The news of the day: 70% of American adults have taken at least one shot , finally hitting Biden's target, but about a month late.   However, keep in mind that the 0-11 age group has not yet been vaccinated, and they represent 15% the U.S. population.   This means that the unvaccinated figure is slightly higher than 40%. According to my posting yesterday, the Delta variant means herd immunity is at 92%.  We are thus today below 60%. Some states have returned to mandatory masking. While we are a humane country and don't want our citizens in jeopardy, those vaccinated are actually being discriminated against. What about allowing the vaccinated full freedom to not wear masks and letting them enter theaters, restaurants, cruise ships, airplanes and the like, while preventing those unvaccinated from these privileges? More and more mandates are actually being invoked, and found by the courts to be legal. But you say, some unvaccinated will find a way to circumvent the system.  I say

We all have had life-changing moments, and beginning tomorrow I will return to work for the rest of the year after 21 years of blissful retirement.  I will still board the Island Princess on 19January2022 to begin my world cruise. Some of my sudden past transitions include: Leaving Hawaii for the very first time in 1958 to begin college at Stanford University. Starting my academic life in 1972 at the University of Hawaii, where my presence in my office during the summer of next year will mean I will have been on the Manoa Campus for 50 years. I was, however, away once from 1979 to 1982 working for Senator Spark Matsunaga in DC, where I drafted the original legislation for hydrogen and ocean thermal energy conversion. So what is it that I will do for the next six months?  All that will unfold over the next few days in this blog. Today, I will focus on my final weekend of dabbling for the rest of the year, where I went out of my way to do what I have mostly been doing since I retired at