I have no desire to travel anywhere. I feel very safe and content here on Hawaii island. Also almost as far away from Washington DC as I can get, unless I go to Guam.
The employee crunch is starting to show up in restaurants with cut back menu offerings, more self service, take out only. The ones that are saying to just pay them more, don’t run a restaurant or under restaurant economics. We can pay more, and just make do with less people.
The Democrats lack creativity and guts. Wimpier versions of the GOP. We’re destined to the 1% getting it all and mediocrity for the rest with a failing infrastructure so a bunch of old white guys on the hill can stay in power and rich.
Current rant is over..
It’s interesting that 30 years ago people always said you didn’t go to Kona Community Hospital to get better, you went there to die. The facility was really bad. It was old, crumbling and dirty. It was built to serve the plantation community.
I must say, they have really got their act together in the past decade. They have a top notch emergency room (I’ve been there too many times) and Oncology unit and have remodeled rooms and their surgery center. But old perceptions die hard.
People still say they’ll fly to Honolulu for surgery or anything non-emergency related or even drive to North Hawaii Medical Center 30 miles away.
Quite the eclectic Spatial audio playlist. Good job Apple music.apple.com
Movement of jah people music.apple.com
Living in Hawaii so many things happen before we even get out of bed. Today’s internet outage, most of the stock market trading day, football matches in the UK, and even the 9-11 attacks. That’s why I check my phone first thing when I wake up to see what I’ve missed.
I am reticent to turn spatial audio (Dolby Atmos) always on. It might mess up a sound I’m used to on certain songs.
Kind of annoyed that those who didn’t get vaccinated and said how bad it is will get swag for finally making us all safe.
Reward bad behavior
Still excited about what Apple has coming, but my days of being involved in making the sausage are over. My job is analog. People, food, equipment.
★ “The clearest signal that a novel risk is emerging is anomalies—things that just don’t make sense. This sounds obvious, but most anomalies are difficult for people to recognize.” HBR
Easy to see in retrospect.
Roam music.apple.com
My wife bought an HP Chromebook at Costco. She admitted she was sad about losing her MB Air, but we agreed that when the inevitable happens to my 2015 13" MBP, we will get one of the M1 MacBooks and set it up as a 2 user machine. I’m at work 10 hours a day and many nights, so that will work.
After losing so much weight, I actually get cold at night. Not typically a thing in Hawaii, especially down close to the ocean. I just bought long pants pajamas for the first time in my life.
Hawaii Island had higher visitors numbers than this time in 2019 and they’ve stoped airport COVID testing. The streets in Kailua Kona are packed with people and traffic is very sticky.
I guess we’re cured and this is over.