Update

I know I have been slacking with posting here... No real excuse for it, I know. Things have gotten a little festive in Hawaii. As you can see the state is putting up the Christmas decorations. They are interesting when compared to the decorations back in Pittsburgh. Santa giving a Shaka and wearing slippers :-)



This past week as been fun for me. I had a leak in my bedroom again, second time this year. it seems all the pipes for upstairs are right over my room. I had to take down all my stuff and they had to cut a hole in the ceiling to fix it. This should be the last time they have to do this as now both bathrooms upstairs have been fixed! I'm going to take the opportunity and try to paint my room while its all apart. At least get a little good out of the mess.

Fun Night Out

Last night was a lot of fun. Some of us from work got together for a little BBQ at Ku'uipo's house. We had steak, chicken, rise, chilly, salad, cookies, pie, cake and ice cream. Afterwards we hung out an talked for a bit. Some started to play the piano too, you can see Ku'uipo and Sterling in the picture playing and Chris in the background. It was a nice relaxing start to the evening. Ku'uipo and her family (all 12 including herself) are very nice.

After the BBQ some of us headed out to a club in town. Sterling, had his birthday party there. I ended up playing darts for a good part of the night with Shannon and her friend. It was a relaxing night. We all needed it too. Work has been no fun at all. its basically been lots of meeting and preparing to run through a disaster scenario on Tuesday.... We are really not ready for it. We stayed at the club till about 2AM when they closed for the night. Shannon gave me a ride back to my bike and I headed home.

New Look

So as you can see I've been working on how things look. Most of it is done, I know that I need to fix up viewing comments still. Let me know what you think about it. As well as the new look I've been putting together the rest of my site. Not all the photos are up and not the Family page isn't done but I think its a good start.

Halloween

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Some departments at work really went all out. There was a haunted house, a haunted hospital and a haunted pirate ship. IT didn't do much cause we were all overly busy, but I think we are planning something for Christmas.

At night Melissa, Kari and myself dressed up and walked around Waikiki. We were all dressed up as gangsters. It looks kinda cool with up all done up. After walking around for a bit we went to a club and had a few drinks. All in all I think it was a good night. I have some pictures from my phone but I'm waiting on more from Melissa.

Back in Hawaii

Its good to be back in Hawaii. This weeks has been busy at work, lots of meeting for a bunch of process management stuff. I've been assigned to the BCP Infrastructure team. We are working on the who what how of how to get the business going again after a disaster of some scale. It's interesting but its lots of meetings an a lot of work and not sure what the outcome will be. It's defiantly not programming... It's not even really IT related...

Outside of work its been fun. Chris and I are working on a bit of a programming project to keep our skills up and have some fun. I've been riding my bike around too, just enjoying Hawaii while listening to a audio book. I'm listening to The Sword of Shannara at the moment. Alisha, the granddaughter of a friend of my mother moves here recently. I wasn't on island at the time so I couldn't do a greeting at the airport but I met up with her and har new husband the other day. We said a quick hello and I gave them a little welcome gift. They both seem to be very nice people. It would be nice to meet up with them again.