Here’s a little rainbow that floated around one afternoon when we were watching the lava gas billow out of the Halemaumau crater on Kilauea. Then we sprinted through an old lava tube, trying to avoid Japanese tourists…

Fourteen times around
before you figured out
the scenery is what changes you
from the inside and the out.
You can’t twist the throttle
any harder or more full of doubt
the landing is what hurts the most
it’s the flying you can’t do without.

Here’s an interesting thing on the side of the road.

So, I’ve been painting and planting and other various handy things. Since there is no IKEA here, I have to make all of our furniture myself! One big plus to living here is all the local produce to eat. We have avocados, oranges, bananas, mangos, papayas, lettuce, carrots, tomatos, and COFFEE (!) all within 20 minutes of our house, yay!

Flying to the big island with my lucky dragon

Shirley Jo Fussbudget enrolled in the CNA program at GHCC last spring. Now that she’s in the final quarter, she used the lab to verify the results of the previous night’s purchase from The Dollar Tree. “Let’s see, yellow tube of urine, check. And the test sample, oh shit, I just knew I was pregnant!”

Hey! I’m blogging from the newest restaurant in town. The food is yummy!

It doesn’t multitask (yawn), there’s no camera (yet) and it doesn’t render flash animation, but it fills a niche that most people seem to be overlooking. The iPad is for the bifocal set. It’s a big iPod Touch with big buttons and the ability to have big text.

It will have a camera at some point. It might even get blessed with a front facing and a rear facing camera at the same time. Apple might even surprise everyone and sneak a camera into the first model that is still 2 months away.

I don’t need flash support. Lots of people don’t need flash support. The loss of the moving advertising and flashy websites won’t be mourned very loudly. I surf the web for information that helps me learn something or make money. I know that there are a bunch of neat games to play on the web that are flash based, but I don’t care. I don’t have time for it.

Pick up your iPhone and feel how thin and solid it is. Move some things around the screen and open an app or two. It’s a great little chunk of technology and the iPad is more of the same. When you pick one up in the Apple Store this summer, you’ll want one, even if it isn’t perfect.

The male flight attendant thought I looked like Drew Carey and wanted me to “do” my impression of him which I have none.