Here comes the rain again...

So like I realized something yesterday,

I realized it rains like a mother funker at times, in paradise?

Seriously its like 65 degrees in the morning but it feels like 40. I venture out to my scooter and get going, having to do a few errands like secure the title to my scooter, which I fear may be as they mention in the movies HOT.

But at least it starts ya know.

So I drive down my hill and get caught in this Forest Gump Vietnam kinda rain, It hits my face like razor blades and nails...

I am soaked by this deep stinging rain, (sky rips open, rain screaming down, pelting the women and children, pelting the women and children)

I walk into blockbuster of all places, and rent some movies and get some hot soup, which is recockulous.

Picture a giant togo cup and a togo container. The cup is filled with nice broth. The container is filled with chicken, noodles, sprouts, scallions, cilantro, a lime wedge, a couple hot peppers and a big bunch of fresh still on the tree Thai Basil (has a deep red stem, and a slightly spicier flavor)

So basically I get home and strip from my soaked clothes and enter them to the dryer and I know this is exciting.... I enter a giant lovemaking session with my soup. You put all the stuff together and it kinda cooks it and you are creating and customizing your soup like it was Mr. Potato head. Tastes unbelievable, very very fresh it is called Chiken Fa? and costs 6 bucks... which is a super bargain matinee.

i curl up with sweatpants and sweatshirts and watch Resident Evil Extinction, and wonder why they ever made part 2 or part 3 of this trilogy, should have stopped at one, Paul W Anderson, who is married to Mila Jovovich and made the first Alien vs Predator is to blame again....he was so promising and then he has just dropped the f'n ball.

So the rains subside, I am tired and want to go to bed with a belly full of soup, then I realize I'm in Hawaii, I should be at the beach man, so I go to the beach and swim to this awesome little sandbar, it is like a 50 yard swim straight out into the ocean in pretty deep water, then suddenly your on land again. I'm out into the ocean standing on ground and looking back at the beach. Really cool and really proud my swimming skillz are decent.

So I get to this little mall and eat 2 dolla taco's and have a beer as the sun sets along the water...

I go home and the rains kill me again. Soaked for the third time today, I barely make it home as a monsoon consumes me as I try to get up my hill, I retire for the night a soggy mess and take a much needed hot shower.


starting to rethink the scooter thing, because this rain is actually not uncommon for this time of year, I haven't seen it in two weeks...

HOORAY for Diamond Head Crater Monument Park

Or whatever,

it is a nice little drive from Waikiki and is the larger mountain that is always looming in the distance from the beach.

It starts pretty much instantly as an a nice inclined hike then after a few minutes you realized your steadily increasing your incline. I see people who look like they shouldn't walk across the street never mind climb a crater?

Costs like a dolla to enter, parked my pretty scooter and went in.

Foreigners abound.

Not even half way, and there is a cool lookout point, I have been stuck behind elderly asians. I have passed them like three times, they cannot be stopped however, they just keep coming.

Diamond Head

CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY STAIR CASES, AND TUNNELS AND STAIRS.

THEY GO LIKE STRAIGHT UP!

Again caught behind the troubled Asian elderly women, who, when I try to help them, stare at me like I have shamed and dishonored there whole family. Japanese are tough man, In there culture on the bus, no one gets up to offer their seat for anybody, nobody is offered any slack, no disabled, no elderly, it is efficient orderly and everything works. They wear short shorts and little school girl dresses all year round as they grow up going to school. They are tough.

Diamond Head

You have to Crawl through this tiny Little bunker and get out onto the last set of stairs.

I watched the two decrepit Asians fight there way through.

Diamond Head

Having trouble posting images

Hi everyone, been having trouble posting images for some odd reason.

I'm trying again.

I've been waiting to post these diamond head pics.... :(

Yeah one went through... this is the top!

HALONA COVE

So I scamper and trek and hop and jump and basically crawl down this cliff to get to Halona Cove.

It is soooo frickin cool. It is like a 25 foot long beach...with crazy crazy crazy waves.

I'm talking "when the big man was killed it's blood was on the trees" kinda terrible waves.

But oh my golly it is fun. I only waded in because I never know and there are jagged black volcanic rock (alright it wasn't volcanic but it sounds so much better) the waves come in at all angles and the ground beneath you is taken away-so your constantly shifting and bracing and back peddling and gliding in order to keep the perverbially WIDE BASE OF SUPPORT.

