SOS

Aloha: I received an inquiry at my elemakule_tutu e-mail address about SOS. SOS mean "same old stuff". Here is how it is stated on the HVO website. "Activity Summary for past 24 hours: Kilauea volcanic activity continued at two locations. At the summit, a circulating and spattering lava surface was visible in a deep pit inset within the floor of Halema`uma`u Crater and produced glow that was visible from the Jaggar Museum. At the east rift zone vents, lava flowed through tubes and fed slowly advancing surface flows above the pali. Sulfur dioxide emission rates from both summit and east rift zone vents remained elevated." As you can see, SOS is a lot shorter. The website goes into more detail about deflation/inflation events; tephra; RB2S2BL quakes; SO2 production, maybe another 3 paragraphs. Like I said, SOS is shorter and a whole lot less boring.

Our favorite "Blatherskite" is now blovlating on the tube. He has the French president in the US for a dinner this week. Too bad it is too early for reruns of "Bones".

Today started out dark and drab, but now the sun is out and it is going to be another fantastic day in paradise! Methinks I should go out under the trees and breath in all the brand new air. May God bless and keep all of you safe.

Another Sunday.......

Aloha: Another week has gone by. My favorite 4th grade teacher wrote two postings today. Last week I got an e-mail from her dad with a picture of a snow bunny that her mother has sculpted. I was reminded of that because my 4th grade teacher had pictures of her BBQ in the snow. Those posts were the first from the blogs I follow this month.

My wife finished teaching a course for first responders today. I had to play a role and let the students patch me up. Topher, Anakam and CJ were also victims along with Chief and Malama. Quite an interesting day.

Went to the skin doctor the other day. He said, "For a guy your age you have pretty good skin." My theory is that since I am a little more than pleasingly plump the wrinkles are all filled out therefore nice skin. I had gone to see him about 6 years ago so I asked how often I should get all my moles checked. I got the impression that there is no real guidelines so I guess when ever another mole starts doing funny things it will be time to get checked out again. I go back on Monday for a biopsy on some lumps I have had on my neck since high school. On Wednesday I go for a pre-screening for a colon thingy. On April 14 I will go to get the "procedure" done. They knock you out and then look to see if you have your head up your butt. I feel I have to get all this done before the rationing starts.

The weather has been great. The volcano SOS. We got 1.4 inches of rain this week so the water tank is overflowing. That's all for now. God bless and be good.

Be careful what you ask for.

Aloha: It has taken me awhile to get back to the computer to write this blog. The good news is that the House did not use the Slaughter rule. The bad news is that, just as Sharpton says, "you voted for Obama, you voted for a Socialist state." Our founding fathers left countries that had governments that had complete control of all aspects of society, in the hope of having a nation where the people would be free from excessive intrusion of government. How many of my readers know what the "Bill of Rights" is? Have any of you read either or both of the 9th and 10th. Obama does not like the Constitution (he has said so) because he says it is a negative document, in that, it tells the Federal Government what it can do, not what it can not do. I think that makes the Constitution a positive document. If the constitution does not say the Federal Government had the right to do something, that right is reserved to the States and the people!!!! The Constitution is very clear!! Read it!!!! We are on a train and the train is headed down the tracks. The right rail is the Republicats and the left rail is the Demipublicans and the train is headed to absolute government control of out lives.

Today the weather is wet, enough so that my water tank is overflowing. The volcano is SOS. May God bless you all and I pray He blesses the United States.

Sunday

Aloha: It is Sunday again. The good news is that I will be sitting my mo'opuna tomorrow. The bad news is that Haili Christan School took last week off for "Spring" break and the students will be in school for Easter Week. Auwe no ho'i.

There was no real change in out volcano. The weather right now is wet. Chief and Malama just came up to walk his dogs. We had 0.35 inches of rain for the week.

God bless and take care.

The Constitution is dead.

Aloha: Is the Constitution dead? Right now this country is in the worst Constitutional crisis since the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. That crisis was averted when one U. S. Senator put the nation ahead of his party and voted not to impeach the President. It was that close. Now we have the House willing to "disobey" the Constitution and "deem" the Senate version of the health bill passed without a vote. It is called the "Slaughter" rule named after Rep. Slaughter. The rule "slaughters" the Constitution. Since the time of George Washington there has been a battle between the 3 co-equal branches of the federal government. At the State of the Union speech we saw the beginning of the end of the Supreme Court. How the battle between the Congress and the President will turn out is up in the air, but at the end we will have a country with the Federal Government having complete control of the lives of the people. At last report, 36 states have started the process of passing laws and or amendments to their constitutions, to nullify this law in the individual state. Where are those 72 Senators? Senators are the states reps to the Congress of the United States, and their job is to protect the state from intrusions from the Federal Government. May God bless the United States.

