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Feb 16, 2025: I’m in

Feb 16, 2025: My era a SNL. Father Guido Sarducci youtu.be/JxAoPcZZa…

Feb 16, 2025: Have use the Apple Journal for a year. Haven’t missed a day. Even the day I had shoulder surgery.

Feb 16, 2025: MAGA + FOTUS + GOP = EXTREME HATE

Feb 16, 2025: My wife and I never ever watched the evening news until the very recent National MAGA shit show.

Feb 16, 2025: Nice morning walk on Alii Drive for coffee

Feb 16, 2025: The democrats love going on news shows saying he shouldn’t do that. A lot of good that’s doing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2…

Feb 16, 2025: From The Emerson’s album cover. 1979. Electric reproduction vs mechanical reproduction

Feb 16, 2025: Love this song by The Emerson - Honolulu stomp. From the liner notes: The Honolulu Serenaders recorded this song in 1928. They gave it some …

Feb 16, 2025: Henrikh Mkhitaryan has sure found a home with #inter

Feb 16, 2025: Hunl’s Beach. Fisherman on the left, surfers on the outside. A little rolling bumps on the right

Feb 16, 2025: This bougainvillea has it figured out. Little hazy, but not as voggy as the last few days

Feb 16, 2025: Kona Haven coffee. By the ocean. Been going here for 20 years

Feb 16, 2025: Unplugging. Right now we don’t know if Musk and Trump will blink. If anyone in congress has a backbone. Or we just going to drive off the cliff. The …

Feb 15, 2025: I forgot how good this album was. That’s why I saved it. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Feb 15, 2025: A classic youtube.com/watch

Feb 15, 2025: The music of George Helm $5.50 at Jelly’s record store.

Feb 15, 2025: Still have this one too

Feb 15, 2025: Finally got this CD back from my daughter. Just waiting on cable to connect my record player to my M1 Mac to record the last 2 albums to complete my …

Feb 15, 2025: Need this every once and while: Louis CK Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy youtu.be/nUBtKNzoK…

Feb 15, 2025: Just saw this in a book. Yep. That’s it

Feb 15, 2025: Trump’s idea on Ukraine is like me damaging your house and the insurance and bank talking to be aobut how much of it we should fix it, oh and I want …

Feb 15, 2025: I saw that I had 425 books in Kindle. Didn’t sound right. Then I recalled over 100 Black Panther comics

Feb 15, 2025: Why can’t we remember our infant memories? Because then we’d have memories of all of the adults acting goofy in front of us. Goo goo gah gah. Oh such …

Feb 15, 2025: Wife & I had a long strategic talk on what we can do in certain scenarios. SS & Medicare shrinking/going away, etc. All points to selling our high …

Feb 15, 2025: Used ChatGPT and said Mahalo for Thank You at least it’s context and language aware. You’re very welcome! 🌺 Let me know if you need anything else. …

Feb 15, 2025: My wife works for HMSA, Hawaii’s Blue Cross/Blue Shield and largest insurer. I’m a fly on the wall, she works at home and I hear it all. If medicaid …

Feb 14, 2025: We enjoyed it.

Feb 14, 2025: We went to the mountain and returned with riches.

Feb 14, 2025: Maybe a broadway theater could take up the mantle of the Arts www.npr.org/2025/02/1…

Feb 14, 2025: This could be a sideways way to keep Russia out. Not sure they would attack US contractors www.npr.org/2025/02/1…

Feb 14, 2025: I posted this the other day of a Francolin bird behind our place. I was playing for my wife today and 2 others Francolins outside started going off. …

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Feb 14, 2025: Instant VOG headache and sore throat

Feb 14, 2025: The Target in Kona is fully diversified. It wouldn’t be open otherwise. Very few white people work there (some older white people do)

Feb 13, 2025: Well I got a back to work note limited to 3 days a week with some restrictions for my right (surgical) shoulder. Limited lifting, pushing and pulling …

Feb 13, 2025: If the US is going to give up supporing allies and acquiesce to Russia, lets cut military expenses.

Feb 13, 2025: So people keep point out that it would be illegal for California to secede from the US. Much of what Trump is doing it illegal, so that ship has …

Feb 13, 2025: I’m a resident of Hawaii first (US 2nd or worse), which was stolen by the US under false pretenses. FOTUS might try to steal Greenland the same way. …

Feb 13, 2025: Tail end of a west swell.

Feb 13, 2025: In times like this I go back to something I learned in the 7-Habits of highly effective people. I first read it in 1990. I was in a rough spot and a …

Feb 13, 2025: With VOG and without. I don’t remember it being this bad in Kona since 2018. When Kīlauea pauses, it’s still emitting gas.

Feb 13, 2025: Vegetarian with a sense of humor. `aina = land

Feb 13, 2025: I was raised as the oldest son, playing sports starting in the late 60s to never show weakness and never let them know you’re hurt. I always had the …

Feb 13, 2025: I’ve alway had a space grey or black iPhone. This next one may be the first time that I get a color. My late life expanded nonconformity. Have to wait …

Feb 13, 2025: In the 90s I was fresh out of a divorce and moved to a different island with a new job and was not remotely anywhere near place where I could’ve …

Feb 13, 2025: I curse at inanimate objects and talk back to the TV when they say something stupid. Seem to be doing more of that lately.

Feb 12, 2025: Trump: I haven’t committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Feb 12, 2025: This is the area we’re planning to move to. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/a…

Feb 12, 2025: I went all Orange Julius and made a taco hot dog

Feb 12, 2025: Thoroughly enjoyed. Again

Feb 12, 2025: Sneakers must be the pre pre prequel to the Jack Ryan movies with James Earl Jones director of the NSA

Feb 12, 2025: It’s been said that Trump ran for reelection to avoid Criminal prosecution. Seems as though Musk got anointed to DOGE to avoid regulators …

Feb 12, 2025: Somewhere in that bush is a Frankolin letting everyone know that they are there.

Feb 12, 2025: Kilauea. 4 hours ago. 2 hours ago and now. Just like that, she off again.

Feb 12, 2025: Escape movie of the day, 1992s Sneakers, with a stellar cast including Robert Redford.

Feb 12, 2025: Just finished “Downfall” on Amazon Prime. Can only hope at this point

Feb 12, 2025: I guess I’ve adequately muted the notifications that I need to. I didn’t know about the Gabbard confirmation until my wife told me.

Feb 12, 2025: Fascinating read on the real issues at USAID www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…

Feb 12, 2025: I guess Apple wasn’t going to releases the new iPhone SE this week after all

Feb 11, 2025: Changed my region to Canada and got back the Gulf of Mexico

Feb 11, 2025: Seeing we can add the eggs we just bought to our homeowners policy.

Feb 11, 2025: Just saw this interesting bit in the Ke Kumu Aupuni book. Ka’ōpulupulu was an Kahuna Nui (chanter priest) and prophet around 1773. Boy was he spot on …

Feb 11, 2025: Perfect old guy commercial. The HOA breathing down my neck. youtube.com/watch

Feb 11, 2025: VPN fixed it

Feb 11, 2025: She is going off the rails.

Feb 11, 2025: 2nd law of Thermodynamics - Everything Dies, even presidents and rich guys. Deny science, it will get you in the end.

Feb 11, 2025: Their grey an misty outlines appear way out to sea, but clouds are never what they seem. Far Too Wide for Me - Peter Moon Band youtu.be/ppPZw2-_7…

Feb 11, 2025: Just the Pacific Ocean in the Kona Coast. That’s all

Feb 11, 2025: Spring training tickets are $70. Whoa Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs Tickets Feb 20, 2025 Glendale, AZ | Ticketmaster

Feb 11, 2025: Google is dying a slow death. Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events

Feb 11, 2025: Current status. 3 miles in the can. noho mālie for a spell

Feb 11, 2025: Moved all of my saved places from Google Maps to Apple Maps. Here we go again, giving it another try.

Feb 10, 2025: It’s true. Racism against whites in Hawaii. www.civilbeat.org/2025/02/r…

Feb 10, 2025: No egg salad sandwiches for a while

Feb 10, 2025: Congrats Eagles from a Dodger Fan

Feb 10, 2025: Nothing says love like cloud storage This Valentine’s day, save 50%+ on pCloud’s Lifetime Cloud Storage plans

Feb 10, 2025: When we move to California a trip to Camelback Ranch for Spring Training will definitely be in the cards www.mlb.com/news/dodg…

Feb 10, 2025: Looking for something to watch or even finding a show I started with multiple streaming services is a major pain point. Often I just put on music and …

Feb 10, 2025: Nice to float in pool to take load off of back after a walk

Feb 10, 2025: So that’s how this bench is still here after big surf. I think the concrete was under the sand

Feb 10, 2025: Beetle spotted at Banyans. He’s deciding whether to go out or not.

Feb 10, 2025: Low tide at Magic Sands beach. The sand magically disappeared during the last west swell

Feb 10, 2025: Had forgotten about Moe Keale. His voice was always a slice of heaven. He was born on Ni’ihau Here with the sons of Hawaii music.apple.com/us/album/…

Feb 10, 2025: We’re very happy to share the VOG with the rest of the state. Light and variable winds.

Feb 10, 2025: My credit score is the highest it’s ever been. Still have high credit limits, but We’re keeping our powder dry and balances in check. Our move to …

Feb 9, 2025: Trump won’t care. New Zealand raises ‘concern’ as Cook Islands prepares to sign China deal

Feb 9, 2025: A lot of Canadians are Kona Snow birds. They own condos that they come to every year. Many in Keauhou. They don’t spend a lot while here, but are …

Feb 9, 2025: I’m diving headlong into thermodynamics. I’ve always love physics, but it’s so broad, I was all over the place. I’m fascinated by entropy and …

Feb 9, 2025: Parent Company of Quicksilver, Billabong, Honolua and Volcom filed bankruptcy. 60% off sale on each website. Sizes are starting to disappear. It will …

Feb 9, 2025: Parent Company of Quicksilver, Billabong, Honolua and Volcom filed bankruptcy. 60% off sale on each website. Sizes are starting to disappear. It will …

Feb 9, 2025: I’m spending championship game Sunday backing up all of our computer and backing up the back ups and going through our important papers to make sure …

Feb 9, 2025: If something happens to Trump, the Republican party and MAGA will devolve into a maelstrom. No one is afraid of Vance. Everyone will be out for …

Feb 9, 2025: Remember when looking for a job meant going door to door and filling out appications? Then staying home waiting for the phone to ring.

Feb 9, 2025: These F’N republicans can’t answer a single question with out saying “Biden Debacle” and taking the long way around but never answer the question.

Feb 8, 2025: Trump will make the water crisis worse. youtube.com/watch

Feb 8, 2025: This song aways hits hard. Hawaiian Soul by Jon and Randy, it’s been done by many. It’s about George Helm who was lost at sea. He was an Activist and …

Feb 8, 2025: Marshmallows are for team players. Good to know

Feb 8, 2025: Polical Science lesson My teen Gandson is rather ignorant on politics, so on the drive home from Kawaihae today we did a 40 min PoliSci class for him. One point we covered …

Feb 8, 2025: Costco Kona was crushed today. The parking lot looked like a bumper car derby. No sense of order in any way.

Feb 8, 2025: Cloudy rainy Kona. Wait, that’s not right. But I guess we’ll take it

Feb 8, 2025: Coming to the Queens Marketplace Waikoloa. This space has been empty since the center was opened

Feb 8, 2025: It was also great connecting with Gavin from the Friends of Hokule’a. Long walaau , many mutual friends. www.FHH-Hawaii.org.

Feb 8, 2025: We had a great time at the Makali’i 30th year celebration. Lots of people. Great seeing Chad Paison and Pomai Bertleman. Lots of others too. Na Kala’i …

Feb 8, 2025: Heard a lot of Hawaiians before the election say that Trump would be their best chance to gain sovereignty. I think they were sold a bill of goods. He …

Feb 8, 2025: Hawaii state high school canoe paddling championships today. Go Wildcats. Canoe Paddling - 2025 Hawaiian Airlines Canoe Paddling State Championships - …

Feb 8, 2025: Just heard on the news that 1/3 of drownings in Hawaii in 2024 were of Hawaiian ancestry. I’ve known so many adults in Hawaii who can’t swim. I really …

Feb 7, 2025: I would have loved this job if I was younger. Regional Program Specialist - Worldwide Deployment - SAF/IS www.indeed.com/viewjob

Feb 7, 2025: My 5th G Grandfather. Andrew Kimbley, Buried in Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Revolutionary war veteran and one of the founding fathers of …

Feb 7, 2025: We’re going to the Makali`i 30th Anniversary Celebration tomorrow at Kawaihae. Will be a blast. Our grandsons can go swimming and we can chill.

Feb 7, 2025: Hokule’a by Roland Cazimero Had forgotten about this album from 1977. I had the CD and played in my truck for a long time. I still know all the songs. …

Feb 7, 2025: A proper homemade chili dog with Irish white cheddar.

Feb 7, 2025: Well there we go. Gonna replace my 13 Pro. It will have good trade in value and get a zippier device. New iPhone SE coming next week, here are five …

Feb 7, 2025: Not a good day for those of us who actually breathe the air. VOG

Feb 7, 2025: AI has uses, but I am trying to think, keep my brain active and healthy, learn new things. I’m trying to take the long way around rather than go …

Feb 7, 2025: Tax the part time residents in those multi million dollar homes on Hawaii’s prime real estate all over the islands. [No Income Tax For Working Class? …

Feb 7, 2025: I used to be so anal about so many small details in things that I really don’t care about anymore. I just want things to just work at a most basic …

Feb 7, 2025: This mynah bird when kapu the high ground with a blanket of VOG in the background.

Feb 6, 2025: I’m afraid of going to certain places with so many guns and with local boys going after non-locals More Guns, More Gun Violence in Hawai‘i

Feb 6, 2025: After on hit and miss going back to work post surgery, should be able to try again in about a week. We’ll see

Feb 6, 2025: Erwin Schrödinger’s “What is life” is a pretty amazing little book. It is still astounding that we even exist at all.

Feb 6, 2025: I can’t watch most of the NETFLIX shows with overdubbing. The converstions are flat, monotone and expressionless and often are off from the …

Feb 6, 2025: I may be the odd one, all of my Apple stuff works as intended. I’ve only had one issue in 20 years and Apple replaced the MBP and the Cinema display …

Feb 6, 2025: The VOG is really bad today. Reminds me of 2020

Feb 6, 2025: Cruise ship in today. The tenders look tiny. They shuttle passengers to and fro. Traffic in Kona is a mess with ship passengers walking around town …

Feb 6, 2025: It’s sad that a company has to send out an email about continuing diversity. My wife’s company just did this.

Feb 6, 2025: Getting a series of errors, this is a partial list @help

Feb 6, 2025: This would a blast if I was younger Shipboard Head Chef www.indeed.com/viewjob

Feb 5, 2025: Re-watching"Don’t Look up" " They’re gonna let it hit the planet to make a bunch of rich people more disgustingly rich"

Feb 5, 2025: Texas style chili. No beans. This is the way

Feb 5, 2025: MAGA’s denial of science will hasten the demise of a whole slice of life on earth. All living things and the actual environment itself are …

Feb 5, 2025: Can we put Elon in the box with Schrödinger’s cat? At least we have a 50/50 chance.

Feb 5, 2025: Conversation with a MAGA believer We’re going to N Dakota where my wife is from for a family reunion this summer. She asked me what I would say if/when politics come up. (They are …

Feb 5, 2025: This is over #Arsenal

Feb 5, 2025: Thinking the Hawaii Legislature should pass some laws that just piss Trump off. We’re headed that way with new environmental initiatives.

Feb 5, 2025: VOG is bad today. Just got this IAQ. It was a long overdue Kicksterter project. It works.

Feb 5, 2025: We have eggs. Things are looking up.

Feb 4, 2025: There will be a war the way Trump is headed.

Feb 4, 2025: A model of what not to do English refereeing standards ‘a model’ for the world, says Premier League chief

Feb 4, 2025: Sunrise / Sunset Kona

Feb 4, 2025: Impending Kona sunset

Feb 4, 2025: My just 14 yo grandson has created his crib. He’s a gamer and a serious drone flyer. Tinkers with everything and installed a new graphics card in his …

Feb 4, 2025: Just saw this on threads. Anonymous www.threads.net/@ladykoot…

Feb 4, 2025: Enjoying the clear morning before VOG returns. www.youtube.com/live/oG5z…

Feb 3, 2025: Watching McConnell interview on 60 min. He’s proud of what he did for the Supreme Court. He’s still evil.

Feb 3, 2025: Never did like them Since when does everyone hate the Chiefs?

Feb 3, 2025: Watching Vietnam: The war that changed America on AppleTV. Growing up in Hawaii, we were on the front doorstep of the war. I worked with and knew a …

Feb 3, 2025: To my mind, Arsenal not signing a proper striker will come back to bite in one of those sticky matches where we dominate possession but can’t find a …

Feb 3, 2025: I’ve never really been a fisherman. But on a fluke, I was Capt of a team in the 2006 Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament. Even more of a fluke, …

Feb 3, 2025: Amazon prime is mostly bait and switch. They show me a preview of a show, even give me a free episode then I can either subscribe to a new service $$$ …

Feb 2, 2025: If social security already has my 2024 income on my statement, why do I even need to do tax forms. They should have everything already

Feb 2, 2025: Trump and MAGA just may have driven the wedge that brings an end to the US. What if California seceded from the US?

Feb 2, 2025: Time for California to secede and set up their own trade partners. California has enough resources to keep a trade balance. Hawaii can do it too, but …

Feb 2, 2025: This song is so relaxing Shells music.apple.com/us/album/… Lyrics www.huapala.org/S/Shells….

Feb 2, 2025: The media calls is balanced journalism when they give the GOP air time. I guess if you look at one side telling lies and the other telling the truth …

Feb 2, 2025: Can we call a snap election? He does not represent the will of the people. Trump’s Trade War Is Here and Promises to Get Ugly

Feb 2, 2025: Friday morning am Sunday morning.

Feb 1, 2025: South Korea impeached and arrested their former leader after he did stupid stuff. Our congress doesn’t have the huevos.

Feb 1, 2025: Moon and Venus setting in Kona

Feb 1, 2025: Sunset over a pu`u on Mauna Kea with snow - Subaru Telescope

Feb 1, 2025: Time lapse from the cat-walk at the Subaru telescope. Snow on the ground, Maui in the background. Cloud cover over Waimea, where we were today …

Feb 1, 2025: Waimea Starbucks was slamming, the Cherry Blossoms not in full bloom, but starting. There was a Bansai exhibition and Taiko drummers at the Hongwanji. …

Feb 1, 2025: Before the Cherry Blossom Festival we went to the Parker Ranch Historic Homes. Lots of amazing history, a Japanese tea ceremony. This original Mana …

Feb 1, 2025: America Alone The Price America Will Pay for Trump’s Tariffs

Jan 31, 2025: What ever became of the Anonymous hacker group? They would be very useful right now.

Jan 31, 2025: Tops Hoagies was on corner of Pico and Lincoln in Santa Monica, and is a Starbucks now. It was Tops Pastrami and Burgers in the 70s and morphed to …

Jan 31, 2025: I was jonesing for a cheesesteak sandwich like I used to get and Tops Hoagies is Santa Monica. I cooked a large top sirloin steak in a slow cooker for …

Jan 31, 2025: Regularly watch Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues Theme - Composer: Mike Post

Jan 31, 2025: There may a few straggling showers, but confident it’s mostly moved on. The Waimea Cherry Blossom Festival is on for tomorrow

Jan 31, 2025: I don’t think I can believe or trust anything the US govt puts out or publishes. I can’t trust the people behind the info. The CDC Is Altering Data …

Jan 31, 2025: Watching the 1959 World Series. Dodgers v White Sox. Vin Scully narrates. The Dodgers first series in LA played in the Coliseum and the first World …

Jan 31, 2025: Hoping the storm passes. The Waimea Cherry Blossom festival is scheduled for tomorrow. The last time we went in 2023 it was stormy. Not pleasant

Jan 31, 2025: We’ve slipped into this period of light drizzles, punctuated by momentary heavier downpours as the storm recedes to the north on its way to N …

Jan 31, 2025: I lived in Hilo for 15 years. Kona feels like that today.

Jan 31, 2025: I stopped backing Kicksterter projects a few years ago after a string of debacles. I did back Tapestry (known dev) and IAQ Air quality monitor. Both …

Jan 31, 2025: Snow on Mauna Kea

Jan 31, 2025: The wind is pretty much gone. Still sopped in

Jan 31, 2025: We haven’t had this much sustained rain in Kona since the hurricane near miss in 2016

Jan 31, 2025: In Kona it started raining about 1am. Hard rain and some lightning about 3 am. Not much lightning. Still coming down pretty hard at 6 am.

Jan 30, 2025: If California puts succession on the ballot, I’ll expedite my move there so I can vote for it.

Jan 30, 2025: please see attcahed @help

Jan 30, 2025: Finally got my fiber modem, router and switch all on an APC battery back-up. The only hope is when (not if) the power goes out that the Hawaiian Tel …

Jan 30, 2025: Not only do I have no interest in the NFL championship, I’m finding I am not even curious about the commercials

Jan 30, 2025: Hawaii is playing hide and seek. 3 images are water vapor, bottom right is satelite.

Jan 30, 2025: Watching Twin Peaks. Just because.

Jan 30, 2025: It’s raining in Volcano, Hawaii Island, so Halemaumau crater is filled with steam, making the cameras useless www.youtube.com/watch

Jan 29, 2025: Yep rafa@mastodon.design

Jan 29, 2025: The recording of Peter Moon Harbor Lights on my phone was ripped from vinyl. Can hear the scratching of the needle in the grooves between songs. Love …

Jan 29, 2025: Going back to reread this gem.

Jan 29, 2025: This was on display towards the front of Costco Kona. Right after the sign that said “sorry we are out of eggs”. That’s just cruel.

Jan 29, 2025: Cruise ship in Kailua bay. It will have to head back west into the incoming storm.

Jan 29, 2025: Need to read some theoretical physics to get politics out of my head.

Jan 29, 2025: I’ll voicemail your voicemail then maybe you can call me back and please leave a voicemail if don’t answer. If I don’t answer it’s because I can’t.

Jan 29, 2025: If I was a federal employee I would be very skeptical. Remember what happened to Twitter employees.

Jan 28, 2025: Anything that they don’t like is politicization Why members of two of EPA’s influential science advisory committees were let go

Jan 28, 2025: A big winter storm coming straight for us. Kauai and O`ahu tomorrow night, Maui and Hawaii Island Thursday. Back up batteries and camp lights all …

Jan 28, 2025: I followed a couple of RSS feeds that posted mostly about upcoming films and music. They let far right politics slips once in a while. Since the …

Jan 28, 2025: Seeing a lots of specials on Saturday night live’s. 50th. I was a fan of SNL for a specific period of time in the 80s. Worked Saturday nights most of …

Jan 28, 2025: Guess I’m not returning to work now. The job the chef was going to create for me was shot down by HR. Oh well. I’m fine. Would rather be working, but …

Jan 28, 2025: Was just reading about a Kilauea eruption of 1790. Was an especially explosive and deadly event. Hundreds of Hawaiians were following their Ali’i …

Jan 28, 2025: I guess this experience will be different www.theguardian.com/artanddes…

Jan 28, 2025: Went back to watch the last 3 episodes of Foundation. Hoping season 3 comes this year.

Jan 28, 2025: Love this packaging.

Jan 28, 2025: This was amazing. The amount of detail is astounding. Loved the sound effects and the fact that everything was powered up. Apple just published a …

Jan 28, 2025: The White House is daring congress to act and they are just cowering in a corner.

Jan 27, 2025: Myrtle K Hilo Hula music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 27, 2025: Just finished Night Agent season 2. Will be watching this season again when they announce S3. It was good

Jan 27, 2025: Volcano slowly waking up again.

Jan 27, 2025: This is encouraging. My Dad was a prominent lobbyist in Hawaii for a few decades. He always said politics has a great leveling effect. If you don’t …

Jan 27, 2025: Yep. Is there a conspiracy against Arsenal? Probably not - but the feeling is real - The Athletic

Jan 27, 2025: Had this bowl since college. Can’t even remember where I got it. Recall we’ve tried to get rid of it a few times, but it’s still around and still …

Jan 27, 2025: Stopped crosposting to Threads. Gonna gradually pull out of that site. Seeing lots anti-Haole (white person) in Hawaii posts. I was born in …

Jan 27, 2025: It’s here. Rain is welcome. Cleans up Kona

Jan 27, 2025: Something is coming ashore in Kona

Jan 26, 2025: I just lost all interest in the championship game. I’m so over the Kansas City circus. BTW, how’s that salary cap working out for the NFL? Lots of …

Jan 26, 2025: See a lot of posts about Sandy Beach. I grew up there. Sometimes dawn patrol, others after school. Weekends and all summer.

Jan 26, 2025: I read “Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii” and “The People of old Hawaii” in the early 90s. Difficult reading, dense in material and writing in old English …

Jan 26, 2025: I recall reading about how the Hawaii Islanders played in that park. The San Francisco stadium that fog killed

Jan 26, 2025: The Kohala Mountains are unassuming from the leeward side, but on the Windward side has Waipio Valley, Waimanu Valley, Palolu Valley, the Kohala …

Jan 26, 2025: That wasn’t very much fun Commanders vs. Eagles (Jan 26, 2025) Live Score - ESPN

Jan 26, 2025: Took this 1 year ago of the Kohala Coast from the mauka road to North Kohala.

Jan 26, 2025: Can’t help it, I still call them the Redskins. (my wife is Native and American and just smiles)

Jan 26, 2025: The Kohala Mountains have always been my favorite on Hawaii Island.

Jan 26, 2025: Where MAGA lives on Hawaii Island

Jan 26, 2025: Please don’t fire him Levy. It’s so much fun watching be Spurs sink. Leicester stun Tottenham to increase pressure on Ange Postecoglou

Jan 26, 2025: Case in point www.threads.net/@aaron.ru…

Jan 26, 2025: Vance interview on CBS doesn’t answer a single question. Just talking fast around the questions.

Jan 25, 2025: I wish everyone would put their devices down and talk.

Jan 25, 2025: on pause - again www.youtube.com/live/w0Ku…

Jan 25, 2025: My body, looking forward to the new season

Jan 25, 2025: People rush through Costco like there a coming plague.

Jan 25, 2025: I saved this fern from the verge of death 6 years ago. Repotted 4 times. It finally outgrew the most recent pot. Any bigger pot and I wouldn’t be able …

Jan 25, 2025: I’m not a big egg eater, but I would enjoy a couple of fried eggs with sausage or bacon and usually fried potatoes a couple times a week. Hopefully …

Jan 25, 2025: Our WiFi was acting wonky. Slow, drop outs. Speed was fine at the modem. So I unplugged the router and the extender for 10 min. Everything came back …

Jan 25, 2025: The Volcano is on again this morning. She’s just showing off www.youtube.com/live/w0Ku…

Jan 25, 2025: This issue is, if they go back to the keypad lock, then there’s the issue of getting coffee, sitting down to drink, then needing to use the restroom …

Jan 24, 2025: Well if the Democrats in congress aren’t going to speak up for anything. I guess we’re really on our own.

Jan 24, 2025: Distinctive players and voices. Martin Pahinui, George Kuo, Dennis Kamahahi and David Kamakahi on Na Mele on PBS Hawaii. Old recording.

Jan 24, 2025: They are just evil US orders halt to virtually all foreign aid except for Israel and Egypt

Jan 24, 2025: Remember when Starbucks was on Palani. That was THE place to hang out. No wifi, just coffee and people

Jan 24, 2025: A very old recipe, a gill is basically 1/2 c. Love the last line - noted.

Jan 24, 2025: Damn, I’m excited

Jan 24, 2025: Kalapana Black sand beach - from my Dad’s collection

Jan 24, 2025: I was the Manager at Sunset Grill at Restaurant Row in Honolulu in the late ’80s. We won this Chili Cook off, people’s choice award. Fun times.

Jan 24, 2025: Coconut tree trimming day

Jan 24, 2025: Watching the movie “A Most Wanted Man”. Saw it a while back. Great cast, a good spy story.

Jan 24, 2025: An old one. For everyone who voted for you know who.

Jan 24, 2025: Nature’s gradients

Jan 23, 2025: Amazingly clear night in Kona. Can not only see the stars, but the star field behind the starts.

Jan 23, 2025: Life’s two most important questions are “Why?” and “Why not?” The trick is knowing which one to ask.”

Jan 23, 2025: We had a management saying back in the day. “You can’t make people smart, they have to come that way”. Trump and his team didn’t come equipped with …

Jan 23, 2025: I wonder where my little hula girl has gone… music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 23, 2025: Keyser Söze youtu.be/RP-hMSQEA…

Jan 23, 2025: Can Trump change Hawaii back to Kindom of Hawaii. circa 1893

Jan 23, 2025: Can Trump change Hawaii back to Kindom of Hawaii. circa 1893

Jan 23, 2025: Watching The Usual Suspects because it’s good diversion and it’s a good movie

Jan 22, 2025: Pele strikes again - phase 4

Jan 22, 2025: The World Health Organzation RSS feed www.emro.who.int/index.php

Jan 22, 2025: Ferrari has had good drivers with equipment failures. Need to get that under control ‘Best feelings of my life’: Lewis Hamilton makes test debut for …

Jan 22, 2025: One of the inherent problems with social media is words do not have tone, context or facial expressions to match. Perception is purely in the eye of …

Jan 22, 2025: When my wife and I went to London. We happened upon Trafalgar Square. For a couple from Hawaii,it was a punch in the nose. It was exhilarating, …

Jan 22, 2025: Daily ritual

Jan 21, 2025: And Biden was wrong for pardoning his son? Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace

Jan 21, 2025: With all of those EOs, good luck with the economy.

Jan 21, 2025: That was a short test.

Jan 21, 2025: Binge watching Obi-Wan Kenobi for sanity.

Jan 21, 2025: I currently use Teux Deux for daily short term notes. Also use Bear and Apple Notes for legacy notes. Trying Strata to see if it can fit somewhere. …

Jan 21, 2025: I do get this feeling. youtu.be/Rj3dmK0Nk…

Jan 21, 2025: Good news, the Chef is working with HR (they just want to limit liability) and the F&B director to create hybrid position for me that works within the …

Jan 21, 2025: Swam in the Natatorium when I was young. We swam there after a school field trip to the Waikiki aquarium. The restrooms were convenient …

Jan 20, 2025: This keeps looking better all the time. Should get a good trade in for pristine 13 pro. iPhone SE 4 launch in March 2025: Affordable iPhone to feature …

Jan 20, 2025: The NCAA football bowl season is exciting to a point. The final game it too far after the rest of the games. Kind of anti-climactic. Lost interest. …

Jan 20, 2025: I’m older, been through quite a bit. My wife and I can go on the defense and live small. We have a small footprint. Just worry about our kids The next …

Jan 20, 2025: F&%k them. Not criminals. Just targets. Biden’s last-minute pardons draw ire from both sides of political divide

Jan 20, 2025: I still believe in Apple procucts, but have lost a measure of respect for Apple Inc and Tim Cook. I believe he did what he did to protect the …

Jan 20, 2025: Found 2 more Peter Moon CDs mixed in with old DVDs. Harbor lights and Music Makers. Winner winner chicken dinner

Jan 20, 2025: This song, Far too wide for me", came out just before we moved to California in 1981. I remember the first time we heard it when soneone sent us the …

Jan 20, 2025: Not sure it’s the same Kolea, but I see one there almost daily, and they are territorial. Mynah birds don’t bother them like they do all of the other …

Jan 20, 2025: I have 12 of The Peter Moon Band’s albums (1 solo album) safely in the Music app. Some real obscure stuff buried in these albums. Think I’m only …

Jan 20, 2025: Had some Cafe Du Monde Beignet mix in the back of the fridge for a while. They’re not pretty, but are very tasty.

Jan 19, 2025: Cleaned up my Apple Music palylists. Merged some, deleted others. It was bloated. Ripped 4 more Peter Moon CDs that I found in a cabinet and added to …

Jan 19, 2025: Scored a copy of Aunty Alice Namakelua’s 1974 album Nalo Meli. Long out of print and not on any streaming service nor on CDs.

Jan 19, 2025: The Rams were that close. Come on Bills. Don’t have a horse in the race, just know who I don’t like.

Jan 19, 2025: The Baltimore Colts are up next

Jan 19, 2025: Lucky we live Hawaii

Jan 19, 2025: Dodgers 1958-2015. 17 first places in 55 years. Not dominant in any way. I’ll take a few years of being really good. I’m old.

Jan 19, 2025: My wife implied that maybe we were spending too much on coffee. I got very quiet.

Jan 19, 2025: During the first Trump “term” I think we just had morbid curiosity and watched the news often. This time around I have no fucks to give. Will avoid it …

Jan 19, 2025: I guess the bright spots on todays matches is the Spurs and Reds both lost. ManCity seems to be back in the fold. Only winning will keep them at bay …

Jan 19, 2025: The last eggs I had were on Monday. Over medium with roasted potatoes and jimmy dean sausage. I’ll have to hold onto that memory.

Jan 19, 2025: Was recalling the shitshow of 4 years ago #COVID youtu.be/tZNcnP31R…

Jan 19, 2025: TikTok and their users had a lot of notice. They calculated wrong.

Jan 19, 2025: All of my unsubscribing is working. When I finallly got around to looking at my inbox, only had 1 email.

Jan 18, 2025: For political reasons, I’ll be drinking on Monday. Will have a toast to MLK just because.

Jan 18, 2025: Thank you Tilley and thank you Canada. I have multiple Tilley hats. They do their job.

Jan 18, 2025: Didn’t get the PBX job. Was told they wanted someone with specific PBX experience. I think I am just way over qualified. In reality, I have more …

Jan 18, 2025: Mauna Kea looking as majestic as ever. She was here before anyone was here and will still be here when we’re all gone.

Jan 18, 2025: At A-bay the surf is way out there on the reef

Jan 18, 2025: Ok ‘nough of that shenanigans. Came to Aneho’omalu bay for some simple swimming. Stress level down trying to keep grandson’s safe. There were rescues …

Jan 18, 2025: Tide dropping. Some big sets in the outside break on the south side of Hapuna. Unsurfable

Jan 18, 2025: Couple of big sets sent people scrambling. Now they know why we set up camp more mauka. Local knowledge.

Jan 18, 2025: It’s really pumping down at the south side of the beach. The lifeguards should get hazard pay today. When you’ve seen someone drown in big surf, it …

Jan 18, 2025: We got to Hapuna. Not monster surf, but mother ocean is definitely in motion. Big time currents and rip tide. I don’t really have fear, but a ton of …

Jan 18, 2025: That wasn’t optimal #Arsenal

Jan 18, 2025: Gonna take our Grandsons up to Hapuna beach and take a chance with the high surf warning. If it’s too big, we’ll go down to Anaeho`omalu bay or Mauna …

Jan 17, 2025: Last post today. I grew up in Hawaii. Since small kid time, I ate the same foods, sat in the same classes, played on the same sports teams & hung out …

Jan 17, 2025: Waikiki was an amazing place for island music in the 70s. Bonus. You could walk Waikiki beach at night see the artists playing at thr beachside bars …

Jan 17, 2025: Had the struts and linkages replaced on the Elantra under warranty. Drivrs like a new car now.

Jan 17, 2025: Pele is annoyed about something www.youtube.com/live/w0Ku…

Jan 17, 2025: When I was in high school on non sports pratice nights, my freinds and I would seek out live island music on O`ahu. There was always someting besides …

Jan 17, 2025: We weren’t sure about buying the extended warranty on my wife’s Hyundai Elantra in 2016, but it paid off today. $2000 repair for $100 deductible. We …

Jan 17, 2025: Always loved his style and edge. An Extensive Guide to the Surreal Commercials of David Lynch - New York Magazine

Jan 17, 2025: I remember when a 286 processor was fast

Jan 17, 2025: My wife left a single doctor practice making real good money 12 years ago to work for a big insurance company. She did this for security. If the …

Jan 17, 2025: This Kahuano Lake Trio album released in 1964 still sounds amazing. 60 years ago music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 17, 2025: I’ve been at the volcano when it’s doing this. Sounds like to jet engine. www.youtube.com/live/w0Ku…

Jan 17, 2025: My resume is still out in ether, so I keep getting emails & calls from recruiters and headhunter looking for F&B managers. Corporate level and local. …

Jan 17, 2025: The final of Silo means we really need a season 3.

Jan 17, 2025: There’s enough things one can do to live life on a certain edge and and not put your live on the line. I’ve paddled 21 crossings of the Ka’iwi …

Jan 16, 2025: It’s been a great winter for surfers Hawaii County Surf Forecast for January 17, 2025

Jan 16, 2025: Lools like a lot of people miss baseball, me too

Jan 16, 2025: The steel guitar player was awesome

Jan 16, 2025: For the 6 weeks that I worked on the luau I made all of the food fresh twice a week. No small job

Jan 16, 2025: Naupaka. I can tell stories.

Jan 16, 2025: Eco waste

Jan 16, 2025: Maybe we can give them a ‘better lunch” to not go. ‘Homeless people given free lunch’ to attend Donald Trump Jr event in Greenland

Jan 16, 2025: My last day on the front lines of the hospitality industry. Nearly 50 years of running into the fire. 🔥 I’ve done everything. Next week I’ll start …

Jan 16, 2025: Great story about Bob Ueker

Jan 16, 2025: One of may all time favorite comercials RIP Bob Ueker

Jan 16, 2025: Mokulele Grounded. My wife and I were burned by Molulele in 2006. We were scheduled to fly our wedding party from Kona to Molokai on Molulele. They …

Jan 15, 2025: Couldn’t resist. Had left over baked beans from Waimea Butcher shop. Had to add red Redondo’s hot dogs like we had it as kids.

Jan 15, 2025: She woke up this morning #Pele kilauea volcano webcam - Google Search

Jan 15, 2025: We used to live in a big house. The amount of stuff we had grew to fill the space. Over a 3 year period from 2017-2020 we downsized. The last step was …

Jan 14, 2025: The older I get the more I take the path of least resistance

Jan 14, 2025: If have reason to go to Waimea or are driving through. Have lunch or dinner at the Waimea Butcher shop. Just on the wet side of Waimea, makai of …

Jan 14, 2025: Hualalai. About the inter-island steamer of the 1930s Kahauanu Lake Trio version music.apple.com/us/album/… Mahalo Sons version …

Jan 14, 2025: Listening to the Kahauanu Lake Trio this evening. The harmonies are smooth and tight and the Hawaiian pronunciations are perfect. They were among the …

Jan 14, 2025: Got this beauty from my friend Alvin at Kamuela liquors. I’ve had the pleasure of Alvin for over 30 years. He knew my Dad too. The French know wine.

Jan 14, 2025: Love this view of the Kohala Coast

Jan 14, 2025: Road to heaven

Jan 14, 2025: I first saw this quote when I was young. Every time I hit a wall, it helps me move on. There’s always a next. Do not let what you cannot do interfere …

Jan 14, 2025: This is such an amazing matching of songs by the Makaha Sons . Mehameha is an introspective, why am I here song. White Sandy Beach is an uplifting …

Jan 14, 2025: When a white person commits a mass killing, I never hear calls to deport all white people.

Jan 14, 2025: The article is behind a paywall, but I managed at TGI Friday in the 80s. It was a leading player in Hospitality. I went to one in Corona CA in 2022. …

Jan 14, 2025: My wife caught these of the moon and breaking dawn on her morning walk

Jan 13, 2025: We’re going to a criminal President and it seems to be fine by half the country. I’m sick

Jan 13, 2025: Another boring Hawaiian Sunset. Ho hum.

Jan 13, 2025: Me and my dogs at our house in Waimea 2005. Pre Mortgage crash

Jan 13, 2025: Halema’uma’u in 2019.

Jan 13, 2025: Came across this classic. I remember seeing Palani Vaughn in concert at the Kulilima Resort on the North Shore. Late 70s. We spent the weekend. Also …

Jan 13, 2025: The last of the pancetta that I found in Sonoma last October. Crisping it up to use in a recipe.

Jan 13, 2025: I made life choices early on they insured that I won’t be rich. There were also circumstances that contributed. My Dad had an illness plus a little …

Jan 13, 2025: Don’t use TikTok, never did. I see TikTok videos linked and embedded on other platforms, but don’t really care if it stays or goes away. I realize …

Jan 12, 2025: Old car thinks it’s an iPod.

Jan 11, 2025: Kind of thinking Mike Tomlin’s days are now numbered. Playoff wins matter.

Jan 11, 2025: Could help but think about this documentary. Special kind of people. youtube.com/watch

Jan 11, 2025: Was taking to my shoulder surgeon yesterday. Told him, I’m not alone, but I come from an era that until your arm is dangling from you shoulder, you …

Jan 11, 2025: SS Calvin Coolidge En Route Manila, Monday, December 16, 1940

Jan 11, 2025: The Chargers haven’t had an answer to this defense all day.

Jan 11, 2025: I was there, Diamond Head Crater. Chuck Jackson and I were to young teengers and had our eyes opened up to the world. Saw a lot we’d never seen …

Jan 11, 2025: Found this in a drive pulled out of an old MacBook

Jan 11, 2025: That works

Jan 11, 2025: Cahrger’s Defense - so far

Jan 11, 2025: I feel for people losing memories in the fire. I lost a lot of stuff from an earlier part of my life in the Hilo flood Nov 1, 2000. Personal record …

Jan 11, 2025: Funny

Jan 11, 2025: I still have one that works. Today in Apple history: iPod shuffle randomizes our music

Jan 11, 2025: My threads feed is still pretty clean, I keep an Instagram account for occasional connection with some local small businesses. On a side note there’s …

Jan 10, 2025: Yep

Jan 10, 2025: Looking at you MAGA

Jan 10, 2025: Kona only gets an advantage from winds out of the North. We had good north winds all morning. As the regular NE trade winds filled in Kona lost its …

Jan 10, 2025: This scene. youtu.be/ustum3HO2…

Jan 10, 2025: Watching The Untouchables, because it’s a great movie. Love Sean Connery in it. What the hell, you gotta die of somethin’

Jan 10, 2025: Costco Kona is out of paper towels. Is that from Bird flu too

Jan 10, 2025: get away

Jan 10, 2025: Just came across a folder with all of the collateral from most of the dozens of websites that I built during one of my breaks from F&B in the mid …

Jan 10, 2025: Mine will be spent resting.

