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 update. Due to cost of mini, she got a 10” iPad 9. She’s always had a mini. She’s loving the 10”. Using it for all kinds of things. Great to see
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 the company as an adversary. Interesting
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 (including my own cafe) and large resort hotels. To me, the show is cute, but not very real. Contrived drama.
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 1000 little things by 1%.” — Jan Carlzon
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 are right on top of each other, no yard. They are paying for proximity to the ocean. Not “on the water”, just close.
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 Beach, Westin Hapuna where I used manage, then to Hawi town came back on the Mauka (upper) road through the pastures to take in the views. Fun day
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 been laid off (fired yes, laid off never), always had a job.
Not making $millions, but always had a job.
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 Canadians. During this time of year the demographic skews much older, so us in our early 60s are older, but not old.
Reading a lot more. Subscribed to “The Point” and “County Highway” and the book my Daughter gave me for Christmas.
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 until they overhauled the menu and took both things off. It’s more effort, now we make epic nachos and grilled rib eye sandwiches are home. Their loss
Great news. A lot of this is former sugar cane land.
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.
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 along to mess even more with our elections.
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 other. If they stop doing that, I’ll move on. I also wear Patagonia clothing for the quality. Last forever. Sketchers work shoes, same.
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 diametrically opposite politically.
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. Created a read later folder and my EN export folder.