Weight report

Aloha: Auwe no ho'i!!! Went to the doctor yesterday and got weighed. What a bummer! All my numbers were better than three months ago; except my weight. Up three pounds. "Do you know?" Losing weight is harder to do than quiting smoking, drinking or getting off of drugs. How hard would it be for an alcoholic to quit if he had to drink a beer once a day? People have to eat and if you have a problem stopping.....

This morning there was a lot of air traffic over the volcano area. I checked all the webcams and did not see anything unusual. At one point two rotor wing and one fix wing making way too much noise. We can usually go a full month without hearing such noise.

This morning was bright and sunny, but not so now. The volcano report is SOS. I just saw our fearless leader interviewed on Fox News and he has raised verbal diarrhea to new levels. That man can talk and say nothing, all the while making everything perfectly clear. I hate to say it but the United States is in very deep "dodo".

God bless you all and may he bless the United States.

Something new.

Aloha: All of you are having the rare treat of being the first to read something typed from my brand new keyboard. My old one died and I was in withdrawal yesterday. I have to get used to the space bar. It is not as high as my old one so I have to work to get it to do its thing.

I had a comment from a "Joe", who is still unknown to me. I also have a follower, Aggarwal Govind, who has blocked his profile and blog so I do not know anything about him or what he is about.

A few months ago I wrote about having to send to Florida for my meds. Enough people complained that we no longer have to send away for meds. I went to the doctor and got new scripts and took them to Wally's world. I explained to the person that I only needed two of them and that I would let them know when I wanted to pick up the rest as I had just gotten a load of meds from Florida. They told me to come back in one to one and a half hours. I came back and it was not ready so I waited and waited and waited... Two hours later (total time over 3 hours) they have them ready for me. All 8 meds. I was thinking of going to Windward Pharmacy but decided on Wally's world just in case I go "holo holo" and needed to get a refill.

All the reports for the volcano area are the usual SOS. That will be it for today. God bless and be kind to each other.

It's Sunday again.

Aloha: It is Sunday again. Have all my mainland readers changed their clocks? We here in Hawaii do not have to do such things as we are on Standard Time all year long. There are good things and bad things about living anywhere in the USA, the trick is just enjoy what you have and let the rest go.

Today it is partly cloudy, sunny at this moment; the trades are blowing all the vog to Kona, so the air is clear; God is in His heaven and all is great in "His country".

There is some sad news. Because of safety concerns the "cheese roll" has been cancelled. No more "nuts" chasing a cheese wheel down a hill. It seems that too many people wanted to watch and the powers that be could not handle the crowd. Too bad....

I went down to Hilo yesterday to go to the Hawaii County Band concert, but there was not a parking space to be had within a half mile radius of the bandstand. My friend, Author Itis, informed me that he would not walk that far so I spent the time with Anakam and family. Topher does not work this week so I will not be sitting. Maybe he has some errands to run and will need some help as CJ will be on Spring Break. The tickle monster is getting bored.

The volcano report is SOS; weather is nice; we got almost an inch on rain (0.95) so the water tank is over three quarters full; life is good. My wife is teaching a class (emergency responder) for the Red Cross this weekend. All day Saturday and Sunday. She will have to set up a "drill" in one of the parks in the area one day this week to test her students. They are training to be instructors to teach "lay" responders. If you are confused; join the club.

That will be it for today. Love to all and may God bless and keep all of you safe.

It happened again

Aloha: Well it happened again; as soon as I got finished with yesterday's post the HVO website updated the eruption report. Same like when you get better as soon as you go to the doctor's office.

All the volcano reports are SOS so that will be it for today. God bless and take care.

Volcano report?

Aloha: I am sorry, some will say that I am the sorriest person around, but the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) has not updated the volcano report for two days now. They usually do it every day but not yesterday and, again, not today.

The weather is the same as yesterday. We have had some rain, but not as much as we need. Speaking of rain...Does 7.48 gallons of water in one cubic foot seem high to you? I have done the math twice now and that is the figure I get. An acre-foot of water is 325,851 gallons. An acre-foot (the amount of water needed to cover one acre to a depth of one foot) would be 43,560 cubic feet of water.

Do you know that an acre is defined as an area that measures one chain by one furlong? What is a furlong you ask? Simple, a furlong is 10 chains. Have I given you all a headache yet?

That will be it for today. God bless and take care.

I got another one.