Jan 10, 2025: $1 Gallon Gasoline - we’re doomed

Jan 10, 2025: I’m lucky that I had some Peter Moon CDs that I ripped 20 years ago.

Jan 10, 2025: I would have gladly paid Evernote a nominal fee just to access my existing data.

Jan 10, 2025: Four goals in 20 min. Wow.

Jan 10, 2025: I’ve always loved the Peter Moon Band. They aren’t on any streaming services save for a few random songs on Spotify. I love their progressive …

Jan 10, 2025: My favorite socks

Jan 10, 2025: I was there, June 19, 1994 youtu.be/e1dZ5npxO…

Jan 10, 2025: Saw a couple of posts about Cecilio and Kapono. I’ve been a fan since the 70’s poster form their first Waikiki Shell show in 1975.

Jan 10, 2025: Don’t want to upset any Evernote devotees, one of which I used to be, but Bending Spoons has completely killed it.

Jan 10, 2025: Don’t really want to sound like a fanboy, but when we switched to Hawaiian Tel Fiber there was a marked improvement to our internet. We have a faster …

Jan 10, 2025: So instead of Trump getting a 4 year sentence, we all did.

Jan 10, 2025: Lots of weather out there. Be safe Maui. Looks like it will mostly miss Hawaii Island

Jan 10, 2025: We rarely get thunder and lightning in Kona

Jan 10, 2025: It’s getting closer

Jan 10, 2025: Predawn lightning show north of Kona

Jan 9, 2025: In a week I’ll be out of the kitchen. I’ve work in restaurants or hotels for 50 years. Took a break after I sold my cafe & between jobs a few years …

Jan 9, 2025: Post sunset

Jan 9, 2025: Sunless sunset and big surf

Jan 9, 2025: From 1981-85 I lived in North Redondo and worked at TGI Fridays restaurants all over the LA basin. We also went to friends houses and out for evening …

Jan 9, 2025: Love birds. They always travel in pairs

Jan 9, 2025: There’s so much link bait in soccer news that I don’t ready any of it anymore.

Jan 9, 2025: I like my 13pro, but this upcoming SE looks good. I’ll have a good trade in. Apple may soon overcharge for iPhones that are worse than the cheaper …

Jan 8, 2025: Whose life time. I’ve outlived so many services I can’t count. Why rent cloud storage? Own 2TB for life for just $70.

Jan 8, 2025: Then there’s these beauties. Not all on Disney+… yet

Jan 8, 2025: Time to dig out the DVD player.

Jan 8, 2025: Wallpaper. Stuck with this one for a while.

Jan 8, 2025: How timely. Is that true? How to spot health misinformation online

Jan 8, 2025: Bless her sweet little heart. Every week my wife finds a new study about wine and alcohol are good for you, then a new study on how they kill you. …

Jan 8, 2025: So are there a whole bunch of cheap groceries and eggs on Greenland and in Canada?

Jan 8, 2025: Wonder if Mexico can take back Texas while Trump is distracted with Greenland.

Jan 8, 2025: “That looks like suspicious to us” Well. The message sounds suspicious to me

Jan 7, 2025: Good on the IMDb app for putting a search bar right on the middle when opening the app. I don’t go to the app the browse, I go there to find …

Jan 7, 2025: As streaming services continue to raise prices, for us it’s not about Streaming vs Cable, it’s about our personal budget. Choices will have to be …

Jan 6, 2025: With streaming prices for sports continuing to increase, may just have to accept going back a few decades and just reading box scores.

Jan 6, 2025: Just found out the coffee machine at work can do a shot in the dark. An espresso shot in a cup of coffee.

Jan 6, 2025: Someone with oodles of $$$ needs to pull a Wrexham on the Cleveland Browns to pull them out of the depths

Jan 6, 2025: The quote of Chernobyl. “Why worry about something that will never happen” (Head in the sand)

Jan 6, 2025: Stellan Skarsgård is such a good actor.

Jan 6, 2025: My favorite characters of Chernobyl were the coal miners. They didn’t have any more fucks to give.

Jan 6, 2025: Sports was already messy. The challenge is everyone doesn’t watch every sport. I watch mostly MLB, NCAAFB, EPL and Serie A. My wife watches the …

Jan 6, 2025: Last night and this morning

Jan 5, 2025: Looks like I’ve torn my bicep through overuse in my 4 week progressive back to work. Looking my kitchen days are ending. Likely transferring to guest …

Jan 5, 2025: High surf warning. Choke cars parked on Alii drive. Lots of gawkers. Beach parks are closed. Gaggle of surfers out at Banyans and Lyman’s.

Jan 5, 2025: We live adjacent to one of the two pools in our community. Convenient for us. Sometimes loud. The hot tub is just beyond that croton hedge. There is a …

Jan 5, 2025: A long time ago in a far away place

Jan 5, 2025: Says 65 in Kona, but the weather gauges are in Holualoa at about 1400 feet. It’s 73 down here at sea level.

Jan 4, 2025: It not clear and 5 mph is NOT a gust

Jan 4, 2025: This little mo’o was enjoying the last night of our Christmas lights and the bugs it was bringing him.

Jan 4, 2025: As if there’s not enough depressing news, I’m rewatching Chernobyl on HBO. Russia seemed like a very depressing place

Jan 4, 2025: Going south from Waikoloa on Queen Ka’ahumanu Highway. Top is a clear day, bottom is today with VOG.

Jan 4, 2025: The live feed of the volcanos is thankfully boring. Just hot lava on the ground. Need some trade winds now. youtube.com/live/w0Ku…

Jan 4, 2025: Driving south from Waikoloa. The VOG has totally obscured the mountains

Jan 4, 2025: My favorite Honolulu places from the 80s. Ryan’s Parkplace at Ward Center for lunch, the Black Orchid for upscale cocktails, Studebakers for party …

Jan 4, 2025: Amazing interview with Panic founders. youtube.com/watch

Jan 4, 2025: Still hoping for a Playdate Stereo Dock…someday

Jan 4, 2025: Rewatching Chernobyl on HBO. 2 great actors.

Jan 4, 2025: I have these 2 awesome Japanese Blue steel knives. I used them when I managed a Japanese restaurant. Due to staff shortages I was working the kitchen …

Jan 4, 2025: A quirk in the AppleTv Paramount+ app. Closed captions won’t turn off until the app is exited after turning them off on the menu. It’s been this was …

Jan 4, 2025: She’s apparently taking a nap youtube.com/live/w0Ku…

Jan 4, 2025: I’d like to find a secluded AirBnB somewhere for a week. I’d take everything I need and just hibernate.

Jan 4, 2025: IMHO many kickstarter projects go awry when they decide to add feature requests after funding that drive up their costs and long delay delivery. Have …

Jan 4, 2025: This Arsenal match has felt very muddy. There’s been a bit of Stoke in Brighton’s play that ref has let slide by.

Jan 3, 2025: It’s still pumping lava. Something going on under there youtube.com/live/w0Ku…

Jan 3, 2025: Every Friday (my day off), I go to KTA Kona and get a fresh glazed donut and a butter roll.

Jan 3, 2025: My mental state is solid, my emotional state is too. But my attitude is deteriorating fast

Jan 3, 2025: My social media handle and website was Kaipaniolo when I was a paddler. Ocean cowboy. I then swerved to Hawaiiboy.

Jan 3, 2025: We use Amazon because things just aren’t available here on island. I’ve driven around many times looking for something. Often improvise to use …

Jan 3, 2025: Traffic light out at this intersection. Mayhem. 18 lanes between thrus and turns. Anarchy reigns on a Friday afternoon. No one know how to do a 4 way …

Jan 3, 2025: How about this throwback from 1978. The Blahlahs of Keaukaha. I got to know Kuulei Ahuna in later years. He passed in the mid 2000s. His brother JJ …

Jan 3, 2025: The Hawaiian lyrics and the players on the album sleeve of The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band album. I bought this in 1975. Still have it 50 years later

Jan 3, 2025: Got some Peet’s coffee concentrate. Good stuff.

Jan 3, 2025: Well. That brings up a lot of questions Axios: Tim Cook Donates $1 Million to Trump Inauguration

Jan 3, 2025: ESPN+ won’t let me watch SportCenter because I don’t have cable. I’m just watching CBS Sports HQ

Jan 3, 2025: This culture… @pratik

Jan 3, 2025: Never did find a note card as pleasing as Capture Cards.

Jan 3, 2025: Let’s play

Jan 3, 2025: It was a good one.

Jan 3, 2025: Mauna Loa snow peaking over Hualalai 1 year ago

Jan 3, 2025: Pu’uohonua o Honaunau National Monument. 2015. Love just hanging out there.

Jan 3, 2025: 2013 was a good year for desktops.

Jan 3, 2025: I stopped buying fireworks when I decided I didn’t have money to burn. I just buy some mochi and call it even.

Jan 3, 2025: Been seeing lots of posts about Micro.one. Took a Quick Look. For me, don’t really need another network. Looks nice though

Jan 3, 2025: College football going til Jan 20. Used or end the first week of the year.

Jan 3, 2025: Happy New Year

Jan 2, 2025: This next week will be interesting. I love working in a kitchen. It’s fun. My recently shoulder replacement does not. It’s gotten progressively worse. …

Jan 2, 2025: 1-4 are gone. 5-8 are in.

Jan 2, 2025: VOG enhanced sunset

Jan 2, 2025: This photo was given to me by the wife (Mary Jane) of Louis Kahanamoku who lived on Hawaii island. She gave me a few pix from his collection in 1995 …

Jan 2, 2025: I was at this show with my soon to be wife (former), her sister and boy friend. I have photo somewhere.

Jan 2, 2025: This is the last dinner special that I made the day after I injured my shoulder, May 1, 2024. I tried to work through the injury. Sautéed snapper with …

Jan 2, 2025: Took this photo on Jan 1, 2024.

Jan 1, 2025: A few more days

Jan 1, 2025: So apparently they found illegal homemade fireworks at that home in Salt Lake in Honolulu. I’m not a fireworks proponent, but if you’re going to use …

Jan 1, 2025: Never noticed this. The left is the album they I bought when it came out in ‘75 and the image on Apple Music. The album didn’t have the title or the …

Jan 1, 2025: Arsenal look out of sorts. No ball control.

Jan 1, 2025: If MAGA boycotts Costco, at least that will be a safe haven from their idiocy.

Jan 1, 2025: This firework accident on O`ahu is sad, but I’m not surpised. I’m just surprised is hasn’t happend before. Thinking about the 80’s and 90’s. …

Jan 1, 2025: Lowe’s thinks Kahului is a nearby store to Kona. Nevermind the ʻAlenuihāhā Channel

Jan 1, 2025: I haven’t had a drink his year. The year is young though.

Dec 31, 2024: None of the TV channels will wait for Hawaii. They never do. We will still be here.

Dec 31, 2024: Watching Auld land syne.

Dec 31, 2024: Happy New Year from Hawaii island.

Dec 31, 2024: Great parking

Dec 31, 2024: A big block of Ahi calls for the big knife

Dec 31, 2024: Yoshihiro Inox Stain-resistant Aus-10 Steel Ice Hardened Santoku

Dec 31, 2024: I posted about my tools because I see photographers and others posting about their tools. I am just as geeky about knives as other are about their …

Dec 31, 2024: Most of my knives are Yoshihiro Japanese blades. The blade is made in Japan, the knives are assembled in California. I like AUS-10 steel for its …

Dec 31, 2024: They’re increasing DUi check points. How about check point for aggressive locals in jack up Tacoma trucks. New report shows Hawaii Island traffic …

Dec 31, 2024: I’m very comfortable with a knife in my hand cutting. I have 5 daily use knives. A long knife for large fish fillets, a vegetable knife, a boning …

Dec 31, 2024: The free AppleTV weekend reminds me of the old free HBO and Showtime weekend in cables earlier years. Used to take an extra day off and binge on …

Dec 31, 2024: Roast pig before and after.

Dec 30, 2024: Got this today

Dec 30, 2024: The band at the luau is playing the old Hawaiian standard. I think I know every single song by heart.

Dec 30, 2024: Sometimes I miss driving during the pandemic. Empty roads, sun goes down alone. Lyric courtesy of Don Henley. Boys of Summer. …

Dec 30, 2024: I did more steps in 2024 than 2023 and I was off work for 7 months this year. Hmm.

Dec 30, 2024: Going in very early today. Need to take a couple of hours off in the middle of the day to take my wife to a “driver needed” Doctor appointment. Then …

Dec 29, 2024: I’m so happy we have a coffee machine in our employee cafeteria. Punch in the drink I want and presto. ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️

Dec 29, 2024: That’s us. We’re comfortable financially, but retirement is on the horizon amid an abundance of uncertainty. We’re pulling in the reins. …

Dec 29, 2024: Someone said it early on, Pele was jealous of Kamaloa getting all of the attention with the big surf and all.

Dec 28, 2024: It’s still pumping out lava. www.youtube.com/live/w0Ku…

Dec 28, 2024: This Arizona v LA NFL game is pathetic. These are professionals?

Dec 28, 2024: Didn’t know we needed a special First Amendment area. Good to know in case I need to scream about DJT

Dec 28, 2024: What’s even cooler about the 2 sculptures is that they can be put in motion.

Dec 28, 2024: I’m glad we got the one that wild eggnogs were used in.

Dec 28, 2024: We bought these 2 metal sculptures at a long gone furniture store in Waimea about 20 years ago. I put a light in front of them on top of of our …

Dec 28, 2024: Breezy day with the dropping swell at Honokohau

Dec 28, 2024: Breezy day with a dropping swell at Honokōhau

Dec 28, 2024: Today we went on a field trip to the Kaloko-Honokōhau national park. I’ve driven by this park right off the highway hundreds of times in the past few …

Dec 28, 2024: Ok Mr New Starbucks CEO. I just waited 10 min in a 2 person line while the staff focused on mobile orders.

Dec 28, 2024: Caught one in the wild

Dec 28, 2024: Trade winds are a good thing. Best it’s been since eruption started.

Dec 28, 2024: Inter go top. You can’t win the championship in December, but you sure can lose it.

Dec 27, 2024: Closing out the night with some C&K. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 27, 2024: Famous, at least to us, Kalani High Grad. A shooting star that crashed and burned. We all knew where his house was. Mackey Feary - Wikipedia

Dec 27, 2024: I’m sure it’s obvious I’m all about music. I can just sit at home and listen to a full album or a chosen playlist. Tonight is 70s island music. I’m a …

Dec 27, 2024: The Kalani High School 1976 Junior prom song. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 27, 2024: The thing we can be thankful for living by the ocean is VOG, much like clouds, follows warmth. It goes mostly offshore at night and mostly mauka in …

Dec 27, 2024: Thankfully no one that I know 19 motorists arrested for DUI on Big Island roads the week before Christmas

Dec 27, 2024: Worked over the Christmas Holiday, tonight is Eggnog with Bourbon

Dec 27, 2024: WTF is his standing in the case? Donald Trump asks the Supreme Court to delay the TikTok ban

Dec 27, 2024: Was thinking that all summer

Dec 27, 2024: The original and regular Sunday night sports wrap up show. George Michael Sports Machine. youtu.be/vt4suOgg5…

Dec 27, 2024: 359 Shopping days until Christmas (assuming stores are closed on New Years, Easter and Thanksgiving)

Dec 27, 2024: Liko Martin doing his original Nanakuli Blues, which becameWaimanalo blues by Country Comfort. If you the know history, this was a protest of the new …

Dec 27, 2024: No disrespect to the 3 stooges, but kind made me think of Trump, Vance and Musk.

Dec 27, 2024: Did a quick trip around town; butter rolls, coffee, Lowe’s, gas and car wash. Now pretty much sleep eat, sports and recharge for the remainder my 2 …

Dec 27, 2024: A Hawaiian protest song from the 70s music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 27, 2024: The VOG is stifling today.

Dec 27, 2024: There are some songs that I sing very loud in the car. This is one of them music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 27, 2024: Managing the luau buffet is kind of my retirement job. I figure that I have 2-3 good years in this body (65 1/2). Though not to make an indictment on …

Dec 27, 2024: In my former position as lead dinner chef, I was averaging 12k steps / day. In my new position as luau lead (actually it’s just me most days) I’m up …

Dec 27, 2024: I’ll pass. Don’t care to relive it 2024, in 4 minutes

Dec 26, 2024: Between Panama, Greenland and Canada, Trump is just a bag of gas ‘Nothing to talk about’: Panama president dismisses Trump’s threats over canal

Dec 26, 2024: Light and variable winds is the worst. Even though the volcano has paused, the VOG will be with us another couple of days

Dec 26, 2024: A kolea taking a dip in the pool

Dec 26, 2024: Got access to the Surf app. Will play around and figure out what it is. It’s in Beta so… Sure it will cost something on the back end.

Dec 26, 2024: My niece is a manager at a Starbucks in North Dakota. She had to go through pro-noun training after a gay employee said she was devastated by the …

Dec 26, 2024: Watching the decline of Howard Dicus on Hawaii News Now reminds me of the decline of Roger Cook on This Old House.

Dec 25, 2024: Impossible is nothing

Dec 25, 2024: After watching the Apple 1971 music show and recalling the social upheavals of that era, gives me some semblance of hope that we can pull back from …

Dec 25, 2024: When we have these VOG (volcanic haze) events, everything takes on this pinkish tint. No real clarity. Reminds me of LA in the early 80s.

Dec 25, 2024: Less than optimal. Came to the NFL game in progress and Netflix wouldn’t let me go to the live game, kept sending me to the start. Finally had to just …

Dec 24, 2024: My 13 yo grandson got a new gaming computer from his Dad. When we were younger in the 80s, we upgraded components, not whole computers. The box was …

Dec 24, 2024: Christmas is finished for us I work tomorrow. My wife is wiped out and will rest tomorrow Merry Christmas to all

Dec 24, 2024: For anyone who hasn’t seen this. Enjoy. Mele Kalikimaka biden chrismss video 2024 - Google Search

Dec 24, 2024: So you’re against gay marriage because of the Bible

Dec 24, 2024: Nuclear winter sunset. (Volcano)

Dec 24, 2024: Watching it is amazing. I saw this live at the Hollywood Bowl in 1982. We were in tears. It just grabs you youtube.com/watch

Dec 24, 2024: Plugged my AirFly adapter into my iPod shuffle and was able to use my AirPods with it.

Dec 24, 2024: Job done. It will be up another week or so

Dec 24, 2024: Watched the feature on the Golazo network about Berlin Union and their reborn stadium. Amazing

Dec 24, 2024: I remember as a kid, we would have to put on the clothes Grandma sent us for Christmas so my Dad could take a Polaroid to send to her with our Mahalo …

Dec 24, 2024: Enjoying this playlist. Upbeat enough to get through the cooking classical.music.apple.com/us/playli…

Dec 24, 2024: Quick work of something I don’t like doing.

Dec 24, 2024: I must have been a good boy this year.

Dec 24, 2024: Peeling shrimp. One of the joys of life - NOT! It’s more painful watching someone else do it. I’ve peeled hundreds of pounds through the years.

Dec 24, 2024: When I was younger West Bend was THE brand for kitchen small appliances. My Mom had twest bend brand, I had then too. Now Breville is the state the …

Dec 24, 2024: Got my Elevation Labs time capsule for AirTag. It was very intuitive to set up. It chimed instantly. Put rechargeable batteries in it. Need to get …

Dec 24, 2024: There will come a day in the not to distant future where I be done adulting. I will regress and become irresponsible and be very happy in my ignorant …

Dec 24, 2024: Opening gifts today with our Grandsons. I work tomorrow.

Dec 24, 2024: Yep. VOG. Still kind of Mauka (up the mountain). Top pic from last week

Dec 24, 2024: Not optimimal. All American Airline flights grounded on Christmas Eve due to a ‘technical issue’

Dec 23, 2024: Sunset. The volcanic haze (VOG) is drifting in

Dec 23, 2024: My wife was telling me how I should bake a potato. I have baked literally 1000s of baked potatoes in my career. A couple of cs of 80ct bakers and …

Dec 23, 2024: Pele is back. www.instagram.com/reel/DD7N…

Dec 22, 2024: It’s that time of the year Nutcracker suite. classical.music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 22, 2024: 👍

Dec 22, 2024: I can only imagine living in a full weather location with what some would call a proper winter. Would like to keep it that way. Just keep it in my …

Dec 21, 2024: Bummer. The Thai restaurant that was here opened at the Queens Marketplace in 1990 is now closed.

Dec 21, 2024: It did snow at the King’s Shops Waikoloa

Dec 21, 2024: We’re at the Christmas at King’s Shops Waikoloa. It’s supposed to snow at 6pm

Dec 21, 2024: I remember when this location was the 1st Starbucks in West Hawaii at the King’s shops. One opened on Palani shortly thereafter followed by Waimea. …

Dec 21, 2024: Remind me why I have ESPN+. I can’t watch any games that are on cable.

Dec 21, 2024: Love this youtu.be/PWgvGjAhv…

Dec 21, 2024: Really like Arch Manning. He’s only a Freshman

Dec 21, 2024: Looks like Texas showed up today, hopefully they stay punched in for all 4 quarters

Dec 21, 2024: We bought one of these with the intention of giving it to my Step-Son, but are getting him a membership to a local golf club instead. We’re keeping …

Dec 21, 2024: Speed kills. Hook ‘Em Horns

Dec 21, 2024: We weren’t getting a pumpkin pie for Christmas Eve dinner, but at Costco it seemed like everyone had at least one in their cart. We picked one up for …

Dec 21, 2024: I’ve always liked Zinfandels, but California did a poor job for many years. They were caught up the white Zinfandel craze. The wineries that nurtured …

Dec 21, 2024: We tasted 8 wines at St Francis winery. This was the one I liked the most. Costco.

Dec 21, 2024: They never call it when a player steps over the line on a throw in. Happens a lot

Dec 21, 2024: In the late 80s I worked for the Miller Beer distributor in Hawaii. Back then Miller Lite was king. When there was a big surf event like tomorrow’s …

Dec 21, 2024: The iPhone 7 pro I have isn’t important enough to spend any more time on. I found it in a box of old devices that included various models of iPods. …

Dec 21, 2024: I really dislike football pre-game shows. Droning on and on.

Dec 20, 2024: I still love this soundtrack. It’s heavy. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 20, 2024: Continuing annoyance. Handing my phone means fingerprints on the camera bump. I often get blurry photos of I don’t remember to wipe it.

Dec 20, 2024: Have my doubts. But we’ll see. Netflix scores the broadcasting rights to the FIFA Women’s World Cup

Dec 20, 2024: Good game. Buzzer beater.

Dec 20, 2024: I’d subscribe in a minute. ★ Journalism Requires Owners Committed to the Cause

Dec 20, 2024: Pukalani Superette. Regular stop for many years. almost 100 years in business

Dec 20, 2024: 100%

Dec 20, 2024: iPhone 7 Max. 3 different cables and My Mac won’t see it. At least it’s nice to look at.

Dec 20, 2024: Just got a call from a headhunter that still had my management resume. Said there are 4 GM positions available right here in west Hawaii. All paying …

Dec 20, 2024: Think I dodged a bullet at work. Talking to Chef yesterday, lots of cooks gonna be moved around to positions they may not want to be in. Running the …

Dec 20, 2024: Up to date on Silo and Dune Prophecy. finished Before - had a few bizarre moments, but entertaining. Will catch up on The Agency later. Watching …

Dec 20, 2024: Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea in Dec 2022

Dec 20, 2024: I remember going to the Queen Theater in Kaimuki in High school to watch surf films and Japanese Samurai flicks. Zatuichi the Blind Swordsman

Dec 20, 2024: My body is starting to adapt to being back at a physical job after 7 months. Takes longer at “this” age. The first few days everything (except my …

Dec 20, 2024: Ordered one. $20 is a deal. Keep an AirTag in my knife box and use one for travel. In the past I’ve found the battery was dead after trip started. …

Dec 19, 2024: Noticed that. I have a pristine iPhone 7 that is useless now. Thanks Apple iCloud Backups No Longer Available for iPhones and iPads Running iOS 8 or …

Dec 19, 2024: The calm before the storm. Luau day

Dec 19, 2024: An old one

Dec 19, 2024: Being primarily an Irish Whisky drinker, despite their dissing it, I like Buffalo trace. Which Bourbon Is Best? A Taste Test of Knob Creek, …

Dec 19, 2024: Who the F&ck elected him. This is a messed up situation. Musk leads GOP rebellion against government-spending bill - The Wall Street Journal

Dec 19, 2024: In other news. Someone just a getting a new transmission.

Dec 19, 2024: Auto dealers keep reminding us why we don’t like them. They needed to take a photo of my leaking front struts for the warranty company. The mechanic …

Dec 18, 2024: Science is amazing. The incision didn’t seem big enough to fit all of this hardware into my shoulder.

Dec 18, 2024: These aren’t new descriptions. The central coast, central valley and the sierras maintain a healthy buffer between north and south. …

Dec 18, 2024: Still getting emails that say time for holiday shipping is running out. That ship has sailed to Hawaii a long time ago

Dec 17, 2024: On a musical tangent. Listening George Helm just puts me in a mood.

Dec 17, 2024: Have always loved this song from the 70s. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 17, 2024: Democrats still living in the past. www.motherjones.com/politics/…

Dec 17, 2024: 1971 really was an epic year for music. music.apple.com/us/playli…

Dec 17, 2024: Graduated from physical therapy for my shoulder 165 day post surgery. It’s not at full strength, but it’s kind of the best therapy can do. After 3 …

Dec 17, 2024: I drove Nissan Frontiers for quite a few year. They were good enough. The Nissan dealer service was excellent. My wife and I have bought 3 cars since …

Dec 17, 2024: She and her family should pay for creating a hysteria. Pay back LAPD. He father committed suicide. What a mess Hannah Kobayashi speaks out after …

Dec 17, 2024: Current status

Dec 17, 2024: Moonset in the west

Dec 17, 2024: Was thinking about the Waiki’i Music festival. This is from 1994. It was so chill and so much fun. Amazing food from the Hawaii island canoe clubs. We …

Dec 16, 2024: We’ve been on quite the run of crapology.

Dec 16, 2024: Ain’t nobody gonna give a good cahoot. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 16, 2024: There’s been a requirement on Hawaii island that homes built close to the shore must be on stilts. A few older homes have been jacked up. If you do it …

Dec 16, 2024: My 13yo grandson has a drone. He’s pretty competent at flying it. Just needs more practice. He wants to fly it for fun. See the world from a bird’s …

Dec 15, 2024: Watching 1971 The Year that music changed everything on AppleTV I know all of this music. I love it.

Dec 15, 2024: Ua lohe au i kēia moʻolelo i koʻu ola a pau. Noho au ma Keaukaha no kekahi mau makahiki. Ua ʻōlelo mau au na ka poʻe Hawaiʻi kēia moʻolelo e kākau …

Dec 15, 2024: If I had an iMac, Id use this as wallpaper

Dec 15, 2024: Cyber Bullying

Dec 15, 2024: Got some fresh poi in Waimea yesterday. Usually eat poi with something either salty or spicy. Lacking those options, just eating poi.

Dec 15, 2024: Was so nice spending a couple of days just hanging out with my Daughter and her GF. Her partner works at the Bishop Museum library and archive. …

Dec 15, 2024: I have so many photos that were scans of old prints, so no meta data. I have to manually look through them and look for something in the same era. I …

Dec 15, 2024: Good luck local traffic

Dec 15, 2024: Great deal

Dec 14, 2024: Ok. We did get a little snow flurry in Kona.

Dec 14, 2024: It doesn’t snow in Hawaii. We have bubbles.

Dec 14, 2024: The County band is all makule so they can’t march. Perfect solution

Dec 14, 2024: Hawaii County emergency services representing

Dec 14, 2024: Massive pre COVID type crowd for the Kona Christmas parade

Dec 14, 2024: Alii Drive is packed for the parade

Dec 14, 2024: It’s crazy that 3 teams from the Dakotas are in the FCS Semi Finals. S. Dakota, SDSU, and NDSU. Something in the water up there

Dec 14, 2024: Spent the day with my daughter. Her GF had to work in the hotel room, an emergency came up. We went to market at Pukalani Stables in Waimea. Got some …

Dec 14, 2024: Manaola pop up store at Queens Marketplace. Just opened. Had a line waiting. It’s packed

Dec 14, 2024: When my wife and I have plans for the day, we are up and out by 9ish am. My daughter and her GF, not so. Almost 10 and they are working on coffee. Go …

Dec 14, 2024: Sorry. An $800 suitcase is multiple time more valuable than what I would put in it. I Fly 30+ Times a Year, so I Upgraded My Luggage to This Suitcase …

Dec 14, 2024: Forest sure pulled one out over Villa. Quite an end to that match.

Dec 14, 2024: CVS is relentless with text messages about prescription refills. I can’t take them any faster. I need a refill when I need a refill.

Dec 14, 2024: 2 Email newsletters I do like are Alex Brogan’s Faster than Normal . and Starts with a Bang from Big Think

Dec 13, 2024: My daughter just got in from O’ahu. Flight was late. We’ll catch a late dinner and talk for a while. She brought her Friend. She’ll be 40 in 2025 and …

Dec 13, 2024: The Director’s cut is even better of All My Love. Chris Martin and 99 yo Dick Van Dyke. youtube.com/watch

Dec 13, 2024: Ua alakaʻi hewa ka poʻe Hawaiʻi i ka huhū i ka poʻe haole ʻaʻole pili i ko lākou pilikia. kaumaha.

Dec 13, 2024: My wife got on an earlier flight ✈️ from O’ahu. Now delayed. Flat tire and pilot called out. Friday the 13th.

Dec 13, 2024: Happens to me all the time. “…was confused by a featureless stretch of rippled sandy terrain, resulting in incorrect velocity estimates that led to a …

Dec 13, 2024: I’m canceling any regular email newsletters that focus on negativity and what’s wrong rather than what’s possible in the current climate.

Dec 13, 2024: I’ll be running the Outrigger Kona Luau. There’s been a turnover of staff and it needs some stability and organization. This will be fun.

Dec 13, 2024: Don’t give this wahine the air time. She’s being stupid. Comment on Hawaiian being ‘dead language’ at council hearing draws widespread rebuke …

Dec 13, 2024: I haven’t been up and out this year in years. Lowes is busy. Dropped my wife at the airport.

Dec 12, 2024: Keep in mind, I’m from an era where subscriptions to magazines was regular. I have never subscribed to Time. I did for Rolling Stone, Sports …

Dec 12, 2024: I bought my first Apple Watch for health reasons. I was dealing with a heart issue (since then it’s been repaired) to check heart rate, etc. I still …

Dec 12, 2024:

Dec 11, 2024: Blueberry short cake from scratch

Dec 11, 2024: I gladly give The #Guardian money every year to help them remain independent

Dec 11, 2024: We have an AppleTV HD. I waited through 2024 to see if there was a “big” update. Just going to pull the trigger already. I’ll upgrade the living room …

Dec 11, 2024: 4 devices updating, 4 different Operating Systems. IOS iPadOS, TVos and MACos

Dec 11, 2024: Just watch PBS Nova Hunt for the oldest DNA. Fascinating. They’re starting map our path into a warmer future with DNA from before the last ice age …

Dec 10, 2024: I would only use raw milk for cooking. Some recipes are better with it. Clotted cream needs un-ultra-pasteurized cream.

Dec 10, 2024: How did Alaskans become Astros fans?

Dec 10, 2024: Tried ordering some good quality canned Salmon on Amazon for my wife’s Christmas stocking, wouldn’t get here until Dec 28th. Went to company’s …

Dec 10, 2024: Get up and move music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 10, 2024: More discussions to be had, but the Sous chef floated the idea of me taking over managing the luau (kitchen portion) rather than going back to being …

Dec 10, 2024: So there IS a medical angle. I also have spondylolisthesis. It requires daily attention. I discovered aqua therapy which was a game changer in …

Dec 10, 2024: Boom. First day back, 11k + steps.

Dec 10, 2024: I’ve been getting mail from United Healthcare since I’ve been Medicare eligible. Never gave it much thought, straight to the trash. I won’t go all in …

Dec 9, 2024: Keauhou Kona Hawaii

Dec 9, 2024: First day back. My injury was 214 days ago. Surgery 157 day ago. I’m back 4 weeks early, I worked hard

Dec 9, 2024: Didn’t know this. United Health is not only an insurer, they own claims clearing houses, labs, pharma, pharmacies, and even employee providers. If …

Dec 8, 2024: NBC’s Meet the Dictator let him drone on about nonsense

Dec 8, 2024: I remember my Grandmother taking me to see the Chargers in the San Diego Stadium in the 70s (wasn’t renamed the Murph til later). Air Coryell with …

Dec 8, 2024: When I want to just put on Music, I put on Paradise Radio. I like the mellow station. It’s free, I make a donation monthly. They’re based in Paradise …

Dec 8, 2024: Watching the new The Day of the Jackal series on Peacock. After 1 episode, I like it.

Dec 8, 2024: David Foster Wallace. This is good to watch every couple of years. Especially this year. We’ve seem the GOP doesn’t care about other people, just …

Dec 8, 2024: Remembering when I was young, Liberty House would have free holiday wrapping. It was great and they did a good job. Drop them off and stop shortly …

Dec 8, 2024: This wind mill on the Kona Royal hotel property is a thrown back. Look like it used to pump water somewhere at some time.

Dec 8, 2024: This is from the newish Kahului bridge on Alii Drive in Kona. The bridge was completed in 2021. To the County and Isemoto Construction’s credit, it …

Dec 8, 2024: The south looking coast of Kona from the ocean access beach (no sand, just grass and rocks), just south of the Royal Kona Hotel. Sunday morning.

Dec 8, 2024: Persistents OR path of least resistance At least the landscapers can’t cut you if you’re inside the post.

Dec 8, 2024: Manton has coffee shop pix. Here’s mine today @manton

Dec 8, 2024: I must be in the front row. On Alii drive

Dec 8, 2024: Lawyer up Trump aims to end birthright citizenship, says American citizens with family here illegally may be deported

Dec 7, 2024: Oregon is good at Football

Dec 7, 2024: Texas is done

Dec 7, 2024: My favorite mountain on Hawaii Island is the Kohala Mountains. When we lived in Waimea our dining room looked straight at them.

Dec 7, 2024: The Waimea Butcher Shop is our always stop

Dec 7, 2024: ESPN is really pushing the UFC fight. Another broken algorithm, I’ve never bought a closed circuit anything or a UFC fight

Dec 7, 2024: My wife has all of her ducks in a row before we head out the door (or her OCD). Pick up grandsons and head to Waimea for Christmas craft fairs and …

Dec 7, 2024: This shopping center, the Makalapua center, was built in the early 90s. It had a K-Mart, a cinema complex and Macy’s. Kmart and the theaters closed in …

Dec 7, 2024: Here’s my Dad with the Heathkit CPU named Charlie on his back desk @cheesemaker he used it to store and sort member data. Me managed a number of …

Dec 6, 2024: This is from shortly after they opened in 1965. Famously, Steve Jobs stayed there.

Dec 6, 2024: Throw back

Dec 6, 2024: Not that they would want to play towards their constituents. Owner of Los Angeles Times says paper will employ AI-powered ‘bias meter’

Dec 6, 2024: Ornaments

Dec 5, 2024: I got that Festivitas dock and menu bar Christmas lights utility. Fun, it’s benign, doesn’t interfere with anything. Harrogate Forest UK wallpaper …

Dec 5, 2024: I got that Festivitas dock and menu bar Christmas lights utility. Fun, it’s benign, doesn’t interfere with anything. Harrogate Forest UK wallpaper …

Dec 5, 2024: My wife made this for our front kitchen window that we’ve never decorated. She had an idea and found the garland, LED light and holly clip ons. Came …

Dec 5, 2024: Took me a while to get around to watching “The Gentleman” series after I added to my queue. Really enjoyed it. Kept the spirit of the movie in its …

Dec 5, 2024: Got it. Much like it ‘Festivitas’ brings holiday cheer to your Mac’s dock and menu bar

Dec 5, 2024: Just made. Texas style chili. Hot, dark and thick. No beans.

Dec 5, 2024: This shooter had a plan.The only unknown is if they find video of him prior to the shooting. Kind of feel he’s not hunkered down in a mid town flat, …

Dec 5, 2024: PayPal increased charges for transactions. The cost of doing business goes up again

Dec 4, 2024: Vance has gone crickets.

Dec 4, 2024: It’s so cool how Booker T and MGs, a mostly studio band for Stax records in Memphis had that ended up as surf songs. youtu.be/j9nLGIT59…

Dec 4, 2024: After watching Yacht Rock, I was inspired to watch the Stax Records documentary I had a Stax records multi CD set back in the day. Always loved it.

Dec 4, 2024: Power back. Everything rebooted. All good

Dec 4, 2024: Pretty sizable area. No updates

Dec 4, 2024: Massive power outage in Kailua Kona.

Dec 4, 2024: 4 turkeys (literally) crossing the road back up Kuakini highway in both direction. They were in no rush. Thanksgiving is over. They’re free

Dec 4, 2024: Finally got around to listening to the new Cure album. They really did pick up where left off. I like it. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 4, 2024: Removed Threads cross posting. Won’t share my thoughts as to not upset any demographic. I found some long lost people from Twitter there, but many of …

Dec 4, 2024: The gradients in nature 🙂

Dec 3, 2024: After a recent check up my Dr. said even with my shoulder issues, I’m healthier at my age than many of his patients much younger than me. My bloodwork …

Dec 3, 2024: This is the guy who was playing at Umeke’s tonight. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 3, 2024: Live music at Umeke’s is good. Mike Antosh. Local musician

Dec 3, 2024: Umeke’s in Kona for Anniversary dinner

Dec 3, 2024: Target has a wide selection of product categories, but few choices within those categories. Their private label in invariably one of the choices.

Dec 3, 2024: In Yacht Rock I loved that Christopher Cross had a successful weed business when he was “discovered”

Dec 3, 2024: I love Birdwell Britches surf shorts. Been using them for 30 years. They were the perfect padding shorts. They’re bullet proof but you can still move. …

Dec 3, 2024: Websites posts a sale of up to 50% off. Go to the site, 1 item in XS and a bizarre color 50% off. Everything else not on sale or 20% off

Dec 3, 2024: Before subscriptions

Dec 3, 2024: Be safe

Dec 3, 2024: True. I’ve been listened to Gabby Pahinui for almost 60 years. Top 1000. Who knew.

Dec 3, 2024: This is interesting. I have been off work since April for shoulder injury and repair / replacement. Normally I play music at work that is mostly what …

Dec 3, 2024: Considering what previous presidents did and the fact they usually did a massive list of pardons on their last day on their way out the door means it …

Dec 2, 2024: I know this has been said before. But Elon Musk really is like an off the rails James Bond villain

Dec 2, 2024: This is going to be a barn burner.

Dec 2, 2024: All day Music is a classic. War’s Lonnie Jordan: ‘We don’t shoot bullets; we shoot rhythms’

Dec 2, 2024: I’m a chef, but when someone says: I have a simple recipe for _____, and it has 20 ingredients (most of which you don’t have in your kitchen) and 2 …

Dec 2, 2024: Watched the final Loki episode waiting for Skelton Crew to drop

Dec 2, 2024: Every website that I’ve ever bought from has a Black Friday, small business and cyber Monday sale and sent me an email for each one. Tomorrow will be …

Dec 2, 2024: The Netflix algorithm keeps showing me games. I’ve never bought a game on Netflix or even searched for one.

Dec 2, 2024: Watching Polar Express. Just because. Also, can’t watch MNF because we don’t have cable

Dec 2, 2024: A rather odd low humidity, cloudless day in Kona

Dec 2, 2024: Monochrome Monday

Dec 2, 2024: Trump was going to pardon them anyway and the GOP would have still been harping on Hunter’s laptop. Joe Biden criticized by some supporters for …

Dec 2, 2024: It would be cool if MB shared the Album cover of a song shared from Apple Music. I know it works in other platforms. Not nerdy enough to know how it …

Dec 2, 2024: Taking a break from Threads.

Dec 2, 2024: The algorithm they use for credit score is strange. We cancelled a long unused credit card and scores went down. Added car loan (paid half down) and …

Dec 1, 2024: Watching Yacht Rock on HBO. Love it. I know every single song on it. I don’t have many of albums, but the radio covered all of it in Hawaii.

Dec 1, 2024: I agree. They made him an issue because of name. Joe Biden issues ‘full and unconditional’ pardon to son Hunter

Dec 1, 2024: Here we are now.

Dec 1, 2024: In Europe Football they cancel the match when this happens. I believe the NFL would never cancels a game unsless maybe the stadium fell. Too much …

Dec 1, 2024: My wife a driving glacier slow on Alii drive. There was a bike cyclist riding on the line. She said he “could” swerve into the lane. (To my eye, he …

Dec 1, 2024: I’ve had the handle Hawaiiboy since forever. I’ve alway been proud to be from Hawaii. I may not be Hawaiian, but Hawaii is what I know. I also own the …

Dec 1, 2024: It’s so clear, can see Maui peaking out over the edge of Hualalai. Rare sight from Keauhou.

Dec 1, 2024: Postcard view up the coast.

Dec 1, 2024: Late checkout. 3pm. Benefits.

Dec 1, 2024: When I was young I remember thinking I’ll be 41 in the year 2000. That’s a long time away. FN blew by that in a blink. 2025 coming up.

Dec 1, 2024: ok - MB error logs

Dec 1, 2024: Congrats Kapa’a, I believe it’s their first D1 championship. Must’ve been a battle. No score for 3 quarters. 3. points short Konawaena. Great run. …

Nov 30, 2024: Impending sunset

Nov 30, 2024: Typical Kona. These dark clouds stacked up on Hualalai, then just sat there and did nothing.

Nov 30, 2024: Staycation at work. Not everyone can say that. #OutriggerKona

Nov 30, 2024: The once glimmering light of air travel is being snuffed out. They will soon be no different than the others, taking away more reasons to fly …

Nov 30, 2024: This is great news. I canceled my account months ago. Not sure why they sent this now. Someone else must have tried to use it.

