First, Happy Birthday Pat.  I still have not settled on my celebratory feast.   Today is Labor Day, and as is traditional for most holidays, I sometimes provide some background.  Here is one posting from  4 September 2017 , and at the bottom is mention of an early stage of Hurricane Irma.  She went on to become a Category 5 and caused $77 billion in damages in the Caribbean and Florida.  Incidentally, off the Carolinas right now is  Hurricane Larry  at 125 MPH.  Fortunately, he is aware of our Delta variant surge of cases and has decided not to visit the USA.  Borrowed from that article of four years ago is some wisdom from Garfield, which pretty much describes my weekend. Today I continue describing my life, but can send you to a series of 15 postings I had more than seven years ago, describing my life in chronological transitions: Part 1:  Overview and Early Youth . #2       Entering kindergarten :  traumatic. #3      Entering intermediate school :   diffficult. #4     Entering high

We grew up believing in those statements.  To some degree, my life has unfolded with some personal effort, while overcoming disasters.  Recent events, though, have convinced me that I'm reaching a point of peak luck by pure chance.  If I don't brag about this today, as all things have a way of balancing out, I might never again be able to say that I'm the luckiest person I know. To begin, being born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the best place on Earth, in a period where the previous generation ( World War II heroes ) made it easer for me, provided the foundation for an incredible life.  Those events had nothing to do with hard work on my part. I had an uneventful youth, growing up in what was then considered to be a relatively dangerous and low class environment, Kakaako.  In reality, this was a safe neighborhood, until now, when the homeless crowd has definitely made an impact.  But today, I live in a Nuuanu cocoon, where we escaped COVID-19 ( we all had our second Moderna shot a

Although I've now been retired for more than 20 years, Friday remains as my best day of the week.  My apartment is cleaned, bed remade and towels replaced. I tend to have my best meal of the week on Friday nights.  I once golfed a lot on this day.  I'm happier on Fridays. This morning I awoke, turned on the TV to Classic Arts Showcase, and first on were Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli singing Con Te Partiro.   That was Tuscany in 1997.  Did you know she's already 60 years old?  He is 62 and became blind from a football ( soccer ) accident at the age of 12.  His duet with Celine Dion of The Prayer came the following year. The World is today a better place because the U.S. not only just rejoined the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, but also the global humanity.  President Joe Biden virtually met with other G7 leaders and made progress on pandemic recovery and vaccine plans. Next, NASA success.  The Perseverance rover landed exactly where it was supposed to on Mars, and