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Post by Crowfan on Jan 28, 2015 18:12:48 GMT -5
Not to be confused with our Doomsday Machine.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Nov 1, 2015 2:15:56 GMT -5
Wow, I haven't been posting in this for awhile. This is what's been happening:
Me first. I had a lump in my nose for the first half of this year. It ended up being an infection, not a polyp, so i had minor surgery to have it removed in July. YAY!!! Fast forward a week and a half later..."I'm so happy! I can breathe again. Now my life will be so muchOUCH!!" And so my sciatica came back. I couldn't walk more than a 100ft without stopping in pain. So off I went for an MRI. Yep, there was MR. Sciatic nerve being pinched once again by L3 and L4 lumbars. The surgeon gives me a prescription for physical therapy twice a week (I didn't know they could that) and told me to take Ibuprofen for 3 weeks and if neither help I'd need surgery. It's at that point that all our cars break down. Physical therapy? What physical therapy? So I call my general practitioner and he instead prescribes me Oxaprozin since physical isn't therapeing me at all. ( If you're wondering about other forms of transportation, or a friend who's willing to give me a ride, forget it!) The oxyprozin worked pretty well, I rarely even need to take it, and even though I still have a slight pinch I can handle it now. So for the moment I can live with it.
Now about Hawai'i where I live and sports: The lava flow has stood within 4 miles of Pu'u O'o this entire year. Mauna Loa's level of danger has been raised to yellow so we'll see if we finally get an eruption from that mountain.
We've been playing major dodge ball with storms this year. We're not suffering so much from storm fatigue but from "oh, just get it over with already" syndrome. The funny thing is all these tropical storms and hurricanes do drive-by hellos and the worst weather we ended up having was three weeks ago from the remnants of a storm. The dang gone remnants! A few 10,000 of lightening strikes around you can always keep you on your toes.
Hawai'i sports: Our University of Hawai'i Women volleyball team is their usually good top 10 teams selves but the football team is scraping the bottom of the barrow. High school football games are drawing more fans to watch the games. We're back to the 1970s pre-NCAA level of play. It's sad to see how far the program has fallen. Just too many bad decisions by the administrators who run our program.
Glad to get back here and share some of what's happening in my life. Mahalo for reading and until next time, Aloha.
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Post by Truck Farmer on Nov 2, 2015 5:29:28 GMT -5
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Post by afriendlychicken on Nov 2, 2015 21:32:21 GMT -5
That Saturday game was the straw that broke the camels back. It was pathetic to watch. By the middle of the third quarter there was only about 5,000 people left in the stands and half of those were the Air Force fans. You know your teams situation is bad when you start rooting for the other team because you just know your team will find a way to lose. I've been doing that for almost a season and a half now and it's not an enjoyable concept. And it being young men in college you're rooting for them but against the coach. The talk here is bringing June Jones back, or ex-players like Nick Rolovich or Rich Miano as coach. But no matter who it is that takes over there's no way to go but up or remain the same.
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gamera99
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Post by gamera99 on Dec 15, 2015 1:12:01 GMT -5
AFC I wanted to ask your opinion about a movie I saw a few months ago called "The Descendants" with Geo. Clooney and others. It is about a lawyer who, with relatives owns several thousand acres of undisturbed coastline and forest on Kauai, that was deeded through a relative who was Hawaiian royalty etc. Anyway I thought the movie might really strike a chord with native Hawaiians because they used or seemed to use a lot of authentic old Hawaiian folk music. I liked the scenery - like people's front yards with huge dark green tall foliage and wild tropical flowers that reminded me of Okinawa. If you forgot to mow your grass for a week, you could no longer find your driveway. I really liked the movie but I don't know if a real Hawaiian would see it and say "meh". I like old Hawaiian slack string guitar; I have listened to some 1940s and 1950s that I liked a lot.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Dec 19, 2015 3:46:53 GMT -5
AFC I wanted to ask your opinion about a movie I saw a few months ago called "The Descendants" with Geo. Clooney and others. It is about a lawyer who, with relatives owns several thousand acres of undisturbed coastline and forest on Kauai, that was deeded through a relative who was Hawaiian royalty etc. Anyway I thought the movie might really strike a chord with native Hawaiians because they used or seemed to use a lot of authentic old Hawaiian folk music. I liked the scenery - like people's front yards with huge dark green tall foliage and wild tropical flowers that reminded me of Okinawa. If you forgot to mow your grass for a week, you could no longer find your driveway. I really liked the movie but I don't know if a real Hawaiian would see it and say "meh". I like old Hawaiian slack string guitar; I have listened to some 1940s and 1950s that I liked a lot. I really, really, really need to see that movie. I live near Hilo on Hawai'i Island and we have sunny days on occasion. And yeah, we have the same thing here where you wait for that first sunny day and hopefully you're home to mow the lawn or nature takes over again. At the moment we're all just trying to dodge dengue fever carrying mosquito. Thankfully where I live isn't one of the risk areas. My favorite local music is also slack key guitar. One of my favorite slack key guitarists is Ledward Kaapana. Here's a nice video of him playing Pipeline and Ghost Riders in the Sky:
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Post by afriendlychicken on Dec 29, 2015 20:38:16 GMT -5
In the 1960s, 70s and early 80s there was a local kids program in Hawai'i called Checkers and Pogo. Very little of the show has been saved for prosperity but thanks to some friends on Facebook I was led to these two wonderful educational films made for the show. This first one showed us hungry kids how ice cream sandwiches and other frozen goodies were made at our Meadow Gold factory.: This second video shows the now defunct Dole pineapple factory: I loved seeing these as they take me back to my hanabata (that's the stuff that runs out of your nose ) days growing up in Kailua on Oahu before I made my move to Hilo. Here's hoping you enjoyed my post. Mele Kalikimaka and a Hau'oli Makahiki Hou.
