Author: Peg

No fish pictures today. Spent all day – in fact – still working – finding out about cookbook publishing.

What did they always say about the cobbler’s kids having no shoes – then I fixed Carlton leftovers in the microwave for his supper.

My friends at Hulihe’e Palace asked if I could help them make a cookbook. They want it ready to sell by mid-March. I fear that there isn’t enough time to get it done. Maybe I can come up with a Plan B that will work for the upcoming March event and we can work on the cookbook for March 2012.

Carlton is mending well from his tooth extraction.

Before we left home, Carlton’s dentist told him that he needed to have two teeth taken out – the teeth were next to each other. But, Carlton – being Carlton, decided to have one tooth taken out. Well, in the middle of the night on Saturday – he began to suspect that he had made a big mistake. Today – he had the other tooth taken out. Needless to say, I did not have any dental surgery friendly food in the house – except for yogurt. He is a little grumpy right now – having been fed yogurt for lunch and for afternoon snack time –  but he seems much better. He liked the dentist. And, it was within walking distance. So far so good with the no car deal.

I’ll feed the man some “fried” rice and a couple of meatballs and some nice avocado slices for dinner. I think he’ll be able to eat that.

I have been having way too much fun organizing all the files in my computer. Anything that is not “priceless” or “confidential” is going into Evernote. I was an alpha tester of Evernote years ago – but when I stopped using the dear little Fujitsu P1120 computer – I sort of forgot about Evernote. This organization project does not include photos or the stuff that lives in iTunes.

Stuff that is  “confidential” is being encrypted and stashed in DropBox. Likewise anything the is “priceless” like my current year tax files and passwords are stashed in DropBox. I like to keep things that I might want to use on any of my computers in DropBox.

For fun, I got some cool new icons for my folders . And then I wrote a little script to clean out my download folder and “junk drawer” folder automatically. I am such a nerd.

Waves have been crashing over the seawall since Election Day. Not good for testing the new underwater camera. But, it works fine above water.

Been thinking about the one Republican in the State Senate. I guess that makes you the Minority Leader. Guess when you call a meeting – you have to play Solitaire.

Here we are in bright blue Hawaii. The entire government went Democratic this time around. Well, there is one Republican in the State Senate. And, the Republican candidate for governor did win one district.

Spent most of today organizing (and deleting) some of my very old files. I resurrected an old recipe collection that was trapped in DOS Wordstar. And some other old documents locked in WordPro and AmiPro. The conversion tools were written for Windows – but they sort of ran with WINE.

Also started a photoshop exercise to add a person to a group photo. I tested the proof of concept today.

Yesterday the TV was wall2wall that today would be the most important election since statehood. And, what is the lead story on the local news tonight? The death of surfer, Andy Irons. Second story? big north side waves. Finally, the election. In Hawai’i – things are kept in perspective.

Just about got us settled in. Walked up to Walmart and got toiletries etc. Then I lounged by the pool.

We have been enjoying unlimited avocados and papayas.

Spent a very tranquil Sunday getting settled in. Got some starter groceries. Went to the farm market. Stocked up on avocado, tomato, papaya, limes, bananas…

Then I went over to the pier. Just a normal day in a sleepy day in the Pacific.

arrived. got to hotel. got dinner together. got internet operational. turning in early tonight. but hotel is filled with halloween revelers.