Wednesday morning and we are woefully unprepared. No, I’m not referring to hurricane preparations. I’m talking about our anniversary, which happens to be today. To the curious, I respond, “38″. What’s worse, it’s followed on Friday by my birthday. This one is a major round number. We’ve managed absolutely no advance planning or event planning [...]
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From my friend Michael in Hilo, received at 12:13 Hawaiian time: Noon here, and it is absolutely still, not even a hint of wind. I did hear one clap of thunder a few minutes ago. According to NOAA’s 1100 update, the eye of the hurricane is almost due South of Hilo. Overnight, we had about [...]
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There were a few anxious moments yesterday, both when the National Weather Service discussion of Hurricane Flossie were referring to the storm’s refusal to give in to adverse environmental conditions and was maintaining its strength as it headed towards us, and when my laptop started having trouble opening certain files and searching for particular emails. [...]
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As my friend Michael, now living in Hilo, says about “that Darned ol’ Hurricane”…”Somehow, I just don’t like it when they get this close.” He suggests going directly to the National Weather Service information on Flossie via this link. A small change in Gannett’s plan for executives in the event of a change of control [...]
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It was wedding time again yesterday. This time it was Amanda, one of our former neighbors’ twin daughters. This time around they had a pair of pro wedding photographers, so I just took my cameras along to fill in the gaps or watch for informal moments that might escape the formulaic wedding photos. In my [...]
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Unfortunately, due to problems at my hosting service, HostRocket.com, this site has been unavailable since late last night. That means no timely update yet this morning. I’ll try to get today’s entry posted within an hour or two. Apologies for the delay. Stay tuned.
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I suppose we will all be watching Hurricane Flossie for the next couple of days, hoping that it follows the forecast scenario and loses steam as it gets closer to Hawaii. Hopefully we’ll get some rain out of it and not much more. In the meantime, though, it’s a definite source of anxiety. Congratulations to [...]
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I was sorry to hear of Ah Jook Ku’s death. I met her when I took over as director of the local Common Cause group back in 1983, and she was a tireless worker as the backbone of the Honolulu Community-Media Council and active in all the causes the council supported, such as the sunshine [...]
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