Nobody is Promised Tomorrow. . .
Last Wednesday, to escape the cruise shippers, I took a stroll over to “Baby Beach”. Baby Beach is in front of $2,000,000 plus houses. I enjoy exercise my Hawaiian right of access to the shoreline. Any shoreline.
Tomorrow is boat day again. Might go to Baby Beach again.
So, how did the microwave spaghetti turn out… Surprisingly good. And, I made my own sauce as well.
Have a fine morning snorkeling. Sort of a snorkeling trifecta – found an eel, a turtle and an octopus. The photos are still in the camera. Hopefully I came away with 3 nice photos.
New microwave adventure today. Eggplant. “My” vendor at the farm market usually has nice Japanese eggplants at a very nice price. So, I bought some. Sliced them up. Manufactured some “marinara” sauce. And nuked the lot for 8 minutes. It is aging in the fridge overnight. Tomorrow – I’ll reheat it, add a chopped tomato and serve over some udon noodles. Pretend spaghetti.
Have I mentioned lately that I dearly love my iPod touch. iTunes had The Chronicles of Narnia on sale for 9.95 a couple of weeks ago. The Narnia Chronicles were the Harry Potter series of my smallkidtime. Yes, they are based on christian mythology. Mostly likely designed to brainwash little kids. Nevertheless, I am enjoying them again in my dotage.
Had a fine Sunday. There is something to be said for missing all the Sunday morning talk shows. We have football on TV on Sunday morning. Not talking heads.
I think we’ll have chicken katsu, cone sushi, and maybe avocado for dinner.
Yesterday’s rain is over. Just in time for the Xmas Parade. Everyone in the village is either in the parade or watches the parade.
Rained all day. Actually it poured all day. I holed up in the room and ate
microwave popcorn and watched movies on the mac. Could be worse. It can and will always be worse.
And now for some angry birds.
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The three girls are a part of the local high school canoe team.
Carlton continues to make progress on the cell phone front. Today, he made a call all by himself. And I wasn’t even in the room. Dare I try to teach him how to answer it? Or even recharge it.
Our local weather dudes are hyping a huge rain event. Don’t think it will come here.
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I feel pretty, oh so pretty…
Initial phase ember parrot fish and a terminal phase Xmas wrasse. The Xmas wrasse enjoys the same coral based diet as the much larger and toothier parrot fish – so it hangs around to scarf up scraps.
Elizabeth Edwards – peace and comfort.
Lazy Sunday. Swim a little. Watch football a little. Read a little. Nap a little. Eat spam and rice for lunch. Nuke some shark for dinner. Finish up the rest of the pineapple. Play Angry Birds a very little. Life is good.
Not so good for one of the drunks, Danny, who lives on the ground floor. The maids found him passed out in front of his room – sans clothing. The cops came. The paramedics came. Danny left. We don’t know if he was dead or alive.
I told you we stay in a very elegant hotel!
Too bad that I don’t have a car. Maybe they could pray for a car for me! I guess this is just the Protestant version of buying an indulgence. Actually, the Vegas connection is OK. More Hawaiians live in Las Vegas than in Hawaii. Honest.
Highlight of today – I got a really good pineapple at the Farmers Market. Simple pleasures.
Updated my version of WordPress just before the internet went south – and now my theme looks a little strange. Oh well, whatever happened is what I planned.
Not much going on here. The ocean has kicked up again – so not much reason to take the camera out for a swim. I have been passing the time in a normal laid back Hawaiian kine way.
Friends who show up from Wyoming every year for a couple of weeks around Thanksgiving – they spend all day everyday just sitting on the deck, reading. And in the late afternoon – they play board games. I think I would like that. Well, maybe not the game part – but, Carlton would go bat-shit if that was all I did. “You could read at home, you know.” He would say that.
Had some splendid microwaved yellowfin tuna for our late lunch today. With avocado and tomato. And some black beans with salsa. Altogether a fine meal. On the food front I have fallen madly in love with whole milk greek yogurt. I tried the 0% fat kind – it wasn’t nearly as good. I am guessing the my local supermarket gets the yogurt from California. Nothing milk based is real popular in Hawaii. When I lived here in the 60s – we didn’t really have milk. (We didn’t have cows). Now they have a few cows and get milk shipped in by air from the west coast – but it is still too expensive to take very seriously. So, cold cereal eating is on hold until we get back to Arlington.
No internet joy for the last couple of days. Skywave isn’t being too very reliable.