A calendar where it forms an image as you remove each week, about halfway done.
We hide in the bedroom when the Roomba is on so we don't mess it up.
After watching The Odyssey, we figured we should also watch Troy.
Although I don't want to sit through the entire Director's Cut; just the regular version is fine.
Bugs have built up under the stairway to the parking garage again.
I swept them up.
Then I noticed more by the side of the garage.
And swept them up, too.
Two important rules in chess: WOW, what opponent wants. What is your opponent's plan, and what are you going to do about it?
Second rule, CCTA: looks for, in order, checks, captures, threats, and active moves.
Security doesn't open until 5am, so a bit of a line builds up before then.
Not much progress on this mural.
Boarding.
Almost sunrise over Big Island.
Rain over the ocean.
The shore.
The sun is up.
Arriving at Honolulu.
Submarine.
Different colors of ocean.
Above Maui. A triangle of buildings.
It looks like many homeless live in their vehicles here.
Waiting for the tram to pass at the airport.
It's not great English, but it gets the point across.
A vertical mouse that works very well. I have one that is difficult to pick up, and I realized I pick up my mouse a lot to center it, so maybe I'll get this one instead.
Chicks.
Getting my hair cut.
Dinner at Round Table Pizza.
Nice seating area.
The cruise ship here.
Sunset.
Pretty picture.
The hotel room has a sliding barn door for the bathroom and closet, which is annoying because one will always be open.
Surfing competition on TV.
I recognize that pier.
The building at the end is very distinct.
Huntington Beach.
These swim trunks are advertised as $10.
But the tag says $17.
Ah, good, $10 at checkout.
Yota with very wide wheels.
This license plate is a bit weird. OGG is the airport to for Kahului on Maui, but LUE isn't one as far as I can tell.
Clouds above mountains.
Back in Kona, Ogii went to the Original Hawaiian Chocolate farm to buy some beans.
We bought Ogii's slippers in person at a store, but they didn't have Mom's, Dad's, or my size. But we can order them online.
Maui has a Whole Foods whereas Big Island doesn't, so I bought a few items there.
Like thse blue tortilla chips.
And this date walnut cake.
I was hoping they'd have the chocolate brioche bread like in Honolulu, but they didn't.
Nice swimming pool at the hotel.
These semi-submerged chairs are fun.
Sunset in Kona.
A baby gecko.
The volcano erupted, and again, for only seven hours.
It was OK.
Sunrise in Maui.
With beach morning glory.
The rental car smelled a bit, and I found this food under the passenger seat.
I pulled most of it out, but there was another piece I couldn't get, so I'll let them know it's there when I return it so hopefully they can vacuum it out.
A little bit of rainbow.
Another gecko.
There is only one direct flight from Maui to Big Island after work that gets me home faster than an indirect one through Honolulu.
But today there was a problem.
The flight in was delayed, so our flight was delayed an hour.
People are still waiting in line to board; I think you can sit down at this point.
And then it was delayed to three hours as the crew timed out.
We're supposed to get $12 food vouchers if the delay is over three hours, but I never got one.
But airport food is so expensive, the $12 doesn't even cover a meal.
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My food was $29.
Ah, they gave me a future flight discount of $50 instead of the $12 food voucher. As long as I fly Alaska again in the next year, that's a much better deal.
This seating area is closed.
But the staff can still sit on the other side.
Loading a big package on the plane.
Leaving Maui.
Some oceanside mansions.
The pilot announced we'd have a good view of Haleakala in a few minutes due to a good turn we got.
The observatory on top.
with the sun.
My windows was pretty dirty and scratched, but the one in front of it was much clearer.
Sunset into the clouds.
I got Ogii some POG.
Disembarking.
I've always had GoDaddy for domain names.
Namecheap is less expensive, although their prices have been creeping up over the years.
I've also heard of Porkbun, which has been a cheaper one for a few years, but not Spaceship.
Spaceship is a bit cheaper than Porkbun, and both are a bit cheaper than Namecheap and GoDaddy.
I guess Spaceship is a more modern implementation by Namecheap.
Ogii early birthday present.
Shoes.
I bought some travel laundry detergent sheets in case we want to do laundry in the sink on the cruise.
Dr. Glaucomflecken has discussed private equity taking over different hospitals and clinics, and one received a cease and desist from one.
Another present for Ogii.
A sakura backpack.
A cat at working having a drink.
The TV wants us to pick which ad we want. I don't care; just get it started.
Watching the new He-Man movie.
It was fairly fun; it made fun of the original cartoons a lot, especially the names of characters which were descriptive so kids could remember their names.
Another present.
LED tree light.
Of sakura.
Different sizes of plastic bags so I can organize my travel stuff better.
Massages at MyoPro.
The Safeway gas station is quite cheap and therefore always busy.
Time to make some home-made chocolate.
Peeling the skin off of the beans.
We did it by hand.
And we both ended up with small blisters on our thumbs.
Then time to add sugar and cacao butter.
We tried using a coffee grinder, but one overheated and started smoking, and the otehr was very small and taking forever, so we went to Walmart to buy something better.
The website says the Magic Bullet is $20, but in the store, it's $30.
This Mainstays chopper is $20, though.
We stopped by KFC for dinner.
The drive-through order screen had a note saying they're short staffed, so there may be a wait for your food.
Except they were actually closed, not just short staffed. But they didn't put this note on the order screen; it was on the payment window. Which you'd never see from the payment screen. So people probably waited for quite a while until they figured it out. Thankfully, the car ahead of me told me.
And I told the car behnd me.
The new food processor works much better.
Ogii also got some 50th anniversary molds.
Pouring the chocolate into them.
Watching Schitt's Creek. Along with a gecko up above the left-side siding door.
He's keeping an eye on us, too.