Finally saw a 200-series Land Cruiser here. It was a black Lexus version with vanity plates. I’ve already seen several in Japan since they came out in late 2007.
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I saw a negative reaction to some students burning a star cut from an American flag in the Honolulu Advertiser Letters to the Editor this morning. This act was meant as a protest to the anniversary of Statehood, but was typical in its half-baked execution, which is in turn typical of the ignorant mentality of certain native rights/sovereignity groups. Immediately popping to mind was a memory of television news footage from the early days of the Makua valley controversy of a man in glasses climbing out of his brand new Subaru saying, “We don’t accept the White man’s laws. We don’t accept the White man’s ways.” Really? Where’s your malo? Explain your glasses and car. If these students were really advocating a return to pre-contact ways, they darned-well had better be ready to cut out the star with an obsidian or shark-tooth implement and start the fire with hau branches – made in PRC Fiskars and the BIC lighter don’t cut it! If you’re going to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk… unless you’re just a fake or poser.
(0)Need to buy any military surplus stuff locally? Head up to Wahiawa and visit Camouflage Shop on Wilikina Drive. Their selection has expanded a little, and it’s more organized inside (it’ll never be like when it first opened!). Military HQ on Sand Island seems to be on the way out. There are a lot of empty shelves, and there doesn’t appear to have been any new inventory in over a year. Too bad.
(0)Plans for a beat the rain ride washed out so I’m out putzing in the
neighborhood. Heading up kal hwy toward hanauma bay. I seen the roadie
when I turned onto the hwy, so I was well aware of him when he finally
caught up to me the downhill past the bay. Start moving toward right
when he calls out “on your right!” Wtf? U from down under? That’s not
the correct side to pass!
Every year around this time I get this unexplained urge to buy a Suby Impreza STi… Ford had a good showing in the X-games Rallycross with the EDM Fiesta Olsbergs MSE rally cars on the eve of a USDM release of a significantly more pedestrian version alongside its Mazda 2 platform-mate. Definitely a good marketing move on their part. The Mitses did as painfully bad as last year.
Good to see Rune take Gold again this year in skate/park.
Didn’t catch any of the BMX stuff this year.
(0)Hmm… Just thought of something – the cirrus clouds today are an indicator of an apporaching weather front. I hope it doesn’t get all rainy and spoil the Sunday ride.
(0)Gee. Lucky I rode when I got home today. The sky just opened up and started dumping rain like a MF just now.
(0)I just spent one hour waiting for my prescriptions at Long’s. I guess this is what we can expect after the CVS takeover. The “refill-by-phone” interface is better now under CVS, but the system breaks down on the human side of the equation. I still do find it a little difficult to believe that things got so unimaginably busy today that they didn’t have the opportunity to pull my two simple, common prescriptions before the 17:30 ETA that the phone machine quoted me. There is a reason I call the prescription in – so I don’t have to waste an hour of my life sitting in an infecto-pandemic chair. WTF?!
(0)The group fell apart on Thursday and the weather wasn’t conducive anyway, so there was no Tantalus ride. The weather on Friday afternoon was questionable also, so I sat it out again. After finding myself on the somewhat nostalgic J-pop section of the song rotation on the car MP3 player, I used the bike down-time to go and rewatch my region-2 Anzai Hiroko Resolution and R DVD’s, and the Deeps Visual Diary DVD. Mmm… milk! Next week it’ll probably be all my MAX DVD’s.
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