So your kinda like performing defensive drills on a basketball court as you enter the small cove. Waves hit and it is sooo warm, it's so much warmer than most other areas I've swam in. So I Frolick for a while let wave after giant wave collide with my translucent white bodice...which actually is turning some shade of brown on some areas....well actually my nose is bright red and I fear I may have to start wearing that zinc oxide stuff on my nose like Fast times at ridgmont high.

So two interesting things while I was there besides the battle with the sea.

1) this young girl (early teens-high teens? who knows I'm pretty dumb when it comes to that, hence why I am a wanted man in some northern states and fully accepted in most backwards southern states) so this girl she is like a beacon of sweetness for humanity yes a BSH and she runs down to the cove jumps in, jumps out and then proceeds to gather various pieces of trash and flotsum and jetsom and places them gently into an overflowing trash recepticle. Very nice, very nice indeed. It inspired me to return to the water and urinate, alright I'm just kidding. I was sorta moved by this person.

Then this other (had to be european dude based on the way he wore his banana hammock on the beach) Well this guy, I'll call Gruber...or Grube for short.

Well Grube leaves his wife and dog on the beach, assembles his cheap snorkle gear and ventures towards the water. He looks serious, he is up for the challenge. I'm on these rocks above the cove and basking in the sun and feeling the warm salty splash of sea foam spray. Well when I see this, I'm like "he is not serious is he" this is like a giant wave pool with rip tide. Well his wife starts to old back his dog who by now is losing it. The dog is yelping and pleading with Grube not to go. I mean this is out of a Brian Depalma film the amount of drama going on.

YELP YELP YELP YELP YELP YELP YELP RUFF RUFF RUFF

I like "dam straight little dog" your daddy is crazy.

The Grube pays no attention.

So I sorta meander down the cliff because I'm thinking if this guy is going in there full force I might need to help, like is was a episode of bay watch except called COVE WATCH and I was probably Pamela Anderson Moobs flopping all around.

Well he goes rushing in there puts on his gear, I'm thinking he is smart. But stupid.

Well I watch him get bounced around like a pinball then he retreats....it was hysterical though every time he went under his dog would go nuts.

He must of got a good view of the surf swirling but I really wonder if he thought he could go out that far, because he only made it to about as far as I could go and I'm double his size.

Anyways a really really amazing spot and like I said, famous for that film love scene. My mother remembers it well. She lika the steamy romance scenes.

mahalo for reading.

Finally Reaching the top....

and back down the stairs again.

Stay tuned for the Seclueded Beach

Alright here is a little teaser.

I wrote about this tiny little beach/cove thingy along a georgeous strecth of highway.

Well I had trouble loading the pics.

Well here is when I first went here.

More later.

This is called Halona Cove

It was made famous used during the filming of the film FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. With that classic love scene featuring Burt Lancaster and Deborah kerr.

Today I actually went down there.....wait to u hear that one.

DG
Aloha

ADDENDUM DORKY CHEESY WEDDING COUPLE

SO I'M FLIPPING THROUGH THE PAPER AND I SEE THE SAME DORKY CHEESE BALL VERY CUTE AND VERY FUNNY COUPLE.

SO SO FITTING THE POSE, THE DUDE HAD MAJOR FLOODS WHICH WERE AWESOME.

DAVE

The view from Maunalani Nursing Home

By the way these are two pictures from inside the parallel bars of the physical therapy room looking out the window. I will not always be at this site, but I might.

This is a road that goes straight up a moutain and this huge building is atop.

Another one of those, well I've seen some breath taking images, ho hum no big deal and then wham another scenic view that takes your breath and makes me just smile big huge cheesy huge smiles.

Friday Night Not a Dam thing Funny better stay in n do my Laundry

Quiet Friday Night after busy and annoying couple of days. Getting Lost quite frequently which is a good thing but every errand or thing I do seems to take like 2.5 hours. Finding Parking is a bitch, thats why I'm glad for the Moped/scooter because I can park it anywhere.

Just a few interesting things.

A ricemaker

A cool cabinet

Some Kim Chee which looks like some sort of fish intestine, but actually is a spicy cabbage salad and is pretty dam good.

Some Grass Jelly Drink, NO IDEA.

Yes I KNOW how to do laundry.... seriously though it has been a long long long long long long long long long long time since I last did my own. Like a good 3 years. I always paid for it to be down or had my personal slave (thanks MA!) doing the duty for me. Some where along the line, (not necessarily thinking it beneath me) I thought I could do better things with my time and that since time was money, well you get the point. Well now that I have Laundry facilities in my kitchen I can do them good. I know all of you are proud of the maturity of the 31 soon to be 32 year old man.

