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 ) ...

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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'l...