life in the old lane

I don’t understand all I know about my wifi here in the hotel. Seems to me, when you connect to the wifi, you get an IP Address. Also seems to me that one of the addresses works much better than others. So, you have to turn off the airport and connect over and over until you happen to get the “good” address. But, I might be wrong.

Our weekend is over. Carlton goes back to “work” tomorrow. Oh yes, our most beloved surf contest went off today. The Eddie ran today and a guy from California won. $55,ooo. Not bad for a day of surfing. 30,000 people showed up to watch. Which is really hard to imagine. Lots of folk must have called in “sick”. And since everyone had to get to the contest by car – some must have called in “stuck in traffic”. Anyhow, this is the first time since 2004 that the waves were big enough for the contest.

I tried out the wetsuit. It is great. Love it. I float better and don’t get cold. Also provides some protection against jelly fish. Not to mention that  what is essentially a black girdle is very slimming!

OOPS, we have people on our floor. Since we arrived November 7, we have been the only people on our floor. Heck, several nights we were the only guests in our building. (Some hotel staff live in the building) Well, I do want the hotel to stay in business – so, I’ll allow people on our floor.

The wifi connection is flakey today. For some reason, the iPod works better. Guess the mobile content uses less bandwidth.

Today the food fairy left a fund raiser bento lunch. Not the best bento ever. Maybe one of the worse bento boxes ever. Some days free food is worth what it costs. But, the rice was good. Food fairy also delivered some Xmas cookies which seemed to be chocolate covered All Bran.

But, let us have a nice postcardy picture.

We are still having wave action. And, it seems like the waves will be around until Monday. So, the wetsuit remains high and dry.

The ocean was too lumpy today for snorkeling. So, I just swam some “laps” in the lagoon.

The food fairy provided meat balls, star fruit and some oranges. So, we had meatballs and broccoli, rice, avocado and oranges for lunch. Sandwiches on tap for dinner.

Starting to get itchy feets again. Instead of checking travel books out of the library, I got a book called Don’t Go There! On my bucket list is “Go Around the World”. This might be the year. Don’t think I can get Carlton to go. For general peace of mind – I’ll lay out maybe a three month trip – with three one month breaks. Travel of one month. Return to Arlington for one month. Do again twice more. Not exactly the perfect around the world trip – but, better than waiting until I am a widow to take off. After all – Nobody is promised tomorrow. If I make it to widowhood – then I can take a boat around the world. In keeping with my plan to just move onto a cruise ship vice into an old folks home.

The cameras stayed in the drawer today. Today was devoted to all things housewifey.

Today I did the laundry, defrosted the fridge and cut Carlton’s hair. Also made a grocery run.

Then doing my part for the economy – went window shopping for a wetsuit. Strange to say losing 20 pounds of blubber has made snorkeling a chilly process. Problem with a wetsuit is that it is just another thing to keep track of and lug around.

Mr C suggested that I could acquire a used wetsuit from a dive shop. I pointed out that people pee in wetsuits. Especially rental wetsuits. He agreed that a used wetsuit is a bad idea.

Seriously tired tonight. Only in Kona would you get roped into helping decorate your hotel’s tree. It is huge or so it seemed. No picture yet. The Airness does not wish to play with the hotel wireless tonight so I am using the iPod. Any Apple port in a storm.

A do nothing day.

Lunch was mashed potatoes and gravy with meatballs (no surprise there), cranberry sauce, avocado. The food fairy graced us with cookies today. But, I am making cheese sandwiches, with pineapple and bananas for dinner. The cookies will be dessert.

I went fishing today. Fish photographing that is.

There is a problem with my wonderful Panasonic L1 – it makes me unhappy with the quality of my underwater images. I just have to deal with it.

There is a problem with the current economy that I haven’t heard mentioned. Fixed income investment income sucks. Half of my bond portfolio is being called next month – assuming I reinvest in bonds – my income will be cut in half. Surely this is a serious topic in “Senior Living” areas. My mother’s mantra was “Don’t Spend the Principal”. I think she had a “DSP” monogrammed on her bath towels.

I had an idea yesterday – an alternative to moving into a little old ladies home – Why not move onto a cruise ship? After all – cruise ships transport the “newly wed, nearly dead, and over fed” to our shores every week. And the free shuttle bus takes passengers to Wal Mart. Sounds better than moving into a Sunrise Senor Living Facility.

Back to eating meatballs. I have LOTS of avocado. So, I made sort of avocado and meatball salad for lunch. It was pretty good.