Author: Peg

Decided to checkout the 1% this morning. The 1% being Paul Allen. We think he is at his beach house. The beach house he uses for 2 weeks a year. He usually has one of his big ass yachts brought over and flies in on one of his planes. He used to have a 747. Don’t know what his “best” plane is these days. And, we haven’t seen his yachts this year. Just a Zodiac.

The beach house is on 10 acres. It is a gated estate inside a gated community. But, this is Hawaii. You can get pretty close one foot – after about a 2 mile walk. (Or you can swim by his private harbor.)

Today – I did the walk thing. As soon as I go in front of Mr Allen’s property, a very large security dude showed up. He spent much time talking on his radio about the “subject”. I was too chicken to take pictures. But, I sat down on the beach. The poor security dude had to stand about 10 feet away from me. Observing the “subject”.

I walked back out along the beach in front of the gated community. The gated community security guy came looking for me. He wanted to know if I was the “subject” who had upset Mr. Allen’s guards. Yep, that would be me.  Dangerous old haole woman, exercising my Hawaiian right to beach access.

Some of the dirt on Mr Allen’s real estate holdings.

 

The holiday theme is getting a little tiresome, don’t you think?

My tiny fridge is stuffed. It is too stuffed to defrost. Filled with cake, huge oranges, mammoth avocados, papaya etc. etc. Guess dinner will include a big old orange and some avocado.

‘Tis almost the new year. What to resolve?

Lazy Xmas Day. Will be going to have dinner with the resident Canadians in a couple of hours.

I got the Kindle back from Carlton. He finished Dracula. Said it was one of the best books he ever read.

Merry Christmas One and All.

 

 

They have a really elegant tree at Carlton’s place of business. Methinks that I should seek out some local-kine holiday stuffs! Can do that tomorrow.

Suffering from a mild case of bored. As I have mentioned before – I consider bored a personal problem. Think I am bored with our current political system. And the political malaise has seeped out into the rest of my life.

 

Every year I decorate our door with miscellaneous scraps of tinsel. This year the hotel brought us a great big wreath.

Jellyfish today – so I decided to do my swimming in the pool. Boring. But I HATE jellyfish. I consider jellyfish the yellowjackets of the sea.

Leftovers from yesterday’s party. This is Hawai’i – everyone goes home with “a plate”. Carlton’s plate was chocolate cake. Mine was noodles, veggies and teriyaki steak. Add avocado and tomato and you have a feast.

Loving the Kindle. I was able to sneak it away from Mr C. Popped it into a ziplock baggie and took it to the pool. I checked out Kindle covers. But, I like its lightness. Its non-bookness. I will get a neoprene sleeve for it. It sometimes gets pretty ugly in my purse.

Sort of a do nothing day. Went to a party in the late afternoon. Ate and drank everything in sight. Kona is all about eating. And drinking. And singing. And fishing. The party had everything except the fishing.

Strange day. Kim Jong-iL and Vaclav Havel both made the final exit.

One from yesterday’s canoe races.

Carlton hasn’t given up the Kindle yet. I did use it while he was at work. A sweet little thing. Hate to say this – but I think I like it better than dead tree books. I checked a Kindle book out of the Fairfax county library. I like that. A lot.

High school canoe races today. But, my camera isn’t up to photographing canoe races. Unless I swam out to the canoes. And, I am not up to that.

Thunder rumbling all around – best unplug the toys. And finish this up while I still have WiFi.