Also for those who requested, pics of me on scooter will not be happening soon, but here is one of me and my new afro puff helmet.

Getting to bed early on Friday to hit the diamond head crater for a nice hike on saturday morning.

Mahalo

Secret Yeah

Something I have noticed.

I have heard many cultures say the word NO quite often. Like the food is good no? But you read the directions NO? You lika the jus no?

Here they always say the word Yeah. It's like a mix of canadian and Minnesota almost, with some of the local language Pidgin thrown in. very funny yeah. interesting how the word yes could make the culture more laidback perhaps NO?

well anyways I ran into a random lady that turns out the be a cousin of a Physical Therapist who I was introduced to from a therapist back on the mainland....anyways it was funny we "talk story" which is what they say when they shoot the breeze with someone....and believe there is no rush to stop the conversation Yeah, and sometimes hey you know.

the lady made me a Malasada, which is equivalent of a dough boy covered with some sugar, pretty good, pretty tender yeah?

This is my view form Lanai just in case I haven't posted this pick yet,

thanks everyone again for your comments and thoughts

Been crazy busy but I just managed to get quite a bit done today and still had time to hit the beach. Ala Moana Beach Park, more local and less touristy, very funny that at about 30 feet from the shore the floor drops...it's like 5.5 feet and then it's like 10 real quick.

Japanese kids play near me and when they yell I can't help think they are yelling shark....or godzilla I'm not sure.

Also saw a very very dorky geeky wedding couple, a Chinese couple just beaming getting into a limo, but they were so cheesy and dorky it killed me.

Also speaking of strange people two things I have seen. A mental retarded asian, which I have never seen before. (easy everyone I used to treat the MRDD's they are my favorite people unless they bite or throw feces or have exceptionally large Penises and run after me...that is another story for another time)

So I saw that and also I was witness to a Japanese gay man who was on the big dork side.... wow.... i mean ....wow....it was like dorky von dorksville....

they just look at me and are afraid, very afraid......so I should talk right?

peace

PGO

Well I have my new Scooter.

It's a PGO, used, supposedly sooped up? more of a 75cc power range. I know what Your all thinking, that's all he needs more power.

Very interesting Long drawn out ordeal about registering the moped and securing the title.... put it this way after like two trips to town hall I still have to go back.

Have a big chain to lock it to things.

It's powerful but steers to the left a bit, they tell me, well we just put new blah blah blah blah that it might need to lossen up a bit.

whatever, it was expensive about a grand, but they gave me a lock and a helmet, yes I have a afro looking black helmet. and they have a warrantee on it for 3 months, so it should be covered if something goes wrong.

Someone to greet me in my new Home

So I get the keys, pack up my stuff and try to get in my rental car.

I can't get the key out. I can't start the car. I panic and fuss with everything.

I can do nothing. I'm on a hill so i suspect I might have enacted the kill switch in the rental car, glad I turned down the insurance with the road side assistance.

Defeated I finally call the number on the thrifty car form.

Nice lady from Dirty South answers...I tell her "I just can't get my key out" She tells me to make sure the care is completely in Park.

"thanks I tell her, I'm an Idiot" she says "half the people who rent cars ask the same question so your not alone"

I was treating an automatic like a standard and had the parking break on and the car in drive.

So anyways I get to my beautiful new place.

Nice little dead friend in my room.... me thinks it Ironic that we just talked about this... (Tracy you were right, they were lying!)

So anyways I get it setup and have a pretty chill night after running around all day.

Here are some pics.

By the way in the kitchen the stove exhaust comes up from the flat table when you press a button... Telling you it's a high tech kitchen.

Also they have those drawers/cabinets like Rachel Ray the ones that open out and have shelf access on either side. They are so convenient. Lots of frosted glass on the cabinets.

My new friend mike makes a salad with Papaya seed dressing....pretty good actually kinda like a creamy Italian with perhaps a hint of sweetness.

Making my way around the city more, have more interviews the next two days, just in case the other job falls through and perhaps pick up some side work as well.

Thanks everyone for reading and thinking of me.

Def, felt a little homesick the other day. I know how is that possible. Well after seven days it kinda set in that this is not really a vacation and I'm staying for a while and there is a lot of unknowns right now. I was feeling a bit stressed... then once I set up my bed I felt better and I used the Pillow Case that the Haven made for me...So last night I drooled on your signatures.

Also a little sad about not seeing the Super Bowl at home...but very very glad the pats made it and many of my NY friends are already talking shit.

