Category: From Kona

I am starting to sink into carefree careless Polynesian paralysis. No problem with that.

The food fairy provided lots of meat balls. We will be having meat balls with everything. Today I nuked some meat balls and when they were hot – I added some sour cream and called them Swedish meat balls – sorry Sweden. It was pretty good. Added tomato, avocado and foccotia bread. (The food fairy delivered foccotia bread too)

The Swine is not an illness – it is the main event at the luau

Been puttering around with Lightroom 3 Beta. It is almost an almost perfect match with my needs. Main problem is that it is really really slow on adding new images to the catalog. Painfully slow. Might be a deal breaker. I hope not. Maybe it is a beta problem or maybe it is something that I don’t seem to understand.

Carlton “works” from 10 to 3 – Wednesday to Saturday. So our “weekend” is over.

If you have ever been to a parade in Kona – you will understand that this is typical.

The internet was busted today, and of course, I was sure that I had busted it. Or at the very least dinged it. But, “I only got a new SDHC card reader”… And after that the internet was busted. Actually, I am pretty sure that my very flakey wireless provider just wigged out for most of the day.

Took the underwater camera out today. Conditions not ideal. Pictures not worth keeping. Deleted them all. I am not making much headway organizing the old images. But I am managing to catalog and cull the new ones. Maybe that is progress.

No parade pictures – I encountered “technical difficulties”. Used a “new improved” SD card in my camera in honor of the parade. Only after the parade did I discover that my “old not improved” SD card reader would not read the “new improved” SD card. I am sure that a trip to WalMart will yield a “new improved” card reader. But, I decided to go swimming and will get up the hill to WalMart sooner or later.

The parade was for the Coffee Festival. Now that is a festival that I can get behind. We had the Coffee Queen and the Coffee Princesses, no Coffee King however. Three marching bands – which is about every marching bands on the island. The usual big trucks and homemade floats.

And, on the 7th day … I rested. Our elegant digs are as setup as can be for the season. Carlton continues to recover and I remain well.

Dolphins from the room

This winter is devoted to all things photographic. This includes taking pictures of living moving creatures.

Carlton seems to be getting over the pig flu. I haven’t gotten it (yet).

Note to old people: at least one old person, i.e., Carlton was not protected from swine flu by virtue of age. You can not believe everything your government tells you.

Note to Obama: LBJ is dead – so you can not ask him about what to do in Afghanistan. But, Mr Gorbachev is very much alive. Invite him to dinner. Talk story.

Carlton seems to be getting better. My biggest problem is keeping him from going out and about and exposing the population to the swine flu. I was hoping for rain today to help. As you can see from the picture – no such luck.

Surfer at Honl’s – L1

I think that Carlton has the swine flu. He sure as hell has some kind of flu.

Of course he will not consider going to the doctor – and since I am pretty sure it be the flu – I agree. I do not agree that going for a nice swim in the ocean is a good idea.

Winter storm warning just announced on our TV. Expecting lots of rain and a little snow up top.

Another day of getting settled in.

Dinner is going to be nuked potato with broccoli and cheese. Had fine turkey and cheese sandwiches with avocado and tomato salad for lunch.