Temptation Island is filming at the resort I work at. It’s a large production. Over 300 crew. They’ve been preparing for over a month and started filing yesterday. Dog and pony show.
Watching an old PBS Hawaii Show about the single wall construction Hawaiian plantation home. Every house I lived in growing up was just like this.
The only multi-day, multi-stage music festival I’ve been to was Diamond head crater festivals. Been twice to Waiki’i music festival, 2 days. Been to a number single day events. All of the posts on Burning man made me think of it, that’s a cultural event and not what it used to be
Watching PBS Hawaii classics Na Mele from. 1974 about the musical legacy of the Kalākaua family. Songs that are still played to this day
Went for a walk down at Keauhou. Even though I work at the resort there, it’s still great morning Walk. The birthplace of King Kamehameha III. Those 2 fishing canoes in the lower right have been on the grass there for at least 40 years that I know of.
Listening to Ferrara and Franchini from 1920. There were the dominant Hawaiian Steel performers of the early 1900s.
I fall in the orange. I can stay home and chill indefinitely, often prefer it. But when I get out a switch flips, and the situation calls for it, I can take the lead and talk to almost anyone, even public speaking. Can’t explain it.
This is 2 heat maps of where my direct line ancestors were born. In Europe it’s N. Yorkshire and Devon UK and Abruzzo and Campania Italy through many other places. In N. America, predominantly Virginia through a lot of other eastern states. I was born in CA and we moved to Hawaii at a young age.
$1000 on car repairs and service this week is a hard nut, but my Dad told me when I got my first car in the 70s, expect or spend $100/mo on car service and repair. He said if you skip a few months that $100 adds up. So 2 cars, 6 months. I guess it’s fair.
My wife wants to get a small refrigerator for make-up and meds. Room temperature Kona is in the mid 80s. The challenge is small thermoelectric chilled coolers don’t do well in higher room temp and compressor cooled aren’t that small.
Dukes is coming the Outrigger Kona. It’s now just a gutted out shell. It will be beautiful. Next April
We’ve had the AppleOne bundle since it came out. We’re gonna break it up so we cancel Apple+ when there are gaps. Don’t use fitness and News is limited use.
I’m not going to jump to ESPN’s new service or FOX One right away. Not an NFL or NBA fan. May opt for Fox when specific Soccer is on.
I think the protesters of Geothermal are a little dramatic. The don’t protest VOG which is worse.
Puna Geothermal Venture moves forward with long-awaited upgrades www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/08/2…
Just got this email from PBS Hawaii. The Trump regime and MAGA is evil. We’ll donate whatever we can afford