Annoyances of the day. I only go to Starbucks due to laziness or for convenience, but when you are behind someone who has to read the whole menu, the quick in a quick cup of coffee came and left. Also when did pastrami become $20/pound. WTF. It’s beef

Stick

Stick

Fisherman at Lyman’s beach Kona.

Now there’s a carnation lei in full glory.

Cruise ship day in Kona

Watch this

Stream 2073 on Max

I happened upon the docudrama 2073 on Paramount. It totally predicted what’s happing now.

He much smarter than Trump

‘No winners’ in a trade war, proclaims China’s Xi, as he heads to Vietnam on charm offensive

trying

Here’s 2 of Kona Inn. The dining area looking towards the ocean and the Bar Lanai

Gotta say, creating a playlist with old versions, middle versions and new versions of the same Hawaiian songs is awesome.

Heavy rain in Kian again means we’ll skip the indivisible social. At a park. Oh well. Next time

This is sad for Kona inn. I have photos from the early 1940s. My great aunt stayed there.

Aging Kona Inn Shopping Village struggling to sell despite property’s century history as tourist mecca

I was a PolySci minor in Uni. For most of the last 70 yrs was a a clearly defined Dem and GOP. They mostly stayed in their lane with centrists in the middle. Everything went awry since the Christian right and the Progressive left muddied the waters. Now we have MAGA and a paralized congress

Either we had impeccable timing or great luck. We have no large purchases on the horizon. No cars, appliances, computers, phones are anything. The only big purchase 2-3 years out is a mobile home in California and we can delay that if need

Going back and looking at the roots of recorded Hawaiian music has increased my enjoyment. When I hear a modern recording, I know where its roots are.

Random. Rooster patrolling the Target parking lot in Kona.

It’s been almost 20 years, but this was the Kona Starbucks

I still call KTA stores Taniguchi’s.