Just another Sunday musing today, reflecting on my life full of miracles.  The greatest was being born on 6 September 1940.  What were the odds? The average male produces  2 trillion sperms  in a lifetime.   The average female produces 500 eggs in a lifetime. Multiplying the two, and you get one chance in a quadrillion for me to have been born. And that's just only because my mother and father got together. Incidentally, the longer odds of this happening can be viewed in a  TedX talk by Mel Robbins.   He says:  1 in 400 trillion. And another view .  Essentially, we're all miracles. There have been  117 billion miracles  since the beginning of us. My childhood was mundane and totally uneventful.  I lived just to the right of that tall building on the right, in a day when there were no tall buildings.  Nothing much happened until I got into high school.  As a sophomore at McKinley High School (p hoto to the left ) in Honolulu, the odds on my getting accepted by one of the better

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Here are the top ten Netflix series this week ( RT stands for Rotten Tomatoes ): 10.  The Queen's Gambit   ( RT:  97/95 ):   Read my review.  I later finished this mini-series, and can recommend it. 9.  Surviving Death 8.  Gabby's Dollhouse 7.  Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio 6.  Cocomelon 5.  L.A.'s Finest 4.  Cobra Kai   ( RT: 93/92 )   Read my review .  I began watching this series in August, and will someday go back.  It is now into season 3. 3.    Lupin   ( RT: 93/80 --note, this is not  Lupin III,  an animatic film ):  I am currently watching this production.  Very stylish and well done.  An immigrant from Senegal to Paris is framed for theft of an expensive necklace by his employer, a wealthy powerbroker.  Father commits suicide in prison and orphaned son when he grows up spends 10 episodes getting revenge.  If you like to imagine you're in Paris, you'll love this production.   2.  Bridgerton  ( RT: 90/84 ):   I don't like nor understand these British