1225 6849 571 703 85

Nov 11 1479 10178 564 550 60

17 1615 10502 676 472 118

18 1964 10970 754 587 124

19 2065 10758 644 584 115

25 2304 12025 620 518 118

30 1238 8291 317 482 58

Dec 1 2611 11891 697 500 109

2 2833 12356 669 498 65

Summary:

The USA just broke it's one day high for COVID-19 deaths with 2833. 2606 died in the 9/11/2001 terrorist attack of the World Trade Center. The 12,356 one-day World death number must also be a high.
The 203,737 new cases must also mean something.

Brazil is #2 with 48,124.
#3 is Turkey with 31,923. Much of the Middle East seems to be joining this current wave.

It's now been nine months of pandemic quarantine for me. However, they let us out for doctor appoints, and golf, of all the things. My day began with breakfast, feeding my fish and cranking out this posting:

I added a fried egg and natto over the rice and another egg into the miso soup. Then, off to the Wednesday Manuahi (free) market, where you are allowed to pick four items:

You are encouraged to bring a bag. I got some soba/tofu, edamame (soybeans), teriyaki hotdog over rice and a piece of blueberry pie. There must be two dozen decorated Christmas trees in the building. Here, the one on my 12th floor, and the other from the lobby:

They place all kinds of stuff on the wall, some from elementary school students wishing us well, and "gifts" we have coming that day. We are humored with ice cream, soup, snack before football, popcorn, Keno, and various forms of entertainment, etc:

I go out about once/week, so today, off for golf at the Ala Wai Golf Course to meet John, my neighbor. The first hole:

My golf lunch, an apple:

I don't quite walk all 18 holes, for during this pandemic period, there is limited play, and they race around the course. I can't keep up, so skip a few holes. However, I always finish the final three. Here on the 18th hole is John:

He walks three times/week. Before the pandemic I walked 10 times/month. Now, I'm down to two/month, so need to watch what I eat. Almost no snack, very few desserts, one french fry, a third a scoop of rice, etc. Lot of fish and vegetables, with an assortment of liquid carbohydrates. My weight has actually dropped to modern day lows because of my diet. On the way home I stopped by Foodland for some enhancement products.

At home, the delivered meal plus purchases:

A larger soba, plus a soba/tofu side dish, which I planned to have with the poke (local style marinated fish). Foodland is touted to have the best poke in the state. But I added some cut onions and kazunoko (herring eggs).

To the Jalapeno Olives I dropped in some raw onions, then gin, with a small amount of cognac...for my bath:

Just before entering the tub, I weighed myself and was pleased that I weighed in at 153.6 pounds, the lowest I've been for at least a quarter century, and probably longer. I now could eat what I wanted, including the pie:

I watched a replay of the NFL game, but felt exhausted. So I skipped the blueberry pie and went to sleep at 7PM. Had 10 hours of sleep.

Actually, need to drop by my podiatrist this morning for my toe-nail cutting, and, as I'm out anyway, plan to stop by Marukai. Wagyu? Otoro? Not sure, but the prospects are enticing.

My favorite song countdown is now at #25, and I am entering a new genre, Hawaiian music. #25 is Kawaipunahele, by Keali'i Reichel. He was born on Maui when I graduated from college. At the age of 24 he was convicted of theft, which changed his life, as all he got was community service, and he dedicated his life for the promotion of Hawaiian culture. He has won 21 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards.

It started in 1993 with a cassette recorder and his then-partner, Fred Punahele Krauss, now his husband. Kawaipunahele means the favorite waters, and, so appropriate, when you know that kawai in Hawaiian is the waters. The song was released in 1994 as his initial song.

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