I had hopes for Starbucks with some of the things the new CEO said. But the employees weren’t the problem, profit based decisions by the company were.
Persistence pays, I’ve been looking for additional recordings of the Royal Hawaiian Troubadours from 1904. I had read that they toured N. American and made a number of recordings. My breakthrough was the book “Hawaiian & Hawaiian Guitar Record 1891-1960. I’ve found 10 additional recordings.
Hokuliilii The dog of Hokule`a
https://music.apple.com/us/album/hokuliilii-little-star-the-dog/308770720?i=308770747
Interesting that in 1905 the American Recording Co. had a Native American on the record of Hawaiian music.
I injured my shoulder at work in April of 2024. I’ve mostly been off work since then. This gave me a preview of retirement. With that in mind, We are planning an active retirement. This has infulenced our plans to move to N. California
There was a website that did that. Did Apple buy them?
Apple Music’s new transfer tool simplifies switching from other streaming services
This song," Far too Wide for Me", has always hit me hard, we were living on the mainland when it came out and someone sent me the cassette. As moving away form the islands for good is looking more a reality, it hits even harder.
Two places the time remaining is annoyingly wrong. The washing machine, when you are waiting for a load to finish so you can put the clothes in the dryer before you leave and file downloads when someone is waiting for you to read a document.
Lots of pix of people who did the Solo Molokai OC-1 race (congrats). I did it in 1998. No social media, only friends and family knew. Was still mostly surfskis. Tough logisistics coming from Hilo. O`ahu paddlers are paddling home, Neighbor isle paddlers had another layer. This pic from 2003 relay.