Nov 30, 2024: I alway heat leftovers either on the stove or in the toaster oven. Very rarely microwave

Nov 29, 2024: Mac Mini M4 ordered. Merry Christmas me. 256gb

Nov 29, 2024: Amazon out of the 256 M4 Mac mini too. The Costco deal expires 12/3. Maybe the Amazon deal goes longer

Nov 29, 2024: And so it begins…

Nov 29, 2024: Was going to pull the trigger on a $500 M4 Mac mini at Costco. Out of stock.

Nov 29, 2024: My Dad played a lot of classical music and my uncle played mostly Jazz, he even game me a a couple of albums. I was mostly into Hawaiian and Rock (and …

Nov 29, 2024: Looking makai (toward the ocean) at Pāhoehoe beach park in Kona

Nov 29, 2024: Dave Brubeck was the epitome of cool. freshairarchive.org/segments/…

Nov 29, 2024: Had a chance to taste yesterday’s food in a more relaxed state. The turkey is really moist, even the breast. I brined it breast side down. The Italian …

Nov 29, 2024: My wife went shopping, I didn’t. I think we’re both in a better place.

Nov 29, 2024: With 8 days left till I am eligible to return to work I’ve stepped up my pace on my walk. Have knocked 5 min a mile off my pace 3 weeks ago. There’s …

Nov 29, 2024: I love it try Turkish coffee. I’m never going to Turkey. So will have of stumble upon someplace that makes it at some point. Turkish coffee - …

Nov 29, 2024: Funny seeing people lining up at stores on the news this morning. Haven’t done that since the internet. I remember getting a killer deal on a …

Nov 28, 2024: Butcher’s style slice

Nov 28, 2024: Haven’t listened to Brady on Fox. He hasn’t been on our regional games this year. He’s on today. He really sucks.

Nov 28, 2024: Resting before the butcher style slicing.

Nov 28, 2024: My daughter is in Colorado. Wintery

Nov 28, 2024: Wow. Detroit had it in hand, but the Bears made interesting but lost a chance on poor clock management.

Nov 28, 2024: Fascinating article in Xerox PARC in the 80s. A much studied corporation What we can learn about resilience from the Pantheon

Nov 28, 2024: The brined turkey safely out of the brine, rinsed, air dried, seasoned and in the oven. See ya in 165°, save for a couple of bastings.

Nov 28, 2024: Would love to see Detroit win the Super Bowl. It would be amazing for the city.

Nov 28, 2024: My wife’s family in North Dakota are “drunk on oil money “MAGA. They don’t really care about politics other than the top MAGA talking points to sound …

Nov 28, 2024: Dawn is breaking

Nov 27, 2024: My Dad lived in Waikoloa village on Francolin place. We were preparing Thanksgiving one year at his place and looked out back on the golf course and …

Nov 27, 2024: We’re dining at my Step-son’s house tomorrow. He thinks Trump is the man and believes all of the conspiracy theories. The micro-chips n the vaccine, …

Nov 27, 2024: Listening to Hans Zimmer’s movie sound tracks is trippy. Takes me back to the movies classical.music.apple.com/us/album/…

Nov 27, 2024: I’ve read this book twice and refer back to it often. It’s grounding to grasp the science of how life was created, how rare it is, and why everything …

Nov 27, 2024: As of yesterday, I was just making stuffing. As of today, I’m doing the turkey and garlic mashed potatoes. My wife went up to her son’s house and he …

Nov 27, 2024: Saw an interview with Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23&me. Told a great story for shareholders. Too little too late.

Nov 27, 2024: Scored some fresh herbs.

Nov 27, 2024: This is sad, but his fault. Sunday, 2 days after this, we were driving south down the coast and 2 motorcycles blew by us passing a line of cars. They …

Nov 27, 2024: Run silent youtu.be/WqjIzyylc…

Nov 27, 2024: My walking playlist this morning. The year I was born. music.apple.com/us/playli…

Nov 27, 2024: Came across this about 20 years ago. I’ve sliced my turkey like this since. The Butcher Carves a Turkey - The New York Times

Nov 26, 2024: I’ll enjoy Thanksgiving. Guarantee I’ll be working Christmas and New Year’s.

Nov 26, 2024: I’ve had this blue LED light in my bathroom for well over 20 years. It’s has a photo cell so it’s off when the light is on, which is a few minutes a …

Nov 26, 2024: I felt safer driving in south central LA in the early 80 than I do in Holiday season store parking lots .

Nov 26, 2024: I’ve come to the conclusion the search engines other than Google just aren’t very good at Hawaii Specific searches. I keep going back to Google

Nov 26, 2024: Hilo Battery and Glass on Kinoole st. Approx 1968. The owner Akira Sato was a close family friend.

Nov 26, 2024: When we bought my wife’s Subaru Crosstrek earlier this year, we took an EV under serious consideration. It just didn’t make sense for us on many …

Nov 26, 2024: Drop down to Keauhou shopping center for last minute ingredients. The winds have freshened up quite a bit since my walk this morning. White caps on …

Nov 26, 2024: A layer of clouds on the horizon, but not a single cloud on Hualalai. That will change shortly as the dynamics of thermals kicks in.

Nov 26, 2024: This definitely does justice to the original by the Platters. classical.music.apple.com/us/album/…

Nov 26, 2024: Then around point on my walk. Magics and a cup of joe

Nov 26, 2024: We are at least in a good enough financial position to weather a “tariff storm” and will shelter our family. I am healthy enough to work a few more …

Nov 26, 2024: My wife’s work is migrating from Webex to MS Teams. It’s not going well. It’s somehow messing up their Outlook email among other issues.

Nov 26, 2024: This is where Kamala stayed on Hawaii Ialand at the Mauna Kea resort. www.dwell.com/home/wine…

Nov 25, 2024: Watching Fargo season 1 with Billy Bob Thornton, for no specific reason other than it’s great TV

Nov 25, 2024: Streaming services don’t offer deals to reward loyalty. Their deals always focus on bringing viewers back. This disincentives loyalty

Nov 25, 2024: My Great Grandparents. Otto and Fannie Kimbley. They lived in the same house in the Paducah Ward, McCracken, Kentucky since they got married on …

Nov 25, 2024: That went well

Nov 25, 2024: I think ManCity is the radical right of football. They think the rules don’t apply to them. When they are charged they say it’s all lies and they are …

Nov 25, 2024: Hawaiian Ranch style home I’ve spoken about to Hawaiian Ranch. A tried and true style for this tropical climate. Too many people bring an architectural style that doesn’t fit …

Nov 25, 2024: Going back to the Apple Classical music app more and more. The playlists are amazing, and no thought process needed. The music by mood is my ❤️

Nov 25, 2024: Car safely ensconced at the dealer. Coffee secured at the (almost) on the ocean coffee shop with a cinnamon twist accompaniment. Chill for a spell, …

Nov 25, 2024: Enjoying this album. The titles of the track match point in the show. “The police are here” classical.music.apple.com/us/album/…

Nov 25, 2024: Monochrome Monday. Didn’t know it was a think until I started following some photographers

Nov 25, 2024: Back to work in 14 days after a loooong 7 months off. 2 months post injury / pre surgery, 5 months recovery. Walking every day until then to build up …

Nov 25, 2024: When i got up this morning, i was informed all of the Christmas decorations and the tree need to come out of their various storage place. I knew it …

Nov 25, 2024: Today I’m glad we bought the extended warranty when we bought our Hyundai Elantra in 2016. The suspension is shot. Nothing we’ve done. No off road, it …

Nov 24, 2024:

Nov 24, 2024: May 7, 2006. The day prior to the Molokai to Oahu OC-1 /OC-2 race. Taken on west end of Molokai

Nov 24, 2024: Craig Alaska 2005

Nov 24, 2024: Took this in 2004 with a Canon camera. Hilo Bay

Nov 24, 2024: Sunday night music. classical.music.apple.com/us/playli…

Nov 24, 2024: This house looks like it landed rather than built. It’s at the North side of Puako and look vastly out of place among 50 years old Hawaiian ranch …

Nov 24, 2024: Finally

Nov 24, 2024: Surfers sitting and waiting outside of Puako with Maui in the background. Haven’t seen them catch a wave yet. Pretty flat

Nov 24, 2024: My wife parks her new car so far from the store I need to catch an Uber

Nov 24, 2024: Pitchers duel

Nov 24, 2024: My Grandfather was a baker (literally - lived above his bakery). When he was over for the holidays, we has some amazing breads.

Nov 24, 2024: I’m the chef in the family, but on thanksgiving everyone becomes a chef. I’m just responsible for stuffing. It will be an amazing stuffing. When my …

Nov 24, 2024: The Cowboys are the keystone cops. youtu.be/ICdvT4RkK…

Nov 23, 2024: A cloudy sunset. Still nice

Nov 23, 2024: Doesn’t matter

Nov 23, 2024: I’m not a bud drinker, but Love this commercial youtu.be/0AHYf8JI1…

Nov 23, 2024: My wife went ot visit stores around Kona and try to job some holiday ideas loose in her mind. I stayed home and dug through some cainets to clear out …

Nov 23, 2024: What a finish for Illinois. 4 and long with time running out, 43 yard touch down.

Nov 23, 2024: Never really was a Big 10 fan. Always Pac-10, WAC, Mountain West, some SEC (mostly basketball). But here’s where we are, the Big 18, the Big 16 and …

Nov 23, 2024: All of the clubs that I follow won. 4 with clean sheets. Konawaena won last night. I’m both a Texas and Kentucky fan so I’ll win and lose in the game. …

Nov 23, 2024: Micro.blog iOS app doesn’t repond to sharing from a screenshot. Tap and nothing. Like a dead button. Others work.

Nov 23, 2024: College football announcers are so enthusiastic. They make any game sound exciting

Nov 22, 2024: Really enjoyed Gladiator II. Pretty much a must see on big screen movie, much like Dune. When we went into the theater it was empty. 3:40 show. About …

Nov 22, 2024: Trying out the Vivaldi browser tiled tab feature for the 4 social media sites I use daily. So far, so good.

Nov 22, 2024: As I creep ever closer to retirement and I’ve been canceling more small subscriptions and services that I don’t need for work or basic nerdiness.

Nov 22, 2024: Need something like Tweetdeck for all of the different social networks

Nov 22, 2024: My wife wants to see Gladiator in the theater. Secured tickets. I’ve only seen 1 movie in the theater since maybe 2019 - that was Dune part 2.

Nov 22, 2024: My 2014 Mac mini can only update to Monterey, so can’t use iCloud. Some ancient apps on it that won’t open. I love that it has so many ports. New M4 …

Nov 22, 2024: We have this monster entertainment center. We got a deal on it from a couple that to make a quick move in 2008. We’ve moved it 5 times. It’s …

Nov 22, 2024: Was back in the kitchen yesterday to talk to chef about my progressive return to work beginning Dec 7. 2 days-then 3, 4 and finally 5 in successive …

Nov 22, 2024: Since I started making Apple Hide my email part of my workflow, really liking it. Easy to cancel.

Nov 22, 2024: We’re in a good stretch of weather in the past 2 weeks. No storm systems, no low or high pressure systems and we’ve had shift to winter with the jet …

Nov 21, 2024: A widely held belief about driving, if you drive really close to the car in front of you, they will drive faster.

Nov 21, 2024: The complex where we live in Kona had to turn off the water to entire site. We got notice at 2:22 for a 2:20 3-4 hour shutoff. Not even time to fill a …

Nov 21, 2024: Children of Men takes place in 3 years. In the current climate (political and environmental) it’s not impossible

Nov 21, 2024: My wife is always coming across Reels of things in our house or food that we have that will kill us. There’s also always something that must be soaked …

Nov 20, 2024: Really liking the PBS Nova shorts on Coastline management. Mostly features Native Tribes

Nov 20, 2024: Ok. Apple Maps is pissing me off. I’m looking for the distance between 2 places in California. Tried for 15 min and it kept trying to use my home …

Nov 20, 2024: Kalapana before the 1984 lava flow

Nov 20, 2024: Changed my Guardian app to the UK edition.

Nov 20, 2024: The AMEX algorithm isn’t paying attention. I’ve never been to Las Vegas and never been to New York. They keep sending me dining and entertainment …

Nov 20, 2024: I have subscribed to a number of current events newsletters for a few year now from sources that I trust. I’m pausing them all. I don’t want to …

Nov 20, 2024: Younger people, if you don’t get to the Doctor often or have good relationships with you Doctor, here’s something I started in my 30s and still do. …

Nov 19, 2024: Ok Marvel. I get it. The multiverse means no one really dies. Let’s get on with it

Nov 18, 2024: Watched HighwayMen on Netflix. I enjoyed it. Nice flow. Good to see Costner and Harrelson work together.

Nov 18, 2024: Double standard. When we went on our recent trip to N Cal., my wife’s boss insisted she be available and had to take her work phone. Her boss is now …

Nov 18, 2024: Some of these updates feel like a graphics rich webpage loading on dialup.

Nov 18, 2024: Micro.blog might end up being our safe haven in Trump’s FCC

Nov 18, 2024: My wife said to just watch. When Musk starts getting more attention than Trump. Trump will snap, he has to be top fiddle

Nov 17, 2024: Dublin

Nov 17, 2024: And so it begins anew.

Nov 17, 2024: Watching Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland on PBS. Very powerful.

Nov 17, 2024: Looks like the 72 Dolphins might carry this to their graves.

Nov 17, 2024: Officially created a Sonoma/Petaluma bookmarks folder. My wife has been going through neighborhoods on Google maps. It’s likey still 2+ years away. …

Nov 17, 2024: I remember when politics was more of a fringe subject. Everyone pretty much played fair and politicians more or less behaved. Those that didn’t were …

Nov 16, 2024: I’ve always loved this album. Na Kai ‘Ewalu - the ocean that separates us also ties us together. I had the cassette when it came out and wore it out …

Nov 16, 2024: Trees

Nov 15, 2024: I had read that the critics slammed this album said Charlie Parker had sold out. The Public loved it. Brought a whole new audience into jazz. …

Nov 15, 2024: Just missed it. In Costco on a Friday again

Nov 15, 2024: Finished the last piece of that Costco apple pie

Nov 15, 2024: Great news from the WC insurance adjuster. They’re fine with me going back to work 2 non-successive days for the first week, then see how my shoulder …

Nov 15, 2024: Windy everywhere else on Hawaii Island. But a little too much SES in the direction it’s coming from to clear Hualalai. It did blow out all of the …

Nov 15, 2024: Dreamy music.apple.com/us/album/…

Nov 15, 2024: Zillow’s algorithm is non existent. It keeps showing me $1.2+ million dollar homes. I have never tapped on a home that high and my search is under …

Nov 14, 2024: I’ve been using Netflix for so many years, I would think the algorithm would be better. Guess not

Nov 14, 2024: I think we’ve all seen managers that were promoted to a level of incompetence. Starting to feel the level in incompetency in the Trump government will …

Nov 14, 2024: Was just recalling, when I was a kid, we found a reel to reel tape player and a box of tapes. Among them was Duke Ellington and Louis Armstormg. Lots …

Nov 14, 2024: This morning’s walk brought to you by Thelonious Monk et al music.apple.com/us/album/…

Nov 14, 2024: My wife sent me her cache of pix from our trip. This Italian Restaurant in Santa Rosa was awesome. The house was the James Mason house built in 1876. …

Nov 13, 2024: I think the dems need a fundraising campaign like the one during the campaign to line up the lawyers for the upcoming war.

Nov 13, 2024: This song by Louis Armstrong came out just before the Great Depression. Kind of the mood these days music.apple.com/us/album/…

Nov 13, 2024: Never been a NY guy. I’m west coast and the islands. But NY in the 40s with the jazz and bebop scene must have been exhilarating and amazing and life …

Nov 13, 2024: 20th Century Fox is officially dead. www.inverse.com/entertain…

Nov 13, 2024: Made a pot of chili. Texas style. Coarse ground beef and pork. Thick, no beans.

Nov 13, 2024: Watching Ken Burns Jazz. It speaks of hope, dreams, creativity and possibilities. Things the voting majority of our country just voted away.

Nov 13, 2024: Listening to jazz to stay relaxed.

Nov 13, 2024: Trump’s pre-school

Nov 11, 2024: Need some Astrophysics to figure out how to get Washington DC and Ma-ra-lago closer to a Black hole event horizon.

Nov 11, 2024: Watching “Before” on AppleTV+ with Billy Crystal, 3 episodes in and it keeps getting weirder. I’ll stick with it.

Nov 10, 2024: I guess the Costco holiday connection is the new Wish Book

Nov 10, 2024: My wife and I finished Disclaimer on AppleTV+ last night. Very trippy show, but good at the end.

Nov 9, 2024: This one came back up. It how I feel about the country. It’s not going to be the country that my ancestors fought for in the Virginia Militia.

Nov 9, 2024: I bought this album in my first year of college. Still Love it. 1978 music.apple.com/us/album/…

Nov 9, 2024: Our monthly volunteer effort at the Palamanui Dry Forest reforestation project. My grandson gets school credits, I’m helping restore a dry forest for …

Nov 9, 2024: Kind of annoyed. Our HP printer doesn’t support WPA3 protocol. Luckily our guest network is WPA2/WPA3 so the little printing we actually do is ok. We …

Nov 8, 2024: ★ It Doesn’t End

Nov 8, 2024: My future Daughter in-law floated the idea of starting an Island food plate food truck in Sonoma / Petaluma, if/when we move there. Sounds intriguing. …

Nov 8, 2024: It’s alway humorous when people don’t realize their car isn’t soundproof when they are having an argument over the phone on the car speakers. So glad …

Nov 8, 2024: Wondering if there are any imminent asteroids headed our way. Asking for a friend.

Nov 8, 2024: I guess we’ll find out soon enough if these counties with high immigrant populations who voted red were right These California counties flipped from …

Nov 7, 2024: Oh well. Fasten the seatbelts and wait it out. > How Trump Plans to Upend Immigration

Nov 7, 2024: Been a crappy news week, but we had a lot great pix from our trip, then there’s this. MAGA can’t take these away.

Nov 7, 2024: Watching Civil War again

Nov 7, 2024: Before we went on our trip I was told a number of times that I’ll get to have some real Mexican food. We went to a couple of places that people said …

Nov 7, 2024: We did our bi-annual review of our car and condo insurance policies. Changing both this year. The insurance market is volatile, but we have a good …

Nov 7, 2024: I didn’t do any shopping while in California (my wife did a lot). But I did get this cool shirt at the Charles Shultz museum.

Nov 7, 2024: We basically have 2 months to consolidate and get our affairs in order. Then we just sit and wait to see what they actually plan to due (or cancel), …

Nov 7, 2024: Slept on it. We consolidated our finances during the pandemic. We are more or less 5 years from at least partial retirement. If Social Security is …

Nov 6, 2024: My 2 Step sons voted for Trump. My Wife told them both, we’ll talk about this in 4 years and see if they made your life better and what you got out of …

Nov 6, 2024: Interesting. Hawaii island results. 36% voted Trump. In 1996 27% voted for Bob Dole. Also looking down the ticket, 30% was pretty average for all …

Nov 6, 2024: I’m a white male, with subtext. My family is Italian and Irish immigrants. We were the garbage of the pervious century. I grew up in Hawaii, where I …

Nov 6, 2024: Finally got around to clearing out the old coaxial cables behind our entertainment center

Nov 6, 2024: If you’re a recent immigrant, you have about 2 months to insure your paperwork is in order. Since their actions are totally unpredictable, I’m glad we …

Nov 6, 2024: As this sinks in, I’m less worried about Trump (losing his mind, literally) than I am about Vance and JFKjr. They are just idiots who have no concept …

Nov 6, 2024: Wish we had a Peet’s coffee in Kona

Nov 6, 2024: Seems more plausible.

Nov 6, 2024: Keep hearing people nationwide upset about housing, blaming Biden. I think they have misdirected anger. The Feds messed up the housing market with …

Nov 6, 2024: Our new Mayor, Kimo Almeida, came out of social Services. Sounds a lot like former mayor (and the late) Billy Kenoi. Very similar talking points. The …

Nov 6, 2024: Looking through current numbers, this one surprised me, white Women. Down 1% from Biden. If you look at white Women no college degree it’s worse.

Nov 6, 2024: I guess the core of those big states aren’t ready for a women in charge. It’s happened twice now. I’m a nerd and was a PoliSci minor in Uni. The voter …

Nov 5, 2024: Russian will be so happy.

Nov 5, 2024: Not feeling good. Future looking like Lots of people getting deported. Lots of small businesses closing. Lots of people in government getting fired. …

Nov 5, 2024: I can’t

Nov 5, 2024: My warm set up in California.

Nov 5, 2024: Warm. Very warm

Nov 5, 2024: I remember back when we had 3 or 4 TV stations and every one of them was election coverage. The only way to get away was to go to bed and wait for the …

Nov 5, 2024: Anybody get the new Mac mini? how is it?

Nov 5, 2024: Boy did we dodge it. It was over 100 degrees the week before we were in Sonoma. This week there will be high winds, red flags and possibly power shut …

Nov 5, 2024: Well The Diplomat ended like that. WTF. Now we need to wait a year, if season 3 comes at all

Nov 5, 2024: I voted as soon as we got our ballots a couple of weeks ago. The handful of people I know who are planning on voting for Trump will not likely be …

Nov 5, 2024: Schools are closed on Election Day because polling places were alway at schools. With Hawaii being a vote by mail state, not a single school is being …

Nov 5, 2024: I pretty much got it right with what I packed for the weather on our trip. I haven’t gone to a cooler climate in over 15 years, so there were some …

Nov 5, 2024: Washing our cool weather clothes from the trip. Sweaters, jeans, etc, It is so humid (extra humid from a storm) everything feels damp

Nov 5, 2024: May your Election day not have any hanging chads

Nov 4, 2024: Came home to a flood warning. It cooled it off

Nov 4, 2024: Something can’t find in Kona, but I found Pancetta at a Butcher and cheese shop in Sonoma. I’m tired of substituting the wrong thing in recipes

Nov 4, 2024: I noticed in California on the highways, put on your turn signal to change lanes and 90% of the time people give you a space, even at 75 mph. In …

Nov 4, 2024: We got home it was 87 degrees. It was 46 when we left Santa Rosa this morning

Nov 4, 2024: Almost home

Nov 4, 2024: Almost on our way. It was a busy, but amazing trip

Nov 4, 2024: We drove 585 mile in our 4 days on the ground with pretty much no issues, other than google maps misdirections. The California highways decided to …

Nov 4, 2024: Even tech blogs are talking politics

Nov 4, 2024: Came across a few MAGA people on this trip. The overriding issue seems to be throw out the baby with bath water over immigration. This same issue has …

Nov 3, 2024: My favorite photo of the trip.

Nov 3, 2024: Great last day in Sonoma. Went down to Petaluma for some cruising around and shopping. Lunch on the River. Got to spend much time with granddaughter …

Nov 3, 2024: Coming out of Dick’s Sporting goods today was an older guy in a MAGA hat asking people if they’re voting for Trump. If they said yes he game them …

Nov 3, 2024: We had lunch down by the river, but couldn’t pass up a Five Guys shake.

Nov 3, 2024: Peet’s coffee. Been ordering this via mail order since before the internet

Nov 3, 2024: Final day in N California. Petaluma down by the river

Nov 3, 2024: Had to. No Dunkin where I live.

Nov 2, 2024: The tower from the Flamingo Resort in Sonoma stands above the trees

Nov 2, 2024: At a stop sign heading down a ba k road in Fall

Nov 2, 2024: TGI Fridays files for bankruptcy Sad. my career started with Fridays in Honolulu in 1980. I went to one in 2023 in Corona CA and it was way different. Smaller menu, crowded layout, …

Nov 2, 2024: The 100 year old Redwood preserved in the court yard of the Charles Shultz museum adjacent to the great pumpkin patch.

Nov 2, 2024: Old Sonoma town. The fort from the mid 1800s. State park

Nov 2, 2024: When in California…

Nov 2, 2024: Tho wall is made up on individual comics. So cool

Nov 2, 2024: Charles Shultz museum was way cool. At least for a boomer

Nov 2, 2024: Laundry in a Hispanic neighborhood. Good feeling in this place. Just regular people. The washers at the hotel were just dirty.

Nov 1, 2024: A weather system moved through, but not till AFTER we saw the Coppola Winery

Nov 1, 2024: One big difference driving at night in Sonoma vs driving at night on Hawaii Island. The lane reflectors in Sonoma are only in the middle of the road, …

Nov 1, 2024: The winery suggested Ca’Bianca in Santa Rosa for lunch. Italian. It was amazing. Top notch service. Fresh food. Homemade pasta. A very good Barolo.

Nov 1, 2024: Our tasting flight today

Nov 1, 2024: St Francis Winery. A little nippy, but beautiful. The grapes left after harvest are so sweet. Syrah grapes

Nov 1, 2024: Happened upon Sonoma Bagel and Deli. Fresh everything. The owner is an older Chinese guy. A steady flow of regulars. The owner knows everyone. A …

Nov 1, 2024: Our room view includes the 101 freeway, but also the Sonoma mountains.

Nov 1, 2024: This is rough. Kona is mostly in the 80s

Oct 31, 2024: Beautiful drive this morning heading west down Bohemian Highway then along the Russian River to the sea. Didn’t get pix through the redwood forest or …

Oct 31, 2024: Had a blast at a Halloween event in Sonoma with step son and his family. My wife and Granddaughter (Raggedy Ann)

Oct 31, 2024: Don’t see trees changing colors in Hawaii

Oct 31, 2024: Tri-Tip Trolley. Sonoma Halloween

Oct 31, 2024: We went down to see where the Russian Rover meets the sea. There was a Halloween paddle out at Jenner. Amazing views. The air was crisp and clear.

Oct 31, 2024: We made it Sausalito. My wife is happy. Made good on a screw up by her ex 25 years ago @JohnPhilpin

Oct 31, 2024: Got out of Santa Rosa early. 48 degrees (was 84 when we left Kona). Went through Sebastapol then stopped at Howard’s cafe in Occidental. Foggy …

Oct 30, 2024: My wife is from North Dakota. I assumed she would know what to pack for weather in the 40s and 50s. She did not. Must have forgot. I’m from Hawaii and …

Oct 30, 2024: N California showed is other side. Traffic coming North from Oakland Airport was brutal. It was gridlock through Berkeley

Oct 30, 2024: How apropos. I watched the Dodgers win the World Series sitting in an In-N-Out burger in Santa Rosa California

Oct 30, 2024: Many triathletes at the airport this morning. Lots of bikes at baggage check

Oct 30, 2024: Up an hour + early. Packing for N California is more stuff than packing for O’ahu. Long pants, not shorts. More layers. This is the first trip in a …

Oct 29, 2024: Now come all of the complaints about what the new Mac Mini ISN’T. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. My first “home” Mac was a Mac Mini in 2006 and …

Oct 29, 2024: Hope the Dodgers close it out today. We land just after game time tomorrow, so if they play tomorrow, I’ll need to find it on the radio on the drive …

Oct 29, 2024: Army men in the concrete

Oct 29, 2024: The new Mac Mini looks hot. Will likey wait until after the new year. This setup won’t work anymore 9to5mac.com/2024/10/2…

Oct 29, 2024: One to go

Oct 29, 2024: The Dodger cups are out this morning

Oct 28, 2024: A little late drama, but Dodgers up 3-nil. Bullpen game tomorrow

Oct 28, 2024: When we planned this trip, we really needed it to be at the end of Oct , but my wife did not want to be traveling on the voting day. There’s so much …

Oct 28, 2024: I kind of expect to be a Senior for the rest of my lifetime, I guess it’s official now.

Oct 28, 2024: So the planet is edging further into… Scientists have discovered that Earth’s carbon sinks are not really carbon sinking at the moment

Oct 28, 2024: Whenever we go to Costco, I slow down by the pumpkin pie. My wife always say no, and we move on. Last week she finally said yes. With the help of my …

Oct 28, 2024: Bummer. They are so entertaining Erik ten Hag sacked by Manchester United: news and reaction – live

Oct 27, 2024: As I’ve gotten older, I get to the airport early and just take my sweet time

Oct 27, 2024: Shift gears it’s been all baseball with a sprinkling of college football for the past couple of weeks. The Arsenal is back n action #UpTheArs

Oct 27, 2024: Just heard thunder in Kona at 6 am. Haven’t heard that in while

Oct 26, 2024: This is fun. Here’s a screen shot from the stream of the race helicopter shot with me taking a photo of the eventual race winner. Patrick Lange. It’s …

Oct 26, 2024: The eventual winner of the Ironman Kona, Patrick Lange of Germany passed us on Alii Drive in 2nd place. He won in a new course record time of 7:35:53

Oct 26, 2024: They tried to come from ahead to lose. Almost did it.

Oct 26, 2024: In the early days of Twitter I made a lot of great connections with people from around the world. Over the subsequent years people fell away for …

Oct 26, 2024: Texas should win today after last week’s debacle, but you never know.

Oct 26, 2024: We did a lap downtown. Got our fill of Ironman before it gets really crowded. We’ll likely go out to Alii Drive when the runners go by. We’ll hear the …

Oct 26, 2024: Back stage at the finish line.

Oct 26, 2024: The sequence goes down the run finish chute.

Oct 25, 2024: C’mon Dogs, walk off. That’s all

Oct 25, 2024: We have to keep our Amazon account, on Hawaii Island we have less choices, we are using it a lot less though. Canceled my Washington Post account last …

Oct 25, 2024: A year ago switched to direct fiber internet. At the time also redid our home network. New router, Direct ethernet to high demand devices, 2 AppleTV, …

Oct 24, 2024: A little aged

Oct 24, 2024: Should have an update coming.

Oct 24, 2024: Road closed 1/4 mile ahead

Oct 24, 2024: In Hawaii we’ve had women for County Councils, Mayors, Governor as well as many many other top government posts. A woman has turned around the …

Oct 24, 2024: There’s a cat 4 Hurricane in the Pacific that apparently is just going fizzle away to a cluster of rain by the time it’s in our neighborhood

Oct 23, 2024: Next week we’re going to Santa Rosa for a short trip to see family. We have 1 3/4 days to play. My wife really wants to go to Sausalito, I’m leaning …

Oct 23, 2024: Got $5 Starbucks cards for the flight attendants on our trip to America (Sonoma) next week

Oct 23, 2024: Is there an algorithm to block all political ads that are shown to me once my ballot is sent in?

Oct 23, 2024: I hope Hawaii island does something about this. It’s danger for everyone. I see them regularly blow stop signs and I have to dodge them on my regular …

Oct 22, 2024: Ironman week. Here a load bussing downtown for the parade. Lots of cyclists zooming by.

Oct 22, 2024: Lots surfers out at Banyans for the meager choice of waves.

Oct 22, 2024: Still holding out for the new Mac Mini. If it’s truly that small, it can go anywhere.

Oct 21, 2024: Did update and tried the hearing test. Had change the tip. Sound was leaking. Took about 10 min. I little no loss. My wife might disagree. Not bad for …

Oct 21, 2024: We had about 6 month of fresh white peaches at Kona Costco. That season is officially over. Back to fresh Apples with my breakfast. Winter cold …

Oct 20, 2024: 4 more wins. #Dodgers.

Oct 20, 2024: Yard!

Oct 20, 2024: Any further debate would be simply wasting our breath. And if there’s one thing I can’t abide, it’s waste.- Varga

Oct 19, 2024: It’s not an excuse and we’re catching up. But in my early career (1st 20 years) in the restaurant business, there was no such thing as a retirement …

Oct 18, 2024: My Dad always said this is a right and a responsibility. He used to say of you enjoy the freedoms, then exorcise your right. When we were kids, he …

Oct 18, 2024: Took my car into the dealer for service. Stopped for a cup of coffee Joe before walking home.

Oct 18, 2024: Pele is getting restless again

Oct 18, 2024: You know the whole body soreness, the morning after you compete in an athletic event? For me it was the morning after paddling in the Molokai to O`ahu …

Oct 17, 2024: My wife is a germ phobe. I’m the opposite. I embrace germs. She gets sick pretty often. I rarely get sick. Not sure if that’s the reason, but if I …

Oct 16, 2024: We finally saw it, and a near full moon. Halloween style

Oct 16, 2024: The 11.1 update has been killing my Apple Watch battery. Getting little more than 12 hours. Turned off Live Activities, which I like, to see if that …

Oct 16, 2024: I keep getting emails from places I dropped resumes for GM or high level F&B positions 3 and 4 years ago before I dropped out of management. I could …

Oct 16, 2024: Cruise ship day in Kona. The pier in Kona isn’t big enough for large ships, so they anchor offshore and a steady flow of tenders ferry passengers to …

Oct 16, 2024: The Ironman is in a week and half. They’re here

Oct 16, 2024: Package from Amazon had this tag

Oct 15, 2024: The truck I had when I moved to Hawaii island. ‘85 P’up. Ended up with 200k+ miles. Wish I still had it. I had a cassette player, at some point I …

Oct 15, 2024: Went out to look for the comet. There was one big cloud where we think it should be. But we did see the almost full moon

Oct 15, 2024: Made potato, bacon and Parmesan quiche. Haven’t made quiche in ages. Came out yummy.

Oct 15, 2024: Happiness is a well seasoned French steel sauté pan

Oct 15, 2024: When we were kids politicians would walk the neighborhoods and knock on doors in election years. There was a Hawaii State senator name Steve Cobb that …

Oct 15, 2024: I remember buying this at Borders Books and Recordz in about ‘93. Still love it

Oct 15, 2024: When Southwest came into Hawaii Market, it was a breath of fresh air. Hawaiian’s fares had been creeping since Aloha shut down. It made the short …

Oct 14, 2024: 1960 music.apple.com/us/album/…

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Oct 14, 2024: Thank you #ESPN for expanding my cultural horizons and making MNF in Spanish my only option because I don’t have cable.

Oct 14, 2024: Looking at restaurants around our hotel in Santa Rosa for our trip. 25 restaurants in 15 min radius. 18 are Mexican. When in Rome…

Oct 14, 2024: My brain in now broken. Just listened to a podcast about post quantum gravity and random noise in the gravitational field.

Oct 14, 2024: Dodger stadium in for a day game is beautiful

Oct 14, 2024: I don’t believe the election polls. They’ll never get a proper crosssection. Not sure people in South Central LA are getting polled. Data can be …

Oct 14, 2024: #Dodgers The Cleveland Indians beat the Brooklyn Robins 5 games - 2. If Cleveland can beat the Yankees it long overdue to get even. In that series the …

Oct 13, 2024: I’ve been off since June 5 with my work shoulder injury and the subsequent surgery. I’ve watched more baseball and other sports than any time in my …

Oct 13, 2024: I saved this fern from near death four years ago. Repotted it twice. Here it is 2 years ago and now. I love laua’e.

Oct 13, 2024: Dodgers last 1/3 of the order producing.

Oct 13, 2024: We decided to stay home and watch the stream. Those banquet chairs didn’t sound very inviting for 4 hours. I recall seeing the Slack Key Festival on …

Oct 13, 2024: She’ll Va’a from Tahiti killed everyone. Wailea a ways back #MolokaiHoe

Oct 13, 2024: I think the Texas Longhorns could beat the Cowboys

Oct 13, 2024: Think that maybe Jerry Jones should go build a rocket like the other rich guys and launch himself into space and leave the Cowboys alone

Oct 13, 2024: We were planning on going to the 27th Slack Key Festival Kona Festival this afternoon, but I discovered they’re supposed to stream it. We may just …

Oct 13, 2024: The morning coffee is not quite doing its job. Need an additional kick

Oct 12, 2024: Man City will sue the league into bankruptcy and out of existence. Then their owners will walk away and move to the next thing. Apocalypse now: City …

Oct 12, 2024: Personally, I like this better. I can’t keep track of where the stadiums are via sponsor names. I just look at who is playing World Cup 2026 stadiums …

Oct 12, 2024: This photo shows one of the trails we were widening, the fountain grass is invasive. Beyond the grass is the Palamanui college campus with its solar …

Oct 12, 2024: There is a demarcation line where the fountain grass ends and the dry forest begins. This is where the war is taking place between the wild goats and …

Oct 12, 2024: Oregon tried to lose with all of the mistakes, but OSU made bigger mistake at the end. Gotta love the college game.

Oct 12, 2024: WTF, 91 degrees in Kona town in mid October.

Oct 12, 2024: I love the rivalries of College football. Texas didn’t take too kindly to last year’s Oklahoma trash talking. Kept the starters in the prevent a late …

Oct 12, 2024: Not scientific, but I think Cleveland has a better chance against the Yankees

Oct 12, 2024: My Grandson and I volunteered at the Palamanui Reforestation projects. We planted indigenous trees and helped clear a trail working its way mauka to …

Oct 12, 2024: If you know, you know

Oct 12, 2024: All of the teams left in the MLB playoffs have a history with the Dodgers going back to Brooklyn except the Mets. So we need to eliminate them.

Oct 11, 2024: For the Dodger pitching being the weak point, they held San Diego to 0 runs in 24 innings

Oct 11, 2024: 2- nil to the Dodgers. Bring on the Mets

Oct 11, 2024: 5 inning clean sheet from Yamamoto is more than I expected. 1-nil to the Dodgers.

Oct 11, 2024: I kinda of think home field/pitch advantage is not as meaningful in MLB as it is in Premier League football

Oct 11, 2024: Weekend shopping done. Making Taco Bell Mexican pizzas tomorrow and bacon and potato quiche Sunday. Made roasted garlic and crew cheese spread today. …

Oct 11, 2024: Took this photo in 2005 right after we moved into our house in Waimea. Walked back to the pastures to take it. One of my faves. This was the view out …

Oct 11, 2024: Familiarity breed contempt. Go Blue

Oct 11, 2024: Pete Hendricks wrote this in 2011. I took this photo in 2020. Paniau is at the south side of Puako and before this was built there were “Save Paniau” …

Oct 11, 2024: I know I know I know I know I know I know … music.apple.com/us/album/…

Oct 11, 2024: We need to beat them so resoundingly that there is no doubt in American’s minds Vance, Given 5 Chances to Say Trump Lost in 2020, Takes None - The New …

Oct 11, 2024: Fisherman Kona.

Oct 11, 2024: I know the tale about the fork in road, but don’t recall one about the fork on the rock.

Oct 11, 2024: Out for a morning walk. There are some high wispy clouds, but the best thing this morning is the stronger than normal on short thermals.

Oct 11, 2024: Appears to be some weather on the horizon. Busy weekend planned. The Hamakua Sugar Days Festival - celebrating 30 years since the Mill’s closing. …

Oct 10, 2024: Interesting when I get an email from an app/service that I don’t recall using that is shutting down and I can download my data.

Oct 8, 2024: A little unfair that Trump don’t do a 60 minutes interview. All of the focus is on Harris. Trump would have done poorly and leveled the press …

Oct 7, 2024: As we’re still using fans and A/C in October, was recalling when we lived in Waimea in 2006 and had an electric blanket and a down comforter and it …

Oct 6, 2024: Decided I’m not going to pay for the Croissant app just yet. Waiting to see if My Micro.blog Threads cross posting gets fixed and/or what Tapestry …

Oct 4, 2024: Bringing everything home. A few years ago I downloaded all of my files and cancelled Dropbox, last year I installed Google drive on my Mac, moved all …

Oct 3, 2024: Still getting error with Threads cross posting, nothing showing in the Threads/IG for me to accept. And not my help page is on hold since Sept 2 @help …

Oct 2, 2024: Going to play with Croissant since cross posting to threads isn’t a thing yet

Oct 2, 2024: The garbage can bangers are out. Hehehe Tigers rally in 8th, knock off Astros to advance

Oct 1, 2024: Can’t cheer for the Fathers. I’m a Dodger fan

Oct 1, 2024: Looking at a DNA heat map. Shows where my migration is strongest in N. America. Matches our family tree, which means it’s accurate. If you’ve worked …

Oct 1, 2024: 1st cousin 2x removed. 3% shared DNA. Could be anyone

Oct 1, 2024: Haven’t received an email like since the one from the Nigerian Prince. My financial problems are solved

Oct 1, 2024: To turn off subtitles a the Paramount AppleTV app: Turn off subtitles, then exit the app and go back in. Annoying

Sep 30, 2024: I remember when the AOR station, KIKI in Honolulu used to play this every year on Thanksgiving and typically once twice additional times and year on a …

Sep 30, 2024: Tetanus vaccine. Because of my age. Go ahead, more needles. It’s like I’m a kid again

Sep 30, 2024: We’ll see if this works

Sep 30, 2024: Since I’ve haven’t been able to get cross posting to Threads working, I end up posting directly there and having the conversations on threads.

Sep 30, 2024: Already downloaded all of my data. Guess it time to delete my account If 23andMe is up for sale, so is all that DNA - The Atlantic

Sep 30, 2024: Not a cloud in the sky or a whisp of a wind on a macro level. But down on the ground walking in Alii Drive, there’s enough of a themal offshore breeze …

Sep 29, 2024: Love these older shows made for TV, they come to streaming have 1-2 second gaps where commercials were

Sep 28, 2024: ‘Bama is killing Georgia - that’s all

Sep 28, 2024: The land had warmed to a point that we are fully engulfed in a brisk onshore breeze. Beach umbrella beware

Sep 28, 2024: Very calm at Hapuna. Got here early. Light thermal off shore breeze. The fresher trade wind boosted winds should kick in shortly.

Sep 28, 2024: Jeff Glor laid off from CBS. He was the face of CBS Saturday morning. My wife had that on every Saturday. She said she’s won’t watch it anymore. …

Sep 27, 2024: I’m an ESPN+ subscriber through the Disney package. I don’t get the business reason to not allow me to see SportsCenter without a cable contract. I …

Sep 27, 2024: Not a single major insurance company offers on-line home owner insurance quotes for our zip code in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. We have a policy and just …

Sep 27, 2024: Every time Trump says the word “cheat” substitute the work “vote” and it makes more sense.

Sep 26, 2024: In the Dr office. Noticed the wooden patient bed. Wonder if these are a durable as the old metal ones, or just considered disposable

Sep 26, 2024: I’m an old nerd. Always had more than adequate computers. I use my iPhone 80% of the time now. Use my Mac now and then and iPad for streaming. Will …

Sep 25, 2024: Radio shack archive. I loved radio shack. When I was a kid, I would go to Radio Shack in Ala Moana center with my Dad. We had so many projects. Amps, …

Sep 25, 2024: I’ve been doing all kinds of things to slow down aging. Making sure I get plenty of sleep, eating as good as is practical. I take vitamins, keep my …

Sep 25, 2024: Everything in the media and social media is about GenX. I guess us Boomers really are dead and don’t know it.

