Yesterday was about my good 2022 year.  Today, a summary of  Dave Barry's humorous view of the world in 2022 ,  who began with   2022  could have been worse...we could have had nuclear Armageddon .  Before I continue, I'll first segue into what to do today.  Save money, time and agony....watch television: Certainly, all those fireworks the world over, as in  Sydney , which already is into 2023: Taiwan's Taipei 101 building and Bangkok:  Hong Kong and Mumbai: Here is a  video . Of course, there will be our USA, but where?  One list of the  10 best 2023 New Year's Eve TV specials .   CNN with Anderson Cooper, of course.  He began doing this 20 years ago.  Loved it when his partner was Kathy Griffin.  She began in 2007 with dirty jokes and cursing, but had to go when in 2017  she posed with a fake severed head of then-President Donald Trump . Then, of course, the NCAA football semifinals are on today:...

This was a good year.  Avoided COVID.  Am at the best  Body Mass Index  in at least the past quarter century.  I've never been, as such, fat.  Well, maybe when I was around 1 year old.  But to the present. I saw 146.8 pounds on the scale a couple days ago.  My BMI is thus 23.0, just above average in the optimal green category. My weight before the pandemic was 165, or a BMI of 25.8, in the overweight category. Through a strict vegetable and little solid carbohydrate diet, with few snacks and almost no dessert, my weight dropped to 154, a BMI of 24.1, which placed me just in the optimal category. I just returned from a  five-week trip , including a 21-day Regent Seven Seas Explorer cruise, and saw 155.4 pounds, a BMI of 24.3, still barely in the optimal category.  But the amazing thing is that I thought I had gained at least 6 pounds, for I ate and drank a lot.  Too much. The solution, I determined, was a lot of sleep . True, we rema...

From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):           DAY    USA    WORLD      Brazil      India      South Africa 2020 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        70...