08-16-2014, 03:46 PM
I've learned:
1. That beautiful, peaceful ocean that I just can't take my eyes off of has another side to it.
2. Who my island friends are.
3. Trouble comes in threes.
4. A hurricane is what they say it is and we don't know for sure what this was because all of the local meteorologists are kinda islandy if you know what I mean and I think you do.
5. HELCO hates the people that live on my stretch of Paradise Ala Kai, although they should be sending us flowers. Pools fund HELCO retirements.
6. Oceanic Time Warner Cable is very serious about customer service.
7. You can never have too much water or containers to store it in. We all need those things that they used to put on the back of Jeeps.
8. I'm having an interesting life but I am starting to crave boredom.
9. If I am unplugged from the Matrix, I tend to do very useful things that require skill and concentration which I don't usually enjoy because when I retired I was a little burnt out and overloaded, like a generator that is trying to do just a little too much.
10. Mighty Mouse won't actually save you. He will just text you to to make sure you aren't dead.
11. Generators are good, but solar yard lights and candles and hurricane lamps (thank you, Carey) are nice if you don't have a generator and even if you do, because generators can only handle so much.
12. Playing an out-of-tune piano by candlelight at the end of a virtually vacant peninsula is very spooky and not particularly good for your mental health, which is an important priority in Puna.
13. I have great neighbors and so do most of you.
14. People are not very sanitation-minded when they thrust their filthy receptacles into the spigots of Wai Puna. Get a friggin' hose.
15. There should be an organized, concerted effort to eliminate all albizias and ironwoods. Anyone with these on the property that abuts a powerline should be ordered to abate them within a reasonable period of time or should lose it through eminent domain, exercise for the safety of the public.
16. I ain't ascared.
17. Part of me misses my ex-partner who, although quite imperfect, is the guy most likely to save you when the water comes up to your beveled glass French doors.
18. Billy Kenoi is a workhorse, and not a showhorse.
19. The guy who owns Ali'i Ice should be shunned for the rest of his natural born days.
20. Had this been a storm on the level of Katrina, I would not be writing this.
21. My utter inability or desire to cook has an upside.
1. That beautiful, peaceful ocean that I just can't take my eyes off of has another side to it.
2. Who my island friends are.
3. Trouble comes in threes.
4. A hurricane is what they say it is and we don't know for sure what this was because all of the local meteorologists are kinda islandy if you know what I mean and I think you do.
5. HELCO hates the people that live on my stretch of Paradise Ala Kai, although they should be sending us flowers. Pools fund HELCO retirements.
6. Oceanic Time Warner Cable is very serious about customer service.
7. You can never have too much water or containers to store it in. We all need those things that they used to put on the back of Jeeps.
8. I'm having an interesting life but I am starting to crave boredom.
9. If I am unplugged from the Matrix, I tend to do very useful things that require skill and concentration which I don't usually enjoy because when I retired I was a little burnt out and overloaded, like a generator that is trying to do just a little too much.
10. Mighty Mouse won't actually save you. He will just text you to to make sure you aren't dead.
11. Generators are good, but solar yard lights and candles and hurricane lamps (thank you, Carey) are nice if you don't have a generator and even if you do, because generators can only handle so much.
12. Playing an out-of-tune piano by candlelight at the end of a virtually vacant peninsula is very spooky and not particularly good for your mental health, which is an important priority in Puna.
13. I have great neighbors and so do most of you.
14. People are not very sanitation-minded when they thrust their filthy receptacles into the spigots of Wai Puna. Get a friggin' hose.
15. There should be an organized, concerted effort to eliminate all albizias and ironwoods. Anyone with these on the property that abuts a powerline should be ordered to abate them within a reasonable period of time or should lose it through eminent domain, exercise for the safety of the public.
16. I ain't ascared.
17. Part of me misses my ex-partner who, although quite imperfect, is the guy most likely to save you when the water comes up to your beveled glass French doors.
18. Billy Kenoi is a workhorse, and not a showhorse.
19. The guy who owns Ali'i Ice should be shunned for the rest of his natural born days.
20. Had this been a storm on the level of Katrina, I would not be writing this.
21. My utter inability or desire to cook has an upside.