JamieR - Welcome to Punaweb!
I hope you stick around - we are an eclectic group - with MUCH to share - if you are willing to listen!
Do NOT be afraid to express yourself but please - do not "step on da toes" - we ALL wear "slippahs"!
I thank you for this opportunity to release "the hounds" - BEWARE the sarcastic INNER demon is loose!
There seems to be some psychological disease that has lately affected "Newbie's" - where the first post is "tainted". I have learned overtime to ignore the urge to "jump into the fray". I end up expending too much time and "negative" energy. Since, this is PERSONAL - I've made an exception!
I do not know YOU and you do not know ME.
My initial response was one of muted outrage - I say this with "tongue in cheek". For those who DO know me - I'm rarely MUTED and always OUTRAGEOUS!
Since, I do not know YOU - I will apologize for ANY and ALL statements that cause you discomfort - it is REALLY not a personal attack (I don't know YOU) - but it WILL sound and maybe even feel like one - SORRY!
As a "primer" on how minor statements can lead to FIREWORKS - I give you this post:
http://punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9633
Please pay special attention to my friend canhle's response on page 4 - I do not have his patience or tack.
I can not express in words my appreciation to: Susan, Carey, Kapohcat, Carrie and Devany for coming to my DEFENSE - but in a way I wish they didn't. Time and their kindness - has "defused" the instant explosion to a "sparkler".
I have tried to keep my "personal" life separate from PunaWeb - but it is an island and thus things are soon "common knowledge".
I do NOT need to give ANY excuses for someone's "perception" - least of all the happenings in my "personal" life! I save them for my - 'ohana holo'oko'a (extended family) which is as varied as the 'ohia (tree of varying heights and forms).
I digress - let's "Begin the Beguine":
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"We often walk our dog on the HPP ocean front"
With your concern for the 'aina hanau (native land) do you carry a "pooper scooper" with "doggie dodo bag" and use it - or do you let him decorate the landscape as he sees fit?
Is he trained to only "water" the telephone poles every 200 feet - or is he allowed to choose which "object" or "plant" is to receive his "blessing".
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"and over the last year"
This could signify that you have been "on island" awhile and have walked past while I was "alone" with my tractor doing "tractor things" - but never a "Howzit" (How are you)?
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"The other one appears to have been abandonned (sp - abandoned) as nothing has happened for the last 6 months or so."
If your going to insult my 'aina hanau use your spell checker.
Your "time continuum" and "spatial awareness" are awe inspiring - considering (just to mention the MOST obvious) that a telephone pole, trench, conduit, anchor bolts, string-lines, weed-whacking have ALL been done in the last FIVE MONTHS - and my 20' trailer has been moved on and off the property more times than I can count (just in YOUR time interval).
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"many unfinished grey brick piers of all sizes in front of it near the ocean."
Wow - a "psychic" a "clairvoyant" - you have "seen" my building plans - well you obviously can't read them if you think MANY are unfinished.
You must have great ability to see "near the ocean" from the STREET! With your "sensibilities" - I'm sure you would not TRESPASS on other people's property. SIGH - maybe it is time to plaster those ugly "DO NOT ENTER or YOU WILL BE SHOT or MAULED!" signs - and get that "dog eating - property critic eating" PIT-BULL that carries an UZI!
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"The exposed steel is rusting all over the bricks."
Congratulations - you are correct - the exposed rebar is rusting. It's one of those funny things that happens NEAR salt water. It is amazing how you can see that a football field away from the street.
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" It looks like the contractor is another sad victim of this economy and had to pull out."
As Mr. Tucker says "Assume the best and ask questions". I'll make sure to tell my concrete contractor of your assumptions; that he "is another sad victim of this economy" - if and when he has any free time from the 4 concurrent projects - and that he "had to pull out." I thought his vasectomy took care of that??
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"How long does the county allow an abandonned (sp - abandoned) development deteriorate in the elements before they do something about it?"
What do you care - you don't even LIVE on the SAME street? Who makes the decision that it's abandoned - YOU? Have you even driven/walked the REST of the miles of road in HPP to see what MIGHT be considered an abandoned property? So - obviously you have a "definitive" time span for someone who does not have the resources to HIRE a contractor to build their "dream" home - they must comply to YOUR standard of accomplishment!
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"It's quite an eyesore."
Picasso's and other cubist were once considered "sore for the eyes". "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and yet of ALL the properties with rusted cars, piles of trash, shanties - you declare MINE an eyesore. I can't wait to PAINT it - let's see am I in my "blue period" or my "rose period" - sometimes I just don't know what "time" of the month it is - MAUVE with FUSCHIA accents or BURNT ORANGE with PUMPKIN FACE accents. Well - we'll just have to wait an see - that is if I still have enough time left!
On to the next "post"!
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"That would explain why the piers are half built and left to rust."
NO EXPLANATION is required. Maybe I like RUST!
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"have not seen anyone there for months."
Is that TWO months, THREE or more like "the last 6 months or so."?????? Time is RELEVANT - at least Einstein thought so!
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"have not seen anyone there for months - maybe they are just not around when we are."
This statement makes EVERYTHING you wrote before it NULL & VOID!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
That felt GOOD!
Not as good as the HOT TUB, CHAMPAGNE (I might have a "Vodka Salad") with my HIBISCUS HONEY latter tonight!
P.S. Glen - after my "close encounter" with your presumed bunny - I value his OPINION!
P.S.S. JamieR - if you stop by - BRING THE BEER
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