Sep 25, 2024: Still fallout from pandemic. Nurses and lots of Hotel workers on strike, mostly due to lower work levels set during pandemic and not changed when …

Sep 24, 2024: We can’t solve these age old religious wars. The US is the first country to separate government and religion, none of these others have. We can’t let …

Sep 24, 2024: Turns out Denver is not blacked out for west coast MLB baseball like Hawaii. 😎

Sep 24, 2024: Apple Care I stay pretty loyal to Apple, hearing other stories I guess I’ve been very lucky with Apple Care. Many moons ago I had a 13" MB Pro and Cinema …

Sep 24, 2024: A lot of hotel managers got early phone calls telling them all days off are cancelled TFN www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/09/2…

Sep 24, 2024: Magic sands beach. The sand is magically back.

Sep 23, 2024: It unfortunate. We have 2 Sonos speakers and a soundbar. Will look at a HomePod when it’s time to replace the speakers. They’ve lost my confidence, …

Sep 23, 2024: I kept getting a failure when trying to update to MacOS 15.1. Tried the developer and public betas. Tried the App Store version. Every time it hung up …

Sep 23, 2024: I love episode IV when Obi-Wan gets his Jedi verve back

Sep 23, 2024: This activist investor will make it bad for Hawaii’s local people. finance.yahoo.com/news/sout…

Sep 23, 2024: Go back to watch Obi-Wan Kenobi

Sep 23, 2024: The holy grail

Sep 22, 2024: Talking with my wife this morning, we don’t know whether to believe any of the polls. Trump’s base won’t budge no matter what he lies about or who …

Sep 22, 2024: Safely downloaded all of 23&me data before they crash and burn.

Sep 21, 2024: I believe this is called “Raining Cats and Dogs”. As opposed to “Eating” cats and dogs

Sep 21, 2024: mitigatingchaos.wordpress.com/2024/09/1…

Sep 21, 2024: The Texas Longhorns are a juggernaut. Arch Manning got the right genetics.

Sep 21, 2024: Waimea Aloha Week Paniolo parade and Ho’olaulea. So great seeing so many people out in Waimea. First time they’ve held the event in 6 years and the …

Sep 21, 2024: I’ve been off of work for almost 5 months since my shoulder injury. 3 months since surgery. The end is in sight. Looks like about 6 weeks of rehab …

Sep 21, 2024: Next up will be to delete another round of IOS apps

Sep 21, 2024: Spent a couple of hours cleaning up bookmarks. Moving between and trying new browsers created bloat. Still have to delete some from former employer …

Sep 20, 2024: How did I not know about Gangs of London on Netflix. Lots of angles and groups at war.

Sep 20, 2024: My Arc browser experiment is over. I don’t use many of the fringe features. Been using the Orion browser with Kagi search concurrently. Just going to …

Sep 20, 2024: Here’s Kona

Sep 20, 2024: When people around the world see a stunning volcanic eruption, people in Kona see volcanic haze covering Hualalai. Definitely not going for a walk …

Sep 20, 2024: Entropy I love it when other scientists figure what quantum physicists have known. Cold things warm faster than warm things. entropy

Sep 19, 2024: We just had our largest electric bill since…ever. The heat has been rough in Kona

Sep 19, 2024: Going to Costco at 5 in the afternoon reminds me that evolution has not been kind to everyone

Sep 19, 2024: My new Lock Screen

Sep 19, 2024: It’s not fair. Glad I’m a #Dodger fan. www.mlb.com/news/shoh…

Sep 19, 2024: I still have one Bose Wave Music systems III. Works like new. Had radio and a CD player. I also have the Sound Touch pedestal base that links to WIFI. …

Sep 19, 2024: I’ve always thought space travel was one of the wonders of our age, but the billionaires have bastardized it. Space X in particular had filled our sky …

Sep 19, 2024: Had to turn off Beta updates my My MBAir. Constant error messages trying to update to 15.1. Updated fine on M1 MacMini

Sep 19, 2024: 15 hours?

Sep 19, 2024: Making fresh scratch (except for the pasta part) lasagna today. Starting the sauce shortly. Have fresh saudsage from the Waimea butcher shop and fresh …

Sep 18, 2024: If this pans out, I may just be getting a new Mac Mini as play Machine. My M1 is doing fine as a home server

Sep 18, 2024: The art wall. @crossingthethreshold

Sep 18, 2024: Still looking but this one said Hana Road 1968 on the back My Dad painted and took a lot of photos to paint later. @crossingthethreshold

Sep 18, 2024: I forgot Picasa

Sep 18, 2024: The storage and photo apps I’ve used through the years. Dump Truck, Copy, Everpix, Bitcasa to name a few.

Sep 18, 2024: Yep

Sep 17, 2024: Trump

Sep 17, 2024: I keep forgetting that HBO has BR Sports. They have the TNT live sports.

Sep 17, 2024: The volcano woke up. Hope it’s a short one USGS: Kilauea eruption resumes, volcano alert raised to ‘watch’ www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/09/1…

Sep 16, 2024: Just showed up. Post is slow from the UK to Hawaii. Lots of good reading coming

Sep 16, 2024: Well. Because I don’t have cable, ESPN only let me watch MNF in Spanish. Different. Touchdown is touchdown in Spanish. They should say Goooooaaaaal

Sep 16, 2024: Watching Revenge of the Sith - the quote “This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause” sure feels like MAGA. George Lucas knew something

Sep 16, 2024: Having an argument with someone on Threads about English footballl historic stats. He’s a Man City fan. I post something, he says it’s a lie, I post …

Sep 15, 2024: Why do I not think this is a set up. Especially after the miraculously healed ear. Suspect in custody after apparent Trump assassination attempt at …

Sep 15, 2024: The company my wife has worked for that last 11 years is discontinuing their pension at the end of the year. We’ll find out early next year what she …

Sep 15, 2024: Watched a lot of college football yesterday and watched some pro games today. I still feel college is a lot more fun.

Sep 15, 2024: The challenge I have when searching photos is a few years ago I scanned a bucket load of analog photos so the meta data is all on the day I scanned …

Sep 14, 2024: We don’t see a lot of these in Kona

Sep 14, 2024: The movie Civil War is plausible in the current political climate

Sep 14, 2024: It’s not over yet, but Georgia likely just saved their #1 ranking, barely, whereas #2 Texas Won 56-7

Sep 14, 2024: I think targeting rule in college football is being misapplied. It’s like a red card in football. 15 yards and out of the game. Harsh if it’s in the …

Sep 14, 2024: My wife went on my morning walk with me this morning. I usually listen to podcasts on the 3-4 mile walk. She talked the entire walk and spent half of …

Sep 14, 2024: Flu shot yesterday. No issues to report 😎

Sep 14, 2024: I’ve never seen defensive delay of game. Love college football for seeing something new

Sep 14, 2024: So Carolina lost to LSU on penalties. Having a 100 yard interception run back for a touchdown called back for roughing the passer was a back breaker. …

Sep 14, 2024: My wife & her ex bought at timeshare condo in Hawaii 30 years ago. They had 7 days to cancel. She said during that 7 days they got flowers & free …

Sep 13, 2024: Proud Alumni Wall Street Journal: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa one of nation’s best colleges

Sep 13, 2024: I keep finding that Trump supporters can’t say why they support him. They start talking down Dems with Trump talking points. I can make a list off the …

Sep 13, 2024: In the latest iOS updates I no longer get sports scores in notifications. They started showing up in an earlier beta. What beta can giveth, beta can …

Sep 13, 2024: I have a 15gb data plan on my phone. It’s never been an issue. Usually around 7-10gb usage. Last month I went way over, 25gb. I think the Beta was …

Sep 12, 2024: Turned on Amazon Prime NFL out of curiosity. The picture quality is crap. Went out to a movie on prime to see if it was same. No issues with the …

Sep 12, 2024: Haven’t watched this in a very long time. It was genius.

Sep 12, 2024: Still trying to wrap my head around a “concept of a plan”. I keep coming back to “ do or do not, there is no try”

Sep 12, 2024: Anotherer shooting in Hawaii. Mahalo SCOTUS

Sep 12, 2024: 82 degrees and 76 % humidity at 4:30 am. Gonna be a hot one.

Sep 11, 2024: He seems to get it. Hope so. I miss having a reliable 3rd place in my life. …

Sep 11, 2024: Had a conversation with my physical therapist this morning about the debate. He’s 30 something with a young baby. We agreed that the only way to get …

Sep 11, 2024: Have to agree about the camera button. Maybe put all of that on a Pro phone. I think of my Wife. She likely more of an average user than me. I’m sure …

Sep 11, 2024: Saved this plant from my neighbors front porch. Gonna try to nurse it back to health. Not sure exactly what it is yet

Sep 11, 2024: Robert Downey jr. / Jose Garcia. Pretty darned close

Sep 11, 2024: Reading what Starbucks is looking for in their new CEO. They have gone to great lengths to improve the take-out experience at expense of Dine (or …

Sep 11, 2024: Funny, just before buying something my Mom would not approve of, my Dad would say “if you want something bad enough, you’ll find a way to justify it”. …

Sep 10, 2024: Guess i’m on a kick. Watched Midway yesterday. Watching U-571 today.

Sep 10, 2024: It’s been said this country was built by immigrants. When my Irish ancestors came, we were the new ones and were looked down on, when my Italian …

Sep 10, 2024: For the record. We don’t claim Tulsi Gabbard.

Sep 10, 2024: When my boss asks about my dinner special, if I say I have a concept of a plan, he’d laugh me off the line. WTF are you making?

Sep 10, 2024: Is it me, or has Trump NOT answered a single question?

Sep 10, 2024: I follow a few Republican/Right RSS feeds just have a glimpse of what they’re saying. Crickets today

Sep 10, 2024: Yep

Sep 10, 2024: Interesting. My download Apple Music Match folder has 13k+ songs. Interesting that it scooped up all of the MP3s in the upload folder back then. I …

Sep 10, 2024: Classic. Supposed to be first cover in 167 years with no headline

Sep 10, 2024: Been thinking about it al lot. I’m an old nerd. I would only look forward to AI on the fringes. A better Siri like assistant. Be better at finding …

Sep 10, 2024: My dream restaurant. No staff, simple menu, low overhead. Just need location, location, location.

Sep 10, 2024: Guess I made the right choice getting AirPod Pro 2 a couple of months ago

Sep 10, 2024: The AM news says it’s absolutely beautiful, not a cloud in the sky, light winds. What they don’t say is it feels like you’re “seven inches from the …

Sep 10, 2024: Can we please have Pete Buttigieg debate anyone from the right. Anyone

Sep 9, 2024: I must be getting old. I’m finding a lot to watch on PBS

Sep 9, 2024: Done

Sep 9, 2024: Field of Dreams Famous Baseball Film Song

Sep 9, 2024: Anxiously awaiting the quote on a 3 room split A/C system for our condo. He came last week to look around and crawl around the attic. We’re hoping …

Sep 9, 2024: I still haven’t seen Apple Intelligence on my eligible devices. They are on the latest Beta

Sep 9, 2024: All the media wants from the debate is drama and a story. Remember Kamala at the convention, no mistakes, stayed in her lane. Need that tomorrow

Sep 9, 2024: Every Apple Device I have is space gray. I guess that goes away

Sep 9, 2024: Watching the movie Midway. Epic. Just because. I remember when this was being filmed on Oahu.

Sep 9, 2024: Cool new iPhone. As originally planned, my iPhone 13 Pro still does what I need. Maybe next year

Sep 9, 2024: Nice AirPods. My AirPod Pro 2 are OK for a while. Don’t have significant hear loss.

Sep 9, 2024: Nice watch. My 9 is ok for another year

Sep 9, 2024: Immigration seems to be the top of the news every day. Nobody I know is worried about immigration. The majority of the immigrants in Hawaii are …

Sep 8, 2024: Backed Tapestry Don’t have the beta. Got the new Reeder. Taking for a drive. Need to devot ed some time. Out of the shoot we think some Quick Look …

Sep 8, 2024: The early beta broke Notes for me. Jumped through a lot of hoops to try to get it working. I was using notes multiple times a day so I moved to Bear …

Sep 8, 2024: I’ve had Google Photos on my phone for years because photo search was way better than Apple Photos. I think Apple had caught up or at least close …

Sep 7, 2024: Here we go, here’s those crème puffs. They came out great. My grandson was fully engaged. Explained to the chemistry and physics of the process as we …

Sep 7, 2024: I like college football, but love Baseball. Ray and Orioles on ESPN+. Love a ball game on a Saturday

Sep 7, 2024: This Ok St (16) v Arkansas game is going to double OT. Oklahoma St is showing glimpses of quality, but not dominant at all

Sep 6, 2024: Seeing NFL fans upset about games being on streaming services. I’m laughing. I’m an English Premier League, Italian Series A and German Bundesliga …

Sep 6, 2024: Can’t wait to watch this kenburns.com/films/the…

Sep 5, 2024: Don’t we enough crap in orbit already? Starlink competitor AST SpaceMobile plans orbital launch for next week

Sep 5, 2024: My 13 yo grandson informed us that he wants to make cream puffs this weekend. He sure is aiming high. We’ll get it done. Luckily I have all of the …

Sep 5, 2024: Watching Ken Burns Thomas Jefferson. In this time of nasty politics and those who question the constitution I feel a need to go back and reconnect …

Sep 4, 2024: Who needs to vote this year…

Sep 4, 2024: Maybe we can send Elon next time

Sep 4, 2024: Watching “Hawaiian - The Legend of Eddie Aikau” on History Channel via Disney. I knew the basics of his story, we all knew it growing up, but …

Sep 4, 2024: Next year I will have been using Microsoft Excel for 40 years. Used Lotus123 side by side with Excel until Excel 2.0 which added spreadsheet …

Sep 4, 2024: Wow. The White Sox are generationally bad. Is their ownership that detached?

Sep 3, 2024: I recall an era way back when, before the internet when the NYT and the WSJ were real and trusted journalism. Journalism is in a dystopian era

Sep 3, 2024: Why are we backing this guy? Netanyahu refuses to budge on war in Gaza despite protests over hostages - Bloomberg

Sep 2, 2024: Watching the previous seasons of Slow Horses ahead of season 4

Sep 2, 2024: My wife has a massive aversion to heat and humidity. She’s from N. Dakota and a decade Minn., plus an age factor. I have a greater tolerance, I grew …

Sep 2, 2024: This is a photo I took of the Holulea sailing canoe on June 15, 1999 shortly after departing from Hilo Bay on the voyage to Rapa Nui. Their first stop …

Sep 2, 2024: I never did get what a Labor Day sale is. Maybe if you’re selling tools for labor If it’s an end of summer sales for a summer brand and you want it …

Sep 2, 2024: Trump’s camp just wants to muddy the waters so much that voters just get frustrated and sit out the election.

Sep 2, 2024: Testing something. Not sure what. Just testing.

Sep 2, 2024: You just lived through the most humid summer on record We purchased a stand alone dehumidifier this spring to augment our 3 window A/Cs & to not have …

Sep 1, 2024: Watched the Napoleon Directors Cut. It’s long. He should stuck an appropriately timed intermission in there.

Aug 31, 2024: Was just looking up the 2 TGI Fridays that I managed in So Cal in the early 80s. Torrance and Marina Del Rey. They are both closed. They were both …

Aug 31, 2024: This is a great drone shot from earlier. Race is winding down. There were 224 men’s crews. The finished crews are making their way into Kamakahonu …

Aug 31, 2024: The Netflix algorithm is broken. For sometime, they show me ‘things I might like" in a genre and style that I have never watched and no interest in. …

Aug 31, 2024: Lies lies lies …

Aug 31, 2024: A crew from Germany in Kona this week.

Aug 31, 2024: Beautiful day to watch a canoe race, pretty warm out on the water. I did this race for 20 years before I blew out my shoulder

Aug 31, 2024: I will likely get the M4 smaller Mac mini is thy keep an array of ports. If not, they will have changed the target audience.

Aug 31, 2024: When we bought my wife’s new Subaru, we bought the remote start feature. Game changer on a hot day (which is every day)

Aug 31, 2024: I wish we had a fully functional Taco Bell in Kona. The one in Kona never recovered from the pandemic. Never know when they’re open or if they’re …

Aug 31, 2024: I’m seeing what I guess are very good use cases for AI. Writing code or finding complex strings of text, mathematical equations, etc. I don’t really …

Aug 30, 2024: I’m on my 4th Mac mini. The first my desktop Mac, the other as home servers. It has ample ports to hang extra drives of it and enough onboard memory …

Aug 30, 2024: No consequences when flip flops later, which he will. Trump says he’ll support free IVF treatments in a second term

Aug 30, 2024: The media is like our parents and tells us what THEY think we should hear rather than letting us just listen for ourselves

Aug 30, 2024: I just want the app to recognize which speaker is actually active and not try to get me play something on one that’s not. Sonos made a public Trello …

Aug 29, 2024: I go to the pool where we live for aqua therapy 2-3 times a week I injured my lower back 25 years ago and pain came back earlier this year. Floating …

Aug 29, 2024: I remember learning this back in PoliSci in college. “Most” President candidates move to the center to get elected then go back to their parties base …

Aug 29, 2024: We are going to N California (Sonoma) in late October. I don’t own a sweater any more, it’s hot here. Going to treat myself to one of these. I have a …

Aug 29, 2024: They’re grasping. A lot of effort to prove or disprove a footnote. I worked a local fast food place while in school for about 9 months. I don’t think …

Aug 28, 2024: Done Hawaii drivers can now put their license in Apple Wallet

Aug 28, 2024: We need to let Ukraine fire missiles into Russia. Tactical targets. Russia fires on civilians. Ukraine can take the high road but still get the job …

Aug 26, 2024: My Apple Music Purchased music playlist has over 3000 songs. Not sure if this was from before I subscribed to Apple Music. Seems like a lot, but it …

Aug 26, 2024: Really love SToK cold brewed for an afternoon. Kick. Easier than heating up water to brew a cup of Joe.

Aug 26, 2024: I haven’t watched a presidential debate in forever, if at all. Harris v Trump and Walz v Vance would be must see TV.

Aug 26, 2024: Won this trophy at the 2006 Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament. Funny thing, I was always an athlete, but never a fisherman. We had a team …

Aug 26, 2024: There are so many people on MB, Mastodon and now Threads that I’ve been connected to since the early days of Twitter and on App.net. Maybe not a lot …

Aug 25, 2024: Hurricane Honi is safely past us. Now Gilma and Hector are lining up. Gilma expected to pass on the north. Hector - too soon to tell …

Aug 25, 2024: Think the worst of the storm is beyond us. Still very poor visibility and still light rain. Side note,v they keep showing the flooded soccer fields in …

Aug 25, 2024: Hearing the term “cone of uncertainty” a lot in reference to the hurricane. I think life in general has a cone of uncertainty.

Aug 25, 2024: The TS became a Hurricane overnight. Lots of flooding on the east-side. It rained all night here on the west-side. The usual streets will be flooded …

Aug 24, 2024: This is right now. It just blew up. gonna be an interesting night.

Aug 24, 2024: Watched a couple of interviews with old conservatives from generational farms and ranches in CA & TX. They were rueing their community, farms and …

Aug 24, 2024: Since I set up Thread with most of my follows from Twitter, it’s actually more useful than Twitter, no ads. This filled gap with those not on Mastodon …

Aug 24, 2024: We went to pool last evening for some aqua therapy. Floating is really good for low back issues. The water in the pool was warm. Feels very bizarre

Aug 24, 2024: The day before the Tropical Storm/ Hurricane in Kona. TBF, we are behind the 3 mountains; Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Hualalai. We’ll get ours from the back …

Aug 23, 2024: x.com/thescore/…

Aug 23, 2024: He did it to himself. Walked Muncy to load the bases then had to pitch to Otani. Walk off Grand slam

Aug 23, 2024: This seems like exactly what we’re talking about now Documentary Summer: Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Aug 23, 2024: It’s the peak of summer here in the tropics. Rarely below the 80s at night nor over the 90s in the day. It’s the Humidy that’s the killer.

Aug 23, 2024: Felt like watching something totally different. Finishing up Ken Burns bio on Ernest Hemingway. Quite the story. Need to go back and read his early …

Aug 23, 2024: I’m sure that’s exactly what the founding fathers had in mind A Trump judge ruled there’s a Second Amendment right to own machine guns

Aug 23, 2024: Nope

Aug 22, 2024: 42 years and this album still hold up well. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Aug 22, 2024: All of my weather apps are going off with flood and storm warnings. Here we go, 1/2 way through Hurricane season and Mother Nature woke up from her …

Aug 22, 2024: My family are immigrants. This is a colorized photo of my Great Grandfather, his brother and my grandfather. They had a bakery in Boston. My Irish …

Aug 22, 2024: Had some down time and deleted the mother lode of apps from my phone. If I couldn’t remember what it did or when I last opened it, it’s gone. I’m sure …

Aug 22, 2024: George Washington is rolling in his grave 1776

Aug 22, 2024: The Dems have a line up that the GOP can’t match. In addition to Harris and Waltz, if the Clintons and the Obamas and some of the other high profile …

Aug 22, 2024: I canceled my Facebooks account over 10 years ago and Instagram shortly thereafter. But taking the path of lesser evil, I opened a threads account to …

Aug 21, 2024: I call BS on everything Vance is saying, he talks like Kamala was president. He says it was all her policies

Aug 21, 2024: It’s still sad that a Taxes judge can block something across the country Texas judge blocks the FTC from enforcing its ban on noncompete agreements

Aug 21, 2024: Fair game clubs don’t win trophies Tottenham named England’s best-run men’s football club in Fair Game Index

Aug 21, 2024: Storms are lining up. One of them is a Hurricane. I can only assume at least one will come close.

Aug 21, 2024: We really miss Pier 1 Imports. Most our home decor, dishes, rugs and other small things came from that store. It was so nice walking into a physical …

Aug 21, 2024: Mind experiment. Since homeowner and condo insurance is getting more out of reach and even unattainable some cases, do we just build cheap disposable …

Aug 21, 2024: The one match on USA that can’t be watched unless you have cable. #NBCFAIL

Aug 21, 2024: Opted to nott go to Hilo to check out the IVF Workd Sprints. The 2 hour drive to & fro didn’t sound appealing. Rainy day in Kona. Great day for a …

Aug 21, 2024: We really need a blue wave this fall. Not only Kamala, but down the ticket too. Make the Christian nationalist congressman irrelevant

Aug 21, 2024: Compensating a CEO that much while union busting. Maybe it’s time to find a new coffee place …

Aug 20, 2024: I was raised a conservative. As an adult I stayed on that path for a couple of decades. Growing up in Hawaii I’ve always been an environmentalist and …

Aug 20, 2024: Time to get a different Sous vide Anova will charge customers to use its sous vide app, because everything must be a subscription

Aug 20, 2024: My Sonos app doesn’t recognize the currently active speaker. It sucks Sonos CEO says the old app can’t be rereleased

Aug 20, 2024: Just watched The Union on Netflix. Seems like they’ve set it up for a follow up. But we know from experience to only hope, but not expect

Aug 20, 2024: The IVF World Sprints are in Hilo this week. The Olympics of outrigger canoe sprint racing. youtube.com/live/Ly9D…

Aug 20, 2024: This HAMAS hostage stand off vaguely reminds me of the Iran Hostage standoff in 1979. I know there’s a lot of differences, but the Iranians didn’t …

Aug 20, 2024: I remember when Mid-Pacific airlines came and went, then Mahalo Air. Aloha Airline went under, then Southwest came into the market. Alaska has been …

Aug 19, 2024: Sorry. I use it quite a bit www.cultofmac.com/news/ipho…

Aug 19, 2024: Fun weekend ahead. 2 tropical disturbances headed our way. Expected to affect our weather Saturday/ Sunday. Glad we had a staycation this past …

Aug 19, 2024: I’d really like to teleport into next week and skip all of the DNC convention stuff and just read what happened.

Aug 19, 2024: Thinking the Dodgers will crash and burn. They will likely still make the playoffs, but the strong hitting can’t keep up with the weak pitching. Too …

Aug 18, 2024: Last nights sunset with the Hilton Buddah point statue

Aug 18, 2024: Prevalence of Apple products One observation while at the Hilton Waikoloa this weekend. We saw people (actually heard languages and accents) from all over the world. Europe, N & S …

Aug 18, 2024: Last minute brew in the lanai before we check out and drive back down the coast home.

Aug 17, 2024: The ocean is a constant and relentless force. Growing up on an island, it the one ever present force in one’s life. Always there to comfort and heal …

Aug 17, 2024: Dolphins looking for snack

Aug 17, 2024: That being said. For a family from middle America with Hilton Honors coming to Hawaii. This resort would be epic. I just know what it WAS, and other …

Aug 17, 2024: Short staycation at the Hilton Waikoloa. Likely last time here. Room rates are getting out of our range. The restaurants have gone downhill and their …

Aug 17, 2024: Fred Flintstone would be happy

Aug 17, 2024: That was a fun night. A former tropical storm that is now just a disturbance. Blocked tradewinds and sucked moist humid (70%) weather up from the …

Aug 17, 2024: When some is standing on the side of the road waiting for the Uber in front of a crosswalk. C’mon

Aug 16, 2024: Before and after I lost net 60#. I lost 75#, then over 2 years gave back 15. Sustained the new weight for 3 years now. Dr says likely I went a bit too …

Aug 16, 2024: I’ve never been a proper writer, did operate a blog and provider content for websites much earlier in the web era. But my wife who works for a larger …

Aug 16, 2024: When I was a competitive athlete, we always said to learn what you can about your competition before the event/game/match. But once it’s game time, …

Aug 16, 2024: My wife is working a conference at the Fairmont Orchid resort. So I get have a cocktail in the lounge and enjoy the view till she is finished. 30 …

Aug 16, 2024: Still in the wrapper

Aug 16, 2024: Just finished “A Gentleman in Moscow” on Paramount. A great story weaved through a large slice of Russia’s modern history. Ewan McGregor was excellent …

Aug 16, 2024: There was a flood in downtown Hilo Nov 1 2000. We had the same issues when a large park area that used to be a canec plant. Arsenic and old …

Aug 16, 2024: Finalized a trip to Sonoma in October to see my wife’s son and his new daughter. Short trip, but we’ll get a play day & we’ll see where he lives with …

Aug 16, 2024: We did our quarterly financial review of what’s going out. Subscriptions, utilities, insurance. Canceled Evernote this quarter. Took a close look at …

Aug 15, 2024: Just finished the final episode of The Umbrella Academy. It was strange but very entertaining

Aug 15, 2024: I’ll excuse the Tottenham connection with Pochettino if the starts winning the the #USMNT

Aug 15, 2024: Not sure how I ended up with a Timbuk2 strap on a Tom Bihn bag.

Aug 15, 2024: Classic. x.com/thecinest…

Aug 15, 2024: I can only watch or read a certain amount of daily news, then I’m done. One run through the headlines is well enough. If anything comes up that’s …

Aug 15, 2024: Watching Blade Runner. Just because And it did take place 5 years ago

Aug 15, 2024: The SONOS app is messing up my system. Using the SONOPHONE 3rd party app instead.

Aug 14, 2024: Couldn’t pull the trigger on the Playdate pizza box cover. $13 shipping is a bit much for a cool to have.

Aug 14, 2024: Interesting history. None of these resorts (save for the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel-1965) were here 50 years ago. This was all barren lava fields, every …

Aug 13, 2024: Week 6 post shoulder replacement. Good news; I made it this far without breaking the new joint. This is the last week of passive range of motion …

Aug 12, 2024: War is not the answer music.apple.com/us/album/…

Aug 12, 2024: It’s ironic that many tech billionaires are spending millions on trying to find an elixir to extend life but at the same time have zero concern for …

Aug 12, 2024: This week’s episode hits home. I don’t want to leave, I grew up here. My wife didn’t and is more open to leaving. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver …

Aug 12, 2024: A cascade of allow permission windows after the recent Sequoia update

Aug 12, 2024: from the NYT. “Support independent journalism with a subscription”. don’t think so

Aug 12, 2024: I really want to get tickets to some events in the 2028 LA Olympics. From experience, fringe events will be easy. For 1984, we scored closing ceremony …

Aug 11, 2024: Coming back. Program from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

Aug 11, 2024: It’s still Thierry Henry’s world. We’re still just living in it

Aug 11, 2024: Watching athletes from around the world hamming it up for the camera is amazing. Good for them.

Aug 11, 2024: I’ve been off dealing with shoulder surgery all summer. Unintended benefit, I’ve been able to enjoy the COPA & EURO football tournaments, Tour De …

Aug 11, 2024: Big congratulations to every athlete from every country who, win or lose, showed up!!!! x.com/teamusa/s…

Aug 11, 2024: Got off the reservation and took our Grandsons to the Mauna Lani resort. I also got in a 2.5 mi walk along the shore. My longest effort since surgery. …

Aug 11, 2024: Is it strange to immediately think that the Trump organization hacked themselves to get back in the news cycle?

Aug 10, 2024: During the 1984 games, all delivery trucks ran at night. Most companies alter their work hours to eliminate rush bours. [LA’s mayor says 2028 will be …

Aug 10, 2024: The pointy end of the MLB season is upon us

Aug 10, 2024: Many of the Chinese athlete have been celebrating and jumping around and hugging other athletes. In the past they seemed so stoic and stiff. Maybe …

Aug 9, 2024: Any further debate would be simply wasting our breath. And if there’s one thing I can’t abide, it’s waste.- Varga in Fargo

Aug 9, 2024: Bought Airpod Pro v2. Was waiting for v3 to come out, but looking more like next year. Didn’t realize how long in the tooth my Pro V1 were getting …

Aug 9, 2024: Putin has to be beside himself. His investment is paying off in spades. > The Truth About Trump’s Press Conference

Aug 9, 2024: The USA v ITALY Men’s Olympic volleyball match was a cracker. That should’ve been the Gold Medal match.

Aug 9, 2024: With the Olympics winding down I was recalling the 1984 LA Olympics. Lived in Redondo Beach. Preorded tix in late ‘83. We got what we ordered for …

Aug 9, 2024: It’s was a very entertaining Olympic sailing regatta. Showing the World Feed meant longer waits between races and for wind, but also no commercials …

Aug 9, 2024: Out for my walk. Came across yellow, white, pink and variegated (pink and white) plumeria trees. We had all 4 of these in our yard when I was a kid. I …

Aug 9, 2024: Not sure what the growers are doing different, but we’ve have great white peaches at Costco for 6 weeks now in Hawaii. Normally only one or two …

Aug 9, 2024: Looks like it’s Spain’s Gold. France are full of holes in the back. Big hill to climb. Spain 3-1 France in 1st half

Aug 8, 2024: x.com/meidastou…

Aug 8, 2024: Hehehe

Aug 8, 2024: I wish we still had a proper book or record store in Kona. I’m (hopefully) still 5 years from retirement, but would love to spend retirement working …

Aug 8, 2024: Serbia dominating USA Mens basketball. Serbia up 15 in 4th.

Aug 8, 2024: US out of the water polo gold medal match for the first time in 4 Olympics

Aug 8, 2024: Text editor means something entirely different to programmers (who permeate Mocro.blog) than to lay people.

Aug 7, 2024: Classic, Love it. Irish call of the 2012 Olympics sailing youtu.be/QHOju8jC8…

Aug 7, 2024: Thank you IOS and watch Betas for giving me the amazing opportunity to charge my devices twice a day.

Aug 7, 2024: Does the director’s cut signify that you did it wrong the first time?

Aug 7, 2024: The updated Sonos app still has issues. It often doesn’t see the speaker that is actually playing something and directs me to speaker that’s not. I …

Aug 7, 2024: I’ve watched dozens of sailing races in Olympics. US sailors just aren’t good at going fast. Leeward tack, windward tack, downwind, doesn’t matter. …

Aug 6, 2024: Taste of their own medicine Moscow says Ukraine has launched cross-border attack inside Russia | Russia | The Guardian

Aug 6, 2024: Touching moment when the Cuban wrestler won gold in his 5th straight Olympics, then left his shoes in the ring to signify his retirement …

Aug 5, 2024: This what I’m talkin’ about x.com/nbcolympi…

Aug 5, 2024: I love it how the Olympic athletes, win or lose, are so proud to be representing their country. If Trump wins, I would have a hard time doing that.

Aug 5, 2024: The Teahupo’o Olympic village.

Aug 5, 2024: An Olympic medal ceremony in Tahiti is perfect. IOC rep and all.

Aug 5, 2024: Had a short previously scheduled call with our investment guy today. He said he always gets a load of panic calls and emails on day like today. Said …

Aug 4, 2024: There’s been an effort for at least 30 years to get outrigger canoe paddling into the Olympics. The International Va’a Federation holds the World …

Aug 4, 2024: Gary Jobson makes it such a pleasure to watch Sailing. Like Phil Liggett for Cycling and how the late Keith Jackson was for College Football (“Whoa, …

Aug 4, 2024: Big fail. None of the weather apps show rain in Kona. Just because it rarely rains here doesn’t mean they can stand down

Aug 4, 2024: The Netherlands and New Zealand are good at sports. #Olympics

Aug 3, 2024: One thing I really like about the Olympics is a lot sports I like are one network in a firehose of broadcasts for 2 weeks. Otherwise, they are spread …

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Aug 2, 2024: Kamala needs to do an AR debate with Trump using footage from his previous debate. x.com/rpsagains…

Aug 2, 2024: As we wait for the medal ceremony on the beach at Marseille. Birds on the beach, kids playing in the water. Excellent

Aug 2, 2024: Beautiful

Aug 2, 2024: Contrast this with the gymnastics where athletes have a bevy of handlers. The sailers load their own boats.

Aug 2, 2024: Win the gold medal. Load your own boat on the trailer.

Aug 2, 2024: I love watching the Olympic replays. Great announcers, world video feed, no commercials and lots of interesting video shots between matches Hawaii is …

Aug 1, 2024: The Surfing World #1 man and woman are out of the Olympic. Lack of consistent surf. Surfer can’t show their wares without waves.

Aug 1, 2024: I tried that Al Michaels AI Olympic daily recap. It’s just strange. I watched just a few minutes Al Michaels was a sports anchor in Hawaii when I was …

Aug 1, 2024: No Apple intelligence on my 2 eligibles devices yet. M1 Air and Mini

Aug 1, 2024: MAGA soap

Aug 1, 2024: Olympic Sailing skiff medal race cancelled again. “When you have no wind, it’s drifting contest”. 😏

Jul 31, 2024: I couldn’t stop laughing x.com/scottcrat…

Jul 31, 2024: On a particularly rough post surgical day a Percocet offers Silence of the Limbs

Jul 31, 2024: Kamala just seems happy, orange is always mad.

Jul 31, 2024: I really like women’s football. No rolling around, whining and yelling at the ref. When they get hit, they just get up and play.

Jul 31, 2024: South Korean being peacekeeper North and South Korea table tennis Olympic medalists pose for shared selfie

Jul 30, 2024: So Peacock broadcasts all of the Olympic shows that are on USA on Peacock+. Why can’t they do that for EPL matches that are on USA network. #NBCFAIL

Jul 30, 2024: Wow. USA stun Australia to take Bronze in Women’s rugby sevens. Big result.

Jul 30, 2024: I love a good hamburger as do my grandsons. We have few favorite places here in west Hawaii. With the steady menu price increases, we don’t go out as …

Jul 29, 2024: I’m a pretty serious sports fan. There are not many sports I won’t watch. The Olympics are always a wonderland of sports that are rarely broadcast.

Jul 29, 2024: Double Wow. Canada upset France in Women’s R Rugby Sevens. The hosts are out

Jul 29, 2024: Great job US Women Rugby Sevens. Upset the Brits to get to quarterfinals

Jul 29, 2024: Beta battery cannibalism makes digital life fun.

Jul 28, 2024: When someone mentions a “Right winger”, my first thought is football player (soccer) who plays on the right wing, not politics.

Jul 28, 2024: Wow. Japan Women football stun Brazil at the death. Makes group c interesting. Hopefully the USWNT can take care of Germany.

Jul 27, 2024: Where? If it’s in the ocean, they live there., we don’t. If it’s in the parking lot, then we may have a issue

Jul 27, 2024: My first real outing since surgery (3 weeks) nice to be around people and breath ocean air

Jul 27, 2024: Olympic Rugby Sevens is short attention span theater. 7 min halves, 2 min halftime. No time outs.

Jul 27, 2024: They’re plotting something

Jul 26, 2024: Hawaii is 12 hours behind France, so either it’s watch Olympic events over night or watch all replays.

Jul 26, 2024: A Mess on the Seine by My impression also

Jul 26, 2024: The first Olympic Games that I felt engaged with were the 1968 games in Mexico. youtu.be/sBQdA5CbS… …

Jul 26, 2024: Physical therapy. Into week 3. Passive range of motion

Jul 26, 2024: Did I just really hear that Boneless chicken doesn’t really mean boneless, it’s a cooking style. Where do these judges come from?

Jul 26, 2024: Most of the media wants drama and shock filled airwaves. They don’t want boring. There’s no story there. Trump fills their need. Once the shock of …

Jul 25, 2024: My Daughter is a childless dog person. I guess she’s ok by JD’s standard

Jul 25, 2024: Remember this website showing up during the COVID lockdown imissmybar.com. Saved it on my phone for fun

Jul 25, 2024: Just watched “The Company you Keep”. Hadn’t seen it in about 10 years. I’m sure a lot of people still have secrets from those turbulent years.

Jul 25, 2024: I was a moderate conservative most of my adult life. That said, I have also been an environmentalist. Growing up on an island with limited resources …

Jul 25, 2024: Boeing is fired from space travel. No return date for Nasa astronauts amid problems with Boeing Starliner capsule | Space | The Guardian

Jul 25, 2024: This New Zealand v S Africa match with be a cracker.

Jul 25, 2024: Really enjoyed the Kenya v Uruguay Olympic rugby. Kenya win in 2nd extra time. Fun match.

Jul 25, 2024: This is all good, but I’ll keep my Disney/HULU/ ESPN bundle for now. I watch a lot of ESPN. Disney+, Hulu and Max are now available in one bundle deal …

Jul 25, 2024: Mostly empty seats at Olympic Women’s football. This is at half time.

Jul 24, 2024: We used to say; whatever a national candidate says during the election, they will almost always fall back to the party line after they are elected. …

Jul 24, 2024: Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith, speech to John …

Jul 24, 2024: I think he just tries to piss people off. Trump Said Some Disabled People “Should Just Die,” According to His Nephew

Jul 23, 2024: Do t have a problem with this. I’m also a Marseille fan Arsenal Star Reaches Personal Agreement, Clubs Negotiate £50M Fee - DailyAFC Marseille

Jul 23, 2024: Watching “Absense of Malice” just because I feel like watching a movie of substance rather just a bang bang shoot em up movie. That will come later

Jul 22, 2024: Looking through an external drive of old files from when I closed my Dropbox account over 10 years, from old Macs and hundreds of scanned document. …

Jul 22, 2024: Because I’m more of a world sports fan I’m going to enjoy a wider swath of the Olympics.

Jul 22, 2024: There’s a few conservatives in my various feeds. They’ve gone very quiet in the last 24 hours

Jul 21, 2024: I always felt this election was going to be a slog with 2 old guys slinging mud. It just got interesting

Jul 21, 2024: A friend turned me on to the album when it can out in ‘75. Still holds up. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jul 21, 2024: I’ve been going back to watch the Star Wars movies. A lot of people have qualms with the story lines and characters. I’m always in awe of the …

Jul 20, 2024: I think the MAGA people are playing a variation of the heads up game, but are putting the note on their ears.

Jul 19, 2024: Love a doctor with a sense of humor. Told me I could take off the shoulder sling around the house, but wear it when I go out, when sleeping at night …

Jul 18, 2024: This was earlier today

Jul 18, 2024: Water is back on 14 hours later. Flushed a lot brown water through the faucets

Jul 18, 2024: Just recalling what service I used for news and sports scores in the early internet. Dial up to Compuserve. This about 1984, the year before my …

Jul 18, 2024: Just talked to the plumber. It’s gonna be a while. 368 units. Not water. Feels like I’m in California

Jul 18, 2024: It’s always something. Water main break coming into our development. no water for likely all day.

Jul 18, 2024: It’s getting way easier to follow EFL clubs. Kind of like when Peacock took on EPL EFL FAQ: What fans need to know about the new CBS deal

Jul 17, 2024: First drink since surgery. Yum

Jul 17, 2024: My sleep pre surgery and post. The gap is the day after the procedure, ddnt have my watch on that night. Difficulty sleeping with a sling. Lots of …

Jul 16, 2024: I didn’t fully understand this about shoulder replacement recovery. There are 2 markers that I need to meet during the process; range of motion and …

Jul 16, 2024: I’m ready to switch to that fabled alternate universe.

Jul 15, 2024: test

Jul 2, 2024: Harpers Magazine August 1933. Looking at you NYT. sensationalism and debuachery

Jul 1, 2024: Lightning in a bottle Last night we caught lightning in a bottle. We went to Umeke’s Restaurant for my birthday. Post COVID, consumer expectations have bottomed out. Every …

Jun 30, 2024: After an initial walk at our regular Hualalai Resort trailer went over to check out the beach access the recently reopened Kona village resort managed …

Jun 29, 2024: “The floor is a hard, unforgiving taskmaster. But the floor never hits you – you hit the floor.”

Jun 28, 2024: Movie time

Jun 7, 2024: I’ll be posting and interacting over here on the federverse @1hawaiiboy@appdot.net a hui hou

Jun 3, 2024: The view from Keck observatory on top of Mauna Kea. The last there was an eruption in this area was 1974. We’ll have to wait for drones.

May 31, 2024: When I was working, I would typically put in 10-12k steps a night in the kitchen. Since I’ve been out with a shoulder injury, I’ve been trying to get …

May 30, 2024: Out for a mid day walk Lyman’s bay and surf spot

May 29, 2024: Mood music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 29, 2024: My wife’s argument to move away from Hawaii just got bolstered. Our condo association just announced a 25% (now $645/mo) increase to our CAM and a …

May 29, 2024: My wife must be having a rough day at work. Burning sage.

