Good Morning Folks! For those you not connected with me via FB I thought I'd check in here ( Read more... )

Thanks everyone for thinking of me. As predicted, I'm fine. As is the rest of the state, fortunately ( Read more... )

Good Morning Folks. I was woken up at 6 a.m. by the Civil Defense Sirens. Immediately I knew that it was because of a tsunami because of the earthquake in Chile last night around 8:30 p.m. Hawaii time. It was nice that civil defense waited till 6 a.m. to sound the alarm because I'm sure they've been on alert for nearly 12 hours at this point ( Read more... )

So, it's good that J-Tag took a picture of my kitty cat pumpkin on Saturday night at the party. Because this morning when I looked at it sitting on a shelf in my living room I discovered a very healthy mold colony. Almost the entire inside of the large orange squash was fuzzy and shades of light grey and green, and the whole thing leaned to the ( Read more... )

Why, oh why, can't companies just put something in a USPS flat rate box and call it a day? I think they are around $9, and you can put up to 70 lbs in them. If I really need something here fast, then I'll pay through the nose for it. In every other case, can you just stick it in the damn mail and not try to charge me $30-40 for three Littlite ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a good day. I washed my car in the morning and, when I got back inside and peeked at my e-mail I'd gotten one from my mom, inviting me to the beach with her and my aunt and uncle who are in town from the Mainland. I called mom back and grabbed my bathing suit, a basket full of dirty laundry, and headed over to the windward side. ( Read more... )

I walked out of my bedroom, looked out the window and the light was lavender! No, really, it was very distinctly lavender. It was beautiful.

(I'm such a lighting designer.)

I dreamt that I could see Mauna Kea looming huge behind Mokokai when I looked out that direction. I could see all the research stations and dome-shaped observatories ( Read more... )

Dear First Winter Storm ( Read more... )

So, looking at the weather report for this week, I think I should resign myself to dark mornings and afternoons, damp towels, clumping sugar, and paper that just feels like its not dry. Ick. Oh, and trying to remember my umbrella when I go places ( Read more... )