Phish Fire

very cool flame towers synced to the music

Phish Festival 8 - Indio, CA 01-NOV-09

(see paul and flora at the start)

cache county fair part 2

li on the yoyo. this ride had the best music, lots of led zeppelin.

dust and/or smoke made for an eerie apocalyptic day. sunset over the aquatic center.

our last ride tonight
gregg allman!

cache county fair part 1

li and i went to the cache county fair tonight.

the expo wheel. not a bad ride, and it lasted long enough!

"raiders"
(and harry potter?)

the gravitron in motion

li after the gravitron

a real "zipper"
but it was closed

coming home

betty just spoke with Li, she's on her way home.
here's a pic she sent from her camera phone.
i'm going to go make tapioca pudding for her now, will keep you posted.

post-op

here's betty post-op about an hour.
sounds like the surgery went well.

pre-op

betty's all dressed up

on the lactated ringer's

boys waiting with betty.
the surgery was late, so we left and will check on her status soon.

surgery day

today is betty's sinus surgery day.
here she is the morning of, reading septoplasty horror stories.

summer challenge #2

li and i decided to take up the challenge li gave to first.
so here we are singing hawaiian roller coaster ride in english and hawaiian.
our beach backdrop went a little funny...

summer sunday

The front and back garden areas look super nice due to B&R's hard labor.

Betty's rose garden

a nice inviting sitting area on the front step

backyard update will follow later

the awesome room

the sweetness of summer with J&L, playing monopoly and watching cowboy bebop...

traveling home

from sunday: SFO security check for delta. the line is out to the door!

the happy family waits to be seated at red iguana in SLC!

nostalgic and kinda creepy travel motor lodge next to red iguana

the six-in-one

guitar gallery

dr. catfish left me a message last night. he was calling from within the guitar gallery at the experience music project in seattle.

i wish i had been there with you dr. c! i would stay two days too. we could sweet talk the curators into letting us jam with those iconic guitars.

virtual backlash is getting back together this summer, yeah?

party prep

yesterday kim and i did shopping for the party
here we are at costco with all kinds of snacks!

i was thinking about firstofmany when we drove down south airport,
here's the old clearfreight area.

the party was a huge success. kim has the best parties!
i'll post some pics later, here or somewhere.
now it's time to pack it up for the flight to utah.

get scraping!

friday visitations

visiting friends in fremont and san mateo

maureen with ava!

ava with two kims

stuc, david, kim, maureen
(this grouping reminds me that i like frisco-style at izzy's)

kim, brad, riley, helen

hillsdale and dumbarton

here's a couple of shots while kim drove us around yesterday.

the familiar hillsdale exit (and that mixed feeling that was "i'm home, yeah! shit, i hate this intersection!")

the dumbarton bridge crossing is pretty along the water (i even forgot to check my seatbelt clasp, i was so mesmerized!)

janet brown and billy

i am feeling pretty fried from the overnight flight, but i can't sleep. so i'm doing some laundry (a few things that kept that perpetual moist feeling from hawaii), catching up on the scrape and scrab, reading some of first's blog.

janet and bill here have finally settled down after kim left for work. bill (below) was all up in my face and on my computer, following me around.

oh, i locked myself out in the garage earlier, starting some laundry. luckily i left one sliding door unlocked!

maybe i'll try to lie down after lunch.

SFO

the red-eye flight from HNL has concluded, i'm in california.

so nice to see beautiful sunny SSF as i exit the united terminal at SFO,
that familiar bank of fog!

here's kim picking me up, yeah!
in her pj's!

i expected fog (see above), but it is super nice here at kim's house in san bruno

ukulele obama

hawaii obama souvenirs are abundant at the honolulu airport.
from the americana colors, to shaka obama and even a book cover featuring obama eating shave ice!
i like this ukulele one best

(is he really left handed?)

rainy day departure

last day in keaau!
hilo departure is 7:30p, HNL/SFO bound

it's been raining since last night.

turns out the lumpia lady at keaau farmer's market is from SSF!
here's scrunch and first with our lumpia breakfast.
they both have super cutie short hair now...

sugoi!

naruto shippuden #113-114 update

wow, season 6 opens up and gets right to it.
i love the flashbacks; here's young orochimaru,
and young jiraiya with young tsunade.

these shots, of the massive bloody sun, are right out of a scene in "dhalgren"!

naruto, tsunade and jiraiya each contemplate the ominous sunset

it's moving along quickly, back to following the manga.
summertime shippuden with j&l, yeah!

pahoa fish-n-chips

pretty tasty ono and chips
(next to malawa market and jungle love)

ahalanui morning

the surf was rough today, so we went to ahalanui

first, in the hot pool
(it was a pretty chilly pool this morning with the ocean surge)

poolside mobile facebook

first in the ahalanui parking lot