Several years back, I had a completely different life. I was an IT project manager working for a fortune 1000 company, making fairly good money, and feeling my soul slowly drip away. One of my saving graces was working for a woman named Joni who completely understood my creative side and supported me in so [...]
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This past Saturday my friends Mike and Jill were in Honolulu visiting Mike’s bruddah David. It was great seeing faces from home and laughing and play catch up with their lives. At one point when we were driving around we stumbled on a pink house with an odd design element of a Hello Kitty glitter [...]
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Tagged: Chicago Friends
I am the queen of losing stuff: My engagement ring, my phone and now this week it’s my camera. The great news is that the phone and ring found their way back to me so maybe I’m more just the queen of temporarily losing things. This past Monday after a fantastic day of whale watching, [...]
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Last week Mike had a visitor on board whom none of us had met beforehand but turned out to be like a warm snuggie on a cold winter’s eve. Simply put, he was just great. On Tuesday of last week, Piero, Rance, Mike, Danny and I rented a car to visit the Volcano National Park. [...]
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Last Honolulu after climbing to the summit of Diamond Head in a poor shoe choice, (see previous post) we met up with Rance and headed to Chinatown for the annual Chinese New Year Parade. Now, I’m not a huge fan of parades, normally they’re early in the morning and it’s cold outside and the band [...]
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Tagged: Chinatown, Chinese New Year, Honolulu, Parade, Year of the Tiger
Several years ago on a quick visit to Honolulu for a wedding I ventured out on my own and hiked to the top of Diamond Head. So you would think having done it before, given the opportunity to do it again, I would make the smart choice of appropriate footwear and plenty of sunscreen. You [...]
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Tagged: bus, Diamond Head, flip-flops, Honolulu
The 2nd Officer on board this ship is multi-talented and sometimes (by choice) works backstage at our show. It’s so great, I mean here’s a guy who is basically fourth in command of the entire ship and during his limited downtime he offers to come work our show when the tech crew is short handed, [...]
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Today is my dad’s birthday, I sent him a special birthday card and then called him as per usual. Normally our calls last about three minutes and we talk about the weather or fishing before he hands me to my step-mom for the real conversation. But today it was just me and him and he [...]
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I’ve heard it since getting on the ship, winter is prime whale watching season. And yes, it’s true we’ve seen evidence of whales for the past month and a half. We even went out on a whale watching boat and were amazed at how close a whale came to the vessel. But today, today was [...]
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