My intention today was to provide the great Russia story.  However, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky have already accomplished this feat, so was inspired at lunch to instead introduce you to the Aleutian Islands.  How was I so influenced?  Let me start by going back to yesterday when Adam Tanner lectured on Russia. Nice talk, but nothing new.  So I thought anything I could add about this country would be prosaic.  Anyway, dinner was at the Polo Grill, a steakhouse. Started with a Caesar Salad, and then into a ribeye steak with baked potato, cream of spinach, etc. I'll skip the steak photo and go into the petit fours.  Saw the dessert menu.  But passed.  Some enticing delectables, but I'm eating too much. Went on the the Riviera Lounge for a Broadway Show spectacle. Then went dancing in Horizons and closed the place down. Which leads to today, lunch and why my topic of the day will focus on the Aleutian Islands. Started with soup and salad, but th...

  I'll start with the pandemic: Looks like schools will continue to mostly be in-person, meaning that for the rest of the year elementary school students will continue to share the virus and bring it home to family and friends.  Pfizer indicated back in May that their vaccine should be ready for 5-11 ages in  September .  However, the Feds said, do more tests, so Pfizer and Moderna might roll out these vaccines  sometime in the Fall ...which means the number of new cases/day will be with us for much of the rest of the year. According to the  New York Times  this Sunday morning: With a stockpile of at least 100 million doses at the ready, the first boosters   are likely to go to nursing home residents and health care workers , followed by other older people. Officials envision giving people a third dose of the same vaccine that they originally received. How would you like to live in Haiti? Their government was always a bit, if not a lot, screwed up...