HI5-0 at Kuakini for the second day.
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Today while in back of a Lexus LS560, I was reminded that Toyota never uses the same font for any of the rear badging on their cars. I remember our Camry V10 wagon had “Toyota”, “Camry”, “V6”, and “LE” in 4 different fonts and pitches.
(0)My row neighbor on the plane asked me what kind of work I did after seeing the MultiCam pack and GPS. I told him, “various things,” in Nihongo, and after a bit of conversation when he found out I was travelling on a US passport, his suspicions were confirmed that I was “that guy”… He probably thought I was scribbling all kinds of spook stuff in my tiny rite-in-the-rain notepad with my space pen when all I was doing was calculating the dollar value of all the otaku stuff I was bringing back for the customs form using the calculator on the GPS!
(0)Back in Hawaii. My connection in NGO was a little tight. No sooner had I disembarked the plane from CTS and gotten out my next boarding pass to check the boarding time that I discovered that there were only 30-minutes to get through security and exit immigration and make it to the gate. Luckily boarding was running late, so I had a little tim to get my stuff in order gateside after unwearing the thermal baselayers in the bathroom. Didn’t have any time to buy anything in NGO, but as it was after 21:00, everything was long closed anyway… wouldn’t have minded a bath though.
(0)Mostly packed up now. Off to look for some odds and ends like pen refills, 6mm tubing, and 2100 milliamp/hour NiMH AA batteries…
(0)Okay, landed fine. The pilot clarified that the level of snowfall in itself wasn’t preventing operations at the airfield, but cloud cover and visibility might make him abort landing. Visibility was fine, and turbulence actually not bad. THe runway was a bit rough from the compacted snow, but other than that, the landing went off without a hitch. Hooray!
(0)Whoa! The ANA flight to CTS before my JAL flight was cancelled “due to snow”! Oh krapp! OK, JAL is only saying that they will take off and return to NGO or reroute to HND only if they can’t land due to the immediate conditions.
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