Remembering El Infierno

I didn't previously post this picture along side the previous post referring to Hawaii being like Hell. Reminded me of Constantine.

Took this picture from the balcony from a house we were at for a family-friend's party. Also at that party was a man who reminded me of a twisted Mr. Rogers.
Oh, almost forgot, soon after midnight, it started sprinkling rain. I think all the smoke helped the moisture condense. Fallout rain. Very pseudo-natural. I keep referring to it as nuclear holocaust rain. Blaack.

Ehh, don't feel like writing much for today. Here are some hilarious things which show my religion mockery side:
E-mail God - haha, "Stop bad things from happening to good people."
BYOB! -hehe, I'd keel over laughing the first time I heard it sincerely being used like that.

Well, one last plug, with the whole religious thing- brings to mind the miner situation in West Virginia. I think its really interesting that the church spread the false rumor that all the miners survived, then when they found out otherwise, are attacking the rescue peoples.
I bet on hearing that all the miners were safe, everyone was saying, "Thank God!" I'd be interested to hear what they said when they heard all but one were dead.

Bit Lip

A really bad habit of mine, always bit my bottom lip. Need to break that.

Back to... stuff; I learned about the story behind kodama [left, wooden dolls]:

Pretty interesting Japanese history bit. Any real kodama you find will be old. They were made by common farmers in older Japan when they had a daughter and couldn't afford to keep her. After passing the child along to the next life, they would make one of these dolls to honor her spirit. They were often decorated elaborately, depicting things which the family would have wanted to give their child, if they had the money. (Kimono, etc.)

[Right, clock]: On the wall of a restaurant, I found this old-school clock rather amusing.

Indelible is a good word which I want to use more often.

The Raw

Caught me off guard, but noticed one of those brown "SUGAR IN THE RAW" bags, said the cane was grown right here. Wonder if anyone here cares.

Someone here who knew me when I was younger bought be a Hawaiian Origami book. Wow, I used to really be into origami, made all kinds of stuff. Since I have forgotten how to manke many of the things I used to know, but I can still easily follow any instructions for origami put in front of me. Had to try one from the book, did it with some scratch paper:

A gecko apparently. The live ones here are so much more graceful.

Ripped open a coconut that just fell off our palm tree, tough things to get into. The milk was... interesting. (I hear its better on younger, green-husked ones.) The white meaty part was wonderful though. Don't have the privilege to do this in Colorado or Pennsylvania every day.

This was hilarious to me for some reason, my geek/dark side comes through. Great gaming technique, because, uhh... death involving irony is funny.

2006 Makes the News

Lets see, still here in Hawaii. New Years came and went like any other day... well, I take that back. There were lots of fireworks. Homebrew. The sulfur and smoke over the entire island was really something. I appreciated the comment by someone: the smell of fire and brimstone, akin to hell. Great transformation of the island.

Went fishing the other day in the Kanaohe Bay. Didn't catch a thing.

Did learn a new word: Vog. Derived from volcanic smoke and fog, makes this haziness fall over the island when the wind comes from the south. When the tradewinds come from the north, the air is a lot clearer.
The guy we went fishing with gave us a first hand account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. We were in sight of a naval base, and just miles from Pearl Harbor. He could see the planes with the Japanese insignia, hear the explosions, and the shrapnel clattering down on corrugated metal roofs. He was a real American patriot, so I didn't entirely like his twist on things, but that's okay, was still interesting listening to his stories.

Umm, on a past note (should've said this earlier) I like the second movement of Beethoven's 9th a lot.