So you thought the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics will start on Friday.   Nope, today....Wednesday . Yes, today, you can see preliminaries for Curling, Luge, Snowboarding and Alpine skiing. Women's Ice Hockey preliminary rounds begin on Thursday, February 5:  U.S. versus Czechia at 10:40AM ET.  The American team goes on to play Finland on Friday, February 7 at 10:40AM ET, Switzerland at 2:40PM ET on Sunday and Canada on Monday at 2:10PM ET.  Finals in Milan on February 19.  They are favored to beat Canada for the gold medal. The Opening Ceremony is on Friday, February 6, 2PM ET or 9AM Hawaii time. Then on Saturday, February 7, the first medal event, Men's Downhill Alpine Skiing.  Closing ceremony on Sunday, February 22, at the Verona Arena.  At 2PM ET on Peacock, with the Prime broadcast on NBC at 8PM ET. Oh, living at 15 Craigside in Honolulu,  I just learned that I can get Peacock free .  Standard cost is $8/month.  Got to get on t...

I had a great luncheon reunion at 100 Sails in the Hawaii Prince Hotel with three associates of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii.  One of them sent me the following e-mail. And Pat, I was going to suggest today that you save some space in a future blog to write (complain) about how climate change is negatively impacting insurance rates — not only the affordability but the availability as well.  My home, hurricane, and umbrella insurance rates have made quantum jumps over the last several years.  Last year alone, my hurricane insurance rate increased by 100% (it would have increased even more if I didn’t double my deductible). I received a quote for umbrella insurance a coupla days ago — 60% increase over last year.  A half year ago, my Allstate homeowner’s quote took a quantum leap so I contacted State Farm to see if I could get a better deal — State Farm checked my address online and noted that the bottom story of my 50-year old home i...