Before I enter into my medical posting of today, a few facts and thoughts about the War in Iraq: Oil prices rose today WTI Crude Oil ( USA ):  Up to $100/barrel, dropped to $93/barrel and seems headed towards $95/barrel. Brent Crude Oil ( Europe ):  Jumped to $116/barrel, then dropped to $100/barrel and at this moment was up to $102/barrel. The Forbes Advisor   notes a roughly $0.05 increase in the national average from yesterday, and a nearly $1 increase from a month ago. President Donald Trump met today with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the White House, but couldn't convince her to send any warships to the Strait of Hormuz.  As of this moment, the USA and Israel are the only countries involved against Iran. However, as Iran keeps sending drones to energy sites of neighboring countries, they are finally "thinking" about retaliating. As you know,  Israel opened a second front in Lebanon against the Hezbollah . Trump is mulling over possibly invading...

Most important of all for some ( except Hawaii and most of Arizona in the USA ) is that daylight savings time ends tonight.  At 2AM most of the U.S. will gain back an hour, so you will have an extra hour of sleep.  Perhaps there could be some energy savings, but I think this is an inconvenience that needs to be disposed.   32 states have proposed bills to end this practice .  Half the world has gone ahead to do this ( the light purple color ). A new world's largest potato, but not from Idaho: Just this week in New Zealand, Colin and Donna Craig-Brown dug up in their backyard a 17.4 pound potato and named him Doug: They take him for walks and are getting a lot of attention.  Below was the previous largest, as recognized by  Guinness , only 10 pounds and 14 ounces, from the UK: On this note, the next time it heavily rains, go to  Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas . Here is where in 1924 was found the largest diamond ever discovered in the U....