My flight from Yap to Guam, and later Honolulu was comfortable - even though I was up at 0600 on Saturday morning (Yap time) and didn't get to sleep until Sunday night (Yap time) though back in Honolulu, all in all, I was doing pretty well.

I have some new information regarding Typhoon Nanmadol's damage to the Philippines - previous information I had reported about NanMadol's casualties in the Philippines was incorrect.

An earlier tropical storm in Luzon on 29 November 29 killed 689 people, with an additional 715 others missing. When Nanmadol struck the Philippines three days later (it hit us on Yap on 30 November with no casualities) it killed an additional 51 people and 39 more went missing in Luzon province. I originally reported that Nanmadol itself killed over a thousand, but that was incorrect. Still, it Nanmadol killed a lot more people in Luzon than on Yap. I'm still in awe of that storm - it was one part of a very exciting trip.

Oddly, I listened to a lot of Laura Nyro on this trip. Laura's music is "bubbly and soul-searching; commercial and experimental; jazzy and bluesy, with a touch of soul and doo-wop" [http://lauranyro.net/enigma.html]  the album "Essential Masters" is a must have for Laura's admirers. Laura died of ovarian cancer in 1997, but her music still lives on, and I was grateful to have it on my laptop. I also listened to Rageb Alameh and Warda, both Lebanese singers. [I would estimate less than 20 percent of my music collection is in English].

More later.