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 them for life. My beliefs don’t necessarily line up with a party.

Used be you vote for who will do the most good, now it’s who will do the least damage.


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 downgrade from 1g to 600 Mbps with a more reliable and connection. Got the extender due to metal studs in condo breaking up signal. It’s fast now


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 band. It’s a slow healer too. At least I know how to manage it now.


‘Where Do The Children Play’ by ‘Cat Stevens’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/2956


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. It’s from a pre-steaming era when we had lots of peripherals attached. Now it’s just an Apple TV. We’re in a small condo and have 3 other Sonos speakers.


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 the world is run by those who show up


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, uncles, cousins) has past. My Dad’s brother was the last to go.


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 engaged last week. This was a highly unpopular decision among the family. She posted the engagement on Facebook and my wife didn’t engage with the post. Her son called her today upset because she didn’t “like” the post.


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 matter and Hawaii will go Democrat.


Well, we’ve started out the year with a shooting on O`ahu. Mahalo SCOTUS for making our community MORE DANGEROUS


It’s either kicking 2023 in the butt or ringing in 2024, but it sure is loud


Well. We’re bringing up the rear of the pack. Happy new year from Hawaii


2023 was the year that I got out of management for good.


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 burn at midnight. Every new years since has been, how you say; boring


A Hawaiian early evening. Torches, hammock under an ulu tree. Cool tradewinds.


As we head into 2024 ‘Many Rivers to Cross’ by ‘Jimmy Cliff’ on Radio Paradise /music/song/30352


Almost completely unsubscribed from Substack newsletters. Don’t miss what you don’t see.


In 2024 I hope to continue to steer clear of COVID.


Gary Oldman. Everyone youtu.be/dmkrPWQCm…


A rats nest. In culinary terms