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Saturday, August 26, 2006

GLITCHES

AN EXTENSION OF MURPHY'S LAW.
and Murphy was an optimist.

Three times last night I came across visually interesting scenes. And three times my little Sony "Cyber-Shot" would only give me a screwed up screen. Reminded me of an older TV set with a blown cathode-ray tube.

Since we are entering our traditional slow period, money is going to be a bit tight until winter tourist season begins. Get home and turn the camera on and viola, the damn thing works perfectly. I give.

I have no idea why it quit or why it began working again. But I ain't looking no gift horse in the mouth.



SLOWLY BUT SURELY

The night started at less than a snails pace. I had the phone and had nine cabs hibernating around Wailea. Until about 9:00pm, the majority of the calls I fielded were for reservations today (Saturday). Over that 2 hour period, three of the dayshift cabs gave up in defeat and scooted off home. A night driver packed it in at 10:00pm. Then the phone started ringing. Our resources were never taxed but the five reamining cabs stayed relatively active. Auntie Susan finally wore out a little after 1:00am and the final three cabs were gone by 2:30am. Nothing major, just a couple of pu-pus, during my solo hours. The meter total was okay but not impressive. Take-home beat minimum wage, in Hawai'i ($5.15 per hour).

Had one interesting incident during the shift, but the story isn't short and I am too danged tired to relate it this morning. I'll save it for my days off. MEMO TO ME: "MIKE", "ELEVATOR"

Business is definately on the downhill slide into autumn.


PARADISE PIX
"Upcountry"
Anyone for golf?
Protea
Seascapes




Keawakapu Beach
Kihei Surfside (near)
Mana Kai (far)
This is the beach that the Mana Kai webcam captures a limited view of.
Sunsets

Okay, this one is actually a sunrise



Oh, I forgot to mention it yesterday, but there are only 4 shopping months until Christmas. Actually saw my first Christmas ad this past week. A local business's TV ad inserted on a couple of the national cable channels. Made me want to start singing "Deck The Halls"........

NOT!



Later.....

Wil
=8^))
"Let's all be careful out there!"