We returned yesterday to Honolulu after one week on the Norwegian Pride of America.  Departing Kauai. A Liberty dinner with Abraham Lincoln. The best wine on this cruise was Conundrum. Dinner. Goodbye Abe. Saturday morning, arrival in Honolulu. A rainbow greeted us. Before departing the ship, had our first breakfast. All in all it was worth the money and enjoyable.  On the other hand, there were issues that make me want to say I won't again board this ship until certain improvements occur.  For one, the WiFi was terrible.  When we asked a staff member, they uniformly said all is fine.  But I guess that this what they are told to say in that nothing was wrong because this is the way it is on this ship.  It typically took me several minutes to download a photo when it should have been two seconds.  What made it worse was that we not that long ago returned on a 53-day cruise on the Seabourn Odyssey, and in the most remote portions of the South Pacific, the worst it got was the best

Doppelganger comes from Germany, where  doppel  means  double  and  ganger  is a  walker,  that is, a person who looks like you.  If you encounter your doppelganger, recent  scientific evidence  indicates that you probably have similar genetics. We all have hair in the same area of the body and the same number of limbs, eyes, nose, and so on.  With 8 billion of us living on the same planet, it's only to be expected that some will have physical counterparts.   Let's take someone at random.  Say, the writer Ernest Hemingway, who passed away around 60 years ago. In 1977 an International Imitation Hemingway Competition began in Harry's Bar and American Grill, Century City, California.  The winner got two round-trip tickets to Florence, Italy, and dinner for two at Harry's.  Not sure why, for the  Harry's Ba r where Hemingway drank was in Venice.  The contest is now held at Sloppy Joe's in Key West, where he frequented for a dozen years when he lived there.  Actually

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