Cell Phone Blues

Aloha: Last week my cell phone died. I would turn it on and the phone would turn itself off. The cell phone doctor was unable to breath life into the phone so yours truly had to get a new one. Since the old would not stay on my phone book could not be transferred out into the new phone so good ole Anakam had to redo the phone book. I got some news for her; I got another page of numbers for her.

Chapter two: One week later the new phone does not ring. It just shakes. I take it to the phone store and the girl there gets it to ring while shaking so I go to Anakam's house and by chance, either she or I was holding the phone and it starts to shake, no ring. Back to the store I go and the phone is pronounced broken beyond repair. I am told to call a special number to make a claim. Back to Anakam's I go (home is 30 miles away) to make the call and at about the 15th time I have to choose between 1 and 2 Anakam tells me to push 0 and not stop. Wow, I got a real live person and he tell me since the phone is less than 30 days old to take it back to the store for a replacement.

Chapter three: Back to the store I go and this time Anakam comes with me. I talk to the 3rd person for the day. "O ya, we will exchange the phone, do you have the box and all the papers" Auwe!!!!! I am not going to the dump to look for that which was thrown away because it was rubbish! I had had the phone for a total of 8 days. Anakam asked one question. "What the hell is he supposed to do now?" The clerk goes to the back room and come out with a new phone and tells me the "boss" told him to give me a new phone. This time the phone book was able to be transferred. At least one thing went right. The real kick in the pants is that if my phone had gone out one week earlier or later I would not have needed a new phone as the fire department had given my wife a blackberry and told her to keep the old phone as they had no use for it. She was on Maui the week the phone went out.

I will have some great news later so stay tuned, but this will be it for today. God bless and take care.

Another Sunday.

Aloha: Well, here it is another Sunday. All the reports for the Volcano are SOS. We had 0.4 inches of rain (plus one cricket) for the week.

Want to try to wrap your brain around something? Look up Piri Re'is map on the Internet. The map was found in 1929 in Turkey and is from 1513. Very interesting!!!!!

It looks like I will not be sitting this week. Just sitting at home with only the full refrigerator to keep me company. Ok, ok; also 4 dogs. Don't you feel sorry for me?

God bless and keep all of you safe and sound. Love to all.

Inflation?

Aloha: Do you think we have inflation today? I just saw something that surprised me so I copied it for your edification. "The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released their Producer Price Index (PPI) report for March 2010 and the latest numbers are shocking. Food prices for the month rose by 2.4%, its sixth consecutive monthly increase and the largest jump in over 26 years." Whoa, what happened? Could it be possible? Wait, that's right. A quart of Mayo in now only 30 ounces, not 32. Can you find other examples of inflation?

There was a 3.2 earthquake on Mauna Loa very early this morning. Last month Mauna Loa status was lowered to the lowest level possible; normal. Our volcano, Kilauea, is chugging along; SOS. No lava in going into the ocean as the lave tubes from the TEB vent have closed and there are now surface flows which move quite a bit slower and cool a lot faster. These flows are not in areas that can be visited by the general public. All the volcano reports are SOS. The weather is great.

I am waiting for word about sitting next week. That's all folks. God bless and take care.

Another day....

Aloha: I was asked "what feedback" so here it is. On April 4th (I believe) I asked what you, my readers, thought about which direction you thought our country should take. Should we go with the founders or with the Progressives? Just remember, 30 years ago it was progress in Hawaii to put a hotel on every beach. "They paved paradise and put in a parking lot". Progress is a journey and it is not only fair, but our duty to ask "What is at the end of the journey?"

My wife went to Maui on Sunday for a meeting (state wide) of the Red Cross. She was to come home that night and then leave on the first flight out for a meeting (state wide) of the EMS the next day. Thank God the Red Cross put her up in a hotel for Sunday night. She is coming in tonight (Thursday) and she has to be at work tomorrow morning.

God love you all and take care.

Sunday Report

Aloha: Here it is, Sunday again, and all is SOS. We had 0.15 inches of rain for the week. Still waiting for feedback. Take care and may God bless.

Sunday Report.

Aloha: It looks like we will have a lot of flowers in May as April showers bring May flowers. Rain for the last week 1.75 inches. Volcano report is SOS. No sitting this week. That's all folks! God bless you all and do be good to each other.

What do you think?

Aloha; I just read something and I would like to get some feedback from all my readers. Here it is.

"Over the past 14 months, our political debate has been transformed into an argument between the heirs of two fundamental schools of political thought, the Founders and the Progressives. The Founders stood for the expansion of liberty and the Progressives for the expansion of government. It's an argument that has been going on for a century but was largely dormant over the quarter-century of low-inflation economic growth that followed the Ronald Reagan tax cuts. It's been raised again by the expand-government policies of the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders. Those policies, thoroughly in line with the Progressive tradition, have been advanced by liberal elites in government, media, think tanks and academia. The opposition, roughly in line with the Founders tradition, has been led by the non-elites who spontaneously flocked to tea parties and town halls. ... The conservative rebellions of the late 1970s and middle 1990s were focused on taxes. The tea partiers are focusing on the expansion of government -- and its threat to the independence of citizens. ... By passing the stimulus package and the health care bills, the Democrats produced expansion of government. But voters seem to prefer expansion of liberty." --political analyst Michael Barone

My basic position is with the Founders. "Economic justice is best won by free men through free enterprise". "Social justice" has never been, and will never be, achieved at the point of a gun.

Saw my skin doctor this morning and the bumps on my left jowl is "segmental neurofibromatosis". I think that is spelled right. You all know how bad doctors handwriting is. Almost as bad as mine. I have had those lumps for over 50 years now so I do not think I will worry about them.

I am down in Hilo today and it is raining. Looks like I will be getting wet picking up my mo'opuna this afternoon. He was not a happy camper this morning when he realised he would not be picked up by mom or dad. Poor kid!

That's all folks. God bless and be good to each other.

Happy Easter.

Aloha: I want to wish you all a very Happy and Holy Easter. The day kinda snuck up on us this year. We went to South Point on Friday with Topher, Anakam, CJ, Ka'iulani and Chief and the subject came up so we made plans in a hurry to eat at noon at Anakam's house. Even without planning we ended up with too much to eat. In addition to those mentioned above, Chief's friend, Malama and my brother Manuel were there. It was a very pleasant day.

On my last post I got two comments: the second answering the first. The first asked what "blatherskite" is and, also, what is "bloviate". He/she/it wanted to know what the "bones" reference was about.

The second comment explained about "Bones" being a TV program, which I watch reruns of in the afternoon. As for "blatherskite" (A person given to voluble, empty talk) and "boviate" (to speak pompously.) I believe he said, before the House vote, that all that can be said has been said and now he is going around the country contributing to global warming try to convince himself that what he is doing is a good thing. In North Carolina he used over 2,500 words and took more that 17 minutes to answer a simple question. Auwe!!!!!

We had all of 0.4 inches of rain this week. The weather has been beautiful, the air clear and clean as the trades are blowing all the vog to Kona. The volcano is SOS and all is well in God's country.

The best news is that I will be sitting my mo'opuna this week. I will have to check with Anakam as I think she was saying that I can meet the whole gang at the zoo on Friday. Sounds like a winner to me. That is all for today. May God bless and keep all of you safe and sound.