Was up at 3AM building utility shelves. The Chinese have demonstrated the "expanded lethality" of their Liaoning aircraft carrier in the South China Sea with the surprise arrival of fifth-generation J-15 fighters, advanced warning aircraft and antisubmarine helicopters, and UK special forces have been photographed fighting on the Syrian front lines. We are at war with Libya. Akihito has hinted that he may abdicate the throne. A jar of pasta sauce costs $9. Hawaii's delicious combination of incompetence, corruption and irresponsibility result in a state health bureaucracy plagued by confusion and delays, no match for Hepatitis A and Zika outbreaks. An occupant of a room in a house up the street has purchased a surplus school bus that takes up three parking spaces which he parks on the steepest street in residential Oahu like it's an oversize minivan. More homeless appear in more neighborhoods on Oahu every day. The incompetent and corrupt state has turned a light rail project into a $1.5b boondoggle that won't even traverse the entire intended route on budget. The state's premier dealer in high-end Asian art is collapsing. The subsequent bankruptcy and liquidation will be a bonfire of the vanities.