Aloha: I got another follower. I have no idea who it is. When I clicked on the icon there was no link to a blog so I am not able to read or follow. I am still waiting for Joe to answer and/or open up there blog for me to look at. I know that the name of the father of two of my followers is Joe, but is it the same Joe???

We had a nice little rain last night; about half an inch. It is still wet today and a bit on the cool side. The volcano is SOS and all is well here in God's country.

In a move to trim the county budget, the mayor had decided to cut the funding of County Band. There is a petition on the internet to save the band and the e-mail has been going fast and furious. The band has been in existence for over 125 years. Why is it that the powers that be always want to cut teachers, police, fire, arts; rather that their over stuffed staffs. These "public servants" will not be satisfied till they suck all of us dry. I am getting to be, more and more, a supporter of the 9th and 10th amendments. The smaller the government the better off all of us would be.

That will have to be it for taday. God bless all of you.

Sunday report (again)

Aloha: One of the problems of being retired is that the usual measures of time no longer apply. Off today, work tomorrow; that sort of thing. Here it is, another Sunday, and I can not remember what happened to the past week.

On my last post I asked for ideas on what to write about. I got this response from Joe: Joe said...
"Write about the truth. There are those of us who still believe in it."
I clicked on word "Joe" to see if it would lead to a blog but no such luck. Everyone has their own opinion on what is true. What is the "true" religion? What is the "true" political system. What is "true" medicine. What is the truth? As you can see I need more input to determine just what "truth" we believe in.

I asked about how many gallons of water one inch of rain will produce on a one foot square of surface. I wanted to know so I could determine how much water I am collecting on my roof. Well, now I know! My roof is 1440 square feet and one inch of rain will give me 897.6 gallons of water. I am now patting myself on the back and giving me an "atta boy".

Today the weather is cloudy with some sun. We had 0.6 inches of rain this week. The volcano is just doing its thing and chugging along. All is SOS.

I will not be sitting this week. Maybe I will do some research on the differences between Demipublicans and Republicats. My mother used to say "six of one, half a dozen of the other".

God bless and be good to each other.

Well played.

Aloha: The ball was in her court and she played it well. My new follower is indeed who I thought. (See comment on last post.) Question; do you have a blog? I could not find a link. I did not know that you could follow a blog without having one of your own. As I have said many times before; I am technologically challenged.

Because I am retired I have time to watch things like the Fox News Channel. They are live so at noon I am seeing into the future as they are 5 hours ahead of us. I am now "hooked" on the Glen Beck program. He is going over the history of the United States and the view of the founders and it is quite interesting. He does love his chalk board!

Today is a cool, beautiful day in "God's country". It is now 58 on the sunny side of the house, the trades are back so the air is clean. The volcano is doing its thing so all is SOS.

To whom it may concern; I am open to suggestions as to what I should write about. Just comment on the blog and I will try to address the issue. You all know that I am the worlds greatest authority on my own opinion and I am willing to share my wealth of knowledge. (If you are offended by that last sentence you are liberal: if you thought it was funny. you are conservative.)

May the Good Lord keep all of you in the palm of his right hand.

My new follower?

Aloha: I am 99% sure I know who my new follower is. When I clicked on her icon there was no link to a blog so i was not able to read "all about it". I clicked on her "leave a message" button and, being technologically challenged, could not figure out how to do it (leave a message). The ball is now in her court.

I just had a visitor. He brought me my census papers. I will have to check them out and report on them later. My mom used to work for the census years and years ago. I wonder how these guys will make out in the area of the Big Island known for there ag products. (Pakalolo - Crazy Tobacco) These farmers do not like to have strangers driving around their area.

I do not have to sit this week. I will have to go down to Hilo this week to get some Niacin. I got a letter from a doctor I see every 5 years and he wants to look up my butt again. I think I will have a letter drawn up so he can certify that my head is not up there.

We got a little bit of rain last night, and it was rather gloomy this morning. It was cold enough (51) that I decided to make, what I call, Portuguese Brand Sausage soup. My wife does not like beans so the soup is bean soup without the beans. I think I asked this before and got no answer, but when did Portuguese become a brand? When I fill out the census questionnaire do I call myself a Portuguese brand human being? I have another question. If you are from Brazil are you Hispanic? Most of the people in South America speak a European language (Spanish or Portuguese), as do most of the people of North America (English or French). Is Brazil a part of Latin America? Or are they Portuguese brand Hispanics? Are the people of Mexico, Mexican brand Hispanics? Points to ponder.

The reports for the volcano area are, as usual, SOS.

That's it for today. God bless and take care.