May 29, 2024: The nerd in me thinks space travel is very cool. The reuse and quick turn around, the boosters returning to earth. But I think it’s gone too far, and …

May 28, 2024: music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 28, 2024: We will end up with Trump due to Biden’s blind support for Israel’s war machine. Many will simply not vote.

May 28, 2024: C’Mon MLB. Trolley Dodgers playing the Metropolitans in NY and it’s blacked out in Hawaii.

May 28, 2024: Coconut tree trimming day. Lookout below

May 27, 2024: My grandson was talking about how bad Windows 11 is. He uses windows for gaming and school. I shared with him how utterly useless Windows V 1.0 was. I …

May 27, 2024: Down a very deep Santana wormhole. Using the good headphones. Noise canceling so I can keep volume lower & not hear the TV and everything. Forgot how …

May 27, 2024: Maybe the Rainout day off will help the Dodgers turn it around

May 27, 2024: MB doesn’t have the choice of Hawaiian language in language. Just an observation. I’m not fluent, but use it quite a bit

May 26, 2024: Very much enjoyed Franklin, going back and watching the HBO miniseries from 2008 on John Adams.

May 26, 2024: Watched the Indy 500 for the first time in years. The 4 hour weather delay helped. It’s usually on at 6 am. What a barn burner of a race. Manic pace. …

May 26, 2024: Rarely use Google anymore. Us the Orion browser with Kagi or the Arc Search on IOS

May 25, 2024: Saw an iPhone 15 Pro in the store, got to hold it. I have a 13 Pro. No desire to upgrade. The 13 Pro does everything I need right now

May 25, 2024: This was an eye opening interview with Victor Davis Hanson about his book “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation”. Americans are …

May 25, 2024: Full family room

May 25, 2024: Ladies’ choice

May 24, 2024: Love when company says “Free Download”, but doesn’t say it $39.99 to actually use the app.

May 24, 2024: My wife, for the first time in a few years, has brought up the idea of moving to N. Dakota, where she is from. She say mostly cost of living & access …

May 24, 2024: Dodger pitching really is crap so far this season. They’ve been lucky enough to score a lot runs to be in first, but that can’t last.

May 23, 2024: The founders of Patagonia (Yvon Chouinard) and North Face (Douglas Tompkins). Love this. If you compromise the process, you’re an AHole when you start …

May 23, 2024: Back in the day I could find a live MLB baseball game on any day on either WGN or TNT or ESPN or somewhere else. Now it’s nearly impossible. All about …

May 22, 2024: Lots of AI comments and opinions. I posted mine yesterday. Jury is still out on trust for the entire technology. I’m playing with a couple of AI apps. …

May 22, 2024: The only thing they missed is to watch out for AHole people.

May 22, 2024: Shoulder MRI delayed 2 weeks due to MRI machine being down. The challenges of living on a rock in the middle of the ocean. I’m anxious (worried and …

May 22, 2024: Just opened up my 12” MacBook. It’s been in a drawer for months. To my surprise, it started up and works. I miss this machine. I used it daily for a …

May 21, 2024: I don’t believe what the AI companies are saying. We’ve been through (and still going through) the social media company promises of doing no evil. I …

May 21, 2024: Stopped at Mauna Kea park on our way over the island on saddle road from Hilo back to Kona. I love the sound of the wind blowing through the ironwood …

May 20, 2024: Great article about the resort where I work (or rather where I’ll go back to after my shoulder is fixed) bigislandnow.com/2024/05/2…

May 19, 2024: Gonna be a Sunday party in the country music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 18, 2024: still have vinyl @xxxx

May 18, 2024: This album came out in my sophomore year at Kalani High School. Still sounds great. The lead singer Mackey Feary went to our school …

May 18, 2024: Still works and sounds good too.

May 18, 2024: The scene of the crime. 18 years ago we got married ❤️on that grassy knoll (Hilton Waikoloa Resort). There’s a chapel to the right, we go married …

May 18, 2024: I’m a former conservative, now more of a centrist. Been watching interviews with old conservatives. They bring back some great points, but are …

May 18, 2024: Pretty boring weather. In Kona, we’re in the lee of mount Hualalai, which keeps our weather in a specific zone 90% of the time

May 17, 2024: With the MLB archaic blackout policy, this is the only way I get to watch the Dodgers.

May 17, 2024: Older tech.

May 16, 2024: Echo 3 was entertaining but 10 episodes was too many. I skipped ahead and don’t feel like I missed anything

May 16, 2024: Feel like I need to go back to school and get a degree in Medicare. It’s a fckn quagmire.

May 15, 2024: 80s music. music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 14, 2024: One way to get the old Sonos app is to use an old iPod

May 14, 2024: yep

May 14, 2024: Sonos Help Desk: “your expected wait time is 70 minutes” WTF

May 13, 2024: Did some 1 1/4 arm plumbing to day. My injured shoulder allows minimal assistance for the task. Was able to change 1 bathroom vanity drain pipe and 1 …

May 13, 2024: RIP. One of the first jazz CDs I purchased music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 13, 2024: Simpler time

May 12, 2024: Nice day for a walk by the ocean. Since I’m out on Workers Comp (shoulder) and not working. I need to get out and walk as much as I can.

May 11, 2024: Blade Runner 2049 is such an epic film. Visuals. Soundtrack

May 11, 2024: Happy Mother’s Day to my wife. TBH. We were going to get it anyway. Just waiting for the model and color that she wanted to come in, the timing just …

May 11, 2024: The aforementioned beach with lonely BBQ

May 11, 2024: No aurora in Hawaii last night, but there was this down by the beach

May 10, 2024: The thing that sucks about Worker’s comp claims is the glacially slow process, as they spend an exorbitant amount of time looking for a reason to deny …

May 10, 2024: I saw the Talking Heads at the Long Beach arena in 1983. What a show. It’s was among the many shows my ex and I went to while living in Redondo Beach, …

May 10, 2024: Stop making sense, making sense

May 10, 2024: Watching “Stop Making Sense” because that’s how I feel. The Talking Heads sure were good.

May 10, 2024: Starting to come to grips with my forced sabbatical (torn rotator cuff). Will likely be 8-10 weeks if surgery required. Need a project. Likely another …

May 10, 2024: Mise

May 9, 2024: Playing with Pi, conversational AI app. It’s kind of fun. It expands on a conversation. Liking it so far.

May 9, 2024: Work injury, feels like torn rotator cuff (it was repaired in 2010), off for min. of 30 days (likely much longer if surgery is needed). I’ve been …

May 8, 2024: The rich buy their way out of legal trouble, criminal and otherwise. It’s always been that way. Only with Trump, it’s on full display. We’re seeing …

May 6, 2024: Would like to see the Jyn Eros character reprised somewhere

May 6, 2024: Every time I go back and rewatch one of the movies in the Star Wars realm (Rogue One this time). I see something new.

May 4, 2024: The #Inter performance more annoying than devastating. TBF Sassuolo had more to play for, but still need to stay in the match.

May 3, 2024: The Dodgers in 11 - Walk off FTW

May 3, 2024: .

May 3, 2024: Day off today. Haven’t felt much like doing anything. Really don’t want to deal with people or driving or much else. Not sick, just lazy. I’m sure my …

May 2, 2024: I’m goin’ with the sporty hardtop.

May 2, 2024: Regarding Gaza Both sides were/are wrong to much differing degrees. Hamas shouldn’t have sent missiles into Israel. Maybe they felt hopeless and thought it would …

May 2, 2024: This only means one thing. Day off

May 2, 2024: I got an email about this, but closed my Dropbox account years ago. Must still be in their system sign.dropbox.com/blog/a-re…

Apr 30, 2024: AI 2 I can ask AI how I can use 2 day old watermelon radishes. It can give me great recipes. If I spend enough time I may be able to nail down something …

Apr 30, 2024: AI pt.1 Where AI trips is nuance and context. When I’m talking to someone, it’s not just facts. It’s past conversations we’ve had, it’s the context of the …

Apr 30, 2024: The one request of NBC. Stream the USA network. apple.news/A-M3vTfV4…

Apr 29, 2024: We have a number of WiFi enabled made in China devices in our home. I don’t use TilTok, but should we be more worried about all of these other …

Apr 29, 2024: He hates the cans youtu.be/Tcwz8-EfF…

Apr 28, 2024: My Wife saw an Audiologist yesterday and was told to stop using AirPods. Her slight hearing loss is more attributed to that than her age. The Dr said …

Apr 28, 2024: The line

Apr 26, 2024: Just finished the Fallout series. Not a gamer, never played the game, throughly enjoyed the show

Apr 26, 2024: Found this promo 45rpm record in a box of 50 and 60s 45s in my Step-Mom’s closet. She grew up in Palo Alto. A treasure trove.

Apr 26, 2024: Day off. Made spaghetti carbonara. One twist, used whisky cured thick bacon that we make at the hotel.

Apr 25, 2024: This is not going well

Apr 22, 2024: Inter are champs. Yay!

Apr 21, 2024: I’ve been in the Hotel/Restaurant business for nearly 40 yrs. The ones that succeed are middle of the road and consistent. The farther from middle, …

Apr 19, 2024: Just rewatched 2010 The Year we make contact. It’s been a while. This came out 40 years ago, damn

Apr 16, 2024: This song written in 1975 means as much today. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Apr 14, 2024: Deleting all social media apps from my phone. I don’t open my Mac every day, so there’s that

Apr 13, 2024: Just saw this in the food court at the Queen Marketplace in Waikoloa. Just in case you need false eyelashes while you’re eating a burger.

Apr 13, 2024: In reviewing those old external drives I was preparing to destroy, I found my Gmail export from when I shut it down last year. The first Gmail I sent …

Apr 13, 2024: My music collection has 36,560 songs (113 days of music). My match music collection is 17,696 songs that came from my massive CD collection that I …

Apr 12, 2024: music.apple.com/us/album/…

Apr 12, 2024: Was decommissioning some old hard drives to dispose of. One of them wouldn’t mount, but I knew there was old, backed up data on it, so disassembled …

Apr 12, 2024: me

Apr 12, 2024: Guess I’m an outlier. I walked a marathon distance in 4 days. New Apple Watch data shows the average person takes 334 days to walk/run a marathon …

Apr 12, 2024: Watching the HBO documentary about Sergio Leone. I grew up on his movies at the Kaimuki theater in Honolulu. Western matinees $.50

Apr 12, 2024: Had some leftover Lamb Demi Glacé from a party at work. Had it with meat loaf. It sure raised the level of the meat loaf a few notches. 🤤

Apr 12, 2024: It breaks your heart.

Apr 12, 2024: Since I left management just under a year ago, very few urgent things come into my life. A few important things come in. I don’t feel a need to pick …

Apr 11, 2024: Thyme waits for no man

Apr 10, 2024: I think we tossed out more expired COVID test than we’ve actually used.

Apr 10, 2024: Early Bird Books is the ultimate un-unsubscribable site. I’ve tried to unsubscribe from emails many many times. I’ve tried setting rules in email and …

Apr 9, 2024: As is everyone else, We’re short staffed. 2 call outs and the managers are covering a banquet and we’re running the main cooking with 2 instead of 3. …

Apr 9, 2024: We switched to HawaiianTel fiber about 5 months ago from Spectrum cable internet. We’ve experienced no issues with speed or connectivity. No …

Apr 9, 2024: This sure isn’t going as planned. #Arsenal

Apr 9, 2024: You don’t REALLY know and understand how age affects your body until you live it. The speed of degradation increases exponentially as the years roll …

Apr 9, 2024: My body has been trying to get sick for 4 day. I’ve been basically ignoring it, drinking lots of water and running anti virus software.

Apr 8, 2024: Hey MAGA, there is science happening right now.

Apr 8, 2024: Watching one of the NASA feeds. They switch between infrared and solar filter. They are currently showing Torreón Mexico. Very cool seeing solar …

Apr 7, 2024: Whew. Lots of cables. Lots of ports.

Apr 7, 2024: The new Sonos system is installed and working as designed. Extracting the 15 year old Bose lifestyle system was a chore. A mile of cables. Love that …

Apr 6, 2024: Spent some time upgrading the time machine disk (larger disk) for my Mac mini home server and the network drive my 13" Air uses for Time Machine. …

Apr 6, 2024: Had this in my car for a week. A bit warm

Apr 6, 2024: My college car. 65 Impala. Could land a helicopter on the roof of that beast. Great back seat though

Apr 6, 2024: Had a pretty amazing cheese burger at the Waimea Butcher shop.

Apr 6, 2024: This would be fun to go watch.

Apr 5, 2024: Came across this from 2016

Apr 5, 2024: Don’t forget the cannolis

Apr 4, 2024: For some reason, the Netscape Navigator just popped into my mind. Bizarre en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nets…

Apr 4, 2024: I grew up in Hawaii, where there is no such thing as a minority. Everyone is just people. When we were kids we just saw everyone else as other kids. …

Apr 4, 2024: Day off tomorrow, read more Hawaiian history and quantum physics

Apr 4, 2024: Nobody is home

Apr 4, 2024: My desk 17 years ago. I ran a web business for small businesses with a 13” MBP and a Mac Mini. My Palm. Closed the business about 10 years ago. Self …

Apr 4, 2024: Just caught the first episode of Ripley on Netflix. I’m hooked. I love Film Noir

Apr 3, 2024: Four years ago, we’re taking our best attempt at making homemade masks. There were none available. It was also the beginning of remote schooling for …

Apr 3, 2024: In Hawaii we used to have a lot of fights and an occasional shootout. Now there is a shooting almost daily. We had tough gun laws. Thank you #SCOTUS

Apr 2, 2024: Worm hole music.apple.com/us/album/… mm

Apr 2, 2024: Arsenal involved in top 3 most watched matches in US

Apr 1, 2024: For me, as a Dodger and Arsenal fan, the Giants = Tottenham Spurs

Mar 31, 2024: Back at work Easter Special

Mar 31, 2024: We haven’t been home from our trip for 30 min and the bags are emptied, wiped down and put away, first load of laundry is in and we’re both showered …

Mar 31, 2024: Ends in a. Unsatisfying thus. As the saying goes. They will rue the chances missed

Mar 30, 2024: The photo

Mar 30, 2024: This Fort DeRussy grass area below our room has all of these palm trees. Most have a circle around the base, a few do not and there’s one circle with …

Mar 30, 2024: A great day on O’ahu winding down.

Mar 30, 2024: Seems like everything will be hacked eventually. All data will be on the dark web.

Mar 29, 2024: Great day off of our rock (Hawaii Island) onto another rock (O’ahu).

Mar 29, 2024: We brought our Grandsons to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu. I came here during school field trips 50 years ago

Mar 29, 2024: Off to Honolulu. Currently in Southwest’s boarding scheme/queue

Mar 27, 2024: Not a single team in the sweet 16 that I care about.

Mar 26, 2024: The thought Apple stopping sales of certain products in the EU over DMA fines is crazy, but they do have stockholders to answer to. If the fines get …

Mar 26, 2024: I’ve been involved in an American Cancer Society cancer study for 20 years. I’ve never been diagnosed with cancer, but had a number of friends …

Mar 25, 2024: To take down a bridge built in 1977, that container ship must have really been off course or out of control. Baltimore will be a mess for a long time …

Mar 24, 2024: music.apple.com/us/album/…

Mar 24, 2024: Kentucky losing to Oakland in the 1st Round killed my bracket

Mar 23, 2024: There’s an old adage that teens have selective memory. I think I’m doing the same things, choosing to just not remember things I don’t want to.

Mar 23, 2024: Just recalling how irate we were, on a daily basis, 4 years ago www.motherjones.com/politics/…

Mar 23, 2024: Finally replacing our Bose Lifestyle 135 system. It’s 12 years old. I got it on an open box deal. It’s from a previous era. It has FM radio, Bose …

Mar 23, 2024: I think about this David Foster Wallace commencement speech often. This is a relaxing video attached. youtu.be/HONBIKLO-…

Mar 22, 2024: Read this quote years ago. It changed the way I managed businesses. “You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by …

Mar 21, 2024: So far. My bracket is 100%. It was more about who I don’t like.

Mar 21, 2024: The only time I’ve had a cat was about 20 years ago. Was in a 5 year relationship in the gap between my 2 Marriages. Our household included her 2 …

Mar 19, 2024: Taxes filed. Annual annoyance that the tax code makes sure every dollar we make is scraped for every tax dollar possible while the top 1% pay zero and …

Mar 18, 2024: I use the Orion browser on IOS with Kagi search. I pay $10/mo. Ad free no boosted results. I’ve been using it for about 6 months with no issues.

Mar 17, 2024: Gonna make Irish Veggie Sheppard pie as part of my dinner special at work tonight. Also a Guinness cream sauce with the pan fried fresh fish. Irish …

Mar 16, 2024: And so we begin.

Mar 16, 2024: Everyone in the futuristic shows has a British accents. Does than been the British Empire will have a new golden age and America will crash and burn?

Mar 16, 2024: Pleasure be had

Mar 16, 2024: The corned beef is on the stove and the Guinness is in the fridge. But then, we have corned beef a few times a year and there’s always Guinness in our …

Mar 16, 2024: The corned beef is on the stove and the Guinness is in the fridge. But then, we have corned beef a few times a year and there’s always Guinness in our …

Mar 12, 2024: Sure hope #Arsenal don’t draw #Inter. But if they do, c’est la vie

Mar 12, 2024: Apple’s sports scores app doesn’t cover Champions League. Big oversight.

Mar 12, 2024: With all of the doom and gloom in the world, work is my happy place. We put on good music and make people happy through food and beverage. Don’t even …

Mar 11, 2024: A drizzly overcast day. Would rather stay home, but when I get to work in the kitchen down in the bowels of the hotel, there is no weather.

Mar 11, 2024: Haven’t used our Roku in months. Time to just throw it away. daringfireball.net/linked/20…

Mar 10, 2024: We had a rare discussion on politics at work tonight. Most of the others are younger than 30. I’m 65. We all dread the thought of Trump getting …

Mar 10, 2024: This kind of headline is total linkbait. Trying to get Arsenal and Barcelona fans click Ex Arsenal & Barcelona Veteran Wants To Stay At Inter Milan – …

Mar 10, 2024: We have them right where we want them. They think #Arsenal is a distant 3rd title hope theanalyst.com/2024/03/l…

Mar 9, 2024: Wow. Inter on 75 points.

Mar 9, 2024: If you spend enough time at a beach like Hapuna , with surf & tide & lots of people from places not remotely close to ocean, you will eventually see a …

Mar 9, 2024: Paid for the 1st year of Apple’s MLS package, but only watched 3 or 4 matches. They aren’t on at times/days that work for me. I work Saturdays, and if …

Mar 9, 2024: Sounds of Hāpuna Beach

Mar 9, 2024: Recently exported a GMAIL account I had since 2007 & closed the account. 180,854 emails. Was fun reading emails from former parts of my life. …

Mar 9, 2024: Whatever they are saying now, we know what Biden is and we know what Trump is and we know what we get with both of them.

Mar 8, 2024: Dune 2 was pretty amazing in the Theater. Kinda wish I saw Dune 1 in the theater too. The movie asks a lot questions going into #3.

Mar 8, 2024: We’ve been waiting for Hyundai to drop a 0% APR financing special. We’re going to look at an Elantra or Kona today. We bought my wife’s Elantra on 0% …

Mar 8, 2024: We have late season snow on Mauna Kea

Mar 7, 2024: Starting to feel like the constant MAGA attacks on personal (women’s) rights, law and order and civil society is like the zombie apocalypse. Don’t …

Mar 7, 2024: Good time to just be at home.

Mar 7, 2024: Very much enjoying Shogun on Hulu. I grew up around Japanese culture in Hawaii. Check out Shōgun on Hulu! …

Mar 7, 2024: Everyone seems to be mad at Apple for some reason or another. Bound to happen when you’re so big. As for us. Everything in our realm works fine (2 …

Mar 5, 2024: ..

Mar 4, 2024: Mind you, Hawaii island is rural. I happened upon my first experience of geofencing. We parked in a parking lot near Old Navy to go to the store next …

Mar 3, 2024: Great job Arsenal Women. staying in the race

Mar 3, 2024: 64 years ago. The great Sam Cooke music.apple.com/us/album/…

Mar 3, 2024: Our local Blue Cross / Blue Shield carrier HMSA is changing their policy so that they will only approve A1C blood work every 3 years unless you …

Mar 3, 2024: Just checked. All of our Apple products are working fine. Move on www.macrumors.com/2024/03/0…

Mar 2, 2024: Arsenal Women play the Spuds and 2:30am HST. I get home from work at 11pm. I’ll be deep in slumberland. C’Mon you Gunners. UptheArsenal.

Mar 2, 2024: Heirloom baby carrots 🥕

Mar 1, 2024: The best

Mar 1, 2024: Funny. And I’m not a Brit. Though I can relate www.execupundit.com/2024/03/s…

Feb 29, 2024: The Apple Sports app doesn’t show spring training scores.

Feb 29, 2024: My business cards for the past 40+ years (up to 2020). Think I have them all. they’re not in chronological order.

Feb 28, 2024: Just saw a commercial for the new Motorola Razr. I loved my Razr back in the day. $500 is not bad

Feb 27, 2024: Next year I will have been an Arsenal fan for 2 decades. I was first drawn to The Gunners by seeing Thierry Henry play on TV. Then it was the amazing …

Feb 26, 2024: Just rewatched The Killer. Really enjoyed it, again. Love the soundtrack (The Smiths)

Feb 25, 2024: I tried going without an Apple Watch last year when the battery life on my old one was untenable. Got one for Christmas. Missed the health features …

Feb 25, 2024: Good weekend. Arsenal and Inter take care of business Parma held to a draw, but still 7 pointss clear at the top of Serie B

Feb 24, 2024: The cars I’ve owned -Volkswagen fastback -65 Chevy impala -Toyota Corona -Ford Thunderbird (the big one) -Toyota Corolla -Isuzu P’up -Nissan frontier …

Feb 24, 2024: The Peacock broadcast is about 90 seconds delayed. I get notifications on my phone before the goal is on TV. #Arsenal

Feb 23, 2024: Quantum gravity lives. www.sciencefocus.com/news/brea…

Feb 23, 2024: Watching again. Because.

Feb 22, 2024: Call spoofing is out of control and the FCC says just don’t answer. What of if I’m expecting a call from a Dr or a repair company? For the most part, …

Feb 22, 2024: I bought an iPad 9 over two years ago. We just bought the same one for my wife last week. Old models didn’t seem to stay around that long before.

Feb 22, 2024: Liking the new Apple sports scores app so far. I’ve typically use the ESPN app for scores and game/match updates, but requires multiple clicks …

Feb 20, 2024: I’m already deleting news apps and moving more off the grid with this election cycle.

Feb 18, 2024: Almost perfect sports weekend. #Arsenal #Inter-Milan #ParmaCalcio all win convincingly. Mancity drop points. Spuds lose. The only mar was Liverpool …

Feb 17, 2024: This is the big one.

Feb 16, 2024: My best professional decision (9 months ago) at the point in my life was getting out of management and going back where I started as a dinner chef. As …

Feb 15, 2024: Every tech blog is writing Vision Pro articles like everyone has one or is going to get one soon. Time to delete some blogs and put in some filters.

Feb 15, 2024: Two simple pleasures. Frozen Junior Mints and day old shrimp and sausage gumbo. Not together mind you.

Feb 15, 2024: We’ve (me and my physical therapist) have stumbled on a simple action that is improving my pain markedly. For 30m a day, I float in the pool in float …

Feb 14, 2024: Finally pulling the plug on Instapaper. It was long run. I used it a lot in its heyday.

Feb 14, 2024: MLB still doesn’t have a brain. Hawaii’s home market has 5 clubs. The closest is 2510 miles away with the small detail of an ocean in between.

Feb 13, 2024: I sure hope people vote the right way. If Trump wins, Russia will go off the handle in Europe and expand influence in Africa and N Korea will …

Feb 12, 2024: I think (hope) the politics are shifting in regards to support of Israel. It’s getting more damaging for Biden to support them than not.

Feb 12, 2024: Looks like all of the SF 49er fans we know called out today. They can’t handle losing well well

Feb 11, 2024: What a great African cup. What a run for Ivory Coast

Feb 10, 2024: Parma Calcio 1913 are in very good form. They should see promotion to Serie A. It will be nice to see them back in the top flight. Parma were bankrupt …

Feb 9, 2024: S4 True Detective Part 5 was a humdinger. Damn!

Feb 8, 2024: If and when Trump loses the election, all of these GOP stalwarts on his bandwagon will be left hanging.

Feb 7, 2024: Watching the “Guns of Navarone”. Just because.

Feb 6, 2024: Pain is exhausting

Feb 5, 2024: A little ole place where we can get together music.apple.com/us/album/…

Feb 5, 2024: Apple Music still isn’t smart enough tough to put Jackson Browne’s “Load Out” and “Stay” together. If I’m playing a playlist I need to manually put …

Feb 5, 2024: My wife is very frugal. Midwest sensibilities and all. Her iPad mini (version 2). Finally became unusable. Can’t update IOS, therefore many apps won’t …

Feb 4, 2024: I’m a union member for the first time in my long Hospitality career. I find that the communications that we get from the union has an undercurrent of …

Feb 1, 2024: I tried watching the show “Bear”. A lot of people rave about it. I’ve worked in restaurants 40+ years. Front of the house and kitchen. Small places …

Jan 27, 2024: I’ve always love this quote and and repeated it hundreds of times in my management career. “You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve …

Jan 27, 2024: There’s a new mini subdivision (48 homes) going in next door. We’re the community on the left. It’s about half built out. These are $million homes and …

Jan 26, 2024: My wife and I both had the day off, so we took a drive up to the north part of the island. We live in Kailua Kona & went to Hawi. Stopped at Hapuna …

Jan 24, 2024: Lots of tech layoffs. I’ve been in Food and Beverage for most of my adult life (45+ years). For the foreseeable future people need to eat. I’ve never …

Jan 20, 2024: Kona gets a lot of snow birds each winter. There are hundreds of condos with part-time owners. The vast majority are older (70+) & white with many …

Jan 20, 2024: Reading a lot more. Subscribed to “The Point” and “County Highway” and the book my Daughter gave me for Christmas.

Jan 19, 2024: One of favorite places to go was the Kona Brew Pub. We would often got on Fridays for a porterhouse dip sandwich and grilled chicken nachos. That was …

Jan 19, 2024: How cold was it in Hawaii. I used a blanket. Sorry arctic chill people.

Jan 19, 2024: More concerned about N Korea’s demeanor than the Middle East due to proximity.

Jan 18, 2024: Great news. A lot of this is former sugar cane land. bigislandnow.com/2024/01/1…

Jan 18, 2024: Had another watch of True Detective season one. Last watched it during lockdown. Caught the essence of the bayou in detail. Master class all around.

Jan 17, 2024: The Middle East is getting dicey. Something bad will happen by misunderstanding or accident and it will blow up. Russia and/or China will nudge it …

Jan 17, 2024: I never saw the Sopranos. We didn’t have HBO. Might start watching it now

Jan 17, 2024: All of this about Apple being a corporation and all. I don’t adore Apple, I use their products because they work, they last and they all talk to each …

Jan 17, 2024: Fargo. The bisquit. #FTW

Jan 16, 2024: Siri on my watch stopped working. Wondering if the Siri team in San Diego broke something out of protest for having to move to Austin. Two places …

Jan 16, 2024: This is the year I finally close my Evernote and Instapaper account. These app are a shadow of what they were. Moving everything the Apple Notes. …

Jan 16, 2024: I work in a kitchen and use a pen to write food labels (when item was made and shelf life, etc), check lists, temperature logs, requisitions, etc. I …

Jan 16, 2024: The NFC East craps again

Jan 15, 2024: The NFC eas

Jan 14, 2024: The COVID Pandemic was a societal demarcation line. Businesses operate differently, “short staffed” is a normalized excuse. Service quality is down …

Jan 13, 2024: Made a new batch of my spice mix. I use it for fish and vegetables at the hotel. It has pink, white and black pepper. Kosher and Hawaiian Alae salt, …

Jan 13, 2024: Back in 2010 I have small media company. Built websites set up social media for small local businesses. I made a living for a few years. Built over 50 …

Jan 12, 2024: Our culinary team. Minus 2 guys still in the kitchen.

Jan 12, 2024: The housekeeping ladies are doing the Electric slide

Jan 12, 2024: It’s the hotel Holiday party. Theme was throwback. We went a ways back. We are among the few here who remember that era.

Jan 12, 2024: Peace is getting a little wobbly

Jan 12, 2024: radioparadise.com/listen/ch… Thoughtful, gentle songs, perfect as background music at home or work.

Jan 12, 2024: Inherited this box of 100s of B/W photos taken all around Hawaii Island in the early 1940s. They were taken by my great aunt who had a boyfriend …

Jan 11, 2024: Day off chef’s cuisine. Roast chicken with garlic, basil and butter penne pasta. Simple, fast and delish.

Jan 11, 2024: I’ve become my Grampa. I fell asleep at 1PM in my reclining chair. But rather than the TV watching me, I had Radio Paradise on.

Jan 10, 2024: Looked at my SS statement income for the past 40 odd years. Seems as though the years I had peaks income were the worst years. Life out of balance, …

Jan 10, 2024: This season of Fargo is a doozy. Quite the ride.

Jan 9, 2024: Download our AMEX annual report. We send a lot of money to Apple. Also use Apple Pay a lot too.

Jan 9, 2024: Thank you for the 5:30 am alert NWS. Can only assume it’s bad out there. Got home from work at 11pm. 💤💤💤

Jan 8, 2024: Seems as though there’s some annual consumer electronics thing going on that I used to care about. Move on…

Jan 8, 2024: In our house, I work 5 nights a week, on my nights off my wife owns the TV, I stream on my phone or iPad. I could see myself picking up a later, more …

Jan 8, 2024: IMHO. I think Apple will be fine with less sales in V1 of the Vision Pro. It’ll be like they’ll have a large number of new real world beta testers. …

Jan 7, 2024: Starting to hammer out details on our epic 2024 adventure in Sept. Ruled out Europe, too far, that ship has sailed. Planes, trains and automobiles. …

Jan 5, 2024: Looks like we’re going to replace our legacy Bose Lifestyle 135 with a Sonos Beam. It’s old tech. Bose is struggling to keep it up to date. It’s from …

Jan 5, 2024: I hate Facebook, haven’t used for quite few years, 1st was privacy and 2nd was this reason. My Step-Son (wife’s son) got engaged last week. This was a …

Jan 5, 2024: I hate Facebook, haven’t used for quite few years, 1st was privacy and 2nd was this reason. My Step-Son (wife’s son) got engaged last week. This was a …

Jan 5, 2024: I hate Facebook, haven’t used for quite few years, 1st was privacy and 2nd was this reason. My Step-Son (wife’s son) got engaged last week. This was a …

Jan 5, 2024: I hate Facebook, haven’t used for quite few years, 1st was privacy and 2nd was this reason. My Step-Son (wife’s son) got engaged last week. This was a …

Jan 5, 2024: I hate Facebook, haven’t used for quite few years, 1st was privacy and 2nd was this reason. My Step-Son (wife’s son) got engaged last week. This was a …

Jan 5, 2024: I hate Facebook, haven’t used for quite few years, 1st was privacy and 2nd was this reason. My Step-Son (wife’s son) got engaged last week. This was a …

Jan 5, 2024: This year we’re planning a trip to Oregon to see granddaughter, drive to Sonoma to see my wife’s son and meet his soon be bride’s family then spend a …

Jan 5, 2024: Looks like we made a decision to not got to Italy. We’ve likely taken our last European trip. It’s just too far and takes too long from Hawaii. We’re …

Jan 5, 2024: radioparadise.com/listen/ch… Thoughtful, gentle songs, perfect as background music at home or work.

Jan 5, 2024: Christmas has been packed away.

Jan 5, 2024: TGI Fridays closes dozens of its stores. I worked for TGI Fridays for 10 Years in the late 70s - 80s. The Honolulu store was #69 to open. I went into …

Jan 4, 2024: Hawaiian music at its truest This song “Pu’uanahulu” features the harmonies of Gabby Pahinui and Sonny Chillingsworth. It was recorded 50 years ago in an old lava rock house on …

Jan 4, 2024: I’ve been a conservative most of my life. I am also an environmentalist and believe social programs have value to pick people up, but not carrying …

Jan 3, 2024: Been a month since we upgraded to fiber. It had just become available. I also got a new router & signal extender and new cables. We were able to …

Jan 3, 2024: Turns out all of pain I’ve been having up and down my right side (same side as total knee replacement) from my lower back / hip to my calf is my IT …

Jan 3, 2024: ‘Where Do The Children Play’ by ‘Cat Stevens’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/2956

Jan 3, 2024: Looks like we’re going to replace our legacy Bose Lifestyle 135 with a Sonos Beam. The Bose is old tech. Bose is struggling to keep it up to date. …

Jan 2, 2024: I am the only employees in our culinary department to have perfect attendance for 6 straight months. My opinion is that it’s a generation thing. Plus …

Jan 2, 2024: As the holidays drift into the rear view mirror, this time of year reminds me that everyone older than me in my family (parents, grandparents, aunts, …

Jan 2, 2024: I hate Facebook, haven’t used for quite few years. My wife still uses FB. 1st I quit was privacy and 2nd was this reason. My Step-Son (wife’s son) got …

Jan 1, 2024: In 2024, to protect my sanity, I will work to avoid politics. I’ll vote on local issues and vote for president, knowing full well popular vote doesn’t …

Jan 1, 2024: Well, we’ve started out the year with a shooting on O`ahu. Mahalo SCOTUS for making our community MORE DANGEROUS

Jan 1, 2024: It’s either kicking 2023 in the butt or ringing in 2024, but it sure is loud

Jan 1, 2024: Well. We’re bringing up the rear of the pack. Happy new year from Hawaii

Dec 31, 2023: 2023 was the year that I got out of management for good.

Dec 31, 2023: I survived the new years of 1999-2000 as a manager in charge of multiple restaurant POS systems with old software that were half expected to crash and …

Dec 30, 2023: A Hawaiian early evening. Torches, hammock under an ulu tree. Cool tradewinds.

Dec 30, 2023: As we head into 2024 ‘Many Rivers to Cross’ by ‘Jimmy Cliff’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/30352

Dec 30, 2023: Almost completely unsubscribed from Substack newsletters. Don’t miss what you don’t see.

Dec 30, 2023: In 2024 I hope to continue to steer clear of COVID.

Dec 30, 2023: Gary Oldman. Everyone youtu.be/dmkrPWQCm…

Dec 29, 2023: A rats nest. In culinary terms

Dec 29, 2023: Working on my supposed day off. Taking one for the team. 2 call outs, a special wine dinner and it’s festive. Next day off is next year.

Dec 28, 2023: I played sports since I was 10 years old. Football, baseball, volleyball, outrigger canoe paddling. 55 years later, my body still feels every hit, …

Dec 28, 2023: My wife got me a bottle of Tullamore D.E.W. For Christmas. What a treat. Tasty

Dec 28, 2023: Interesting that Amazon is advertising no ads in Amazon music while adding ads to Amazon video. I don’t really have an issue with Ads on Amazon …

Dec 28, 2023: The Lowes implementation of Apple Pay vs Safeway is lacking. It’s the same process as swiping a card (2-3 taps on the screen). With Safeway, it’s a …

Dec 27, 2023: Made it to my days off. Worked through the Christmas week. Next up: New Years week. Already scheming about my fresh catch specials for the week.

Dec 27, 2023: Haven’t worn an Apple watch for a few months. Forgot about the little things, like my watch unlocking my Mac.

Dec 25, 2023: No snow on Mauna Kea on Christmas this year. So a photo of last year

Dec 25, 2023: Got an Apple Watch 9 for Christmas. It was purchased well before the oxy sensor issue blew up. If they don’t settle and plan to disable it via …

Dec 25, 2023: Listening to Who Shot JFK by Soledad O’Brien. Really would have been a different world if JFK had lived, but that was never going to be allowed to …

Dec 24, 2023: My wife and I are starting early planning for a trip to Italy in late 2024. We both are not crazy about the long flights to Europe. My wife is …

Dec 23, 2023: The Hawaiian islands are in the middle of the pacific plate. The oldest of the islands is Kure Atoll approximately 30 million years old. Though there …

Dec 23, 2023: Fair result. Both teams had chances. #TheArsenal

Dec 23, 2023: My wife is notoriously last minute, it’s her low level ADD. It really becomes apparent in the holidays. My culinary mind is about Mis en Place. I did …

Dec 23, 2023: I’ve been using the Orion browser with Kagi search on IOS for a couple of months now. Other than results look odd now and then I have no issues to …

Dec 22, 2023: Family Liquor Full moon Glad I work on Christmas.

Dec 22, 2023: Polynesians had navigated the entire Pacific Ocean before Europeans had left sight of land.

Dec 21, 2023: Into my days off, then work straight through Christmas till next wed. We’re having our Christmas dinner tonight.

Dec 21, 2023: Upgraded our router. For better security and speed and IPV6 at some point. Didn’t realize it’d been 5 years.

Dec 20, 2023: Trump

Dec 20, 2023: Loving ‘More Than This’ by ‘Roxy Music’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/31451

Dec 20, 2023: In the last hour before I head off to work and the bustling kitchen, if I watch something on TV, the hour flies by, if I put on music, the hour slips …

Dec 20, 2023: Lots of vitriol on both sides of the climate issue. My wife and try to be conscientious. We’re well into the final trimester of our lives, but drive …

Dec 20, 2023: I can go days without opening my MB Air, and only use it for a short while at that. Just realized my Time Machine backups were way behind. Had to …

Dec 19, 2023: Just watched “The Astros Edge” on Frontline. They cheated and cost other team $millions and cost people their careers and lined their own pockets. …

Dec 19, 2023: Are sure that’s not just sewage under DC? There sure is enough on the surface. The nation’s capital, built on water, struggles to keep from drowning …

Dec 18, 2023: I’ve always liked Gary Oldman, but he’s master class in Slow Horses. I need that level of edgy humor in my daily life.

Dec 17, 2023: Ok short lived. The Cowboys didn’t show up today. Will the real Cowboys please stand up

Dec 17, 2023: Enjoying it while I can. #Arsenal #Inter and #Cowboys all top of their perspective tables at the moment.

Dec 17, 2023: Listening to a podcast on cosmology & theoretical physics. They were talking about what would happen to humanity when the sun starts to expand (Duh). …

Dec 16, 2023: I work until 11pm. The Arsenal play at 4am. Won’t be up for the match. #UpTheArsenal

Dec 16, 2023: Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. -Leo Durocher

Dec 15, 2023: The @teuxdeux app change to checkmarks changes many years of muscle memory. Makes editing easier, but it will take a while to not just tap a task.

Dec 14, 2023: Sad. The hotel I work at is renovating. They’re installing a new coffee and wine bar in the lower lobby and are covering this sculpture that’s been …

Dec 14, 2023: I’ve never owned a gun. I don’t hunt and never felt a need. Even with the SCOTUS loosing up rules and town hall meetings on guns I still don’t want …

Dec 13, 2023: Effective Jan 1 2024. Hawaii Medical Service Assn. Hawaii’s Blue Cross / Blue Shield insurer and the state’s largest will no longer cover Semaglutide …

Dec 13, 2023: Made Ginger Confit. Took 3 days. Damn it’s good. The ginger is soft and sweet, the sugar water is infused with a nice ginger flavor.

Dec 13, 2023: Nice. More and more of Hawaii island is being taken out of the grasp of developers bigislandnow.com/2023/12/1…

Dec 13, 2023: We just got new countertop convection over / air fryer. The one we’ve had for a fews was one of those fancy ones. The annoyance was it took multiple …

Dec 12, 2023: We just got new countertop convection over / air fryer. The we’ve had for a fews was one of those fancy ones. The annoyance was it took multiple steps …

Dec 10, 2023: I hate Fox Sports, I hope somebody buys them. Someone who respects streaming this time. All of their properties require a cable login.

Dec 8, 2023: When we had Spectrum, we paid for 1G and the fastest we ever got (direct wired) was 625 Mbps, with Hawaiian Tel Fiber we pay for 600 and get 595 avg. …

Dec 8, 2023: We got Fiber internet installed today. Just became available where we live. The techs were pulling fiber into the community last month, we could …

Dec 8, 2023: This Hunter Biden tax charges is a shot over the bow for everyone who crossed Trump if he he gets elected. He has said so.

Dec 7, 2023: Went to a community assn. meeting tonight. I used to be President of another association we lived in a few years ago. I hate those meetings. We just …

Dec 7, 2023: Sitting on the lanai having a Kona brew and listening to the wind

Dec 7, 2023: The bigger the wall, the harder people will try to get through.

Dec 5, 2023: It occurred to me that Israel is acting like the mafia. When someone does them wrong, they not only knock off that person, but their entire family and …

Dec 1, 2023: The Cowboys escaped last night. Close one.

Nov 30, 2023: Went to my Step Mom’s house for Thanksgiving and found this box of 45 RPM records. They’ve been digging things up since my Dad passed 4 years ago. All …

Nov 29, 2023: Our first winter storm of the year. Yippee

Nov 28, 2023: Found a sock that’s been missing for a week. My wife said “wow you have big problems” I just told her, you need to take successes when you can. Life …

Nov 28, 2023: Remembering when Google had issues with its algorithm doing nefarious things. The same thing will happen with AI. Likely we won’t know it until after …

Nov 24, 2023: When I was living in California (1981-85), I was really into HO gauge model trains. There was a model train store in Redondo Beach. I had a layout in …

Nov 21, 2023: Bit of a Mynah bird kerfuffle in the parking lot. Thinking a territorial dispute

Nov 20, 2023: As more Americans take an agnostic approach to religion, the religious right will try to force religion on everyone via legislation.

Nov 16, 2023: Really can’t tell which Middle-East news is accurate and which issn’t I’m guessing the goal of the nefarious types is to create such confusion.

Nov 15, 2023: Don’t seem very United these days

Nov 12, 2023: One of my ancestors, Lt. John Gibbs, was a member of the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. The Virginia …

Nov 10, 2023: I guess my question about the NCAA realignments is if it affects every sport at the school?

