Let me first dabble into those wars: Gaza Strip. Hamas has agreed to disarm . Israel maintains skepticism. Palestinians mistrust both Israel and Hamas. Iran War . Iran accused U.S. of escalating tensions. Commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is still down by 95%. Houthis blocking the passing of Saudi ships through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. Both the old and new versions of this blog site have seen a jump in readership from March of this year, when we flew from Honolulu to Las Vegas for a few days, then on to Memphis to visit Elvis' Graceland, followed by a cruise down the Mississippi to New Orleans.  A short stop there, then on to New York City, followed by a Viking cruise from Manhattan to Toronto.  We then boarded a train towards Vancouver, catching another train to get us there. Original blog: As I compose this posting, first one on 29April2008, this daily blog has had just under 10.5 million viewers over 6669 days, or 1574/day. However, the first ten years avera...

 For fans of this blog site, here is the latest summary ( number of viewing people ): All Time   3,811,201 viewers Today   6,305  Yesterday   5,680  This Month   103,335 Last Month  86,155 # of postings:  6,745 Views/day in the lifetime of this blog site:  565 221 countries have visited this site. The top three countries this month: 1. United State        242,146 2. Singapore             77,436 3. United Kingdom   19,619 I've never been able to explain this, but the viewership from Singapore is usually off the charts.  Perhaps someone from Singapore can contact me to explain why.  I will be there from December 23 until December 30, when we depart on the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Luminara for Hong Kong.   Well, now on to the topic of today.  Many of us, especially me, are getting too old.  One indicator of aging is your choice of music. ...