As far as I know, the only evidence of the Queen Mary 2 celebrating the Kentucky Derby is me having two mint juleps, and taste-testing Woodward Reserve and Makers Mark Kentucky bourbons.  No Old Forrester on the ship.  Also I don't hold much hope for the sports channels to show the derby.  All they play are soccer, auto/bike racing, darts, with an occasional NBA game. While testing Kentucky whiskies, I also saw a Japanese scotch.  So I tried it too. Post-time for this  150th Kentucky Derb y is 6:57 PM ET today.   The heavy favorite is Sierra Leone at 3-1.  He is a late closer, and there are 20 other horses running, so that could be a major problem.  Starts out of gate 2. I like longer shots, and my favorite is  Forever Young  (right), a 10-1 shot from Japan out of the 11th position.  He has never lost yet. Last night was Gala Evening Attire night, so I had on my ascot set.  For those who don't know,  ascots are making a fashion comeback . The origins date back to the late 19th

Did you know that  our Milky Way Galaxy has a Christmas tree ?  New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC) 2264 was discovered in 1784 by William Herschel, and is located 2500 light years away from Earth.  These stars are only between one and five million years old.  Some are seven times the size of our Sun, which is 4.6 billion years old.   There is a smaller cluster within NGC2264 called the Snowflake Cluster ( photo to the right ). The entire grouping is known as the Christmas Tree Cluster.  NASA compiled renderings from multiple sources, their Chandra Observatory and NSF's NOIRLab Observatory, producing an animated image with the assistance of the Two Micron All Sky Survey. We are dining well this holiday season.  Here a dinner we had at the home of a golf colleague, Tommy and his wife Gail.  4,000 square feet home with a view from Diamond Head across the whole Waialae Golf Course, where the Sony Open is held, all the way to Koko Head.  You can see the coconut