Nov 10, 2023: Sad about the Pac 10 (12). Now even the west coast powerhouse teams will be in the East coast fold. Just feel wrong. Lots more travel for teams. I …

Nov 2, 2023: Some cause happiness wherever they go, others cause happiness whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde

Oct 31, 2023: El Nino in Hawaii means dryer winter and more storms. Those storms will in turn make their way to the West Coast. Fun times

Oct 29, 2023: My wife watches occasionally documentaries on how bad processed food is for our bodies and the environment. I told her, simple solution, we buy an …

Oct 28, 2023: The Honolulu Rail boondoggle is challenging Boston’s Big Dig for ineptness. it will be built, but no one knows the final cost. As it stands, they …

Oct 26, 2023: .

Oct 26, 2023: There was just a brushfire across the street from us. They got it out quick, but everyone is on pins and needles after Lahaina. Luckily, it’s dead …

Oct 26, 2023: Remember the Y2K bug. In retrospect, seems silly.

Oct 23, 2023: Shut down my website this month. I’ve had a website since 1999. That first site was for my Cafe, Canoes Cafe. It was simple, but did the job. My next …

Oct 14, 2023: A hui hou, malama pono. pau

Oct 13, 2023: My ancestor Andrew Kimbley was born in Holland in 1737. Came to the colonies, Married (1773), settled in Virginia, fought in the Virginia Militia …

Oct 13, 2023: Amtrak unveils new fleet of Airo trains and the 14 routes they will serve All east coast.

Oct 13, 2023: Watching the CBS sports special ‘Football Must Go On’ about Shakhtar Donetsk from Ukraine. We take going out and watching or playing a football match …

Oct 12, 2023: Power

Oct 12, 2023: Found this photo from my first COVID test. April 2020. it was drive-thru test with very strict rules. Mask were hard to come by, had a homemade mask. …

Oct 11, 2023: The Dodgers left their offense in the regular season.

Oct 11, 2023: I just don’t see the point…

Oct 11, 2023: Took this photo Oct 11, 2005 in Waimea on Hawaii Island. Taken on a Canon EOS 20D. The last purpose built camera I’ve owned. My wife and I had just …

Oct 8, 2023: Proud the be an #Arsenal fan. We had a rough spell through the oughts, but it’s looking good

Oct 8, 2023: Really enjoyed the Continental on Peacock. Had a few slow points, but all in all it was great entertainment

Oct 7, 2023: Recalling younger days when nothing could knock me down. Here in my mid 60s, it wouldn’t take much to knock me out of the game. One of my wonky knees …

Oct 7, 2023: Fascinating. If I recall correctly, the rotating space station in 2001 Space Odyssey didn’t have windows. kottke.org/23/10/one…

Oct 7, 2023: I’ve watched and read a couple of interviews with respected older conservatives. If you listen with an open mind they do make some sense, 40 years …

Oct 6, 2023: Finally had enough of Eric Clapton’s politics after helping raise $2.2 mil for RFK Jr tonight. Deleted all of his music from my library and local back …

Oct 6, 2023: Love Lee Oskar. He played with War too. Had this cassette ‘Sunshine Keri’ by ‘Lee Oskar’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/41556

Oct 6, 2023: Think I’m going to have to go back and watch some of season one of Loki. It’s been too long

Oct 6, 2023: music.apple.com/us/album/… David Gilmour on electric guitar. 😃

Oct 5, 2023: Loving ‘Unknown Legend’ by ‘Neil Young’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/2774 I had the pleasure of meeting Neil Young and Daryl Hannah a few years ago. …

Oct 5, 2023: The book of rules. Loving ‘Book of Rules’ by ‘The Heptones’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/31082

Oct 5, 2023: “a bias which prefers the aesthetics of objects over the aesthetics of processes, which translates, in the world of food, to a bias towards the …

Oct 5, 2023: Updating the iPod.

Oct 4, 2023: Everyone is pointing fingers post Lahaina fire. Why didn’t we do this or do that. I feel for them, but One quote comes to mind “the important becomes …

Oct 3, 2023: Off the grid looks more and more desirable every year.

Oct 3, 2023: The GOP will implode the country.

Oct 3, 2023: Loving ‘Many Rivers to Cross’ by ‘Jimmy Cliff’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/30352

Oct 2, 2023: My wife is Native American, She had to call the “Indian Office” for her tribe (Ojibwa) about an issue with some paperwork. She said on the phone …

Oct 2, 2023: Taylor swift is all over the news because she went to a football game. I care about this less than just about anything else I can think of.

Sep 30, 2023: Inter Milan and Arsenal both 4-nil to the good. Good day

Sep 30, 2023: As I have done deeper research into my ancestry, the location results of my DNA are making more sense.

Sep 30, 2023: When you are dead, you don’t know you are dead. It’s pain only for others. It’s the same thing when you are stupid Seen this one before, still makes …

Sep 29, 2023: Ran into an old neighbor that I haven’t seen in years at Costco. It was hilarious, 2 old guys catching up while everyone else was trying to get their …

Sep 29, 2023: I guess Apple’s Friday night baseball is done for the year. I’m off on Fridays and enjoy an afternoon baseball game. I’m a Dodger fan, but enjoy ball …

Sep 29, 2023: Furniture shopping. Feels like walking on hot coals

Sep 28, 2023: First day off after 12 straight. Not deeply exhausted, just tired. I have a solution for that.

Sep 28, 2023: Loving ‘Many Rivers to Cross’ by ‘Jimmy Cliff’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/30352

Sep 28, 2023: Seems as though I can’t follow a Mastodon user on MB

Sep 27, 2023: I remember buying this CD at Borders Books and records at Ward Center when it first came out in about 1988 music.apple.com/us/album/…

Sep 27, 2023: Lots of big issues in the world today, my concern are more closer to home. Hope my wife starts to feel better after her double Vac yesterday - a bit …

Sep 26, 2023: Today for special I made Monchong fish poached in white wine with quinoa and broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce. Asian mushroom soup

Sep 26, 2023: Used to see the John Wooden quote “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” all over UCLA when I was there. I’ve kept that with …

Sep 25, 2023: Some days the world is so loud and pulling and poking, the only peace is sleeping.

Sep 16, 2023: We typically sign up for a month or two of Ancestry.com every few years to do an update with new info we’ve come across, but more often new info on …

Sep 15, 2023: The last time we had a lava flow, we had reservations at Volcano house hotel in the volcano park, The flow stopped 2 days before we came. So this time …

Sep 15, 2023: For years I was interested in Cosmology and science of the big picture. After recently reading “In to the Cool” about thermodynamics and life, I’ve …

Sep 15, 2023: Really enjoyed Foundation. It’s obvious we need another season.

Sep 14, 2023: Finished watching Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland on PBS. Heartbreaking. I’m half Irish, from Kilbride Co Antrim, 10 miles outside Belfast, …

Sep 14, 2023: The holiness of reality - Big Think

Sep 14, 2023: Watched Steely Dan: Aja (Classic Albums) on Prime Video! …

Sep 14, 2023: JC Penny post game show???? Didn’t even know they were even still around

Sep 14, 2023: Trivia: When I was young, I used to listen to Al Michaels call the play by play for the Hawaii Islanders on my transistor radio at night. He was on …

Sep 14, 2023:

Sep 14, 2023: Apple’s change to USB -C reminded me of this

Sep 14, 2023: My office view in 2016 while maanging at the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai. Note: the amazing view and beautiful resort was not worth the long hours …

Sep 13, 2023: GOP is only playing to their base. Thats all. They hope there’s an enough votes there to stay in power. My wife’s 3 brothers in N Dakota eat it all …

Sep 13, 2023: As long as it’s consistent > worldsoccertalk.com/news/fifa…

Sep 13, 2023: I can only wish Loving ‘Get Together’ by ‘The Youngbloods’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/30632

Sep 13, 2023: Memories

Sep 13, 2023: Reminder, think different.

Sep 12, 2023: Looks like the new iPhone is faster, thinner and lasts longer. Everything I’m not at my age. I’ll stick with current phone.

Sep 12, 2023: I’ve had a GMail account since 2006, I stopped using it daily years ago, it’s been a pass through for older newslettters and such, today it gets …

Sep 12, 2023: McCarthy try to defer attention from the impending governement shutdown. He is so lost.

Sep 12, 2023: Despite the hype, think I can get another year out of my 13 Pro, or maybe get the 15 Pro when the price drops in 6-9 months.

Sep 12, 2023: Stopped using my Apple Watch a few weeks ago. It’s getting a little long in the tooth (battery life, etc). Also food safety rules say we’re not …

Sep 11, 2023: Growing up in Hawaii with tough gun laws, it was never a worry. Thanks to the GOP and Trump’s judges people are now carrying guns here. I don’t want …

Sep 11, 2023: Went totally Japanese with the special tonight. Tempura platter with miso soup

Sep 11, 2023: Different 9/11 experience in Hawaii due to the time difference. I didn’t know anything was up until I got to work and turned on TV in the kitchen (I …

Sep 11, 2023: Halema’uma’u at first light from USGS She woke up at 3:15 pm yesterday

Sep 10, 2023: The thought recently crossed my mind that save for one person who I worked with in 1980 at TGI Fridays and my daughter, I don’t interact with anyone …

Sep 9, 2023: I’ve used Day One since 2009, June 28 to be exact. I’m kind of looking foward to Apple’s entry in the Journal space. Looking forward to a smarter …

Sep 9, 2023: My M1 Mac mini hasn’t been updated in a while, so now I’m going through the progression of Ventura updates before I can get to Sonoma.

Sep 8, 2023: Chaos

Sep 8, 2023: Took the full leap on IOS to Orion browser and Kagi search. Will look at my Mac tomorrow, use the Arc browser mostly.

Sep 8, 2023: I have a very bleak outlook for the country if Biden stays in the race. The dems need to look forward and offer viable choices for the future. If they …

Sep 8, 2023: Quality

Sep 8, 2023: Streaming is more and more about making choices. We cut cable to save money and have flexibilty. For the most part it’s till true 3+ years later. …

Sep 8, 2023: It’s not looking good, loosely based on hostory. youtu.be/h-XRR3z23…

Sep 8, 2023: Steaming may have reached its epoch. Lately I find myself gravitating to books and music, well, mostly music (Radio Paradise) …

Sep 8, 2023: Everpix was a good idea, but…

Sep 8, 2023: After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Sep 7, 2023: Attended my first community association board meeting in quite a few years. It was civil enough, it just reminded me why I’m no on boards any more. I …

Sep 7, 2023: Here’s the link to the podcast. sixcolors.com/podcast/2…

Sep 7, 2023: Interesting podcast about Disney v Charter/Spectrum battle. We were a Spectrum cable subscriber until we cut cable 4 years ago. We still use Spectrum …

Sep 7, 2023: I was helping my wife format an Excel spreadsheet, I’ve kind of alway been an Excel nerd. I was flashing back to Excel v.1. The big thing Excel had …

Sep 7, 2023: In a recent clean up, I found my old Apple computer repair tools. I used to change hard drives, batteries, swap DVD drives for a 2nd internal drive …

Sep 7, 2023: HB Gary Larson I’m a restaurant guy, always loved this one

Sep 6, 2023: Agree andersonlayman.blogspot.com/2023/09/c…

Sep 6, 2023: More and more I feel like the world (most humans) are go to war first, seek to understand second.

Sep 5, 2023: Watching The Day of the Jackel 1971. Love the old days of no electronic communication. Wired telephone, written word on paper and just taking to …

Sep 5, 2023: If the choice is an advanced aging Biden or Trump, then there there is no choice. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/…

Sep 4, 2023: Classic movie www.execupundit.com/2023/09/o…

Sep 4, 2023: A pair of teas

Sep 3, 2023: Just realized I still have the Airport utility app, but retired my last AirPort Extreme a few years ago.

Sep 3, 2023: I think the washing machine learned from Apple’s progress bars. It’s been on 9 for 5 minutes

Sep 2, 2023: Not looking for a playoff run with Atlanta in the way #Dodgers

Sep 2, 2023: I bought this 1990 Isuzu p’up new for $5999. I loved that little truck. I put 200,000 miles on it on this rock in the middle of the ocean. I sold it …

Sep 1, 2023: Bummer. RIP with a song. Changes in attitudes, changes in latitudes www.rollingstone.com/music/mus…

Sep 1, 2023: The Hawaii Canoe Racing Association website hasn’t changed since it was first launched guessing 20 years ago HCRA Paddler

Sep 1, 2023: ❤️ music.apple.com/us/album/…

Sep 1, 2023: Damn straight. www.execupundit.com/2023/09/h…

Sep 1, 2023: I remember my Dad playing this album when I was very young. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Sep 1, 2023: music.apple.com/us/album/…

Sep 1, 2023: Maybe the GOP should consider moving to Africa. They probably already have enough guns to overthrow just about any government down there. …

Sep 1, 2023: Went down to the Kailua pier to chat with some old paddling friends on the start of the Labor Day weekend Queen Lili’uokalani canoe races.

Sep 1, 2023: Busy summer for The Arsenal

Sep 1, 2023: Foundation winds down Invasion ramps up Asohka is somewhere in between Who is Erin Carter has temporarily lost me Still watching Ragnarok - possible …

Sep 1, 2023: Interesting story on the inner voice. My wife has more of an outer voice. She verbalizes every thought and talks through difficult problems out loud. …

Aug 31, 2023: Watching “Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity”. Amazing story. Loved the Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock relationship

Aug 31, 2023: A group of old guys having fun for our benefit culturaloffering.tumblr.com/post/7272…

Aug 31, 2023: Doing the mundane work of setting up connected leak detectors. We’re in a 2nd floor aging condo.

Aug 31, 2023: It’s been 20 years. Used to be the one big race not to miss.

Aug 30, 2023: Using more of the Apple stock apps, subscription fatigue spills over from steaming service price increases. Less options on the streaming side, if I …

Aug 30, 2023: The GOP vultures are circling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2…

Aug 29, 2023: www.execupundit.com/2023/08/d… Of course they’re going to say that

Aug 29, 2023: Yay iFixit arstechnica.com

Aug 29, 2023: Mr. Sandman : The Chordettes : https://archive.org/details/78_mr-sandman_the-chordettes-archie-bleyer-pat-ballard-archie-ballard_gbia0017988b via …

Aug 28, 2023: Interesting argument. bigthink.com/the-well/…

Aug 28, 2023: We had a 4 1/2 hour power outage on Saturday evening in our entire development. A bit annoying. The power company came back this morning to finish …

Aug 27, 2023: ❤️ music.apple.com/us/album/…

Aug 27, 2023: Ran into a guy I used to manage with at another resort. We were reflecting back on an era before Covid when resorts had a casts of thousands to do the …

Aug 26, 2023: One of my favorite actors www.execupundit.com/2023/08/h…

Aug 26, 2023: Finally got around to to watching “Love notes to Newton” a fun ride. I didn’t have one. I had just moved off the grid to Hawaii Island post divorce. …

Aug 26, 2023: I’m reading “Something Deeply Hidden” about quantum physics. This book has given me a greater understanding of the quantum universe than anything I’ve …

Aug 25, 2023: Make America Fun Again

Aug 25, 2023: Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter Excellent read. I have stuck with Teux Deux. I’m not a writer, don’t need extensive notes. I need to jot …

Aug 25, 2023: Just watched Flash, it was a lot of fun.

Aug 25, 2023: Watching the Dodgers on Apple TV+. Enjoyable broadcast and they’re winning Haven’t seen many Dodger games this year, there on cable tv and blacked out …

Aug 25, 2023: Traditional Mexican tortilla chips. From Frito Lay

Aug 24, 2023: A lot of Lawyers are going to get rich on the Lahaina fire

Aug 24, 2023: Maui County sues Hawaiian Electric over wildfire negligence Here is goes. Everyone suing everyone else.

Aug 24, 2023: Missing Mo Could use him now.

Aug 23, 2023: overcast.fm/+8Jj85yEf… Love this podcast

Aug 23, 2023: Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash - BBC News Putin gets his revenge

Aug 22, 2023: Going back to watch Fargo Season 3. Master class.

Aug 22, 2023: I used to get excited about every space launch. They were amazing demonstrations of advancing technology. Now they’ve just devolved into frivolous …

Aug 21, 2023: Alphabet, Meta and X. I give up. They’re trying to be different and cute and failing. There seemed to be a lot of noise when Apple took Computers out …

Aug 20, 2023: The Art of Tea

Aug 19, 2023: Sauté pan

Aug 19, 2023: I’m old enough to have been into very early social media, swore it off, came back, left again, and now back on Mastodon and App.net, and having fun

Aug 19, 2023: Amazon Pulls the Rug on ‘The Peripheral’ Season 2 That sucks

Aug 19, 2023: Remember Nextel’s direct connect walkie talkie feature? I miss it. It was simple

Aug 19, 2023: What I saw after the wildfires on Maui Great story. It’s the truth.

Aug 19, 2023: I played with ChatGPT a few times early on. Have not used it since.

Aug 18, 2023: Just watched “The Pope’s Exorcist”. It needs a sequel or 3 with Daniel Zovatto

Aug 18, 2023: Watched “Once Upon a Time in the West”, Released in 1968, for the first time in a few years. Very entertaining

Aug 18, 2023: Got out the good headphones, the way I used to listen. I’ve had this record for almost 50 years. The sound is still amazing.

Aug 17, 2023: Molokaʻi Hoe Canoe Race canceled to prioritize Maui relief efforts

Aug 13, 2023: News organizations keep mentioning the the alert sirens didn’t go off on Maui. They don’t understand the purpose of the this system. It’s primarily a …

Aug 12, 2023: Lahaina had an annual Halloween party that was legendary, if not off the hook. Let’s find a way to continue it as a Fundraiser.

Aug 12, 2023: Notice

Aug 11, 2023:

Aug 11, 2023: I was in Lahaina in 2015 to watch Arsenal with @ mauigooner Roger and more recently to visit another friend. Great memories.

Aug 11, 2023: the NY Times came up with a map of damage in Lahaina

Aug 10, 2023: Myna bird fight

Aug 9, 2023: With the current round of price increase of streaming services, it’s time to take close look of what we acually watch and cancel a couple of things

Aug 6, 2023: Always worth a reminder.

Jul 27, 2023: Apple Maps still shows the Keauhou Beach hotel which closed on 2012 and was demolished in 2018.

Jul 20, 2023: Love this clip. You’re an ahole when you go up and an ahole when you get back

Jul 18, 2023: Not sold on Bluesky. Don’t see what it would give me that Mastodon doesn’t already.

Jul 14, 2023: One of the first photos I took on a mobile phone and one of the first photos I took on an iPhone.

Jul 9, 2023: slán go deo

Jul 9, 2023: Huh?

Jul 9, 2023: In 2005 I started a company to help local small business get on the web. Build them a website and get them plugged into social media. I did …

Jul 8, 2023: Yesterday we stopped by Sandy Beach. I spend a good part of youth at this beach body surfing, socializing and living the dream.

Jul 8, 2023: Good, they need to protect the sharks from attacks in their own home. New York steps up patrols off local beaches after slew of shark attacks

Jul 8, 2023: Had a very fun 2 days in the big city (Honolulu) with our grandsons. Rode the rail, mini golf, a short hike, met up with my daughter (38) did the …

Jul 8, 2023: Homeward bound. Short, but fun trip to Honolulu. 40 min flight back to Kona

Jul 7, 2023: Everything is amazing and nobody is happy

Jul 7, 2023: Windy day at the water park

Jul 7, 2023: Did all but one at Wet n Wild. The Tornado requires 4 people. My wife wasn’t game

Jul 6, 2023: Elon fired them. Ha ha ha Twitter Accuses Meta of Poaching Employees to Build Threads

Jul 6, 2023: Quite the view.

Jul 6, 2023: They hooked us up. 18th floor. Ocean view. Benefit of workin for a hotel chain

Jul 6, 2023: This was the uniform when I was in high school @tewha@appdot.net

Jul 6, 2023: Yum

Jul 6, 2023: Mini Golf with the grandsons. Lots of fun. Next 5 Guys burgers.

Jul 6, 2023: Can see Diamond Head across the Ewa plain from the Kualaka’i train station

Jul 6, 2023: First trip on Honolulu’s new rail

Jul 6, 2023: Have absolutely no in interest in Threads. Don’t use any other FB properties. No need to start now.

Jul 6, 2023: Honolulu bound for a couple of days.

Jul 5, 2023: I really think it time for businesses to stop saying “due to staffing issues we are doing this_____” Just say what you’re doing. Own it. We all know …

Jul 4, 2023: July 4th a few years back at the Parker Ranch rodeo. We lived practically next door to the arena

Jun 30, 2023: I have one that still works. I loved it, but my 13” M1 Air blows it away, and I only do the simplest of tasks these days > Apple moves 12-inch MacBook …

Jun 30, 2023: Not a problem with me. I’ve had an AMEX card since 1982. > Apple’s Card partnership could move from Goldman Sachs to American Express

Jun 30, 2023: Justice Thomas has his head so far up the right wing ‘okole (butt) he hasn’t seen daylight in decades US supreme court justices Thomas and Jackson …

Jun 30, 2023: Made it to 64 music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jun 29, 2023: Tired of London?

Jun 29, 2023: Remember when the headlight knob in the car was by your left knee and the high beam switch was on the floor near your left foot?

Jun 29, 2023: ❤️☹️youtube.com/watch

Jun 29, 2023: Truth. Speaks to the US situation too Execupundit.com: Scary and True

Jun 29, 2023: Arsenal had gone quiet on rice

Jun 29, 2023: That large growth in Hawaiian / Pacific islanders is not Hawaiians, it’s Micronesians, since we nuked the island into oblivion. We moved them, built …

Jun 28, 2023: #Arsenal are showing intent to kick some ‘okole (butt) next season.

Jun 27, 2023: If you watch the series “The Bear”, I managed at that level of intensity for 30 years. Thats why I’m just a line cook now. On one hand you love it and …

Jun 26, 2023: Thank you for the very helpful info Apple weather app. Great Dark Sky integration

Jun 26, 2023: When you’re slapped you’ll take it and like it. Maltese Falcon

Jun 25, 2023: Nature is getting even. Hope sharks don’t get wind of this. Orca attacks yacht off Shetland

Jun 25, 2023: F’ck him We can’t rest or relent’: Pence reiterates support of staunch abortion restrictions

Jun 25, 2023: “There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is …

Jun 24, 2023: If Warner Bros sells off the shows I like, then there’s no reason to keep them Max app Seeing more and more Discovery stuff creep in into my screen …

Jun 24, 2023: There are currently no bears in the bearcam webcam view. But it’s pretty relaxing just watching the stream. www.youtube.com/live/HsLv…

Jun 23, 2023: Now that I’m not working ALL OF THE F’N TIME, I’ve had time to get back into reading “Into the Cool” I know more about Thermodynamics than I ever …

Jun 23, 2023: what a list Essential Mixes So Far

Jun 23, 2023: Watching Casablanca. Because why not. I had the Laser Disc of Casablanca. As time goes by.

Jun 22, 2023: Put my Apple Watch back on after not wearing it for a week. Feels strange On another note. The jalapeño corn bread just came out of the oven

Jun 22, 2023: Really enjoyed Drops of God on AppleTV.

Jun 22, 2023: Since Arsenal didn’t get it done quickly, it’s inevitable that one of the big money clubs will swoop in and snatch Declan Rice. Move on the the next …

Jun 21, 2023: Forcing one’s beliefs on another person is one of the most un-American things of all She helped kill Roe v Wade - what does she want now?

Jun 21, 2023: I find it astounding that the medical industry still faxes referrals.

Jun 20, 2023: I had the top photo of Waikiki beach circa 1920s framed 25 years by a local frame shop. She closed down a long time ago. Finally found a close frame …

Jun 20, 2023: The Dodgers lack of off-season updates are coming back to roost. All of their competitors upgraded. A couple of injuries and they’re in the crapper.

Jun 19, 2023: My favorite part of cooking Cultural Offering on Tumblr

Jun 19, 2023: Yes, yes and yes. Hence, why I’m now a line cook. It’s really. Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

Jun 18, 2023: Turns out Saturday is not a good day for me to watch MLS. I work. Can watch early euro matches, not mid day and afternoon. Cancelled my subscription …

Jun 18, 2023: This letter was with the tickets

Jun 18, 2023: Came across my tickets from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics while looking for something else

Jun 17, 2023: Haven’t really used ChatGPT that much, most of my queries are simple single step searches. I have used it to give me a potential 2 week itinerary for …

Jun 17, 2023: With the continued staffing challenges, food service needs to re-tool. smaller, simpler menus and recipes. I said it to my former employers and they …

Jun 17, 2023: It’s different on an island. I grew up at the beach and in the ocean. Leaned to swim in the ocean. Took my daughter as a toddler. We take our …

Jun 16, 2023: classical.music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jun 16, 2023: Looking forward to a trip to O`ahu in a couple of weeks. An end of summer treat for our Grandsons and a getaway for us. We’ll check out the first …

Jun 16, 2023: Extraction II popped up on Netflix today. Never a bad day for an over the top action movie.

Jun 16, 2023: So Hawaii is one of the minority of states that DOES NOT pay out earned vacation or PTO when you leave. Sucks

Jun 15, 2023: What does a chef make on his day off. Most times simple fare. Today I wanted to play. Shrimp and orzo with a liliko’i (passion fruit) lemon butter …

Jun 15, 2023: A week of not wearing Apple watch. Still mostly know what time it is, my phone or the 3 clocks in the kitchen at work. Not sure how many steps today, …

Jun 15, 2023: Love this demo version of “While my Guitar Gently weeps”. So pure music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jun 15, 2023: In a George Harrison mood music.apple.com/us/playli…

Jun 15, 2023: Just watched Living with Bill Nighy. Loved it, all of the emotions

Jun 15, 2023: First days off since I started my new job. Loving the mental and emotional freedom of not being a manager. A day off is a day off. Ran into someone at …

Jun 15, 2023: Sunny and raining. Love the tropics

Jun 14, 2023: Starting to see Discovery network shows (of which I have no interest) creeping further up the screen in the Max app.

Jun 14, 2023: Looks Epic. www.execupundit.com/2023/06/h…

Jun 13, 2023: Ocean view is so subjective

Jun 13, 2023: Nice youtube.com/watch

Jun 13, 2023: New season of Foundation July 14. Yay

Jun 13, 2023: Never really a Rumsfeld fan by any reach. But this quote really does apply to many situations.

Jun 12, 2023: Good to hear. I’ve crossed that channel 21 times. It’s beast. I’ve crossing in a 1-man canoe, 2-man canoe and a 6 man canoe. Cross 3 times in be same …

Jun 12, 2023: Love the DNA test that I did a few years ago for Genealogical purposes sends me periodic emails. “You’ve got new DNA matches” 5th cousin 0.4% shared …

Jun 12, 2023: 50th Anniversary of Tubular Bells Amazing Headphones

Jun 11, 2023: Not using my Apple Watch much. The battery life is getting worse and I shouldn’t really be wearing it in the kitchen (health dept. regs). I also don’t …

Jun 10, 2023: An Offer You Can’t Refuse?

Jun 10, 2023: Need to spend some time in shortcuts. I don’t want shortcuts that in need to speak, I want situational shortcuts. Not sure if they do that. The Siri …

Jun 9, 2023: I guess Texas has money to burn, or to sink. Outcry as Texas to install ‘buoy barrier’ in Rio Grande to deter border crossings

Jun 9, 2023: Really hope this puts Trump out of our misery. My wife is not sure, still calls in Teflon Don.

Jun 9, 2023: They just bought Pro Golf and now this. > Saudi crown prince threatened ‘major’ economic pain on U.S. amid oil feud

Jun 7, 2023: Pele is back, but then, she never really left. We’ll make it over on my next day off.

Jun 6, 2023: First night as a line cook at the Outrigger Keauhou. Had a blast. Great team. Took me right in. This will be fun.

Jun 5, 2023: Was cleaning out a closet and finally got rid of 2 scanners, one high speed and one portable. Haven’t used them in years, use the Scanner Pro app.

Jun 5, 2023: Just made rib sticking chili, no beans and thick. coarse ground beef and pork.

Jun 5, 2023: More stuff added to MacOS, very cool, but my Mac is more of a task device. I open it up, do something, then put it back down. Then back on my phone.

Jun 5, 2023: Exciting

Jun 5, 2023: Not looking for new hardware this year, but IOS and WatchOS updates are exciting, my phone is my #1 device. Transcribing voicemails realtime will be …

Jun 4, 2023: I give up on getting my app.net archive. Good on @Manton for saving it, but I’m lost.

Jun 4, 2023: Playing with pasta. Homemade pasta with olive oil, butter, prosciutto, garlic and about 2 T of marinara sauce. Topped with fresh grated parm. Didn’t …

Jun 4, 2023: Seems as though cars with a “Be Blessed” or similar sticker or license plate frame are the most likely to cut you off or drive aggressively. My wife …

Jun 4, 2023: Stopped by the Marriott Waikoloa Beach hotel for a cold one. The last place I managed before the pandemic. Most of my staff still here. Great to …

Jun 4, 2023: I used to use an app to track sleep, then I realized I don’t need an app, my body tells me. I know when I’ve had enough or when I need a nap.

Jun 4, 2023: Overcast day. Nice. Not too hot Side note. They keep these trees nicely trimmed so people are hit on the noggin with coconuts

Jun 4, 2023: Wispy clouds

Jun 4, 2023: First Sunday off in 9 months. Straight to the beach. A day at Anaeho’omalu with the fam

Jun 4, 2023: My office in 2010, 2020 and now. Maybe soon it will just be my watch.

Jun 3, 2023: All west coast teams blacked out in Hawaii. www.espn.com/mlb/story…

Jun 3, 2023: I don’t code, but what I can do is create delicious and creative meals and stand in a hot restaurant kitchen for 8 hours and hammer out picture …

Jun 3, 2023: No clue, I mentioned earlier, this isn’t my thing. Followed instruction to get my ADN archive - this is what I get, but 15K lines. …

Jun 3, 2023: Changing back to the stock Apple mail app. Tired of fighting with apps

Jun 3, 2023: True

Jun 3, 2023: This is the pasta I’m making. Simple apple.news/AMR_GPY3W…

Jun 3, 2023: We had our bathrooms renovated over the past 2 weeks including new Toilets. With old toilets, you would stand and watch the water go round and round, …

Jun 3, 2023: I have a few days off between jobs. Making handmade pasta today. Haven’t had a Sunday off in 9 months, going to the beach tomorrow. Knocking out some …

Jun 3, 2023: Here we go

Jun 3, 2023: My nerdyness is confined to mostly hardware and networking.

Jun 3, 2023: I’m not nerdy enough to do anything with my ADN data. Can’t even figure out how to download posts. It’s relegated to great memories.

Jun 2, 2023: Yea. I’ll take some

Jun 2, 2023: Last shift as a Chef (manager of all things kitchen) was last night. A few days off and onward. I’ve worked every Sunday for the past 9 month. I’m off …

Jun 2, 2023: I got an early Father’s Day gift, the Taihiro Mechanical Keyboard. I love it. I’ll sweat it up with my Mac Mini too.

Jun 1, 2023: I created this Apple play list a few years ago for relaxing. This is traditional Hawaiian music at its best. Nahe Nahe means to relax or chill in …

Jun 1, 2023: youtu.be/yVhN-42PS…

May 31, 2023: Had a chance to tour kitchen I’ll be working in at the hotel and spend some time with the chef. Im getting excited about just being a cook. I’ve been …

May 31, 2023: When they put our new laminate flooring in, they just put it on top of the old one, which was on top of the previous one. That’s probably the last one …

May 31, 2023: I’m an aging geek, I grew up in the era of Heathkit and weekly trips to Radio Shack. At this point I don’t have the desire to tinker. Just want shit …

May 31, 2023: Would love to see Wednesday up in the EPL. Bring back some old rivalries. On another note, Stoke can just stay down.

May 31, 2023: The Honolulu StarAdvertiser charges more for a Digital only subscription than digital and print subscription. Must be because they see value in …

May 31, 2023: I’ve rediscovered the magazines and newspapers in Apple News+. I used to love magazines. Had a number of subscriptions through the years. I had …

May 30, 2023: Looking down at the water while sitting on the sea wall

May 30, 2023: My wife and I went for an early dinner, then sat in on the Kailua-Kona sea wall for sunset. You can see outrigger canoes heading back in after …

May 30, 2023: Add USA to streaming - fixed worldsoccertalk.com/news/the-…

May 30, 2023: There’s an old adage “Don’t make me think”, which refers to simplifying a website so it’s obvious what the user needs to do. It can also refer to …

May 29, 2023: Memorial day weather was nice, then this rolled in. Love the tropics

May 29, 2023: Memorial Day at Magic Sands beach park. Nice day. Big surf.

May 28, 2023: Other than the local morning news on week days, I’ve lost interest in the news. If something big happens I’m sure I’ll see it posted somewhere, …

May 28, 2023: I’ve had this mug for a few years. Starting to show wear

May 28, 2023: Where have I been? Mostly Hawaii; Kauai, Oahu, Molokai Lanai and Maui (I live in Hawaii island) Also Texas. Dallas and Austin North Dakota Kentucky …

May 28, 2023: Survived my 2nd to the last weekend at current employer. I inherited much of the staff and their set schedules of weekends off. Have struggled to …

May 28, 2023: Love how my wife hands me the remote and says I can watch what I want, then starts to vacuum.

May 28, 2023: NBC showed today that they CAN broadcast EVERY EPL match on Peacock at the same time. Enough with the USA network BS

May 27, 2023: worm hole youtu.be/scsJZ67ss…

May 27, 2023: Cut to the chase and go to the best of album music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 27, 2023: Hectic day at work. 12 days to go (I’m off 3 of them). Calls for a little dose of adulthood.

May 27, 2023: All 3 branches of our Federal government are F%ckd. For a very long time they have not a clue who they work for or why they were created. Starting to …

May 26, 2023: I really wanted like it. It’s just weird. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra… bad

May 26, 2023: Spring Hawaiian Sky

May 26, 2023: Shifting gears to the Depeche Mode music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 26, 2023: IFTTT free account only allows 6 applets, I have 1 active and want to add 1 more, but there are 14 in my archive that can’t resorted to be reopened to …

May 26, 2023: I love this song music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 26, 2023: Here are all of the answers if you have to take a drug test.

May 25, 2023: On the wall in my mechanics garage

May 25, 2023: The rain is really coming down now. We are on the lee side of the island and rain not associated with large low pressure systems it not common

May 25, 2023: Rainy afternoon in Kona. That wasn’t in the forecast.

May 25, 2023: José Mourinho reveals ‘deep feelings’ for all his former clubs – except Tottenham Even Jose dislikes the Spuds

May 25, 2023: I don’t know about all of this “woke” crap, but I have woke up every morning for almost 64 years, often more than once a day. Seems like a good thing …

May 24, 2023: Can we just vote no one to be President and leave it empty? Same difference.

May 24, 2023: Dehydrating habaneros

May 24, 2023: 1 big thing: Fake sugar’s real risks Not new news. I use mostly honey.

May 24, 2023: Everything else

May 24, 2023: Memories

May 24, 2023: Rewatching the movie Traffic from 2000. It stand up to time.

May 23, 2023: Offer letter signed. 16 days left as a manager. Been a heck of a run. Now to the other side of the tracks as a union employee.

May 23, 2023: Yep Today Is the Launch of Max, and It Sucks Even More Than I Thought It Would

May 23, 2023: I’ve been using the MB app to browse Mastodon, but the Ivory app is so nice, I have both open now.

May 23, 2023: HBO Max officially now ‘Max,’ abandons native tvOS video player and Apple TV ‘Up Next’ More bad news from an already questionable launch

May 22, 2023: the Glass app looks interesting, but I don’t need it. Not a photographer, between MB and Mastodon, that’s enough

May 22, 2023: Just read an extensive conversation on app subscriptions. I not pro or con. I make a decision per app. I’ve gone back to stock apple apps when I felt …

May 22, 2023: My two favorite knives. One German one Japanese. Just went through my sharpening routine. I use 3 whetstones. 1000, 3000 and 10,000 grit. The 10k is a …

May 21, 2023: in 2015 I managed an Apple and Bose reseller, we were all certified by Apple, my Service manager had worked for Apple back in Philly. I was not fully …

May 20, 2023: Nice to THFC lose and drop out of the Europa zone. Up the Arsenal

May 19, 2023: Really love Radio Paradise reminds me of old FM radio with no commercials. I often keep the mellow mix on in the background. The Rock mix is good for …

May 19, 2023: Queue up The Smiths playlist Andy Rourke was the other melodic genius in the Smiths: spry, funky and masterful

May 19, 2023: Over the past few weeks I’ve hit a wall. After 40 years, I don’t want to be a manager anymore. I don’t want to deal with ordering, cost control, labor …

May 19, 2023: Dr Beach’s top 10 beaches Hawaii has 3 in the top 10. Don’s necessarily agree. Duke Kahanamoku Beach is Waikiki Beach. Here is Dr. Beach’s top 3 St. …

May 18, 2023: Apple Music and Apple TV Services Currently Down [Updated] I knew it. Just used the Roku and Amazon Music

May 18, 2023: Guess I should get comfortable

May 18, 2023: Can I help you?

May 18, 2023: IGY music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 17, 2023: I’m In the Mood for This Me too SISU

May 17, 2023: The Arsenal is done and dusted (though safely and unexpectedly secured 2nd) and I have no desire to watch Manshitty get the financial malfeasance …

May 17, 2023: Pizza Express staff protest as waiters’ hours cut and managers told to do more Sounds very familiar. Cut staff hours our don’t hire and managers (or …

May 16, 2023: On the box of my bed pillow. I love naps now.

May 16, 2023: After 7 months of being Chef at an independent restaurant group (3 units) I’m close to making a change to simply being the lead cook at a near by …

May 16, 2023: We’re upgrading the flooring in our kitchen and bathrooms. The kitchen is half done. New on the left. It’s a Koa wood laminate. Broader grain and …

May 14, 2023: Love this album

May 13, 2023: My wife had a surprise for me after a 13 hour day

May 13, 2023: London’s Liverpool Street station redevelopment: on the wrong track? Hope they sort this out. When we were in London, we stayed near Liverpool St. …

May 13, 2023: End of a love affair: AM radio is being removed from many cars Don’t recall the last time I tuned to AM radio. Seemed it was mostly sports and talk

May 12, 2023: I help people have a good time. www.youtube.com/watch

May 12, 2023: This is interesting. The premise is that ChatGPT et al are killing “link farms”. This makes sense. The results in ChatGPT do not have links. I asked …

May 11, 2023: I’ve been managing restaurants for a really long time. Kitchen manager at TGI Fridays in Honolulu in 1980. Have bobbed and weaved through the industry …

May 11, 2023: This is eye opening, camped there as a kid. Researchers from UH Manoa’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology evaluated Hanauma Bay for five years. They …

May 11, 2023: I didn’t know Google Earth was still a thing, I remember how cool it was when it came out. Playing around, this view shows Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount …

May 11, 2023: My wife is considering switching to a roller ball, for ergonomic reasons. She’s never used one. Her work machine is Lenovo with 2 monitors (from work …

May 10, 2023: Hope they don’t follow mobile phone companies and reward new subscribers and penalize those who have stayed with them > Disney+ and Hulu will merge …

May 10, 2023: Took wife’s car in for service. Been using the same mechanics for 20 years. Cools guys, they say they’re in business not for the money, but because …

May 10, 2023: In all fairness, this guitar duet. Two greats. Gabby Pahinui and Peter Moon I grew up in Waialae, where this song is about youtube.com/watch

May 10, 2023: This guitar solo youtube.com/watch

May 9, 2023: Every lyric of this song. Today music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 9, 2023: Managing a restaurant, any part of a restaurant, is not fun anymore. I currently manage only a kitchen. Prior to the pandemic, staffing shortages, …

May 9, 2023: Side benefit of getting my wife a Dyson Hair Dryer, I don’t hear a jet engine in her bathroom every morning.

May 9, 2023: Not sure what changed, but my Mastodon feed is now showing up in MB this morning. I set that up a few weeks ago.

May 8, 2023: worldsoccertalk.com/news/whic… Arsenal. 97 consecutive seasons in the top flight. No other club even close

May 8, 2023: Cool looking Mac

May 8, 2023: I guess the FA has no intention of holding them accountable for financial malfeasance. It’s a stacked deck against the rest of the league. Man City …

May 8, 2023: A themal image of the parking lot fronting our condo

May 8, 2023: Draft management plan available for Kapāpala Canoe Forest on Big Island Really should have started this decades ago. I know it was discussed. I used …

May 8, 2023: I Know the Motive Behind Every Mass Shooting It’s the F’n guns.

May 7, 2023: Killed another one Woodford Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Yum

May 6, 2023: Worked all day, finally got to watch the derby. Good on the long shot. Fun race to watch. Came back from a “relaxed” start

May 6, 2023: Yep. Right about there !

May 6, 2023: Derby Day. It was a big deal in our home growing up. My Mom was from Louisville.

May 5, 2023: Taking my website down May 26th. Just turned off renewal. Not using it anymore.

May 5, 2023: My weekend is over. Back to work tomorrow.

May 5, 2023: Los Habaneros for Cinco De Mayo dinner Yum www.habaneroskona.com

May 5, 2023: Went for a morning walk along one of our favorite paths. It runs on the makai (towards the ocean) side of the Hualalai Resort and the Four Seasons …

May 5, 2023: Still not biting on Bluesky. Don’t have the time or bandwidth for another network. When Twitter started melting down, I set up my RSS feed to be my …

May 5, 2023: The IOS system to move a new phone is pretty seamless and simple. It’s the apps that have an issue. Logging back into everything. The Android system …

May 4, 2023: Current status music.apple.com/us/album/…

May 4, 2023: Got my wife a Dyson hair dryer. She’s talked about her hair dresser having one and how good it is, but she’s too frugal to get one for herself. She …

May 4, 2023: So many of Pink Floyd’s ( Syd Barrett and Roger Waters) lyrics from the 60s & 70s are just as pertinent today as they were then.

May 4, 2023: New toilets secured. Bathroom renovation advances. The current ones were put in when the condo was built 23 years ago

May 4, 2023: Black Hawk Down just popped up on my Netflix. What a stunning movie. The ineptitude, arrogance and lack of understanding of that world by Americans …

May 2, 2023: Just renewed Mailbox.org for another year. No issues to report. It just works, and it’s secure.

