Who got me stuck in traffic again? Hu, of course! Who? Yeah, Hu.
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Who got me stuck in traffic?  Hu got me stuck in traffic. Wait, who got me stuck in traffic? Yeah. Hu. Too bad it wasn’t Kelly Hu.
(0)Saw a beat-up BMW Z3 roadster at New Eagle Cafe on Nimitz, vanity plate “PDLGRL”. Piddle Girl? She should go hang out with “JZZMAN”…
(0)Pier 38. United Fishing Agency. Bad TLA for Hawaii or anywhere with a Samoan-speaking population…
(0)So I’m flowing from H1 Eastbound onto H2 Northbound and there is a green Taurus crawling up my back bumper. After the merge, our lane becomes the second lane, with a fast lane starting from nothing on the left, and the two lanes from H1 Westbound coming in from the right. Instead of simply getting into the empty fast lane (considering he wanted to go fast), he swerves all the way into the furthest right lane (the slowest lane), then weaves through traffic to eventually make it into the fast lane near the Ka Uka off-ramp. Wahiawa that’s why? What’s up with Hawaii drivers and the “pass on the right” habituation?
(0)It’s barely into October and Pearl Highlands already has xmas banners hanging on the parking lot light poles! WTF?!?!
(0)The albizia trees are in full bloom for the second time this year. Â Have fun with your allergies! Â Wonder if all the delusional folk who complained about the State cutting down their “pretty trees” along the H2 corridor realize that this tree is to blame for all the doctor visits and allergy med copays for themselves and their kids?
(0)So I get into the “down” elevator on the 3rd floor lobby level at QMC POB-1 and press “2”. This large sour-faced woman standing by the button panel sneers loudly and snidely, “This elevator is going down“, thinking I may have wanted to go up but got into whichever elevator opened first. “Yeah, ” I spoke as dryly and matter-of-fact-ly as possible, “2 is down.” She shrunk as much as her bulk allowed. Some maintenance guy in the back of the elevator with a service cart laughed out loud.
(0)Zing! Carry a 25kg pack all over Japan for a week: No problem. Get out of work truck on first day back at work: lower back goes pop!
(0)Nicely, this cheap hotel in Okayama has wireless internet. Actually, the wireless router is unsecured and not set up, so if I was an ass, I’d go in and give it some screwed-up password. Today was a trip out to Onomichi and Kurashiki to see old stuff after yesterday’s trapsing around Naoshima looking at some great collections of art both classic and contemporary, and getting that mental limit of what constitutes art and what doesn’t stretched and massaged. Contrary to the feel of the town put forth in fiction like Kamichu!, Onomichi feels like a place that has forgotten its Kami like an inconvenient burden. Walking its steep, meandering hillside paths, one should be greeted on every turn by the town’s cats, at least according to the tourist blurb. All I saw were three or four sickly cats and one “lost cat” poster. Continue reading ‘Kami, Neko, and a Dude in Chinese MultiCam’