Maholo

Dave

Long Days Journey into Job

Hey everyone,

It's been a minute since I lasted Posted, apologies. Actually kinda friggin busy much to my chagrin. At times I guess I wish I had been more prepared and all ready set up with job but then again...it's been exactly the way it should be and some of my early assumptions are wrong and some are right. I think this is the wrong trip to rekindle my Outpatient Orthopedic skills set. Got enough to worry about besides coming home every night and doing research to reacquaint myself with more sports related acute injuries and treatment protocol. It did scare me a bit to be faced with a full caseload of outpatients, but then I kinda figured that is exactly what I should be going after in the first place...My skills rust when I stay in skilled nursing facilities (SNF for those who don't know Pronounced Sniff.) That being said, I've chosen comfort in all forms. I have chosen a SNF I have chosen the big apartment. It is my first morning. My roommate and her boyfriend are pretty cool, Chanida from Thailand and Michael from West V. They both work in somewhat related fields helping the homeless, they have pretty unique perspectives on solving and helping the problem. Again interesting to see how many different categories of homeless and all the unique approaches needed for each one.

alright lets get to some good stuff.

these pics are from my bus ride on the number 55 bus across the mountains to a town called Kaneohe. Actually the bus was only like 20-30 minutes a really decent drive.

toured the facility, above average nursing care facility. Cool workers showed me around, but I would mostly be alone actually.

also the pics are from right across from Ahola Nursing home. one pic is actually of the building itself, it's got a white top and you can barely make it out. But it is right on a hill above Kaneohe Bay which is very pretty.

somewhat nearby is Kailua beach park...(actually its far) and it is awesome more on that later.

Ate at a sushi place called Genko sushi which is really neat. You seat at a counter, ya know like a diner, and there is a conveyor belt that runs all over the restaurant. On the conveyor belt-all different kinds of sushi. You pay by what you take, each plate is color coded. You can order too. It was pretty cool, "hey pass the wasabi" and then someone a few seats down from me and puts the green container on the conveyor belt and I grab it. "thanks"

Oh I had Dave's Homemade ice cream, which is made in Hawaii. It's pricey but good, I had Okinawa Purple Yam ice cream... Bright Purple color.

I have had a car for a few days so I've been running around setting up the apartment. I also went around the island more, I have actually been to a bout half the island now.

more on that later.

Senor Frogs

So I attend a very fine establishment known as senor frogs. The bartenders kinda suck at first. There are like 5 people at the bar and they are swamped making all these super huge fruity concoctions. All I want is a beer. So I end up getting a beer, don't worry, I know most of you might have been nervous for me.

So the place is pretty lively, it seems everyone is having a huge party, seriously I'm there alone...and I may be the only one. Most tables are set up to seat like 10 and a few booths are filled with 4-8 people.

I think it's 25% asian, 25% military, 25% hawaiian, and 25% crazy tourists celebrating engagements and bachelor parties...but kind of a fun crowd actually... the attire ranges from I just got off the beach and smell of skunk and salt to hip hop casual to hip hop dressed to all out semiformal wear. I appreciate fine dresses. Also the sizes are in a crazy polarized fashion...50% giganto and 50% petite, i mean petite, like pass out the whopper petite.

so anyways, i end up staying for most of the night, they have a live hawaiian reggae band and a dj and some crazy college stuff going down like free shots and such but not too much.

at like 1am...all of a sudden the DJ stops the place gets dark...a screen comes down.

I'm suddenly watching Michael Jackson's Thriller.

See the pics. I swear this happened.

then like half way through, i turn to my right and there is this zombie on the packed dance floor, jesus christ I did not need to see that mask...anyways another zombie and another are mixing in the crowd... then they make their way on stage and as soon as the thriller zombie sequence is about to come on the screen- it vanishes and instead the bartender and staff dressed as zombies do a live performance of thriller....seriously I really kid you not. Look at the pictures. I was laughing hysterically and then that's about when I said I need to leave and take this all in.

on my way home I realize I have lost my key to my room, which is a real key. Cost 150$ to replace. Nice. I friggin was neurotic about not losing the key the entire week and keeping it out of my right pocket which holds my wallet. I kept fighting myself to keep it on the left keep it on the left pocket.

well i put it in the right and at some point reached for my wallet and lost it.

large Somoan security guard gets me in my room. He turns the corner and he is obviously drunk-happy feeling good. He is singing "We're in this love together we got a love that'll last forever" so I start singing along with him as he gets me in my room.

thanks that I did not lock my valuables in my safe and lose the key, it's open and I have access to things I need.

Maholo

Aloha