May 2, 2023: During the Lockdown I used to watch Swiss Railroad POV videos. Early on I used airplay coffee shop videos on the TV while I read. Now I watch @dejus …

May 1, 2023: took this photo last year on my way back from California (home to Hawaii), over the Pacific

May 1, 2023: Does anyone know what this crane this is on a cruise ship. It goes up, then comes down periodically. We then here in Kailua bay

May 1, 2023: I had a Palm Pre. Loved WebOS, the hardware was mostly crap. The slider jammed a lot. The cards interface is now in IOS I didn’t get the first iPhone, …

May 1, 2023: Got my replacement phone from Apple very fast. Apple care replaced for failed charge port. I use the port more for wired headphones than charging, but …

May 1, 2023: finished the series Extrapolations on Apple+. they portray a scary, but plausible future. Not good for our Grandsons.

May 1, 2023: That first sip of coffee in the morning.

Apr 29, 2023: 2/3 of the way through Extrapolations on Apple+. The premise is an interesting way to look at the future. It’s a fascinating thought experiment.

Apr 29, 2023: A morning rainbow 🌈

Apr 29, 2023: Been cleaning out the number of domain names I owned down to the 3 I actually use. Likely going to let one of those go soon

Apr 28, 2023: With MLB blackouts and no cable, the only chance I have to see the Dodgers is on Friday night baseball

Apr 28, 2023: They managed to slip in “Statcast powered by Google cloud” on Apple Friday night baseball

Apr 28, 2023: Rainy afternoon. But then there’s this

Apr 28, 2023: Just listened to Nilay Patel’s interview with Eugen Rochko, founder of Mastodon. Don’t get the impression he cares if everyone likes Mastodon. They’ve …

Apr 28, 2023: Charge port on my 13 Pro doesn’t work anymore. Going all wireless I guess. Gonna try Apple Care

Apr 28, 2023: My wife just booked her (almost) annual trip back to N. Dakota to see her family. I only went with her twice. Once to meet her family after we were …

Apr 27, 2023: Just looked out of curiosity. My first Day One entry was Tuesday January 11, 2011. 20,040 entries.

Apr 27, 2023: Rarely drink during my work week, but on my day off…

Apr 27, 2023: New flooring picked out (Golden Koa laminate) and delivered for bathrooms and kitchen. Picking up baseboards later today. New toilets will be …

Apr 27, 2023: We seem to be getting more storms, but they blow through faster

Apr 27, 2023: Bottles Truffle oil, water, olive oil, garlic oil

Apr 26, 2023: Ready for the night Truffle oil, water, olive oil and garlic oil

Apr 26, 2023: See a cattle Egret in our neighborhood now and then. They are usually in marsh areas.

Apr 26, 2023: Injuries killed the Arsenal chances for the 2nd season in a row. We know what they need; squad depth. At least there’s the UCL and the the money …

Apr 26, 2023: Had Mr In-Between in my Hulu queue for a quite a while, finally got to watching it. Really like it. The Aussie humor is priceless

Apr 26, 2023: One of our local banks (Central Pacific Bank), the one we use, has reported an increase in deposits.

Apr 25, 2023: Bluesky looks interesting, but I have enough conversations going on between ADM and Mastodon I couldn’t keep up with another

Apr 25, 2023: There’s a big battle here between people who want to feed and care for feral cats and the Dept. of Land and Natural Resources who are trying to …

Apr 24, 2023: One year ago I saw the Dodger at Petco and this guy was roaming outfield during warm ups.

Apr 24, 2023: Don Lemon was kind of the anti Tucker Carlson during Trump years. Ironic that they are both gone the same day.

Apr 22, 2023: Lots of rain up mauka (towards the mountain). Guessing we’ll get some.

Apr 20, 2023: Back end of day off

Apr 20, 2023: “Rapid unscheduled disassembly” Sounds like a lot of business game plans gone awry www.inverse.com/science/s…

Apr 18, 2023: The county is repaving Kuakini Road in Kona. I drive it daily. I find myself still driving around the place where potholes previously existed

Apr 18, 2023: Convinced 12 hour decongestants only work for 10 hours and 20 min.

Apr 18, 2023: Arsenal will undoubtedly be in the UCL next year. But this goal leaking issue needs to be fixed straight off. Last year’s end of season was not good. …

Apr 15, 2023: looks like I’m going to stay up late to catch my Daughter’s halau in Merrie Monarch

Apr 15, 2023: Every time I’m asked to check box that says I’m not a robot, I have to stop and think about it. I’ve been going to work for nearly 50 years continuing …

Apr 15, 2023: Productive and fun 2 days off, we went to Hilo (the other side of the island - 2 hours drive) to take in the Merrie Monarch Hula Festival festivities …

Apr 14, 2023: Stayed up late to see my Daugher’s halau performance in the Merrie Monarch.

Apr 14, 2023: So it seems pretty much all MLS matches are on Saturdays. I work on Saturday, so this won’t work.

Apr 14, 2023: We had a great time taking in the Merrie a monarch festivities in Hilo yesterday. My daughter’s halau is participating. This is a portion of a …

Apr 14, 2023: Been playing with Hipstamatic, but can’t find zoom.

Apr 13, 2023: The Craft show circuit

Apr 13, 2023: We’re pretty much destroying this Hawaiian plate.

Apr 13, 2023: We’re off to Hilo to take the Merrie Monarch festival festivities. www.merriemonarch.com

Apr 12, 2023: I don’t directly have a dog (so to speak) in the abortion fight, but I do believe in a wahine’s (woman) right to control their own health decisions. I …

Apr 12, 2023: The opening scene of Mandalorian chapter 23 looks haunting like Blade Runner

Apr 11, 2023: I’m uploading an older Twitter archive. The vast majority of my Tweets the past couple of years have been cross-posts from MB Mahalo @Manton for doing …

Apr 11, 2023: I’m uploading an older Twitter archive. The vast majority of my Tweets the past couple of years have cross-posts from MB Mahalo @Manton for doing this …

Apr 11, 2023: .

Apr 10, 2023: In 2019-2020 I lost 80#. Mostly by eliminating most sugar and simple carbs and retraining my brain to only eat when I’m hungry and stop eating when …

Apr 10, 2023: Just rewatched Tinker Tailor for the umpteenth time. Never gets old and see new details every time youtu.be/Oea1AJSMV…

Apr 10, 2023: Another shooting. Kentucky this time. I came across this website on gun violence. The Southeast US. They just keep killing each other. So Cal not too …

Apr 8, 2023: Not sure what else to attribute it to, but my 13 Pro battery life has gotten markedly worse coincidentally after the last update to 16.5

Apr 7, 2023: Had a great outing to Hawaii Botanical Gardens. It goes from up high (Mauka) down to the sea (Makai). Took a couple of pics with Hipstamatic

Apr 7, 2023: Heading to Hawaii Botanical gardens for a day hike with grandsons. Nice day in the rainforest. htbg.com/plan-your…

Apr 6, 2023: In Nutcracker Suite Dance of the flowers the Harp, flutes and clarinets are so delicate, the French horns make a statement, but the violins are …

Apr 6, 2023: Listening to Nutcracker suite. Usual a Holiday listen, but if conjures up feelings of such happiness and delight, it’s a good listen anytime. …

Apr 6, 2023: Off work before sunset for a change. I’m usually seeing it from the kitchen

Apr 5, 2023: The Pandemic sure brought out the best & worst in people. Lots of high profile people came out of the closet as far right wing-nuts. Someone my wife …

Apr 4, 2023: I don’t think Trump getting charged is unprecedented. Doctor, Lawyer, Indian chief or former grand pubah. You break the law and get caught, you pay. …

Apr 4, 2023: The one thing I’ve learned in 40+ years in the restaurant that holds true through the years and is a basis for success “hot food hot, cold food cold”

Apr 3, 2023: My Quiver Fish knife for cutting fillets from loins Every day utility french knife 2 vegetable and fruit knives. One for softer and one for harder …

Apr 3, 2023: Hawaii ranks first in preventing COVID deaths Side benefit of being in the middle of the ocean and a more liberal and tolerant community …

Apr 2, 2023: Hoping Bending Spoons gives Evernote a real export option.

Apr 1, 2023: I’ve got nothing but thyme

Apr 1, 2023: Bought a little over a pound of thinly sliced Boar’s Head Roast beef this week. Had a Philly style cheese steak sandwich one day, a “Dagwood” style …

Mar 31, 2023: Likely going to cancel my Washington Post subscription since I decided to support the Guardian. Trust the Guardian more. WaPo has had some missteps …

Mar 31, 2023: I supported the Texas Observer not because I feel a need to keep up on Texas news, but because I believe Texas needs a strong voice on the other side. …

Mar 31, 2023: For years, in the AM and I’d go straight to email, etc. It used to be that I relied on connections with people in earlier time zone. Hawaii is last in …

Mar 30, 2023: Typically when I come across something interesting on my phone, I email it to myself. With the Arc IOS companion I can now pin it to a space in my Arc …

Mar 30, 2023: I learn something new every single day, whether I try or not. Sometimes something so mundane.

Mar 30, 2023: Credit to Apple’s Symphony app. I actually listened to this entire piece rather than just The Blue Danube So upbeat and jovial. I want to go do …

Mar 29, 2023: Really liked the Matter app I’m maxed out on subscriptions. Thinking what I would cancel to justify their $60/yr. Nothing right now

Mar 28, 2023: Rhapsody in Blue classical.music.apple.com/us/album/…

Mar 28, 2023: Listening to Ravel’s Bolero from 1974 by the NY Philharmonic. What an epic piece.

Mar 28, 2023: I’ve been playing with the Classical app. I don’t have deep knowledge of the genre like I do with Hawaiian music, but I’m fine with the app. I’m sure …

Mar 28, 2023: classical.music.apple.com/us/record…

Mar 28, 2023: Talking about the latest shooting. I do not understand the idea that when you are mad at someone or someplace you fire a gun. It totally eludes me. If …

Mar 28, 2023: Another social network. If I was younger, sure. But no thanks

Mar 28, 2023: My wife has and iPad mini 2 that she uses every night to read her “fluffy” apps. It still works.

Mar 27, 2023: My first listen on the Apple Classical app Johan Strauss II. The Blue Danube Waltz classical.music.apple.com/us/album/…

Mar 27, 2023: Just got the Apple Classical app, didn’t expect it until tomorrow.

Mar 27, 2023: I love the Great 78 RPM Project …

Mar 27, 2023: Today we could clearly see the snow still lingering on Mauna Loa. The top photo was from last week when we were at Volcano Nat’l on the east, bottom …

Mar 27, 2023: Today we could clearly see the snow still lingering on Mauna Loa. The top photo was from last week when we were at Volcano Nat’l on the east, bottom …

Mar 27, 2023: Very sad to see this tree down at Holoholokai beach park from last month’s storm. That tree was the primary shade. I used to go to that park with my …

Mar 27, 2023: One of the things I did to stay up on daily news as I moved away from Twitter and most media went off the rails was to sign up for some daily emails …

Mar 26, 2023: Still haven’t had COVID. Not trying to get it, just use common sense

Mar 26, 2023: Finally killed this birthday present from last year. To be fair, I had a few other libations as a distraction

Mar 26, 2023: I’ve been to one MLB (Dodger) opening day, 1982, I recall the pomp and circumstance and we beat the Giants, but not much else. It was a long time ago. …

Mar 25, 2023: I’m at the back of the boomer generation at 64, the passing of my Dad’s bro late last year made me the oldest person in my family on both sides. I am …

Mar 24, 2023: We often walked by Gordon Moore’s big house here on Hawaii island walking the shoreline trail. He was spotted on a golf cart from time to time.

Mar 23, 2023: Love this version music.apple.com/us/album/…

Mar 23, 2023: We’re constantly trying too impress upon our Grandsons the effect algorithms have on people. How primarily putting only things that agree with their …

Mar 23, 2023: With TikTok in the news today, my wife and had an AM coffee discussion on algorithms in the social space, I avoid them, don’t use FB or any of their …

Mar 22, 2023: West Hawaiʻi Vietnam War Memorial to be dedicated on 50th anniv. I remember Viet Nam like it was yesterday. I was a kid, but soldiers stopped in …

Mar 22, 2023: I don’t know what’s worse (re: the Fed’s rate hike). Managing inflation or trashing the financial markets. As I’m closer to retirement, trashing the …

Mar 22, 2023: “The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are” I have found as I got into my 60s and I can feel every sports injury I’ve …

Mar 22, 2023: I’m keep the twitter app because there a few people I follow and communicate with on there that haven’t migrated away yet. When I opened the app …

Mar 22, 2023: Some Things I think about daily My wife’s work schedule (meeting etc. she works at home so I need to be quiet) What hurts today If everyone showed up …

Mar 21, 2023: Finished all 5 seasons of Luther just under wire. Leaves Hulu in 10 days. I’ll watch the movie later this week.

Mar 21, 2023: Hoping Arc’s mobile browser is close.

Mar 20, 2023: My favorite pic from our trip to Hawaii Volcano Nat’l park. Saturday morning. Halema’uma’u crater with Mauna Loa in the background with snow on the …

Mar 20, 2023: An oldie, but goodie

Mar 20, 2023: Saw rumblings on the left that some are upset that they’re going after Trump for the Stormy Daniels scandal rather “bigger” things. The Gov’t has had …

Mar 19, 2023: #Arsenal 8 points clear at the International break. Then A 10 match sprint to the finish.

Mar 18, 2023: A beautiful song about Kauai. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Mar 18, 2023: Just walking into Macy’s, you feel like they are going to crash and burn anytime

Mar 18, 2023: Snow from the February storms still on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa

Mar 18, 2023: Trail cut though rock.

Mar 18, 2023: This trail is feat of engineering built decades ago down a slope through a rain forest.

Mar 18, 2023: Halema’uma’u crater from above and at crater level

Mar 17, 2023: After all we are on an active volcano

Mar 17, 2023: The obligatory stop at Punalu’u bake shop in Ka’u on the way to Volcano. Fresh Malasadas

Mar 17, 2023: Stop making sense 4K restoration Can’t wait. Saw Taking Heads in concert during that period in LA kottke.org/23/03/sto…

Mar 16, 2023: ha ha ha

Mar 16, 2023: The first website I built was in 2000, I’m long since out of that game, but those were fun times. We founded this outrigger canoe paddling association …

Mar 15, 2023: We’re going on a short Staycation here this Friday. Taking our grandsons. It’s a 2 hour drive, but a world away. hawaiivolcanohouse.com

Mar 15, 2023: T-Mo bought Mint Mobile. Was with T-Mo, for a long time. They helped us get out of an onerous Sprint contract. We moved to Spectrum Mobile a couple of …

Mar 14, 2023: music.apple.com/us/album/…

Mar 14, 2023: I’m a lifelong Dodger fan, season ticket holder in the early 80’s. Cutting cable & MLB’s blackout policy has made me more a tacit fan. Only catch …

Mar 14, 2023: Happy Pi day

Mar 14, 2023: Looks like ESPN (or someone impersonating them) created 3 Mastodon accounts and have 0 posts and single digit followers and 0 follows. Still looking …

Mar 14, 2023: The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist JR. youtu.be/zu7Gj1uUI…

Mar 13, 2023: Got this in the mail today. I used to read a lot of physics and such. I find it fascinating and the kind of reading where you need to pay attention or …

Mar 13, 2023: Here’s that stat #Arsenal

Mar 12, 2023:

Mar 12, 2023: I believe that with that 3-nil today over Fulham today that #Arsenal kept a clean sheet against all of the other London clubs. A first in EPL history. …

Mar 11, 2023:

Mar 11, 2023: I lived (with my ex) in California from late 1980 to late 1985. I worked for TGI Fridays and came home after our daughter was born. I can’t find a …

Mar 10, 2023: Guess it’s good news that we are spread over a couple different financial institutions. Already got an email from our primary bank telling us about …

Mar 10, 2023: I erased these 2 guys, not bad @pratik

Mar 10, 2023: Post a great album with no explanation. Tag others to do the same. @rcrackley @hawaiiboy @tracydurnell @odd

Mar 10, 2023: Rabbit Island Music Festival music.apple.com/us/album/…

Mar 10, 2023: I loves this entire album. 1973 2 of the songs are about places I lived on Oahu. Waialae and Palolo. Classic Hawaiian Music.

Mar 10, 2023: Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band from 1974 Every thing about this song is amazing. Instrumentation, vocals, arrangement. Blues artist Ry Cooder was on this …

Mar 10, 2023: This was written in 2015 and it’s still true today. If you don’t have cable, it’s even worse. MLB Brass Doesn’t Give a Damn About Hawaii.

Mar 10, 2023: Remember early in the pandemic, if you sneezed, people ran. Fun times.

Mar 9, 2023: Looking at an old document. I had a @webtv.net email address. Completely forgot about that.

Mar 9, 2023: I still use the Kardia device and app since an electro cardiologist suggested it when I was having heart issues a few years back. I use it now just to …

Mar 8, 2023: Fun thing about being connected with people around the world is the time differences. It’s 11:30pm HST here and I just got home from work. In Europe …

Mar 8, 2023: Pre shift pick me up. They’re down stairs from the restaurant

Mar 8, 2023: Watching Miles Davis, the Birth of Cool on Netflix. Fascinating. Kind of Blue was recorded and came out the summer I was born. The Dodgers also won …

Mar 8, 2023: I can’t imagine living in a big city. LA doesn’t count, it collection of smaller cities all piled together. I mean a metropolis type city. You know …

Mar 8, 2023: Something’s coming our way.

Mar 7, 2023: My EDC as a chef. Small flashlight to see what’s on bottom shelves in the walk-in and in the back of coolers. Gerber pocket blade for cutting and …

Mar 7, 2023: Just looked for a 60qt stock pot online. Found one for $98. Shipping to Hawaii: $468. WTF

Mar 7, 2023: Been watching a lot of older movies (1990s-2000s) that I’ve seen before, for no particular reason. Some hold up some not as much.

Mar 7, 2023: “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” Winston Churchill Philosophical

Mar 6, 2023: So fill to me the parting glass And drink a health whate’er befalls Then gently rise and softly call Good night and joy be to you all

Mar 6, 2023: Watching Pulp Fiction for the I don’t how many times, just because.

Mar 6, 2023: Mt Hualalai look so clear today

Mar 6, 2023: IOS started as web apps, looks like we may be going back in that direction.

Mar 4, 2023: After being down 2-nil, Arsenal snatch victory at the death. Wow!

Mar 3, 2023: 43 years ago. Damn culturaloffering.tumblr.com/post/7108…

Mar 3, 2023: iPod 5 video

Mar 3, 2023: I have 215gb of music that is independent of any app in on 2 different HDs. This is mostly from my CD Collection that was ripped in the late 90s …

Mar 3, 2023: Just watched Tar. Amazing performance. How fall the mighty have fallen.

Mar 2, 2023: Just watched Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) Delightful. www.imdb.com/title/tt1…

Mar 2, 2023: Everyone is California is posting snow pix. We have snow on Mauna Kea today

Mar 2, 2023: Just went on Twitter check on some Arsenal updates. Can’t see the feed for ads.

Mar 2, 2023: It’s stormy. Doors are slamming. Didn’t expect that, I just got home from work.

Mar 1, 2023: Used Instapaper since the beginning. I fell in and out of it as my flow changed and I’ve tried new apps. I’m back to it. Paid for Premium for the …

Feb 28, 2023: Oh well #NBCfail. Put the Arsenal match on USA where a cable account is required. So I read s live blog instead

Feb 27, 2023: The Kiawe trees are dancing in wind. Maybe not the best decision sitting under one. We’re so Lava Lava in Waikoloa

Feb 27, 2023: A little breezy

Feb 27, 2023: Not that long ago, this was every day. Still COVID free. 🤞

Feb 27, 2023: When we first moved to LA in 1981, having grown in Hawaii, we never saw snow in person. We took a drive up to Big Bear just to see snow, damn it was …

Feb 27, 2023: Turned off Stage manager on my Mac. Don’t' have enough windows open for it to be helpful. I use Spaces and have for years.

Feb 23, 2023: MS Word and Excel are by far the largest files on my MB Air. Decided to delete them both and use the online versions.

Feb 23, 2023: They come from a drying planet. youtu.be/KTpcF42lr… I can confirm this.

Feb 22, 2023: Waiting for season 2 of Foundation, Power of the Rings, Perry Mason, Wednesday, Mandalorian, Obi Wan, She Hulk and Dune 2. Not to mention a few other …

Feb 22, 2023: Hair is not a friend of age. It stops growing where you want it and starts growing where you don’t.

Feb 22, 2023: I binge watched so many shows and movies during the lockdown I almost can’t recall if I saw something already until I get into it.

Feb 22, 2023: Mid day pint (actually 14.9 oz).

Feb 22, 2023: I’ve been going back and rewatching the Star Wars movies. No particular sequence, just as a diversion. All in all they are very entertaining.

Feb 20, 2023: My M1 13” Air battery last for days of casual use. Love that machine.

Feb 20, 2023: music.apple.com/us/album/…

Feb 18, 2023: What if we went to Italy music.apple.com/us/album/…

Feb 18, 2023: I have late 2014 Mini Mac that stopped working a couple of years ago. Thought it was just dead. Just left it on the shelf it was on. Today it started …

Feb 18, 2023: Cold (by Hawaii standards) rainy day. Made orzo mac and cheese with rotisserie chicken. Rib sticking comfort food

Feb 17, 2023: My office for the night

Feb 17, 2023: Road to nowhere music.apple.com/us/album/…

Feb 17, 2023: I really like the Arc browser’s peek feature. “The best tab never made”

Feb 16, 2023: I’d like to give Apple Podcasts another whirl. but can’t find where in import OPML file. Maybe I’m missing something obvious.

Feb 16, 2023: Found my baseball. 20 yrs ago when I was building websites and setting up social media platforms for small businesses I had this baseball on my desk. …

Feb 15, 2023: That mood music.apple.com/us/album/…

Feb 15, 2023: What I really like about Dido is her music had a jazz foundation. Sade is kinda of the same. The underlying music is awesome. youtu.be/EGXtEE-YX…

Feb 15, 2023: A cluster of small rumbling earthquakes on the SE part of the island. Magma is on the move, but to where? There is new island forming way down deep …

Feb 14, 2023: The Valentines special for tonight. I came up with the recipe and concept, my team did the final plate set up. Macadamia nut crusted seared Ahi with …

Feb 14, 2023: Waiting for the Air Force to shoot down a high school science project that floats off course.

Feb 12, 2023: I really don’t agree with Eric Clapton’s politics, but I still like his music. 461 Ocean Blvd was a classic. My wife can’t separate the person and …

Feb 12, 2023: No Super Bowl for us. Not that I really want to watch, but we don’t have cable and don’t subscribe to Fox or any of the other live networks. So I’ll …

Feb 11, 2023: I’ve been listening to Dark side of the Moon for 50 years, and that David Gilmore Comfortably Numb guitar solo still gets me. Every single time.

Feb 11, 2023: FTW

Feb 11, 2023: You took your life, as lovers often do… music.apple.com/us/album/…

Feb 11, 2023: I met my wife in Nov 2004. We moved in together in Jan. and on St Patrick’s day I came home to a case of Guinness on the counter. I told myself right …

Feb 11, 2023: Among the people I know, I seem to be the lone wolf who is all-in with Apple Music. I had the mother lode of CDs that I ripped a number of years ago …

Feb 11, 2023: It’s not that Mastodon was difficult, but Ivory had made it easier. Less friction.

Feb 10, 2023: I did the same thing as Parag as soon as I saw the shot.

Feb 10, 2023: Watching the 2022 MLS Season Review to get up to speed for 2023. My first season all-in with MLS.

Feb 9, 2023: Really enjoying Wednesday on Netflix. Watched the Addams Family as a kid in the 60s youtu.be/ZZ5IWRz78…

Feb 9, 2023: Shoulda, coulda, woulda, oh well, move on.

Feb 8, 2023: I’d be way more interested in the MLS if they adopted promotion / Relegation. For now I pretty much watch matches one off

Feb 8, 2023: We’re doing a 5 year review of our revocable living trust. We created it after seeing what happened when my Dad passed. It was a mess. I strongly …

Feb 8, 2023: What happened in Turkey can happen to the older sections of any large American City. Older brick and wooden structures can’t hold up to that shaking.

Feb 5, 2023: I deleted my Twitter crossposting s few days ago.

Feb 5, 2023: A couple of shots from Waimea. I guess you could say, that’s the upcountry.

Feb 4, 2023: I opened the Twitter app for the first time in a couple weeks to check comments on the football matches. My feed is almost half ads. It hard to find …

Feb 4, 2023: This was what Waimea was like today. Still had a great time. The Pukalani farmer’s market, lunch at Village Burger, a walk through town and of course …

Feb 4, 2023: The cherry blossoms that didn’t blow off. The wind was howling in Waimea

Feb 4, 2023: Heading into Waimea for the annual Cherry Blossom festival. It’s wet and windy. Fun times.

Feb 3, 2023: We don’t have winter weather lock downs like people up North do, but we had COVID spikes none the less. Despite this and having worked right through …

Feb 3, 2023: Meeting of the minds. Nefarious moves indeed

Feb 2, 2023: My Great Grandfather (Giuseppe) his brother and my young grandfather. They had a bakery in Worcester, Mass. My dad had it colorized a few years ago. I …

Feb 1, 2023: I actually had a rudimentary website in 1999 hosted by a network provider in Hilo, they helped me set up my own server a couple of year later.

Feb 1, 2023: Listening to Ray LaMontagne and the Prairie Dogs. “Been howling at the moon like a slack jawed fool“ music.apple.com/us/album/…

Feb 1, 2023: Working on shutting down my personal website. The first post on the site was Feb. 10, 2003. It was an Einstein quote. “If you can’t explain it simply, …

Feb 1, 2023: IBM Centennial Film 100 X 100 A century of achievements have changed the world. I’ve been an Apple user since the first Mac, but I had and IBM 20 PC …

Feb 1, 2023: Bad British Baseball Commentary youtu.be/lKY5fmDGV…

Feb 1, 2023: Does anyone else remember the relational database / spreadsheet program Lucid 3D? It came out before Excel when we all using Lotus 123 and did some …

Feb 1, 2023: Cadbury Commercial from 2020, love it. It captured our reality. youtu.be/kU9bENZ_0…

Feb 1, 2023: Whatever they say it’s not, that’s what it is.

Feb 1, 2023: Love this photo. The ties, Ringo on the Bongos, the cigarette on the left

Feb 1, 2023: Pulled the trigger and subscribed to the Apple MLS package. Go LAFC

Jan 31, 2023: Sunset from the kitchen l

Jan 30, 2023: Seeing a story this AM about the final 747 being delivered, despite seeing them at Hawaii airports since they first came out, I don’t recall ever …

Jan 29, 2023: I have so many screen shots from trying to turn down my iPhone volume with one hand and hitting the power button too.

Jan 28, 2023: My office. Pretty darned analog. Only the tablets that orders come in on are connected.

Jan 28, 2023: I used to change my Wi-Fi name often just for fun. But with so many devices connected in our place, it’s more of a hassle than it’s worth.

Jan 27, 2023: And of course the 2nd album on the new headphones That shape is my shade, where I used to stand. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 27, 2023: Got my new 1MORE SonoFlow headphones. The album I listened to was Wish you were here. …and by the way, which one’s Pink music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 27, 2023: Kitchen routine. my daily kitchen routine Get in about and hour before my team. Check every station for what sold last night (chicken, fish, shrimp, steaks, etc) Check …

Jan 27, 2023: Lots of posts on the Things app update. Sounds interesting. I was a Things user for a long time when I managed at a high level at resort hotels. Now …

Jan 26, 2023: Apple Maps shows the Keauhou Beach hotel which closed about 6 years ago and was torn down about 3 years ago.

Jan 24, 2023: Watched “If these walls could talk” on Disney+. I’ll watch it again. I’m a music person. Amazing stories from the musicians from before the Beatles in …

Jan 24, 2023: Rewatching Dune 2021. This time with headphones.

Jan 24, 2023: We continue to have about 75% of applicants confirm an interview and never show.

Jan 24, 2023: I’ve been on Mastodon for quite a while, Ivory makes it better. The true nature of Twitter was masked by the quality of Tweetbot. it’s intolerable …

Jan 21, 2023: My Wife and I went on date. Watched this cruise ship pulling out of Kona Bay at Sunset

Jan 21, 2023: Then there’s this. Saturday afternoon. Got off a little early kind of mood. Sometimes we give, sometimes we don’t. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 21, 2023: How about this gem from many years ago music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 21, 2023: Looks like the Matter app won’t let me read anything until I go premium. Love the app, but don’t use it enough.

Jan 20, 2023: I’ve been working 7 days/wk since losing one of my 2 assts to a medical situation 2 weeks ago. Some days I do just go in for 90 min in the AM to let …

Jan 19, 2023: True Twitter, John Siracusa: twitter.com/siracusa/…

Jan 18, 2023: This album came out in 1978. Doesn’t seem late long ago. It still sounds amazing. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 18, 2023: Enjoying that glass of whisky on the back lanai Yum

Jan 18, 2023: Just finished this bottle that I got for my birthday last year. Redbreast is my favorite so I tend to stretch it. The glass says “ I’m here to kick …

Jan 18, 2023: Why, he’s no different than he was then CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section: Trump campaign has asked Meta to unblock the former president’s …

Jan 18, 2023: Very clear and calm morning, so the VOG (volcanic haze) will be bad. The tint of orange in the sunrise is from the VOG. Nice to see Mauna Loa peaking …

Jan 18, 2023: Maybe

Jan 17, 2023: I haven’t looked at the official Twitter App in a really long time. It’s really spammy. So many ads.

Jan 16, 2023: I still used Twitter to follow Football (soccer) news. Also followed a lot of foodies, until last Thursday. I rarely look at my phone for the 10 hours …

Jan 16, 2023: This place is stunning. We live in a little condo we’re fine. It’s still Hawaii and still home. bigislandnow.com/2023/01/1…

Jan 15, 2023: Late night listening while finishing up. Making Gumbo for tomorrow music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 15, 2023: Arsenal went to White Hart lane and stuck to their game. Playing like a champion should. The Spuds asked some questions, but Ramsdale and the back …

Jan 14, 2023: Just finished season 1 of Perry Mason on HBO. Really enjoyed it. All of the other Perry Mason stories were of an old Perry Mason. This was him at the …

Jan 14, 2023: Love the snark in this Saturday post from @Arseblog.

Jan 13, 2023: Music is so important to me that I would delete everything else from my phone before I’d delete the music. Just saying

Jan 13, 2023: “You could say I lost my belief in the politicians, they all seem like game show hosts to me”. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 13, 2023: That missile attack mistake was 5 years ago. My wife and I were talking about it. The thing is, at the time, we both thought a missile attack was …

Jan 12, 2023: No 3rd party app, no Twitter

Jan 11, 2023: I bought this album at Vinyl Donuts in Kapahulu back in high school 1975. I listened to it very loud with big headphones, like I am right now. RIP …

Jan 11, 2023: First clear day in a week

Jan 10, 2023: Don’t think #TheClientele will every come to Hawaii, but there’s YouTube. youtu.be/pPICBmnli…

Jan 10, 2023: The Pale Blue Eye. Big fan of Christian Bale www.imdb.com/title/tt1…

Jan 10, 2023: If the current eruption of Kilauea continues for a long spell with the resulting VOG (volcanic haze) we will see recent arrivals who moved here …

Jan 9, 2023: From Hawaiian Chili Peppers came Hawaiian Chili pepper water. Watch out tomorrow’s lbreakfast eggs, you’re about to get kicked up

Jan 9, 2023: Hawaiian chili peppers

Jan 9, 2023: Just stumbled on this while looking for something else. My Das used play Platters albums when I was young. One of my first musical memories. …

Jan 9, 2023: Well, since Kilauea decided to wake up last week the volcanic haze is back. We brought our big air purifier back out. We bought this during the really …

Jan 9, 2023: Born in the 50s music.apple.com/us/album/…

Jan 8, 2023: Just finished watching Kaleidoscope on Netflix. Interesting concept. I watched it in the order on the site, but they said it could be watched in any …

Jan 8, 2023: My best friend and I would play Risk in the stairwell of his Mom’s Condo back in the early 70s. We’d play for hours. …

Jan 8, 2023: My best friend and I would play Risk in the stairwell of his Mom’s Condo back in the early 70s. We’d play for hours. …

Jan 7, 2023: Concur

Jan 6, 2023: I’m glad I live in a liberal state not connected to the others. At least we have the senate.

Jan 6, 2023: We don’t have a volcano in Kona, but we do have this

Jan 5, 2023: Thar she blows. www.usgs.gov/volcanoes…

Jan 5, 2023: That wasn’t long, Kilauea has lava back on the surface

Jan 3, 2023: Remember when CES had CB radios, video recorders, the Altair 8800 and VCR cameras. The good old days.

Jan 3, 2023: Finally opening my last Christmas present on my first day off of the new year

Jan 3, 2023: #NowPlaying “Blue Hawaiian Moonlight” by Gabby Pahinui on @Sonos Nahenahe

Jan 3, 2023: After years of volcanic haze, it still feels so amazing to have it this clear…and snow still on Mauna Loa into the new year.

Jan 3, 2023: Seems like all of the podcasts I normally listen to are on holiday hiatus. So I’m just listening to music on my short commute

Jan 3, 2023: Hawaii has the second worst roads. Don’t we know it. On Hawaii Island we know it’s bad, it’s a very rural island the county is challenged keep up …

Jan 2, 2023: Reading about AR glasses coming out soon. Not much of it interests me, though it would be cool to have the recipe I’m working on in the kitchen …

Jan 1, 2023: Listening to my 2017 Apple Music replay. I listened to a lot of Santana and The Clientele that year. Nothing wrong with that.

Jan 1, 2023: Dark Sky is really dark now

Jan 1, 2023: The social media Watching Meet the Press on how we manage social media. Nice follow up discussion with my wife on the subject. We have different views. I don’t use …

Dec 31, 2022: Well here we go, looking down the barrel of 2023. I started 2022 as GM of the 2nd busiest Macaroni Grill in the country on the road to burning out - …

Dec 31, 2022: I’ve been in Hospitality for 40+ years, I’ve spent almost every NYE in this period doing inventory. Luckily in my current position I only have food to …

Dec 31, 2022: Surprise, surprise, NBC moved the Arsenal match to Peacock. It was listed as USA. I’m happier (I wasn’t sad, just less happy)

Dec 31, 2022: Thank you NBC for relegating top if the table Arsenal to cable only USA network.

Dec 30, 2022: Just watched “Everything Everywhere all at once”. I loved it. Had a few overly silly moments, but all in all amazing film making. My wife hated it. I …

Dec 30, 2022: Cruise ship day. With the tenders ferrying passengers back and forth to shore

Dec 30, 2022: Very clear day. Can see Mauna Loa peeking out over Hualalai. Usually the clouds obscure it.

Dec 27, 2022: Always been a Steve Winwood fan youtu.be/fmoL-qXAr…

Dec 27, 2022: “There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is …

Dec 27, 2022: “Tin roof rusted” music.apple.com/us/album/…

Dec 27, 2022: I saw little snippets of Southwest Airline’s frailties last year when I was flying weekly between Hawaiian islands. I was working in Honolulu and …

Dec 25, 2022: My wife got me a new Electric razor for Christmas. The old one (Silver) lasted about 6-7 years. To say I’m happy with it is an understatement. Stick …

Dec 25, 2022: It’s a white Christmas, at least on the mountain tops, on Hawaii Island

Dec 24, 2022: Travel looks nasty. I have never traveled for the Holidays in my life. Family wants to come to Hawaii rather than otherwise. Plus for the past 10 …

Dec 24, 2022: I was big fan of Franco Harris RIP

Dec 24, 2022: Got off work a little early. Merry Christmas everyone. All of you are wearing so many clothes in your photos, must me cold. Spoiler, it’s warm here. …

Dec 24, 2022: Still my favorite mug.

Dec 24, 2022: I go down the worm hole of watching this Seville Row Tailor I’ve lived in Hawaii most of my life and only wore a suit to the prom and on my wedding …

Dec 23, 2022: Rough couple of days at work. COVID is still a thing, 3 employees positive yesterday alone. People still not coming out to work. I think they’re all …

Dec 22, 2022: New terms of services emails from everybody and their uncle this week. Was there a new law passed or something?

Dec 21, 2022: It’s interesting that most of the people I’ve talked about it to need white noise of some kind to sleep, my wife included. I used to be that way. Now …

Dec 20, 2022: I was looking around HBOMax today. I am reticent to start watching a new show there as the new management has shown they will cancel anything.

Dec 20, 2022: Big surf…Kona style. Our big surf isn’t like Oahu or Maui. We don’t have reefs that allow the waves to build up. This is an older island and it drops …

Dec 20, 2022: Watch the Abbey Road Studio show on Apple+. Really enjoyed it interview with Pink Floyd (separately of course). A peek into the start. Had to put on …

Dec 20, 2022: Last night while the power was out the water and ice in the door of the refrigerator didn’t work. I stood and stared at it for a few seconds before I …

Dec 20, 2022: The storm did bring snow on both Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea

Dec 20, 2022: There’s also a huge swell from the storm peaking today. 25-30 foot swells on north and west (us) shores. We were lucky that it was a very fast moving …

Dec 20, 2022: Our storm was manini (small) compared to big snow storms and typhoons, but it packed a punch. Our power was only out 3 hours and most of the rain …

Dec 20, 2022: About 0 seconds

Dec 19, 2022: The storm proper has hit. Power off in large parts of Kona. Restaurant closed

Dec 19, 2022: I guess the main part of the storm hasn’t even passed us yet. All of the rain and lighting we got through the night was just the front of the front

Dec 18, 2022: Wow. Non stop lighting and thunder. This storm means business. Not too common here in Kona

Dec 18, 2022: The storm is here

Dec 18, 2022: Sitting on the back lanai as a winter tropical storm rolls in looking for lightning.

Dec 17, 2022: Stumbles on Jamiroquai. Haven’t listened to them for 20+ years. Their music means even more today that back then.

Dec 17, 2022: Our home sound system I have one small Home Pod. I got it when I had a 6 week stay in a hotel room so I could play music in the hotel room and morning news, etc. it’s now …

Dec 17, 2022: Virtual Insanityhttps://youtu.be/OeTFAiYbR9o was so ahead of its time. The Lyrics and the video

Dec 16, 2022: Hey Netflix, would it not be reasonable to put recently watched RIGHT AT THE F’N TOP?

Dec 15, 2022: Top streaming shows getting relegated to free ad based TV is akin to top movies going to DVD and RedBox in the pre-streaming past. This is likely the …

Dec 15, 2022: Between shows we’re streaming or when I’m not ready to watch another episode or we are leaving shortly and there’s not enough time to watch something, …

Dec 14, 2022: Morocco are good

Dec 14, 2022: As a manager of people I love this quote from East of Eden “You can’t make a race horse of a pig.” “No,” said Samuel, “but you can make a very fast …

Dec 13, 2022: Instagram launches its BeReal clone, Candid Stories www.engadget.com/instagram… It’s not instagram, it’s Facebook, or as they say Meta. Wolf in …

Dec 13, 2022: Hawaii’s Mauna Loa and Kilauea volcanoes have stopped erupting, scientists say But for how long? They’ll be back www.npr.org/2022/12/1…

Dec 13, 2022: Don’t see a duck in a parking lot in Kona, ever. He’s lost. In Hilo they live in Wailoa park

Dec 13, 2022: The subscription model is ok, but there are some services or apps that I’d prefer to just buy. They don’t need constant new features, just maintenance …

Dec 13, 2022: Guessing it will never come back, but I miss the pre-pandemic shopping experience, you know when shelves were stocked and there were actual choices. …

Dec 12, 2022: Two days off, together. As long as they don’t burn the place down. That’s about the only thing that I can’t fix

Dec 12, 2022: Did I just see Slow Horses Season 2 is out. I’ve always liked Gary Oldman. The Book of Eli, George Smiley in Tinker Tailor…, the Professional (Think …

Dec 11, 2022: I’ve had an Evernote account since 2008, the year it launched. It’s was our primary repository when we downsized our lives. Pretty much all of the …

Dec 10, 2022: We’ll that was fun. Back to work early Sunday. We were behind one of the #HELCO (Hawaii Electric Light Company) trucks on the way home. They are our …

Dec 10, 2022: The fire trucks are always the end of the parade. Spraying water canons. Everyone is having a blast

Dec 10, 2022: #HELCO out in force.

Dec 10, 2022: Felix Navidad. In Hawaii

Dec 10, 2022: Here we go

Dec 10, 2022: Big crowds at the Christmas parade. Haven’t had one for a couple of years. We keeping our distance.

Dec 10, 2022: We’re early for the parade. Kapu (claimed) our spot

Dec 10, 2022: My wife is totally in the mood, she shanghaied the Sonos system to play all Christmas music. I wasn’t quite there yet. Trying for get there, we’re …

Dec 10, 2022: Finally unsubscribed from what I think is the first email newsletter I subscribed to. I subscribed to the Fast Company print version for years and …

Dec 10, 2022: Like the British commentators say, Portugal is asking a lot of questions, but getting no answers.

Dec 10, 2022: This Mar v Par match looks like it’s on fast forward. What a pace

Dec 9, 2022: We have a bartender from Argentina. She was pretty darned excited after they won today. She’s convinced they’re going all the way.

Dec 9, 2022: I’d love an app that combines all of my watch lists from every streaming app into one list. I’ve seen apps that will manage a list that I create. The …

Dec 9, 2022: The early days When I used to set up small businesses with websites and social media back in the early days, I used to tell them that Facebook was like family party …

Dec 9, 2022:

Dec 7, 2022: If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be called research, would it? - Einstein

Dec 7, 2022: Shutting down my personal website. Its usefulness has lapsed. 20 years ago I built my 1st site and it’s companion business site and active blog when I …

Dec 6, 2022: And according to this theory I guess I’m not getting sick because I worked through it all. Haven’t had COVID either. www.inverse.com/mind-body…

Dec 6, 2022: Kind of a bad day for Trump and the GOP.

Dec 6, 2022: In the middle of a 10 shift stretch with a couple of doubles in the mix. Barely look at any device other that the tablets orders come in on. Whew

Dec 3, 2022: It’s always great seeing the large precession of Parker Ranch trucks in the parade. Waimea is what it is because of Parker Ranch. Celebrating its …

Dec 3, 2022: I escaped from work to take the family up to Waimea for the 62nd Annual Waimea Christmas light Parade. The unique thing about this parade is that it …

Dec 3, 2022: This happened on the same day on our island. We drove up and saw the lava on the slopes of Mauna Loa, but the snow on Mauna Kea was obscured by …

Dec 2, 2022: I love that Japan and Morocco won their groups. Hope they both move on.

