This is Day 21 of our trip and Day 12 of our cruise on the Oceania Riviera from Yokohama to Vancouver.  We've been sailing in the open ocean for several days, the seas are now not as rough, and we finally arrive in Kodiak, Alaska tomorrow.  As such, I have been occupied with topics like the International Date Line and why the USA is great, and could well become greater under Donald Trump ( that was the potential if he somehow succeeds in gobbling up Canada and Greenland ). First, Happy Boys Day. It was my third posting of this blog site,  5May2008 , that I wrote about Boys Day.  Same day as Cinco de Mayo, as shown at the end. Today, though, I'll revert to a topic I toss in perhaps monthly called Energy Matters, the following from the  5May2025 issue  of this subject from the America Energy Society. Here is some bad stuff you probably had no idea even existed:  PET COKE. Petroleum coke is the final product from the cracking of oil. When burned, it emits...

On November 4, Peter Diamandis published an article in  Time  magazine entitled,  Why Sleep Is the Key to Living Longer .  Then last night I had a revelation which could well be the key to solving my sleep problem.  Every night is an adventure, and I just might now have a clue to how to solve overcome sleeplessness.  I will test out some solutions and report how they went later,  For today, I'll focus on Diamandis. Is a 63-year old marketer, entrepreneur, engineer and physician. Is best known as the founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation and leader of so many organizations linked to space and wellness.  Founded 25 companies. From the Bronx, he went to MIT, then on to Harvard Medical School.  But midway through, went back to get a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.  Returned to Harvard for his M.D. In 2008 co-founded Singularity University with Ray Kurzweil, who I will feature sometime soon. Now called the Ansa...