Mainland Missives

Note:  The following are blogs based on my weekly emails to my relatives on the mainland.  For longer explorations of what it's like t

o live in Hawai'i, see my collection of blogs titled Life In Hawai'i.

  1. Final Trip Prep, 3 Doctors, Pills Are Pau Fpr Now 11/2/24
  2. Race Day, SS Syndrome, Side Effects Suck 10/26/24
  3. Tow Truck, Travel Prep, Tight Buns 10/19/24
  4. Repositioning Ships, Fall in Hawai'i, Eye Surgery ...  10/12/24
  5. Cataract Culprits, Cardio Consult, Magic Golf Balls 10/5/24
  6.  Wet Fall, Medical Ambiguity, Heart to Heart 9/28/24
  7. Back Home, Cheers for Cardio Normality, Pele Spits Up 9/21/24
  8. Storm? Waikiki Anniversary, Truffles & Surgery 8/31/24
  9. Waikiki Eye Slice, CC Hack, Tropical Storm 8/24/24
  10. Fire Prep, Med Titration,Travel Plans 8/14/24
  11. Olympic Workout,Medical Molasses,Golf"ish" 8/10/24
  12. Musical Doctors, Cool Air & Warm Water, Pele Snoozes Again  8/3/24
  13. A-Fib Club, Escape from Canada, Pele Perks Up 7/27/24
  14. Guest, Fireworks, More Travel Plans 7/6/24
  15. Warm Water, "AA" Golf, Pigs & Mangos 6/29/24
  16. vAX Whack, Travel Plans, Mango Mania 6/22/24
  17. Horse Leis, New Car AC Woes, Double Eye Shots 6/15/24
  18. Pele Burps up a Passport, Solar Panels Almost! 6/8/24
  19. First Car Wash, Retirement Anniversary, Ride-Along...  6/1/24
  20. Resolution Week, Roof Readiness, Buckling Up 5/25/24
  21. Death of a Sandwich, 2 More Docs, Roof Repair 5/18/24
  22. Big Birthday, Lost Passports, Rumbling Volcano 5/11/24
  23. Car Bonding, 3 Doc Visits, Wheeling & Dealing 5/4/24
  24.  Escape From Mordor, Career In Used Car Sales ?  4/27/24
  25. Eye Shots, Golf Shots, Blood Draws & Test Drives 4/20.24
  26. Back To Bogie-Land, Car Shopping 4/13/24
  27. Happy Hula, Muscles, Travel Plans 4/6/24
  28. Smoking Crossover, Golf"ish", Pool Proposal 3/30/24
  29. 20/60; Patience, Grasshopper 3/23/24
  30. Tax Back, Eye Woes, Pumping Iron 3/16/24 
  31. Pool Time, Tax Time, Retina Relapse, Reunion Fun 3/9/24
  32. Whale Tails, Lost Phone, 9 to 5 3/2/24
  33. Grand Jury Pay, Fixing Fixes, Ethiopia Post Mortem 2/24/24
  34. Back Home -- Sorta Kinda 2/17/24
  35. Panel Pau, Quiet New Year, New Skin Doc, Grand Jury 1/6/24
  36. Pool Bubbles, Ho, Ho, 2023 Go! 12/30/23
  37. 'Twas the Week Before Christmas 12/23/23
  38. Cologuard Results, Fiber Installed, "RSVPlease" 12/16/23
  39. Switch to Fiber, Golf Jinx, Grand Jury Duty? 12/9/23
  40. Wordle in 8, Kona Low, Cable Guy 12/2/23
  41. Week of 3's, 'Par'ty, Here Comes $anta 11/25/23
  42. Leis, Eye Shot, PT Reject 11/18/23
  43. Wordle In 1, Coffee Festival, Snoozerama 11/11/23
  44. Sliced, Diced, Pumped & Shot 11/4/23
  45. Bones, Vanishing Electrons, & The Poop is in the Mail 10/28/23
  46. Blood, Safari, Golf"ish" 10/21/23
  47. Iron People, Eyeball, Volcano  10/14/23
  48. Back Home -- Sorta Kinda 10/7/23
  49. Golf To Go, Aniversary, Swelling Volcano 8/26/23
  50. Spam for Maui, Valve Surgery, Travel Prep 8/19/23
  51. Fires, Leaks, Pars & Pads  8/12/23
  52. Looking for Leaks, Golf Cart Pontoons, Clean Teeth 8/5/23
  53. Lahaina Noon, Popping a Peacock, Manta Rays 7/29/23
  54. Calvin Fizzles, Skin Scrutiny, Summer Arrives  7/22/23
  55. B-Day, Anniversary, Peacocks in the Mist 7/15/23
  56. /A Darwin Award, Quiet 4th, Pump & Grunt 7/8/23
  57. Miracle Drug, Physics, Ball? 7/1/23
  58. Back Home, A Pele Present, Jet Lag  6/24/23
