Another Monday?
13 FEBRUARY 2006, MONDAY (PUBLICK)
My office is in a historic building and my radio simply will not received any FM signals (all the copper in the frame and wiring maybe). So I spun the dial and the only AM radio station I pick up consistantly and without static is 1500 (in Hawaii). A lot of various liberal radicals of different stripes. I particularly like Air America with Al Frankin (who will be in the Paramount in Seattle in the near future). He isn't loud or rude and he interviews a diverse crowd of people. Oviously he has a left-of-center view of the world but his shows are interesting and well done. And in musical interludes are all Grateful Dead clips.
Weekend in Review:
Friday - work is picking up and things are getting done. Did my Friday activities (pick up next weeks uniform, weekly haircut, fill the tank with gas, waxh bedding, wash bathroom, swap out razor bldes, pick up things for the weekend, etc....). In the evening I watched SG1, Atlantis, and Battle Star while finishing off the last few cans of Fosters Bitter.
Saturday - went out for a second visit to the Polynesian Cultural Center (went with my sister over Solstice). Since both our cameras crapped out over Solstice and she is doing a thesis on Polynesia, I shot four rolls of film on the different Island sections of the center. Also stopped at the Valley of the Temples and saw the one publically open temple. The Japanese Buddhist one. Awesome. And, until a tour bus full of people pulled up, very peaceful. Spent the evening knocking off another Stronghold Crusader scenario.
Sunday - Hit the Pearl Ridge Mall natural store outlet and picked up some things I needed but they did not have the incense I wanted for a ritual I was going to do. So, they gave me the address of their main store down town. I shot down town and began looking for the store. It took me an hour plus to locate it (down town Honolulu rambles terribly) with a brief stop to shop for snorkling gear. When I found it the parking was a little confusing due to standard Hawaiian modus operandi of not putting up understandable signs (when signs are present at all). Well, as I pulled into a parking space the only person on the floor was a young Hawaiian woman standing about 10 feet away by the elevator. I couldn't make the turn into the parking space so stopped partway in and threw the car into reverse and looked over my shoulder to see that she had walked directly behind my car and was standing about 6 inches from my bumper. Hawaiians do stupid shit like this all the time and I guess between the frustration of finding the place and being a fraction of a second from running this person over I blew up. I started yelled some rather uncomplimentary things at her, questioning her intelligence. Then of course after she was gone and I was calmer, parked and sitting in my car, I felt like an idiot for over- reacting. Driving here is an exercise in constant vigilance, even more so than in Seattle because of things like this. I should be used to it by now.
Anyway, I got the inscense and went home. Spent the afternoon re-familiarizing myself with the non-Aurem Solis LBRP and doing Ritual. Then I watch "Sin City" which had arrived via Netflix. Then spent a couple of hours playing Stronghold Crusader. Whipped up some shark stirfry that came out pretty good and had a glass of wine. Sigh...
Movie Review - "Sin City": In cinema style it is a gritty, black and white (which splotches of accenting color), noir era style film. Essentially, there are three storries that are similar in nature (man wants revenge and/or to save a woman from evil doers). Mostly it is two hours of corruption, torture, canabalism, amputations, gruesome death, gunplay, female-abuse, with a touch of heroism thrown in to try to make it palatable. I have had a few moments while eating since then when I thought about scenes in the movie and momentarily gagged. R for more reasons than I care to count.
My office is in a historic building and my radio simply will not received any FM signals (all the copper in the frame and wiring maybe). So I spun the dial and the only AM radio station I pick up consistantly and without static is 1500 (in Hawaii). A lot of various liberal radicals of different stripes. I particularly like Air America with Al Frankin (who will be in the Paramount in Seattle in the near future). He isn't loud or rude and he interviews a diverse crowd of people. Oviously he has a left-of-center view of the world but his shows are interesting and well done. And in musical interludes are all Grateful Dead clips.
Weekend in Review:
Friday - work is picking up and things are getting done. Did my Friday activities (pick up next weeks uniform, weekly haircut, fill the tank with gas, waxh bedding, wash bathroom, swap out razor bldes, pick up things for the weekend, etc....). In the evening I watched SG1, Atlantis, and Battle Star while finishing off the last few cans of Fosters Bitter.
Saturday - went out for a second visit to the Polynesian Cultural Center (went with my sister over Solstice). Since both our cameras crapped out over Solstice and she is doing a thesis on Polynesia, I shot four rolls of film on the different Island sections of the center. Also stopped at the Valley of the Temples and saw the one publically open temple. The Japanese Buddhist one. Awesome. And, until a tour bus full of people pulled up, very peaceful. Spent the evening knocking off another Stronghold Crusader scenario.
Sunday - Hit the Pearl Ridge Mall natural store outlet and picked up some things I needed but they did not have the incense I wanted for a ritual I was going to do. So, they gave me the address of their main store down town. I shot down town and began looking for the store. It took me an hour plus to locate it (down town Honolulu rambles terribly) with a brief stop to shop for snorkling gear. When I found it the parking was a little confusing due to standard Hawaiian modus operandi of not putting up understandable signs (when signs are present at all). Well, as I pulled into a parking space the only person on the floor was a young Hawaiian woman standing about 10 feet away by the elevator. I couldn't make the turn into the parking space so stopped partway in and threw the car into reverse and looked over my shoulder to see that she had walked directly behind my car and was standing about 6 inches from my bumper. Hawaiians do stupid shit like this all the time and I guess between the frustration of finding the place and being a fraction of a second from running this person over I blew up. I started yelled some rather uncomplimentary things at her, questioning her intelligence. Then of course after she was gone and I was calmer, parked and sitting in my car, I felt like an idiot for over- reacting. Driving here is an exercise in constant vigilance, even more so than in Seattle because of things like this. I should be used to it by now.
Anyway, I got the inscense and went home. Spent the afternoon re-familiarizing myself with the non-Aurem Solis LBRP and doing Ritual. Then I watch "Sin City" which had arrived via Netflix. Then spent a couple of hours playing Stronghold Crusader. Whipped up some shark stirfry that came out pretty good and had a glass of wine. Sigh...
Movie Review - "Sin City": In cinema style it is a gritty, black and white (which splotches of accenting color), noir era style film. Essentially, there are three storries that are similar in nature (man wants revenge and/or to save a woman from evil doers). Mostly it is two hours of corruption, torture, canabalism, amputations, gruesome death, gunplay, female-abuse, with a touch of heroism thrown in to try to make it palatable. I have had a few moments while eating since then when I thought about scenes in the movie and momentarily gagged. R for more reasons than I care to count.