We were told by Qantas to arrive at the airport three hours early.  So we got there 3 hours and 15 minutes early, and expected to at least be able to check-in.  Nope, we waited half an hour.  Anyway, their lounge was fine, except the plane left an hour late.  Those negatives aside, the experience on board was wonderful.  Service good and food excellent. This was a 10.5 hour flight, so we got two full meals.  The first one started with an excellent appetizer, as you can see. The main entré was salmon, then a beef tagliatelle.  The wines were Australian, and throughout the flight I had their Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Shiraz.  All excellent.  I also tried their late harvest white and red.  These are served from the traditional skinny bottles.  Food to pair with cheeses and other pre- and end-of-meal dishes.  Beginning with the the lounge, I think I kept my imbibition to fewer than 13. Watched three films, two of them linked to my life.  The first one, which wasn't, the 2022  Tic

What to do about the elderly is an age-old question, yes, a pun.  However, when Yale assistant professor,  Yusuke Narita , remarked that elderly Japanese residents should essentially commit seppuku ( the honorable method for dishonored samurai to commit suicide-- I had a dream  about this a long time ago which became a  Huffington Post  article ), he outraged the world. He is 37 years old with an economics PhD from MIT, previously taught at Stanford, and is obviously of Japanese ethnicity, so the issue has relevance and ire.  This euthanasia discussion actually had first occurred with a group of students two years ago about a scene from the Swedish film,  Midsommar , in which a cult sent out one of its oldest members to jump off a cliff.  He then said: Whether that's a good thing or not, that's a more difficult question to answer.  So if you think that's good, then maybe you can work hard creating a society like that. Narita in the past also suggested that the public might