For fans of this blog site, here is the latest summary ( number of viewing people ): All Time   3,811,201 viewers Today   6,305  Yesterday   5,680  This Month   103,335 Last Month  86,155 # of postings:  6,745 Views/day in the lifetime of this blog site:  565 221 countries have visited this site. The top three countries this month: 1. United State        242,146 2. Singapore             77,436 3. United Kingdom   19,619 I've never been able to explain this, but the viewership from Singapore is usually off the charts.  Perhaps someone from Singapore can contact me to explain why.  I will be there from December 23 until December 30, when we depart on the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Luminara for Hong Kong.   Well, now on to the topic of today.  Many of us, especially me, are getting too old.  One indicator of aging is your choice of music. ...

It's interesting that the general reaction of the media and friends about all those Trump-backed primary victories is alarm that this is the re-birth of The Donald to become the next president of the USA.  I look upon those victories with glee, for every tainted Republican is now vulnerable to any opposing Democrat on November 8.  Why?   Read my posting of 4August2022 . Otherwise, I messed up a bit.  Yesterday was supposed to be nostalgia day.  However, I instead inserted something more scientific, hurricanes.  So today I am returning to find an older posting and bringing it up to date. I thought I would reach back to 26March2010:       195 COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD At that point, 145 countries had visited my blog site.  So how many countries are there in this world? The United Nations a decade ago had 192 members.  Plus, there are three more not in the UN:  Vatican City Kosovo and Taiwan. In 2011,  South Sudan  bec...