Blog is Open for Business

Well, I've spend most of V-Day evening and night working on making my blog fully functional, yet simple. There's prolly a bit more tweaking in store, but I'm done for the night. I added comments, my profile, my picture and the background, and spend more than a couple of hours getting to where I'm happy with it. My pic is still 103K, but I'm going to make a 45K or less version prolly tomorrow, so the page itself will view faster. In case someone runs across this page, please leave feedback about the look of the page in comments field after this message. Thanks!

Well, right now, I'm trying to add comments to my postings.

As you can tell by the time stamp on this post...

...I'm doing nufin for v-day. Right now, I'm cooking a TV Dinner. I'm trying to eat those unhealthy platers of cholersteral less these days, but hey, it's food.

Trouble with Time

The trouble with time is that there is too much of it between important events, but not enough of it to do everything you need to get done.

For the next couple of months, I'm a volunteer on an United Way committee which is determining funding levels for local charities. When I was approached by United Way to be on this committee, they let me know that I'd need to attend 4 meetings, and one charity site visit. Well, I still need to attend the four meetings, but the required site visits is more like four! These are all during work days, so I gots to take time off of work for this. Ok, I'll manage, but finding the time for this is going to be harder than I thought.

Ok...flip side: I'm paying off my last bit of debt at the start of March. I have most of the money required for this right now, but cuz of timing of my automatic payments, I decided to wait till the next scheduled payment to make the final payment. Seems too far away...March. I've waited over three years for this, and I still gots to wait another 3 weeks. Argh. It's taking forever to get here! Lucky I have a lot of patience...though right now, it feels like a sort of impatient patience. :)

Hawaii Vacation

November 12, 2001 to November 17, 2001

Visited Honolulu, Hawaii, Poipu, Hawaii, Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve O'ahu, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Waikiki, Hawaii, Ono Hawaiian Foods (my impression of Anthony Bourdain's experience at the same location many years later), Atlantis Submarines Waikiki, Tree Tunnel, Arizona Memorial/Pearl Harbor, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park, Kauai Island Helicopter Tours, Kauai Island and Mount Waialeale Kauai Hawaii.

Great trip! Enjoyed the islands by air, land, sea and under the sea.

Kauai Photos: http://fcsuper.blogspot.com/kauaii/index.htm

Details from the trip: http://fcsuper.blogspot.com/search?q=Big+2001+Vacation

Original post/backup link.

Reno Trip

 

November 10, 2001 to November 11, 2001

Short trip with Carol Grandbois to Reno, Nevada.  Original post/backup link.