life in the old lane

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.

Working on photography skills today. Black a’ama (Grapsus tenuicrustatus) on lava down by the ocean.

Today, I plan to nuke the meatballs with some sliced apples. Sprinkle grated cheese on top when done.

Okay boys and girls… Here in the lee of Hualalai, we don’t worry about the lack of swine flu vaccine or the scarcity of mechanical hamsters. We have a serious problem… There may not be any ahi for Christmas/New Years. Ahi is yellowfin tuna. And, it is absolutely required for New Years.

Every year ahi goes from 8-10 bucks per pound in early December to nearly $30 per pound in late December. We’ll see what happens this year. As for me, when I am not eating meatballs – for the next couple of weeks I’ll be eating ahi.

The ahi problem is that by mid-December the fishermen will have taken the yearly quota and will not be allow to catch anymore until January. Sort of gives the tunas a two week holiday.

Today, I am planning to make meatball cheese “burgers”. I have LOTS of meatballs. And, the food fairy has more. I am planning on having meatballs, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce for Turkey Day.

I am starting to sink into carefree careless Polynesian paralysis. No problem with that.

The food fairy provided lots of meat balls. We will be having meat balls with everything. Today I nuked some meat balls and when they were hot – I added some sour cream and called them Swedish meat balls – sorry Sweden. It was pretty good. Added tomato, avocado and foccotia bread. (The food fairy delivered foccotia bread too)

Been puttering around with Lightroom 3 Beta. It is almost an almost perfect match with my needs. Main problem is that it is really really slow on adding new images to the catalog. Painfully slow. Might be a deal breaker. I hope not. Maybe it is a beta problem or maybe it is something that I don’t seem to understand.

Carlton “works” from 10 to 3 – Wednesday to Saturday. So our “weekend” is over.

The internet was busted today, and of course, I was sure that I had busted it. Or at the very least dinged it. But, “I only got a new SDHC card reader”… And after that the internet was busted. Actually, I am pretty sure that my very flakey wireless provider just wigged out for most of the day.

Took the underwater camera out today. Conditions not ideal. Pictures not worth keeping. Deleted them all. I am not making much headway organizing the old images. But I am managing to catalog and cull the new ones. Maybe that is progress.