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Post by Skyroniter on Jan 12, 2016 18:05:25 GMT -5
In the 1960s, 70s and early 80s there was a local kids program in Hawai'i called Checkers and Pogo. Very little of the show has been saved for prosperity but thanks to some friends on Facebook I was led to these two wonderful educational films made for the show. This first one showed us hungry kids how ice cream sandwiches and other frozen goodies were made at our Meadow Gold factory.: This second video shows the now defunct Dole pineapple factory: I loved seeing these as they take me back to my hanabata (that's the stuff that runs out of your nose ) days growing up in Kailua on Oahu before I made my move to Hilo. Here's hoping you enjoyed my post. Mele Kalikimaka and a Hau'oli Makahiki Hou. I was on the Checkers and Pogo show once! Loved it as a kid. If I remember right Pogo hosted a B movie program in the afternoons also. This was in 66 or 67.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jan 17, 2016 19:50:15 GMT -5
In the 1960s, 70s and early 80s there was a local kids program in Hawai'i called Checkers and Pogo. Very little of the show has been saved for prosperity but thanks to some friends on Facebook I was led to these two wonderful educational films made for the show. This first one showed us hungry kids how ice cream sandwiches and other frozen goodies were made at our Meadow Gold factory.: This second video shows the now defunct Dole pineapple factory: I loved seeing these as they take me back to my hanabata (that's the stuff that runs out of your nose ) days growing up in Kailua on Oahu before I made my move to Hilo. Here's hoping you enjoyed my post. Mele Kalikimaka and a Hau'oli Makahiki Hou. I was on the Checkers and Pogo show once! Loved it as a kid. If I remember right Pogo hosted a B movie program in the afternoons also. This was in 66 or 67. You were on Oahu in the 60s? There was still a lot of open land back then. I never went on the program but I had cousins who appeared on the show. My Checkers and Pogo connection had to do with Professor Fun. He was doing his magic act in a mall; I can't remember which one but it was near downtown Honolulu; and he needed an assistant to help him on stage so he looked out and saw me. I got to help him with magic tricks that he purposely made me fail with. I had a ball and was giving a grab bag of toys.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jan 17, 2016 19:54:35 GMT -5
I loved seeing these as they take me back to my hanabata (that's the stuff that runs out of your nose ) days growing up in Kailua on Oahu before I made my move to Hilo. That's interesting - hanabata in japanese - 花畑 - is a "field of flowers". Well and hana means nose too; it's a different kanji. It's definitely from the Japanese, but I assumed we slightly bastardized it.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jun 18, 2016 23:18:40 GMT -5
I haven't been on this blog of mine either! Where oh where have you gone chicken?
Over the last few weeks the June 27th(2014) lava flow has finally stopped. The flow now has started back down towards where it was flowing for the 31 years before, through Royal Gardens Subdivision, down the pali(cliff) south of the Kalapana area. I'm not sure why it started flowing that way again except possibly the Pu'u O'o cinder cone collapsed and opened the way for the flow to go east/south east again.
Something I should have been on here talking about through this year is the round world journey of the voyaging canoe Hokulea. Right now they're leaving the New Jersey area and heading for Rhode Island, so if anyone on this board lives anywhere around there go out and see Hokulea as it visits near your area. I hope as it's sailed up the east coast that some of you have been able to visit or at least witness the Hokulea sailing past.
Mahalo for reading and until next time, Aloha!
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jul 21, 2016 20:34:05 GMT -5
Just preparing for a tropical storm, nothing to see here, move on...
Darn you Darby! You dummy! (I channeled my inner Fred Sanford there.)
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Post by nondescript spice on Jul 24, 2016 1:35:14 GMT -5
stay safe, chicken!
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jul 27, 2016 2:27:06 GMT -5
Thank you! It ended up being pretty tame. We did get some 30-40mph winds with some 40mph+ gusts but it wasn't consistent. Only light rain and no lightning. The next day it rained heavier because the backside had most of the rain. Oahu ended up taking most of the brunt from Darby, especially on the rain side. They had a lot of flooding, most was flash flooding because it rained about 2" every hour for about 6hrs. Luckily no one was hurt even though some apartments, and a number of business', were flooded and a boy had to be rescued from a river: A lot of people on Oahu took this too lightly as you can see by the amount of cars on the road. This island hunkered down. Oahu thought that the large mountains here, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, would break the storm up and protect them but that didn't happen.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Aug 29, 2016 22:46:56 GMT -5
MADELINE LESTER MADELINE LESTER MADELINE LESTER MADELINE LESTER...
Don't mind me, I'm just trying an incantation to drive away the two powerful hurricanes heading my way...
MADELINE LESTER MADELINE LESTER...
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