This blog site initially focused on renewable energy and the environment. But that was SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth. My next book, SS for Humanity, opened the subject area to everything else, including SETI, the afterlife, travel and cuisine. However, I still provide, now and then, SIMPLE SOLUTIONS.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
DIAMOND PRINCESS 2: Days 8 and 9
The Diamond Princess had to bypass Nha Trang because of super-high winds. We were thus at sea for two more days and hopefully will arrive in Cai Lan (Halong Bay) on Day 11. Day 12 will include a scenic cruise to Chan May (Danang Beach, or China Beach) through Halong Bay.
Our Day 8 began with a different kind of lunch for me. I actually skipped the usual ramen, and had beef stew over rice and a salad, with a Kirin Lager.
Walked by the ice cream counter and got a matcha cone,
Stayed for some entertainment,
Took my usual nap, then down for dinner in Pacfic Moon, The menu
Ordered Steamed Green Asparagus warm bacon jerez vinegar dressing, Skinniest asparagus I've ever seen. Also Mexican Albongas Soup. Duckhorn Chardonnay.
Twice-cooked port in szechuan saue,
After dinner menus,
Had a Cherries Jubilee with a Monte Chocso. What is that? See above After Dinner Beverages menu.
Next, the Princess Theater with Monique Montez.
Then, drinks in the Wheelhouse Bar.Finally, Crooners Bar.
Walked 5710 steps today.
Day 9 was similar to Day 8. My second day of lunch with no ramen. My feet were getting swollen, so I thought that the high sodium content of the ramen was the cause, Seems to be getting better, but I'll continue this sacrifice for a couple of days more to see if I've correctly identified the problem,
Nap, then walk around the inside of the ship, for the doors were locked to get out. Too windy. Pre-dinner cocktail of Johnny Walker Gold on rocks in the Wheelhouse Bar. The singing couple was annoyance, so we moved to extreme other end of the room.
Took a video of people dancing in the Grand Plaza.
Decided to have dinner at Sushi Kai. Hardly anyone was there, Our surmisal is that Premier Package passengers get almost everything on the menu for free, while regular passengers pay for everything they consume.
The menu.
Had the Kaisen Don with sashimi on the side. The maguro was mushy. Not my best meal. Ate it with hot sake and Sapporo Beer.
We were too early for the Princess Theater show, so had a drink in the Wheelhouse Bar.
Next to the Princess Theater for a splendid performance of Bravo. What is that? Watch these video clips.
Then karaoke,
Finished evening in the Crooners Bar, where fortuitous good fortune brought the bartender and Lexi, our server, to entertain,
RADIO GARDEN is a fascinating link. You might need to activate the page, by clicking on it. Then click on any green dot to hear a radio from that location. In that lower-left box, click on EXPLORE or SEARCH to open up a whole new world of choices. Find San Francisco, for example, and you can click your way to 89 different stations from that area, or New York City for 202 stations. There is a feature where you click on the heart symbol to save that station and form your own list of favorites. There is a London station (under Weird Stations, find Birdsong Radio) that only plays a bird singing, or one from Switzerland (also under Weird Stations for Ambi Nature Radio) that plays ambient nature to put you to sleep. You'll bookmark this page and play with it for the rest of your life.
Most Popular Posts
For the longest time, the day when the most visitors (3,356) clicked on this blog site was 27February2010 on THE CHILE EARTHQUAKE. Why? Probably because this posting was linked to my Huffington Post article of that day reporting on HAWAII TSUNAMI. Natural disasters tend to increase readership. However, on 6March2017THE WONDERS OF ALCOHOL drew 6498. Further, too, on 6June2017, the one-month tally of visitors was 70,219, or 2340/day. However, on 18December2018 a record 27,775 people read that posting. On 22April2019, after 13,000 and 19,000 pings the previous days, a second all-time high of 27,318 was reached. The daily average has been about 500/day.
Interesting to note that not one of the top 20 postings reports on natural disasters (not sure what those numbers stand for, but they indicate a kind of relativity), the newest of this list goes back five years, and the highest rated this year is just over 300. Clearly, people are reading my older postings, but there is no sense to which subject areas are popular.
2024 surpassed 2023 as the highest global temperature on record. Global sea level also rose to a new high, 4 inches higher than in 1993, when record-keeping began. Tropical cyclones were 25% higher than the average. The Arctic is melting, severely.
Go to:
https://www.covers.com/editorial/HowToBet/OddsConverter
to access a betting odds converter for
- Moneyline/Amercan Odds
- Decimal/European Odds
- Fractional/UK Odds
- Implied Probability
CALCULATE THE CURRENT VALUE OF MONEY
Measuring Worth - Relative Value of US Dollars
....One ballpark estimate of what it cost the U.S. for World War II was $288 billion (in 1940 dollars). If you had inserted 1940 / 288 / 2016 into those boxes, the equivalent value today would be $4,870 billion, or close to $5 trillion.
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AND THE INFLATION RATE
The CPI is based on 1984 at 100. Thus, 241 means a 241% inflation since 1984.
There are various ways to look at this, but one is to subtract 100 from 241, getting 141, so the effective inflation today, nearly a third of a century later, is 141% higher. Another comparison is that the CPI in 1916 was 10.9, and is at 240.853 today, a hundred years later. Thus, the average commodity that sold for a buck then, today goes for $22.
WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE PRICE OF OIL?
Click on:
FUTURE PRICE OF OIL
to gain a sense of what the financial community thinks will be the future price of crude oil. When I last viewed this Chicago Board of Trade (a NYMEX company) future contracts page on 110March2014, the futures price of oil in December 2022 was $78.59. This makes no sense to me.
I more recently (10July2019) checked the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where they quoted the price of petroleum for February 2030: $55.33. Note the price/barrel above for today.
I am Director Emeritus of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii and co-founder of the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research.
I have published three SIMPLE SOLUTION books and have written more than 100 articles for the HUFFINGTON POST. I am working with an enlightened team to pioneer the BLUE REVOLUTION (http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/),
beginning with the development of the Pacific International Ocean Station.
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