  59. Vabysmo in My Eye, Birthday, New Cell Service 5/13/23
  60. Driveway Paint, Thick Air Golf 5/6/23
  61. Coqui In The Buff, Eyeball Unmolested, Sparkling Driveway 4/29/23
  62. Popping Peacocks, Putting Birdies 4/22/23
  63. Puddles, Merrie Monarchs, Guests 4/15/23
  64. Lazy Lava, Snowball Blooms, 400 Frogs 4/8/23
  65. Techno-Jinx, Techno-Triumph, Travel Plans 4/1/23
  66. Needles, Blood, Silicone, & Smoke  3/25/23
  67. Techno Troubles, Credit Card Hack  3/11/23
  68.  Dumper, Waikablowa, "Disaster!"  3/4/23
  69. Twin Snow Cones, Snoozing Volcanoes, Medication Dillemas  2/25/23
  70.  Superbowl Road Trip, Valentine Tacos, Leg Slices  2/18/23
  71.  Painting Pau, Back to Splashing & Ball Whacking 2/11/23
  72. Big Blow, Eyeball, Painting 2/4/23
  73. Sofa No Mo', Lava Golf, Sad News 1/27/23
  74. Bones, Golf, Cable Guy, Couch 1/21/23
  75.  Bone Scan,Vog, Safety Check 1/14/23
  76. Pele Pops Her Cork, Christmas No Mo', Chopomania 1/7/23
  77. Aloha '22, Aloha '23? 12/31/22
  78. Lava Changing to Snow, Ho, Ho, Ho 12/24/22
  79. In From The Cold, Lava Pau for Now 12/15/22
  80. Living with Lava, Tired of Turkey 12/3/22
  81. Lung Results, Turkey Day, Spring Travel Plans  11/26/22
  82. Fixing Solar Leaks, Getting Nuked & Shot, Pumping 11/19/22
  83. The "C" Word, Spring Travel Plans, Long Johns 11/12/22
  84. Coffee Festival, A Golf Par"ish," Travel Plans, Clinic Problems 11/5/22
  85. Getting Sliced & Shot, Pumping My Pecs 10/29/22
  86. Zero-Putt-Birdie, Volcano Duet  10/22/22 
  87. Using up Electrons, Good Eyeball News, Vaxed to the Max  10/15/22
  88. Aloha from ..... Home  10/8/22
  89. The Wheels on the Boat Go 'Round and 'Round 8/20/22
  90. Alarming News, Body Fluids, Double Whammy Workout 8/13/22
  91. Termite Repairs, Under the Knife, Clubs for Sale 8/6/22
  92. Playing With The Wind, Controlling Critters 7/30/22
  93. Big Swell, Digital Coquis, Covid Neighbors, Four $eason$ 7/23/22
  94. Good Eyeball, Birthday, Lack of Good Sense, Roof Gardens 7/16/22
  95. July 4th, Moving Anniversary, ER 7/9/22
  96. Hand of Doom, Fig Pickin' Fingers 7/2/22
  97. My Week of Special Numbers 6/25/22
  98. Travel Plans, Eyeballs, Gold Stars, and Clues 6/18/22
  99. Back Home Safe (?) and Sound 6/11/22
  100. Travel Prep, Shiny Teeth, Ukulele Virtuoso  4/30/22
  101. Volcano Snow, Tripping Out, Super Goo to the Rescue  4/23/22
  102. Vaxed to the Max, Toe Troubles, Coqui Caviar 4/16/22
  103.  Bad Clutch, Spray Paint, and Super Goo 4/9/22
  104. Screen Spring Clean, Booster Boosts 4/2/22
  105. "Kona Snow," A Pole Cat, & Smoke No Mo'  3/26/22
  106. Waking Up Coquis, Pumping Iron  3/19/22
  107. How To Put Screws and Little White Balls in Holes 3/12/22
  108. 45 Lbs of Poi & A Set of Metric Hex Keys  3/5/22
  109. Star-Crossed Putters; Doing Some Fun Normal Things 2/26/22
  110. 1 Ship, 3 Doctors, 5 Friends  2,19/22
  111. My Blue Nevus in Azerbaijan 2/12/22
  112. Volcano Snorts, Foil Fixes, Workout Mania 2/5/22
  113. An Odd Ship, A Workout, A Dead Computer 1/29/22
  114. Our Tonga Tsunami; Toy Tweaking; TWO Ships  1/22/22
  115. Covid Golf, Nene Chicks, a New Techno-Toy 1/15/22
  116. 2022: Are We Having Fun Yet? 1/8/22
  117. Happy(well, maybe-maybe-not) New Year! 12/31/21
  118. 'Twas The Night... Bra, What Dat Clattah? 12/24/21
  119. Schmutz In The Pool Pump, Coquis In Pots, Splinters On Fairways  12/18/21
  120. Problems in Paradise: From Drought to Drow/ning 12/11/21
