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Y & LANAI
I: Y-M-C-A.
Kimberly and I visited the YMCA in Lihue last Saturday. We started going there in November 2021 so that she could safely exercise her leg in the pool, following a good surgery to repair the previous botched surgery, which had kept her off said leg for years. So, she mainly walked in the kiddie pool and I swam in the main pool, as a nice alternative to the rough, brackish ocean waters. (Don't get me wrong, I love swimming in the ocean, but it was a great change of pace.)
That fell off sometime last year due to various illnesses and whatnot, and we eventually suspended our membership.
So, back to last Saturday, we went in to Lihue to pick up the membership as Kimberly is ready for her last push to get back on her feet again. And we found out that there is an upcoming price hike in June. A HUGE price hike.
The Lihue YMCA used to be $80 for a personal membership and $100 for a family membership. That's slightly cheap for the YMCA, but there's not actually a lot to the Lihue YMCA. I think of it as "a pool in a field". There's actually a tiny weight room too, but it's probably about the size of our downstairs at home.
The new rates? $130 for personal membership, $160 for family membership. Yeah, that's 60%+ price increase over the course of a month. I mean, I know we've had inflation, but it certainly hasn't been 60%.
So, we're mostly done with the Y. Kimberly hopes to sign up for the month of May to do some water aerobics to help with her leg. She wants to end before the price hike. I certainly think we should continue in June if she's still getting rehabilitation, but it just might be at the $10 a day when she decides to go in rate.
We assume the YMCA is in death spiral to be making that sort of increase and that it'll likely be gone within a year or two. I'm actually sad that we won't be going there anymore because it was the one bit of really LOCAL community that we've experienced on the island since the pandemic started. (I was also feeling some local community at the game store I went to a few times before the pandemic, but it's gone now. So, onwards to new things!)
II: L-A-N-AI.
My dad and I finished the first cut of work on the lanai on Tuesday! All of the boards from those five rows we cut out are now laid down in place and screwed in. There was a bit of sanding were boards met unevenly, and a bit of Gorilla Glue where they were too far apart, but it was mostly just drilling and screwing. I'm thrilled how it came together.
Still a lot to do, but not nearly as pressing. Wednesday I powerwashed the lanai, including the one board under the railing that we didn't replace. Kimberly and I will paint that board and the five new rows we laid down on Sunday. Then after my dad gets back from a trip to the Bay Area we'll pull out four feet of board we don't like in another row, do some caulking on the edges to offer more protection, and re-powerwash and then paint the bits of the lanai we didn't replace.
Hoping it'll look pretty fresh and new when we're done!
III: MORE PROJECTS.
There are still more projects to come.
I've been working on the problematic shelves from boardgametable.com as time allows. Kimberly and I got the entire second row put together last week, but we're putting the project on hold until we paint the lanai.
When that comes together I can start getting board games on shelves. Hopefully allowing us to clear out the Harry Potter-closet, and I can then use that as storage for my comics so that I can finish flooring my office closet.
And then we want to do a big flooring project upstairs.
So lots to do!
I: Y-M-C-A.
Kimberly and I visited the YMCA in Lihue last Saturday. We started going there in November 2021 so that she could safely exercise her leg in the pool, following a good surgery to repair the previous botched surgery, which had kept her off said leg for years. So, she mainly walked in the kiddie pool and I swam in the main pool, as a nice alternative to the rough, brackish ocean waters. (Don't get me wrong, I love swimming in the ocean, but it was a great change of pace.)
That fell off sometime last year due to various illnesses and whatnot, and we eventually suspended our membership.
So, back to last Saturday, we went in to Lihue to pick up the membership as Kimberly is ready for her last push to get back on her feet again. And we found out that there is an upcoming price hike in June. A HUGE price hike.
The Lihue YMCA used to be $80 for a personal membership and $100 for a family membership. That's slightly cheap for the YMCA, but there's not actually a lot to the Lihue YMCA. I think of it as "a pool in a field". There's actually a tiny weight room too, but it's probably about the size of our downstairs at home.
The new rates? $130 for personal membership, $160 for family membership. Yeah, that's 60%+ price increase over the course of a month. I mean, I know we've had inflation, but it certainly hasn't been 60%.
So, we're mostly done with the Y. Kimberly hopes to sign up for the month of May to do some water aerobics to help with her leg. She wants to end before the price hike. I certainly think we should continue in June if she's still getting rehabilitation, but it just might be at the $10 a day when she decides to go in rate.
We assume the YMCA is in death spiral to be making that sort of increase and that it'll likely be gone within a year or two. I'm actually sad that we won't be going there anymore because it was the one bit of really LOCAL community that we've experienced on the island since the pandemic started. (I was also feeling some local community at the game store I went to a few times before the pandemic, but it's gone now. So, onwards to new things!)
II: L-A-N-AI.
My dad and I finished the first cut of work on the lanai on Tuesday! All of the boards from those five rows we cut out are now laid down in place and screwed in. There was a bit of sanding were boards met unevenly, and a bit of Gorilla Glue where they were too far apart, but it was mostly just drilling and screwing. I'm thrilled how it came together.
Still a lot to do, but not nearly as pressing. Wednesday I powerwashed the lanai, including the one board under the railing that we didn't replace. Kimberly and I will paint that board and the five new rows we laid down on Sunday. Then after my dad gets back from a trip to the Bay Area we'll pull out four feet of board we don't like in another row, do some caulking on the edges to offer more protection, and re-powerwash and then paint the bits of the lanai we didn't replace.
Hoping it'll look pretty fresh and new when we're done!
III: MORE PROJECTS.
There are still more projects to come.
I've been working on the problematic shelves from boardgametable.com as time allows. Kimberly and I got the entire second row put together last week, but we're putting the project on hold until we paint the lanai.
When that comes together I can start getting board games on shelves. Hopefully allowing us to clear out the Harry Potter-closet, and I can then use that as storage for my comics so that I can finish flooring my office closet.
And then we want to do a big flooring project upstairs.
So lots to do!