Category: From Kona

Cloudy day today. A good day for surfing but crappy day for snorkeling.

It is hard to rationalize spending 50 cents on our local dead tree paper. But, the classifieds are always amusing. For example:

And how about these:

This must be the worse job on the island. Spoiled rich person wants house slaves.

As you can see, out hotel is not very crowded. The hotel gardener and the occasional large insect or gecko are our only neighbors on the 3rd floor.

I took the donated fins out on sea trials today. They don’t seem to be any better or worse than the Walmart ones. The Walmart ones might be going back.

Great article The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix.

Time to cook dinner. The food goddess provided  mahi mahi today. Plus 4 huge avocado and some tangerines. How about nuked mahi mahi  with a ginger sauce and rice, also some sort of avocado and tangerine salad?

And now I have replacements….

Now have replacement slippas, a new pair of Wal Mart fins (the lost pair were from Wal Mart) and a donated pair. They all require some breaking in or getting used to.

• Sunday, my slippas (that’s flip flops to you mainland haole types) got swapped at the beach. Meaning someone took my slippas – but – as is considered polite – they left me theirs – much older and too big.
• Today, got shit on by a very well fed bird.
• Later today – I left my fins on the beach by mistake. Less than five minutes later they had vanished.
• Still later today – the keycards to our room stopped working. Nobody told us that after 30 days, we needed to get new keycards.

Big event today was defrosting the dorm room fridge. It has to be defrosted every 2 weeks. Tomorrow is laundry day.

Exercisewise – 3 mile walk and 1/8 mile swim. Or was it 1/4 swim. Some folks say it is 1/8 out to the bleach bottle marker. Others say it is 1/8 for the round trip. I sort of think it is 1/8 mile round trip. It takes me 15 minutes to make the round trip. And, I don’t think I could swim a mile in the open ocean in an hour.

Foodwise – All the thanksgiving foods were polished off yesterday. Tuna and avocado salad with rice was on the menu. But, when I opened up the avocado – it was looking a little scuzzy. Canceled the tuna and dumped chili on top the avocado.

Investingwise – Took some of my Telephone stock profits today. AT&T really need the T-Mobile deal to go thru. They really have get my spectrum. I on doing very little except lightening up until Europe calms.

Didn’t do much today either. Walked 3 miles. Swam 1/4 mile. Offered up the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers for dinner. And, the beer fairy visited. A six pack of Steinlager arrived in payment for renewing the DHCP lease on an XP machine. All in all a fine day. Oh yes, the stock market has been closed for the last 2 1/2 days. So, I didn’t lose any money.

Just another lazy day.

Absolutely doing nothing. But, isn’t that the point of living in a hotel?

Slaved over a hot microwave for minutes and produced Thanksgiving Dinner – chicken, sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce for Carlton, Steinlager for me, avocado and portuguese sweet rolls with pumpkin cream cheese to round things out. Thankful for culinary technology. And we even have a few leftovers.

Today, I am embarrassed to say, I went to Target in search of a “deal”.

This seemed like a good price for the “classic” Kindle with 3G. The 3G feature appeals to the gypsy part of me. Target opened at midnight. Needless to say, by the time I got there at 10AM-ish the $85 ones were gone. I was not disappointed. No way I was going to walk 4 miles at midnight to get an obsolete Kindle. My Kindle Quest was just a part of today’s exercise program.

I was out doing my ocean laps this morning and got passed by a dog. I don’t think the dog had a human with him. He seemed to be swimming in a straight line in the swimming lane area. He was wearing a doggie floatation device.

Great dinner today. Broccoli, avocado, tomato and crab salad. And some of tomorrow’s dinner rolls.

Over the last couple of weeks, I have lost about 40K in the market. I thankful that the market will be closed tomorrow.

The street light decorations are up. And, this morning, while I was doing laundry – I got a phone call asking (telling) me to come down to the lobby and help decorate the hotel tree.

Fortunately, I had nothing other than laundry planned. Got an invite to a Xmas luau, but since we are car free, I don’t know if we can get there.

Been thinking about getting a Kindle – if I can decide WHICH Kindle to get. I was really surprised when Mr C expressed an interest in the Kindle. He saw one at an AA meeting. Far better than him seeing his first Kindle in my hand.

Tuna, rice, broccoli, avocado was today’s dinner.

Today was my “Big Swim” day. Every other day is “Big Swim” day. I swam ocean “laps” for 1/2 hour. I could just swim out 15 minutes and come back. That is what I do while walking. (except I walk 30 to 60 minutes in one direction). But, self preservation instinct makes me want to stay closer to the beach. I am not really into swimming for exercise. But, this year, I hope to be able to swim out to see the dolphins. And, I’d like to get safely back to the shore.

Got some of those canned French’s Fried Onions today – so I am good to go for Thanksgiving. I do allow French’s Fried Onions – but draw the line at anything involving marshmallows and/or Jello. 

Setting up for a few days of windy and cloudy days. Rain being a possibility. That means that we are heading into Hawaiian winter. Oh yes, and jellyfish are predicted.

I am currently over run with avocado.