  121. Snow On The Volcano, Carpet Chaos 12/4/21
  122. Holidaze Discombobulation Begins  11/27/21
  123. Let's Bogey; Skylight Blues; Foreclosure No Mo' 11/20/21
  124. Me! 11/13/21
  125. The Bogey Man is Back! 11/6/21
  126. Fighting with Bubble Wrap; Catching Coquis  10/30/21
  127. Jet Lag, Volcanic Twitch, Earthquake 10/23/21
  128. A Booster, A Radiator, An Eyeball 9/18/21
  129. Virtual Labor Day, Vicarious Golf, Nullified Workout, Steamed Minnie 9/11/21
  130. Postponing Paradise, Celebrating Mortgage Crossover Day.. 9/4/21
  131.  Eyeball Mo’ Betta’; Doctor Fights; Three Anniversaries 8/28/21
  132. Becoming a Bogey Man, Lockdowns Looming 8/21/21
  133. TSA PreChecks, Golf, Creatures Big & Small 8/14/21
  134. August Already? Abnormal Normality? 8/7/21
  135. Covid Mo’ Bad; Rain Drops &Wild Fires; Minnie Turns 50  8/1/21
  136. Mexico A Go-Go; Negatrons; Covid Spike 7/24/21
  137. Shiny Mo’ Bettah, Travel Plans, Stealth Birthday 7/17/21
  138. Fizzled Fireworks, Celebrating a New Beginning 7/10/21
  139. Please Shut the Gate! 7/3/21
  140. Almost Normal (Not), A Missed Anniversary 6/26/21
  141. Whew! A Deafening Silence 6/19/21
  142. Hosting Raccoons, Walking Inside a Volcano 6/13/21
  143. One Eyeball Shot,Two Anniversaries, Four Frogs, One Pair of Twins 6/5/21
  144. A Revived Technobrick, Lots of Work and Naps 5/29/21
  145. What Else Could Go Wrong? 5/22/21
  146. Travel in the Time of Covid 3 5/8/21
  147. Travel in the Time of Covid 2 5/1/21
  148. Traveling in the Time of Covid 4/24/21
  149. Medical News, Travel Prep 4/17/21
  150. Dinner With Friends, Two Toys, Another Virus Vanquished 4/10/21
  151. 40-50 Nenes, A House Guest, A “Lolo” Market 4/3/21
  152. Techno-Trauma, Not-So-Nice Normal 3/27/21
  153. Nose Tweak, Toe Attack, Blind Drilling 3/20/21
  154. Mountain Saviors, Gecko Survivors 3/13/21
  155. Tenting, Vegging, and Re-Combobulating 3/7/21
  156. Travel Plans and Tent Preps 2/27/21
  157. Eyeball Shot, Splashy Hike, 0's & 1's 2/20/21
  158. A Toast to Double Shots, Higher Sodium Happiness 2/13/21
  159. Jurassic Hiking, Doctor Woes, Unmaking Travel Plans 2/6/21
  160. Covid Hike, Cockroaches, Fighting with My Doctor 1/30/21
  161. Covid Shots, Triumph of Reality 1/23/21
  162. A Well-Behaved Eyeball, A Yawning Volcano 1/16/21
  163. Two Kinds of Injections, A Workout, and a Riot 1/9/21
  164. A Dragon’s Fury, A Haircut, A Teeth Cleaning 1/2/21
  165. A Present From Pele, More Vaccine, Cutting Phone Cord Report  12/26/20
  174. A Light in the Dark, A Ballot, and A.C. Woes 10/17/20
  175. Fixing a Robot, Making Coqui Ceviche, Taking Over First Place 10/10/20
  176. Undoing Surgery, Fixing Time, and Corona Comes to Kona 10/4/20
  177. A Hanging, a Vaccination, Two Executions, and Some Computer Surgery 9/26/20
  178.  Fan Dance Encore and a Viral Yo-Yo 9/19/20
  179. Virtual Bangs, Spray Paint, Avoiding Death 9/13/20
  180. A Week of Seeing, Tasting, Hearing 9/5/20
  181. A Triple Anniversary and Three Dead Oxfarts 8/29/20
  182.  Eyeballs, Photons, and Mean Microbes 8/22/20
  183. Mainland Missive: 3 Doctors, 2 Frogs, and a Hurricane
  184. Mainland Missive: Sore Muscles and Champagne
  185. Mainland Missive: An Ark, A Haircut, and A Parka 
  186. Mainland Missive: Techno-Toy Turnaround 
  187. Mainland Missive: A Viral Birthday 
  188. Mainland Missive: Dodging Dougie and Going Down A...

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