Christmas Day has arrived, and I hope you’re all having fun. I got up early this a.m. to find a nice email from Amazon.com offering “year end deals” in cameras. As someone who has shopped Camera, Photo & Video at Amazon.com, you might want to know about our best deals in top categories such as [...]
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Okay, it’s a little silly, but fun nonetheless. Just click on Ms. Harriet’s Christmas photo to hear yours truly read a poem first published here back in 2002. It’s been updated a bit to take into account our current cat census. It’s saved as a Quicktime file. Hopefully you’ll be able to play it without [...]
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ACLU was the first to warn its supporters of the demise of two foundations known for funding progressive organizations. Both had their funds invested with Bernie Madoff and both apparently have shut down following the collapse of his elaborate $50 billion ponzi scheme. ACLU’s email came yesterday: In the last couple of weeks, however, we’ve [...]
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I visited with my father yesterday afternoon in the nursing home where he’s been for the past couple of weeks after getting out of Queen’s Hospital. He asked me what the date was, and I told him it was December 22nd. He thought hard about that, staring into space for several long seconds as mental [...]
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I found this little WWII story in my dad’s handwritten notes about his early experiences in business in Hawaii after coming to Hawaii in 1939 as an employee of Dohrmann Hotel Supply Co., a large mainland restaurant equipment dealer. P.Y. Chong, who was the owner of Lau Yee Chai in Waikiki, Hawaii’s most popular Chinese [...]
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Pacific Business News again shows why it’s tops at business reporting with a close-up look at foreclosures in one community. Ewa Beach 96706: Ground zero for Hawaii foreclosures, by reporter Janis Magin, is definitely worth a read. The story traces a couple’s purchase of a new $878,990 home purchased with no money down and monthly [...]
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A friend is headed for Chicago and then on to St. Louis in the next couple of days. Chicago is below zero with a wind chill that makes it feel like -20, and St. Louis is not much warmer. I’m happy to be hunkering down right here this week and next. I was surprised to [...]
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We can’t do much about winter’s arrival. But at least we can arrange to be here in Kaaawa rather than in one of those many places welcoming winter with lots of snow and ice.
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