Dec 2, 2022: I have found that after cleaning up my Twitter and RSS feeds that ,outside of soccer and tech, there is very little news in my feed. MB and Mastodon …

Nov 29, 2022: We saw the lava flow today

Nov 29, 2022: My wife got me new socks

Nov 29, 2022: My daughter is coming to visit for a couple of days. She lives on Oahu. it’s only a couple of islands away, but Covid made it a world away. Her timing …

Nov 29, 2022: I read this book a few years ago. Common sense application of the constitution

Nov 28, 2022: The last thing my wife purchased from Pier One before they closed their store in Kona in 2019. Much of the decor in our home is from Pier One.

Nov 28, 2022: The season is upon us

Nov 28, 2022: Here we go. This one’s closer to us. No threat of lava, just the VOG (volcanic haze and gases) www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20…

Nov 27, 2022: This sounds so f’n simple. “Government must be “sufficiently neutral between the different interests and factions, to control one part of the society …

Nov 25, 2022: All of the Black Friday emails deleted. Now I can get on with my day. Off to work

Nov 24, 2022: My wife picked out this delicious looking Beaujolais for me. She a Cab Sauv drinker almost exclusively, but for a meal as diverse as thanksgiving with …

Nov 24, 2022: The Turkey is in, the ham follows in 90 minutes. We won’t be eating for a few hours yet. Likely 1:30-2pm HST

Nov 24, 2022: Love this quote, it’s stuck with me. Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. - George …

Nov 24, 2022: “Learning how to think” really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. - This Is Water by David Foster Wallace Many …

Nov 23, 2022: On another note. Just watched the final Andor season 1. Really liked it. Since Rogue one a Star Wars tangent and Andor was a Rogue One tangent, we now …

Nov 23, 2022: I’ve never owned a firearm. I’ve never felt the need. Never had a situation where I wished I had one. There’s a baseball bat next to my bed. I’ve …

Nov 23, 2022: Turkey out of the brine, now it sits in the fridge for 24 hours so the skin can dry out and cook up crispy.

Nov 23, 2022: Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. “egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting …

Nov 22, 2022: Wife and I are watching the Elton John special on Disney+. One of the first albums I had as a kid (vinyl) was Honky Chateau.

Nov 22, 2022: France took care of business.

Nov 22, 2022: Still annoyed that Fox won’t offer live streaming of the World Cup without a cable account.

Nov 22, 2022: All of these early World Cup draws. Is it early tournament nerves or parity.

Nov 18, 2022: It’s sad that the news organization that I trust the most isn’t in the US.

Nov 18, 2022: Can’t wait till Trump starts losing primaries and accuses GOP candidates of stealing the election

Nov 18, 2022: I think I’m going to ask any of my cooks who have cut onions (all of them) to send me a screen shot of their best onions.

Nov 17, 2022: Bizarre start to the show 1899, but didn’t expect any less from the creators of Dark. Have to stick with it until I figure it out

Nov 17, 2022: Making Our Democracy Work by Stephen G. Breyer First, the Court should reject approaches to interpreting the Constitution that consider the document’s …

Nov 16, 2022: Also, the MB app on Mac won’t post at all, just buffers.

Nov 16, 2022: Pretty boring weather here.

Nov 16, 2022: What I’m getting on the IOS Beta all afternoon. Did a restart. Will delete the app next.

Nov 16, 2022: I gotten the point that my bird feed is mostly fluff, getting my news from my RSS feed.

Nov 16, 2022: Dawned on me why I’ve never become a serious MLS fan. It’s the time of the matches here in Hawaii. European matches are on in the morning, MLS matches …

Nov 15, 2022: Sure am glad Hawaii is as far far away from Mar A Lago as you can get and still be in he US, and Washington DC for that matter.

Nov 15, 2022: Nice

Nov 14, 2022: Staring down the throat of two much needed days off

Nov 14, 2022: My Mom’s family is from Kentucky going back to the 1790s. One of founding families of Louisville. This is and amazing film by Patagonia.

Nov 14, 2022: I’m off and it’s still daylight for a change

Nov 11, 2022: …we Americans have, over the past two hundred plus years, absorbed the notion that in order to be protected by the rule of law, we must follow the law …

Nov 9, 2022: I saw Chef Gabriele Bonci from Rome make deep fried Carbonara pasta (Suppli' di Carbonara) on the Netflix show Chef’s Table Pizza. I had to give it a …

Nov 9, 2022: I recall saving grocery store receipts to get a free Thanksgiving turkey a few years back. We got a 14 pounder today - $37. Damn

Nov 9, 2022: I love a good Patagonia shirt for a number of reason, but I recently discovered a $6 T-shirt at Target that is comfortable and wears well. Hard pass …

Nov 8, 2022: Thank you to everyone in the US who voted. It does make a difference

Nov 8, 2022: I don’t think that tree is supposed to be there

Nov 7, 2022: A good time to be an Arsenal FC fan. Men and women top of the table.

Nov 7, 2022: Taking the GOP approach, Philly should not accept the World Series results and claim to be the winners

Nov 6, 2022: Poked my head out of kitchen just in time

Nov 5, 2022: Morning has broken

Nov 2, 2022: I’ve mentioned this before, but I have a well curated Twitter feed over the past 10 years (lots of unfollows and mutes), though I’ve been moving a lot …

Nov 1, 2022: Nice side benefit of the restaurant I’m chef at, we’re closed Thanksgiving and Christmas. I’ve worked those holidays for years.

Nov 1, 2022: Farming and Ranching in Hawaii 1937 vs 2015. We live on Hawaii Island in the far right. It was primarily ranching on this island

Nov 1, 2022: Sharpening a Japanese knife while watching Ronin 47.

Nov 1, 2022: Therapy session

Nov 1, 2022: The Apple Watch 6 that I have now will likely be my last. It’s kind of a nice to have, but I don’t use most of what it offers. Likely go back to a …

Oct 29, 2022: The people who choose to NOT vote are choosing the path of our country. Always has been that way.

Oct 28, 2022: Found another old one. This was my home office when I was building websites in 2010. I had a MB Pro with a Cinema Display. My phone was a Palm Pre. I …

Oct 28, 2022: I took this photo of Mauna Kea in Oct of 2005 with a Canon EOS as the sun sets on the mountain. One of my all time faves

Oct 28, 2022: I have a well cultivated Twitter feed, I’ve kept it mostly non-political. It’s tech, football (soccer), baseball a little news and lots of …

Oct 28, 2022: All of the local Newspapers have gone behind paywalls. Most owned by the same media conglomerate, but charge a subscription for each one individually. …

Oct 27, 2022: Biscuits and gravy. Even though I grew up in Hawaii, my Mom is from the south. We had this often growing up. Comfort food.

Oct 27, 2022: Paramount can stream every UCL or UEL match, simultaneously, on the same app. Peacock (NBC) still can’t get it right with the EPL.

Oct 26, 2022: Found this show Bosch, about a Los Angeles Detective on Prime Video. It’s not new, but I like it. I was born in LA, we moved to Hawaii when I was …

Oct 26, 2022: It made it safely to the county

Oct 26, 2022: This Mynah bird has been hanging out on the roof of this SUV for a while. Must be a good view.

Oct 26, 2022: Had to turn off Apple Private relay on my Mac, was killing my connection.

Oct 26, 2022: I tried Stage Manager for a day on my M1 MB Air. I like the concept, but it seemed to sap resources. Going back to old fashioned spaces for now.

Oct 25, 2022: A pair

Oct 25, 2022: I think I need to watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy fopr the umpteenth time, just because.

Oct 25, 2022: Not sure about Stage Manager, I use Spaces on my Mac and have for years. I also have MB Air, not a lot of screen real estate.

Oct 22, 2022: Women and men both play shortly. I’ll be in ZZZzzz land. Just got off 10:30 pm and have to work at 8am

Oct 21, 2022: Amazon not so Prime I often have sellers on Amazon simply not ship an item that is big or delicate when it’s using Prime free shipping to Hawaii. I get the message from …

Oct 20, 2022: Our kitchen before snd after renovation. We finished it in late 2019 just before Covid lockdowns, etc. Still love what we did.

Oct 19, 2022: Came across the Hateful Eight extended version on Netflix, didn’t realize they broke it up into episodes. Interesting

Oct 18, 2022: I have an iPad 9. Thinking of upgrading to the 10. Don’t need a Pro. Only remotely interested in the pro for watching movies. I can get almost $200 on …

Oct 18, 2022: .

Oct 18, 2022: Received my Playdate today. Linked it to my account, did the update, now the fun begins

Oct 17, 2022: Dark roux for Gumbo

Oct 17, 2022: I have lots of thyme on my hands

Oct 16, 2022: This how I feel shopping these days. www.google.com/search

Oct 15, 2022: Need a Dunkin’ Donuts in Kona. There is no place to get a fresh donut and a descent cup a joe and sit down for a brief moment of chill out We have …

Oct 15, 2022: The notoriety of Wrexham Football Club has put their FA Cup qualification match on ESPN on demand. Love seeing the smaller ground, 1 camera angle, …

Oct 14, 2022: I want dress like him when I finally retire. Just be me.

Oct 14, 2022: Home from 🥗🍖🍗 11 hours in the kitchen cooking Steady Friday night. Good times with my crew

Oct 14, 2022: I just got home from work And I’m wiped out

Oct 14, 2022: A concise explainer of Hawaiian earthquakes. All driven by either the activity or the weight of the volcanoes. m.youtube.com/watch

Oct 14, 2022: That was a 5.0. The whole place shook

Oct 14, 2022: Wow. Sizable earthquake. The volcano is in motion. Looking for details now

Oct 13, 2022: Day in the life. Kailua Kona Hawaiii 5:00 pm My final one. Where I spends lots of days in my life. The line

Oct 13, 2022: And of course the real day in the life The food walk in at the restaurant I spend literally hours a week in here. My food cost and production for the …

Oct 13, 2022: Day in the life. Kailua Kona Hawaii Cruise ship day

Oct 13, 2022: A day in the life. Kailua Kona Hawaii 10:10 am To think that in the late 1970s I managed a sizable vegetable and ornamental plant farm on the windward …

Oct 13, 2022: My Paydate has shipped YAY!

Oct 12, 2022: Just watched Robin Hood 2010. Very entertaining. boxd.it/1D6o

Oct 11, 2022: One of the most upsetting things about the Russian war on Ukraine is when they show videos of the neighborhood and businesses being bombed is that …

Oct 11, 2022: I’ve had the M1 MacBook Air for about a year. I came from a 2015 rMBP. I was so accustomed to terrible battery life. I’m till amazed at 2-3 days of …

Oct 10, 2022: Food and home staple items have always cost more in Hawaii. Everything is shipped in. Container ship or air. Prices have really gone up here as the …

Oct 8, 2022: Last thought before I head off to work and go offline for 9 hours or so The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue …

Oct 8, 2022: Life’s two most important questions are “Why?” and “Why not?” The trick is knowing which one to ask.”

Oct 8, 2022: Got to love the National league (FA). Wrexham gave up 5 goals, but put up 7 to take the 3 points.

Oct 8, 2022: Nice print ad

Oct 8, 2022: Laying in bed a mile and a half from the start of the Ironman men’s race and I can hear the announcer and heard the start cannon and helicopters.

Oct 7, 2022: I’m at an age where something on my body hurts just because. Where it hurts depends on wether it’s Tylenol or Aleve pain.

Oct 6, 2022: The leaders of the Ironman Triathlon world championship women’s race are in our neighborhood. That right in-front of our development. The helicopters …

Oct 5, 2022: Rewatching Dark on Netflix. First watched it during the lockdown at the outset of the pandemic. “Good and Evil are a question of perspective”

Oct 4, 2022: Came across this building on a detour on the way home. 1920 Pepe’ekeo Sugar Company. This entire Hamakua coast was sugar cane plantations until the …

Oct 4, 2022: We went on a road trip to the other side of the island to the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Gardens at Onomea. Lot of fun in forest. Haven’t been there …

Oct 3, 2022: That’s a lot steps working in a relatively small kitchen.

Oct 3, 2022: Watched the movie MAS*H again. Another Quote worthy movie.

Sep 29, 2022: Well, I applied to my emloyer in Kona as a line cook, they offered me Asst. Kitchen Manager (5 weeks ago), today I was offered Kitchen Manager (or GM …

Sep 29, 2022: I guess all of those stroke reporters need to pack up and move up to Charleston

Sep 29, 2022: Puna Man Charged with Attempted Murder in Eden Roc Altercation Forty-year-old Shane Fann of Mountain View has been charged with attempted murder and numerous firearm-related offenses following a violent …

Sep 29, 2022: Hawaii County Surf Forecast for September 29, 2022 Photo Credit: James Grenz Forecast for Big Island Windward and Southeast Shores Today Friday Surf Surf AM PM AM PM North Facing 2-4 2-4 …

Sep 28, 2022: Here we are 15 years ago in the home we loved, until we didn’t. I think we realized that we lived for the house and weren’t living a life.

Sep 28, 2022: We have an Apple TV, a Google Chromecast, an Amazon Fire Stick and a Roku. We’ve only used the Apple TV since we cut cable and went all streaming 3 …

Sep 28, 2022: Hawai‘i Police Confirm Suspected Fentanyl Bust in Kona One person was arrested in connection with a suspected fentanyl drug bust in Kona on Tuesday evening, according to the Hawaiʻi Police Department. The …

Sep 28, 2022: Wow. Waimanu Valley here on Hawaii Island on the Apple TV screen saver.

Sep 28, 2022: County Reports Water Main Break on Kalaniana‘ole Street in Hilo Water customers on Kalaniana‘ole Street, from Kōlea Street to Leleiwi Street and including side roads, in Hilo are being notified about a water main …

Sep 28, 2022: Retired Law Enforcement Officer Sentenced to 46 Months for Cruise Ship Assault A Nevada man was sentenced to nearly four years imprisonment and one year of supervised release after he was found guilty for assaulting an elderly …

Sep 28, 2022: Police: 18 Motorists Arrested For DUI Big Island police continue their crackdown on motorists who drive under the influence of an intoxicant. The Hawai‘i Police Department reports that …

Sep 28, 2022: State: COVID Reinfection Rate Rising COVID-19 reinfections are on the rise. The state Department of Health said Wednesday morning that the percentage of COVID cases involving people who …

Sep 28, 2022: Department of Health Adds Reinfection Cases to Weekly COVID Case Count The state Department of Health reported 12,755 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, Sept. 28, bringing the statewide total to 355,959. The spike in cases is …

Sep 28, 2022: off to work, essentially off the grid for 10 hours. Cheers

Sep 28, 2022: Hawaii County Weather Forecast for September 28, 2022 Photo Credit: James Grenz Hilo Today: Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers. Highs 78 to 84 near the …

Sep 28, 2022: Are climate and Covid deniers also Hurricanes deniers?

Sep 28, 2022: Free ocean learning kits are available Saturday to students on Big Island One thousand free Grab & Go Ocean Learning kits will be distributed to students on the Big Island, Maui and Kaua’i on Oct. 1 at sites sponsored by the …

Sep 28, 2022: Officers search jungle for hours at night to rescue woman lost after hiding from feral pigs Officers Kyle Murray, left, and Devin Ah Chong pose for a photo Tuesday at the Kea’au Police Station. The two officers in July saved a woman who got …

Sep 28, 2022: Hawaii County Surf Forecast for September 28, 2022 Forecast for Big Island Windward and Southeast Shores Today Thursday Surf Surf AM PM AM PM North Facing 2-4 3-5 2-4 2-4 East Facing …

Sep 27, 2022: Does feel like a Russian revolution is possible. A little revolution now and then is a healthy thing, don’t you think? https://youtu.be/HCqR0_a6_so

Sep 27, 2022: Fentanyl Distributed in Hawai‘i Now Made to Look Like Rainbow-Colored Candies Courtesy of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Hawai‘i’s High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Agency issued a drug threat bulletin that a shipment of suspected …

Sep 27, 2022: This movie was released 32 years ago. I actually had the Laser Disk.

Sep 27, 2022: Mini peach pies. Yum

Sep 27, 2022: Watching the Hunt for Red October for the umpteenth time, well, just because. It’s such a quotable movie. Love Sean Connery in this one. …

Sep 27, 2022: State Fines US Navy Nearly $9M For Sewage Discharges The U.S. Navy is being fined nearly $9 million because of discharges of sewage into state waters. The state Department of Health assessed an …

Sep 27, 2022: M 4.5 Quake Rumbles Near Kīlauea Volcano A 4.5 magnitude earthquake rattled the southwest rift zone of Kīlauea volcano this afternoon. No tsunami is expected, according to the National …

Sep 27, 2022: Unusual Ebola strain kills 23 in Uganda; no vaccines, treatments available Enlarge / Health measures are taken at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital after an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. (credit: Getty | Anadolu Agency) …

Sep 27, 2022: Micro.blog seems to be running slow today. It not my connection, tested it and quickly loaded highly graphical sites like ESPN and CNN. Will try again …

Sep 27, 2022: Police Investigate Shooting Incident in East Hawai‘i that Left 1 Person Injured Authorities have initiated an attempted murder investigation following a shooting incident in Puna that left one person injured on Monday night. …

Sep 27, 2022: Man Reported Missing in 2020 Is Found and Arrested for Outstanding Warrant UPDATE: Hawaiʻi Island police have located 47-year-old Derek Lee Kalani Aiona, who was reported missing in August 2020. Aiona was located located in …

Sep 27, 2022: Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images Enlarge / These jagged, colorful blocks are exactly what the concept of image compression looks like. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Last …

Sep 27, 2022: Apple no longer replacing entire iPad mini 6 just to swap the battery Enlarge / Apple is willing to actually replace the battery on its newest, smallest iPad, with potentially more to follow, according to a MacRumors …

Sep 27, 2022: Hawai‘i Fire Crews Smother Small Brush Fire Near Haena Beach Suppression efforts continue today after Hawai‘i Fire crews spotted a brush fire near Haena Beach in Kea‘au after returning from a reported water …

Sep 27, 2022: Meta disrupted China-based propaganda machine before it reached many Americans Enlarge (credit: Chesnot / Contributor | Getty Images News) China’s ability to influence American politics by manipulating social media platforms …

Sep 27, 2022: Possible Missing Diver in Kea’au, Hawai’i Island Police Investigating A light-colored buoy with attached red rope was found in Kea’au on Sept. 26 and may belong to a possible missing diver. Photo Courtesy: Hawai’i Island …

Sep 27, 2022: Apple backtracks, will extend Stage Manager multitasking support to older iPads Enlarge / True external display support is coming to M1-powered iPads in iPadOS 16. (credit: Apple) When Apple delayed iPadOS 16 in August, one of …

Sep 27, 2022: FCC advances plan to require blocking of spam texts from bogus numbers Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | B4LLS) The Federal Communications Commission today released a plan to require mobile carriers to block a wide range …

Sep 27, 2022: Early-adopter tax is in full force for the first batch of AM5 motherboards Enlarge / The MSI MEG X670E Godlike raises interesting questions, like, "could God make a motherboard so expensive that even He could not afford it?" …

Sep 27, 2022: Intel: “Moore’s law is not dead” as Arc A770 GPU is priced at $329 Enlarge / The Arc A770 GPU, coming from Intel on October 12, starting at $329. (credit: Intel) One week after Nvidia moved forward with some of its …

Sep 27, 2022: HBO Max drops first teaser for The Last of Us adaptation Pedro Pascal stars as a hardened survivor in HBO's new series, The Last of Us. A traumatized survivor of a zombie apocalypse must face hordes of the …

Sep 27, 2022: Hawaii County Weather Forecast for September 27, 2022 Photo Credit: James Grenz Hilo Today: Partly sunny early in the morning then becoming mostly sunny. Scattered rain showers early in the morning, then …

Sep 27, 2022: WoW: Lich King player hits level 80 just 9 hours after “Classic” server launch Naowh explains how he got to level 80 in Wrath of the Lich King Classic in just a few hours. When it comes to World of Warcraft's long-demanded …

Sep 27, 2022: The Roomba j7+ learns to mop with a dramatic swing-arm setup The Roombo Combo j7+. Sick spoiler, bro! Wait, that's a mop?! [credit: Roomba ] iRobot—soon to be owned by Amazon—is announcing a flagship …

Sep 27, 2022: Kidnapping Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in 3rd Circuit Court A Hilo man accused of kidnapping a teenage girl pleaded not guilty in Kona’s 3rd Circuit on Monday and has requested a jury trial, which was set for …

Sep 27, 2022: Everything you need to know about Zen 4, socket AM5, and AMD’s newest chipsets Enlarge (credit: AMD) AMD's Ryzen 7000 launch is bigger than just the processors. The processor architecture is changing, but it's also being …

Sep 27, 2022: Apple Watch Ultra teardown suggests new—but trickier—repair angles Enlarge / A new hard-case battery inside the Apple Watch Ultra is easier to remove for DIY fixers. Getting to that battery is still a tricky, …

Sep 27, 2022: Youth Summits Scheduled in North Hawaiʻi and Hilo Two local youth summits are scheduled next month in an effort to provide teens and young adults an opportunity to network, gain insight into their …

Sep 27, 2022: Alienware QD-OLED monitor picks open standards over G-Sync, is $200 cheaper Enlarge / Alienware's latest QD-OLED monitor, the AW3423DWF. (credit: Alienware) Alienware announced today a new QD-OLED monitor SKU that looks …

Sep 27, 2022: Intel’s 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” CPUs are official, launch October 20 Enlarge / An overview of the improvements coming to Intel's 13th-gen desktop chips. (credit: Intel) If there's one thing Intel has gotten good at in …

Sep 27, 2022: Dialing back the bling makes a better EV: The 2023 Mercedes EQE sedan Enlarge / The Mercedes-Benz EQE sedan's shape has been designed to create as little drag as possible. Mercedes-Benz provided flights from DC to …

Sep 27, 2022: Hawaii County Surf Forecast for September 27, 2022 Forecast for Big Island Windward and Southeast Shores Today Wednesday Surf Surf AM PM AM PM North Facing 0-2 0-2 1-3 1-3 East Facing …

Sep 27, 2022: Apps can pose bigger security, privacy threat based on where you download them Enlarge (credit: …

Sep 27, 2022: Nreal’s $380 AR glasses want to be a virtual monitor for MacBooks Enlarge / Nreal depicts someone using the Air glasses to extend their MacBook desktop. (credit: Nreal) As augmented reality (AR) glasses continue to …

Sep 27, 2022: Ian reaches major hurricane status, will be a historic storm for Florida Enlarge / As of 5:50 am ET on Tuesday, Hurricane Ian had nearly traversed the island of Cuba. (credit: NOAA) Hurricane Ian continued to intensify on …

Sep 26, 2022: Cat Stevens. music.apple.com/us/album/…

Sep 26, 2022: University of Hawaiʻi Astronomers To Track Impact of Today’s NASA Asteroid Collision Test Illustration of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft prior to impact. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASA just crashed a spacecraft the …

Sep 26, 2022: DART goes silent after hitting an asteroid [Update] Enlarge / One of the last images from DART. (credit: NASA/APL) Update, 10:30 pm ET: If this is an indication of the quality of the images we should …

Sep 26, 2022: All State Library Locations Closed Due to Unspecified Threat All Hawai‘i State Public Library System locations are closed today due to an unspecified threat. The library has been working with local law …

Sep 26, 2022: Experts debate the ethics of LinkedIn’s algorithm experiments on 20M users Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg / Contributor | Bloomberg) This month, LinkedIn researchers revealed in Science that the company spent five years quietly …

Sep 26, 2022: One of first albums I had

Sep 26, 2022: 20-year-old Linux workaround is still slowing down AMD systems Enlarge / A second-generation Epyc server chip from AMD, one that may have been running 2002-era Linux code slowing it down. (credit: Getty Images) …

Sep 26, 2022: As ISPs seek payments from Big Tech, Google criticizes “sender-pays” model Enlarge / Google's Matt Brittin, president of EMEA Business and Operations, speaks at the Web Summit on November 9, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal. …

Sep 26, 2022: E3 2023 books its physical venue, schedule—and confirms new fan-friendly twist Enlarge / It's baaaaaaack! (credit: ESA / ReedPOP) The annual gaming expo once known as E3 is finally drawing closer toward rebirth as a physical …

Sep 26, 2022: Russia plans “massive cyberattacks” on critical infrastructure, Ukraine warns Enlarge (credit: gwengoat | Getty Images) The Ukrainian government on Monday warned that the Kremlin is planning to carry out “massive cyberattacks” …

Sep 26, 2022: Hawaii County Weather Forecast for September 26, 2022 Photo Credit: James Grenz Hilo Today: Mostly sunny with isolated showers in the morning, then partly sunny with scattered showers in the afternoon. …

Sep 26, 2022: ‘Quite a Jewel:ʻ County Offered Chance to Buy Keauhou Bay Property in Kona Fifteen years ago, Ed and Rhonnie Rapoza could have built two beach homes on waterfront property they owned off Ali‘i Drive in downtown Kailua-Kona. …

Sep 26, 2022: Online Event Connects UH Grads to IT, Intelligence Career Opportunities Graduating students and recent grads of the University of Hawaiʻi system interested in pursuing careers in the information technology and intelligence …

Sep 26, 2022: Road Work to Begin This Week on Stainback Highway Repairs to an East Hawaiʻi roadway are set to begin this week. Repairs are slated for a portion of Stainback Highway in East Hawaiʻi. (Screenshot) …

Sep 26, 2022: UH-Hilo Men’s Basketball 2022-23 Season Opens With 17 Home State Games Photo by Joe Poellot/Joe Poellot Photography and courtesy of University of Hawai‘i at Hilo The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo men’s basketball team …

Sep 26, 2022: UH-Hilo Women’s Basketball Announces 2022-23 Schedule Courtesy of University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Sports Information The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo women’s basketball team’s 2022-23 schedule features …

Sep 26, 2022: Hawaii County Surf Forecast for September 26, 2022 Forecast for Big Island Windward and Southeast Shores Today Tuesday Surf Surf AM PM AM PM North Facing 0-2 0-2 0-2 0-2 East Facing …

Sep 25, 2022: Portion of Kuakini Highway Closed due to Flooding A portion of Kuakini Highway is closed due to flooding this evening. A flood advisory was issued for the north and south Kona Districts through 11 …

Sep 25, 2022: Cooking Up Opportunity: La‘i‘ōpua 2020, HCC Offer Free Chance to Explore Culinary Careers Have you ever watched a cooking show and thought, “I could do that”? How much time do you spend crafting culinary creations of your own in the …

Sep 25, 2022: Council Honors Kaʻū Patrol Officer For Lifesaving Actions The Hawaiʻi County Council on Tuesday presented Kaʻū Patrol Officer Xylon Takata with the Hāweo Award for September during a meeting of the council’s …

Sep 25, 2022: Hilo Community Players presents Musical ‘The Last Five Years’ Linda Winer of Newsday called it “an engaging chamber musical infused with intimate, emotionally perceptive, nonstop songs.” Maya Phillips of The New …

Sep 25, 2022: Hawaii County Weather Forecast for September 25, 2022 Photo Credit: James Grenz Hilo Today: Mostly sunny early in the morning then becoming mostly cloudy. Isolated showers early in the morning, then …

Sep 25, 2022: Farm Vehicles Have New Safety Check Form to Fill Out Farmers renewing their safety checks have a new form to fill out to do so. The new forms for designated covered farm vehicles are available on the …

Sep 25, 2022: Pāhoa Community Garden Nourishes Families and Teaches Children about the Land Courtesy of Timothy Rowan With soaring food prices, feeding five children can be tough. But 32-year-old Jasmine Tripp has been able to provide …

Sep 25, 2022: Hawaii County Surf Forecast for September 25, 2022 Forecast for Big Island Windward and Southeast Shores Today Monday Surf Surf AM PM AM PM North Facing 1-3 1-3 0-2 0-2 East Facing 1-3 …

Sep 24, 2022: Since I switched to the beta, Micro.blog does not show up anywhere in the IOS sharesheets. I’ve looked at add and edit. It’s not there

Sep 24, 2022: Instructors Asking for Feedback on Maunakea Teaching Telescope Plan The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo wants to know what the public thinks of its telescope plan. The school is proposing to locate its 28-inch …

Sep 24, 2022: Volcano Watch: Where’s That Lava Headed and When Will it Get There? Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. This …

Sep 24, 2022: Watch: Waipi‘o Valley Home Burns to the Ground A residential home burned to the ground in Waipi‘o Valley Friday, a scene to which firefighters had difficulty responding given the remote location. …

Sep 24, 2022: The Heineken Ad from 2017 is brilliant www.fastcompany.com/90792188/…

Sep 24, 2022: Hawaii County Weather Forecast for September 24, 2022 Photo Credit: James Grenz Hilo Today: Partly sunny with scattered showers. Highs 81 to 86 near the shore to 66 to 73 at 4000 feet. Light winds …

Sep 23, 2022: I had one of these RadioShack laptops. More of a novelty at the time, used the address book and played with the text editor.

Sep 22, 2022: Had an employee new to the Restaurant business ask me why I’ve stayed in the business so long (40 years). I told him, meals and eating are not only a …

Sep 22, 2022: Watched the 1st 3 episodes of Andor. I really liked Rogue One. Really hope Jyn Erso makes an appearance

Sep 20, 2022: I can only smile when I read posts by younger nerds getting all persnickety about the tiniest things in the OS or on hardware. I’m old enough to …

Sep 20, 2022: Went back and watched season 2 of Fargo. That was a good one. Better than of of shows that have come out since then.

Sep 16, 2022: Never really been an MLS fan, but with Apple making a serious commitment in broadcasting almost every match, thought I should take the dive. Adopting …

Sep 14, 2022: We’ll written Why The Chef Can’t Make The Dish You Just Invented - The Restaurant Manifesto

Sep 14, 2022: It’s so refreshing working in an analog world. The only digital thing we have is the touch screen the orders come in to the kitchen on. We have …

Sep 14, 2022: The last line says it all. Nothing currently on discovery interests me. www.theverge.com HBO Max and Discovery Plus’ reinvention might come with some …

Sep 13, 2022: Not likely watching many World Cup matches if at all. Fox doesn’t offer streaming and the match times in Hawaii are untenable worldsoccertalk.com …

Sep 13, 2022: Just watched Snow White & The Huntsman. Very much enjoyed it. Been out 10 years, not sure how I missed it.

Sep 13, 2022: This didn’t happen on purpose, but I’ve had an AMEX card for 40 years. Nothing in my life has been around for 40 years save for maybe an odd coffee …

Sep 12, 2022: Got the latest COVID shot and flu shot today, no side effects so far, though the only side effect I had before was feeling tired.

Sep 11, 2022: This needs to be posted now and then Louis CK Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy

Sep 11, 2022: Remember the early internet, every web designer was trying to do something unique and different until they realized their TOS tanked, then they …

Sep 11, 2022: 9/11 30 years ago, Hurricane Iniki, I had just moved to Hawaii Island. It devastated Kauai, it was a clam clear day here. We flew up there to help …

Sep 10, 2022: I am not into the dramas of British Royals. My wife follows it all. I made one comment and that opened the door. I got a full update. More than I …

Sep 10, 2022: I guess AAA thought putting 5 of these in with my bill would make it more likely I read it. Not so.

Sep 9, 2022: Changing my career path has been a life changer. I was a top level F&B manager at resorts and corporate restaurants. Now I’m a kitchen manager at a …

Sep 9, 2022: Good on Apple expanding AppleCare to unlimited accidental damage incidents rather than just 2 incidents a year.

Sep 8, 2022: just watched Thor Love and Thunder. Loved it. But then, I’m simple when it comes to movies. I just want to escape for a while.

Sep 8, 2022: My RSS feed just shifted from Apple and Mar-a-Lago to

Sep 7, 2022: So far only the new AirPods interest me. I don’t dive or run or hike off the grid or play games on my phone or use Apple Workouts. A new AppleTV might …

Sep 7, 2022: Next stop. Milky Way Road

Sep 7, 2022: I set the Arc browser as default to force a deeper dive. Really like it’s simplicity, but still have Safari open to do some things due to familiarity. …

Sep 6, 2022: Love this version music.apple.com

Sep 6, 2022: Amie what’s you wanna do? #NowPlaying “Amie” by Pure Prairie League on @Sonos

Sep 6, 2022: I remember when a bag of potato chips would go stale practically as soon as it was opened. What voodoo do they do to the chips now that stay crisp …

Sep 5, 2022: Ok Apple. Jackson Brown’s Stay and Load Out are one fricken song. Why do you break them up in playlists?

Sep 5, 2022: I grew up in Hawaii and have never really second guessed our decision to stay when so many local people have moved away for better opportunities or …

Sep 5, 2022: Listening to my 2020 Apple playlist. Listened to a lot of older (late 80s-mid 90s) mellow music during the lockdown and those first few weeks back at …

Sep 5, 2022: Current status

Sep 5, 2022: Three days in at the career roll back. I love cooking, hot kitchens don’t bother me, just need to add some electrolytes to my water. Being mid level …

Sep 5, 2022: In college I either did CliffsNotes or quick scans of books. Thinking the Grapes of Wrath next.

Sep 5, 2022: Slowly getting back into reading with this new found free time getting out of top management. I like history and fiction rooted in history. Really …

Sep 4, 2022: ❤️ youtu.be/QJ7vgnWAR…

Sep 4, 2022: A couple of weeks ago I cleaned up our home network. The modem and router is in the 2nd bedroom (wife’s office). The Apple TV is in the living room …

Sep 2, 2022: First day. Loving it

Aug 31, 2022: Watching the movie Snatch for the umpteenth time. Love that movie. youtu.be/9Jar2XkBb…

Aug 31, 2022: It’s strange that only Paramount has had live local broadcasts on their streaming app since launch. We watch the local morning news every day. Peacock …

Aug 30, 2022: Got the Arc Browser. Quite elegant. Playing with having everything I typically do on my Mac in the browser. MS365, iCloud, FBref, Mailbox.org, …

Aug 30, 2022: The speed of this was interesting. I applied for the position on Saturday afternoon, I got a message later that day asking if i could interview …

Aug 30, 2022: Have a dual sim phone. Have 2 spam call filter apps, as neither will support both numberes Have Hiya and Trucaller.

Aug 29, 2022: I haven’t died yet. Is the 5-Second Rule Healthy? - Food Network Healthy Eats: Recipes, Ideas, and Food News - Food Network

Aug 29, 2022: Dodgers' magic number is 15. They have forced the other teams in the west to win every day to even have a glimmer of a hope.

Aug 29, 2022: I have about 16 extra hours a week between not having a commute and not doing GM stuff after restaurant closing, plus all of the work I was doing at …

Aug 29, 2022: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship youtu.be/5kiNJcDG4…

Aug 29, 2022: Finally getting around to watching Umbrella Academy. I watched episode 1 a few months back. Love it

Aug 29, 2022: Signed and sealed. And got a higher offer. So only 30% less pay for a lot less stress

Aug 29, 2022: Haven’t sat inside a Starbucks for 2 1/2 years. Was almost a daily stop. That place between home and work. Likely won’t need that gap between the two …

Aug 29, 2022: My invite for Arc arrives tomorrow, looking forward to a test drive

Aug 28, 2022: Looks like I’m taking a job as an Asst. Kitchen manager at a locally owned restaurant. 40% pay cut - 200% stress cut. I’ve been a restaurant GM or …

Aug 28, 2022: The sugar ants are having a party

Aug 26, 2022: It’s getting closer to a point where it makes financial sense to drop out of management and just become a line cook.

Aug 26, 2022: The biggest change I see in post Covid restaurant is the high cost of labor is forcing places to go with less staff forcing managers to do more of the …

Aug 25, 2022: When asked Siri to beam me up

Aug 25, 2022: My desk set up 10 years ago. I was still building websites back then. That MacBook Pro was just decommissioned due to swelling battery.

Aug 25, 2022: Lots of news on “Quiet quitting” That’s now new, people have been doing that for years. There’s also quiet firing or managing them out the door.

Aug 22, 2022: My much better half is almost home. She’s been traveling for 13 hours so far. 90 min to go

Aug 22, 2022: Nice, but they shove a number of matches over to USA network, cable account required. worldsoccertalk.com Peacock’s major new features enhance …

Aug 20, 2022: Good day sports wise. #Arsenal took the 3 points - top of the table #Inter also took the points - top of the table #Dodgers on the good side of 7-nil …

Aug 19, 2022: When I read or hear the term MagSafe I still think of the plug on the side of older Macs, not the back of my iPhone.

Aug 18, 2022: I’m not a podcaster, but I got one last year for those annual family FaceTime calls on birthdays and holidays. It makes a difference. The new stage …

Aug 17, 2022: Staying put As to climate change. We live on a rather big island (that’s kind of why they call it “The Big Island”)There is plenty of room inland to live to …

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Aug 16, 2022: Extracted from the last of our 4 dead Apple laptops dating back as far as 10 years

Aug 16, 2022: Apple screws

Aug 16, 2022: Every year on August 16 it doesn’t catch up with me until later in the day, it’s the anniversary of my first marriage - 1980. The second one has been …

Aug 16, 2022: Go my Steam Deck today. All set up and downloaded a few games from my library. Then got lost for a couple of hours trying out the play. I’ll like it. …

Aug 15, 2022: First sunset at my new job. Had a week off, got a lot done around the house. First real time off since the original COVID lockdown

Aug 13, 2022: 10 years ago last month, we were in Ireland. Can’t wait to go back

Aug 13, 2022: Nice day. #Arsenal ++ #Inter ++ Met my team the the restaurant I’ll be managing starting next week. Having tacos for lunch. All set for an afternoon …

Aug 13, 2022: It lost its role as the driver of our home network a few years ago, but looking to repurpose it as the Time Machine capsule for my Mac Mini.

Aug 12, 2022: This time of year the sun shines right in our lanai, so the shade comes down while in enjoy a Kona Longboard Island Lager Listening to Clientele

Aug 12, 2022: the big rewire. My wife went to the mainland to visit family. First time since before Covid. I didn’t go this time, start a new job Monday. I did use the free time to …

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Aug 11, 2022: Found two Apple Microfibers while cleaning. #FTW

Aug 10, 2022: Love the AppleTV+ Baseball All day. Like Red Zone for baseball

Aug 10, 2022: I watch this every now and again. Love it. A new Ireland Rising youtu.be/S-_efraoS…

Aug 10, 2022: Still in the cellophane

Aug 10, 2022: The good old days

Aug 10, 2022: Just finished watching Sandman, Very entertaining.

Aug 9, 2022: Not to mention all of these guys too

Aug 9, 2022: Can never seem to find a lightning cable when one is urgently needed. But of course, in cleaning out a couple of cabinets, they all resurface.

Aug 9, 2022: I deleted and stopped using Facebook 5 years ago and Instagram 3 years ago. Never going back.

Aug 9, 2022: The Microsoft apps take so much memory.

Aug 8, 2022: That explains it. I think. www.theverge.com Burger King just emailed everyone a blank receipt in a whopper of a mistake

Aug 8, 2022: The Dodgers have been on a tear and have a much deserved day off. Hopefully the Pads and the Giants beat each other up.

Aug 8, 2022: Removed the drives from some old Macs so I can have them recycled

Aug 8, 2022: Inside a non-functional 2014 MacBook Pro.

Aug 8, 2022: Steam Deck ordered, no word on my PlayDate.

Aug 8, 2022: Ry Cooder music.apple.com

Aug 8, 2022: Just watched Paris Texas. Last saw it about 30 years. A video store rental. Didn’t appreciate it back then. Really enjoyed it this time.

Aug 8, 2022: The GOP smokescreen. Everything they do is about staying in office. They don’t really do anything. Symbolism over substance.

Aug 7, 2022: Amongst this man made coconut grove on a former lava flow are the multi $million homes of dot.com $Billionaires, business leaders, entertainers and …

Aug 7, 2022: Some signs at Ka’upulehu

Aug 7, 2022: Got it. No real issues with this.

Aug 7, 2022: Noted.

Aug 7, 2022: A week off between jobs. Much appreciated. Haven’t more than 2 days off in a row since the lockdown.

Aug 5, 2022: Rough for them, the GOP should support the climate change bill. My family is from Kentucky, since 1785 www.washingtonpost.com After floods, Kentucky …

Aug 4, 2022: I’m as old as this album. It still sound amazing. Me not so much music.apple.com/us/album/…

Aug 4, 2022: 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 music.apple.com

Aug 4, 2022: NBC has moved most of the Premier League matches to the USA network which requires a cable account, so another season of not seeing most Arsenal …

Aug 4, 2022: Just got into my car. The dashboard is 167 degrees. Damn

Aug 3, 2022: Cutting the cable 3 years ago gave us the latitude to get faster internet and be able to afford a myriad of streaming services at a combined monthly …

Aug 3, 2022: We have 5 non-functioning Macs in the closet. I’ll spend some time next week taking out the drives. Then find someplace to recycle.

Aug 2, 2022: It’s time for Dodger Baseball. RIP Vin

Aug 2, 2022: Last week at my current corporate job.

Aug 2, 2022: Hawaii has all mail in ballot. No polling places. The only in-person polling places are the county offices and they are open now for the primary. So …

Aug 1, 2022: Hershey’s Corn syrup

Aug 1, 2022: Whoa! Can’t wait. andor trailer - Google Search

Jul 31, 2022: Wanted to get a new case for my iPhone. Guess not till tomorrow

Jul 31, 2022: Sunday afternoon playlist #NowPlaying “Isn’t This A Lovely Day” by Diana Krall on @Sonos

Jul 31, 2022: Spontaneous mid day off nap. Went into the bedroom and the bed wasn’t made up, it was calling me.

Jul 30, 2022: We’re throwing away a dozen expired home Covid tests. Remember when they were impossible to get?

Jul 29, 2022: My first time being home early enough to catch one of AppleTV Friday night baseball. The picture quality is solid. Very enjoyable experience Also, …

Jul 28, 2022: This was today. www.mcsweeneys.net I’m the Average Driver on the Road Right Now, and I’m Out of My Fucking Mind

Jul 28, 2022: Happy dogs

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