For the next few nostalgic Tuesdays, I will post on the best hotels I have enjoyed in the past.  I will begin with the Mauna Beach Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii because this was the first luxury hotel I ever experienced. Pearl and I got married on 22December1962, and I recall having part of our honeymoon at the  Mauna Kea Beach Hotel . However, my memory must be faulty, because I checked  Wikipedia  and learned that this hotel opened on 2July1965.  So this must have been our second honeymoon. I was then working as a factory engineer at the Hutchinson Sugar Company in Naalehu, also on the Big Island. The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel: Developed and constructed by Laurance Rockefeller, who fell in love with Kaunoa Bay on the Big Island. Secured a 99-year lease for a 500-acre parcel from Richard  Smart, owner of  Parker Ranch , which at one time was the largest cattle ranch in the USA.  This is interesting. 19-year old John Palmer Parker jumped ship in K...

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I play fantasy sports because they give me something to root for when I watch the games on TV.  As much as you want players on your team to do well, you almost as much hope all the other players don't, and maybe even get injured.  The ESPN baseball competition is free and you win nothing but pride.  But that's enough for me.  Incidentally, my four teams are in 6th, 3rd, 2nd and FIRST, in a league of 8. When I go to Las Vegas, I only dabble with the machines.  I  remember I was once in Sparks, Nevada, had a nice steak dinner for almost nothing, and on the way out dropped a quarter in one.  For no reason at all, three quarters rolled out.  I couldn't lose.  In a short while I filled one of those LARGE buckets with quarters.  Must have been several hundred dollars.  Clearly it was broken, so I had two choices:  leave immediately with my winnings, or summon an employee to report this malfunction.  I went back to my motel....