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Life in these Hawaiian States
1. Storm. A few nights ago when Kimberly and I were laying down in bed, she exclaimed that something wet had fallen on her hand. A second later the same thing happened to me, and I realized that the whipping wind was driving rain through our louvre windows about six feet into the room. Much window closing followed.
2. Lizards. They keep killing lizards. A few times now we've found a lizard corpse on the floor, just swarming with ants. ICK! I dunno, do these guys just keel over? Are they scared to death by cats? Do the ants assassinate them for a tasty dinner? ICK.
3. Chickens. Lately I get up in the morning and after I shower and get dressed I wander by the front door. And there's a herd of chickens out on the porch. And then I go downstairs, and meanwhile the chickens run around the house to get to the back patio, to beg for food. I swear they are looking for me at the front porch, and know when they see me wake up and wander through there, they can then go get their morning treat. (They're going to be grossly surprised next week, but maybe we can get them back to their core task of eating centipedes. I found one in the bathroom a few days ago!)
4. Quarantine. Kimberly had her COVID test on Tuesday, to allow her to do the seizure study in Oahu. (It came back negative, of course: there's no COVID on this island.) She has to self-quarantine following that. The staff at Queens told me I didn't have to, but nonetheless I'm staying close to home, going out only to walk on the golf course with no one else around (and bike: more on that momentarily). And it feels surprisingly lonely and constraining, even though I gamed (online) on Wednesday, did a Podcast on Thursday, zoomed with my folks today, and have been keeping in touch with several people for various work projects.
5. Plague. Oh, hey, Oahu had 15 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and 17 on Saturday. Up from about a half-dozen a day the previous week, up from about 1 a day before that. That makes going there tomorrow really attractive. And I know that I've said that the restrictions on these islands (particularly Kauai and the Big Island) are excessive, but still, have the *(@#$#ing common sense not to go to Memorial Day parties and graduation day parties, hmm?
6. Biking. I haven't been biking since I moved to Hawaii. To be precise, I'd biked three times before Thursday, something I realized when talking to my PT about physical activities. So yesterday I did the one bike ride really possible around our house: around Puu Road, which is below and around the golf course. It's a nice ride, 30 or 40 minutes, and a somewhat challenging one because of the ups and downs. Sadly, I am getting out of biking shape. The last bit back up to Papalina was very tiring (and then I walked the bike up Papalina to get home). More of that!
7. Cats. I think Callisto is now afraid of the dark, or at least the dark at our back door. More than once I've found her yowling there or just staring intently, but there's no cat out there lurking as there was in our first weeks here. I turn on the light, and all is well.
8. Dreams. I dreamed a few nights ago that we were back in the Bay Area. That's the first time since we moved here. The house sale had fallen through (in my dream), but we'd gotten $40,000 for our troubles, and that seemed really great, and we were going about life in the Bay Area like everything was terrific. But then at some point I said, "But we were going to change our lives by moving to Hawaii, and that won't happen if we're here." And I realized it had to be a dream and I woke myself up. Whew! Still in Hawaii! Still living a mile from my dad and Mary. Still putting aside the stress of RPGnet and Skotos. Still working on my own projects most days. Still swimming and hiking (and biking!).
9. Toothpaste. So you can't take toothpaste to Oahu. Well, you can't because you're likely doing a casual interisland flight and you don't want to pick-up check-in luggage at Honolulu, a big, messy airport. (You especially don't want to mill around with other luggagers during a pandemic.) So no toothpaste for us tomorrow, nor sunscreen. I'll have to pick it up when we get there (and then we can check in the luggage coming back, because it just takes a few minutes to get it in Lihue).
10. Cleaning. So what do you do on the day beforedoomsday a trip to the disease capitol of Hawaii? If you're Shannon, you clean. Yes, it's in part because my dad will do some cat-sitting while we're out of town, but also because starting tomorrow I'll have plenty of time for writing in the evenings, but won't be able to putter around the house.
Out of the house right around sunrise tomorrow, because we're catchingthe last train to Clarksville the first plane to Oahu.
2. Lizards. They keep killing lizards. A few times now we've found a lizard corpse on the floor, just swarming with ants. ICK! I dunno, do these guys just keel over? Are they scared to death by cats? Do the ants assassinate them for a tasty dinner? ICK.
3. Chickens. Lately I get up in the morning and after I shower and get dressed I wander by the front door. And there's a herd of chickens out on the porch. And then I go downstairs, and meanwhile the chickens run around the house to get to the back patio, to beg for food. I swear they are looking for me at the front porch, and know when they see me wake up and wander through there, they can then go get their morning treat. (They're going to be grossly surprised next week, but maybe we can get them back to their core task of eating centipedes. I found one in the bathroom a few days ago!)
4. Quarantine. Kimberly had her COVID test on Tuesday, to allow her to do the seizure study in Oahu. (It came back negative, of course: there's no COVID on this island.) She has to self-quarantine following that. The staff at Queens told me I didn't have to, but nonetheless I'm staying close to home, going out only to walk on the golf course with no one else around (and bike: more on that momentarily). And it feels surprisingly lonely and constraining, even though I gamed (online) on Wednesday, did a Podcast on Thursday, zoomed with my folks today, and have been keeping in touch with several people for various work projects.
5. Plague. Oh, hey, Oahu had 15 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and 17 on Saturday. Up from about a half-dozen a day the previous week, up from about 1 a day before that. That makes going there tomorrow really attractive. And I know that I've said that the restrictions on these islands (particularly Kauai and the Big Island) are excessive, but still, have the *(@#$#ing common sense not to go to Memorial Day parties and graduation day parties, hmm?
6. Biking. I haven't been biking since I moved to Hawaii. To be precise, I'd biked three times before Thursday, something I realized when talking to my PT about physical activities. So yesterday I did the one bike ride really possible around our house: around Puu Road, which is below and around the golf course. It's a nice ride, 30 or 40 minutes, and a somewhat challenging one because of the ups and downs. Sadly, I am getting out of biking shape. The last bit back up to Papalina was very tiring (and then I walked the bike up Papalina to get home). More of that!
7. Cats. I think Callisto is now afraid of the dark, or at least the dark at our back door. More than once I've found her yowling there or just staring intently, but there's no cat out there lurking as there was in our first weeks here. I turn on the light, and all is well.
8. Dreams. I dreamed a few nights ago that we were back in the Bay Area. That's the first time since we moved here. The house sale had fallen through (in my dream), but we'd gotten $40,000 for our troubles, and that seemed really great, and we were going about life in the Bay Area like everything was terrific. But then at some point I said, "But we were going to change our lives by moving to Hawaii, and that won't happen if we're here." And I realized it had to be a dream and I woke myself up. Whew! Still in Hawaii! Still living a mile from my dad and Mary. Still putting aside the stress of RPGnet and Skotos. Still working on my own projects most days. Still swimming and hiking (and biking!).
9. Toothpaste. So you can't take toothpaste to Oahu. Well, you can't because you're likely doing a casual interisland flight and you don't want to pick-up check-in luggage at Honolulu, a big, messy airport. (You especially don't want to mill around with other luggagers during a pandemic.) So no toothpaste for us tomorrow, nor sunscreen. I'll have to pick it up when we get there (and then we can check in the luggage coming back, because it just takes a few minutes to get it in Lihue).
10. Cleaning. So what do you do on the day before
Out of the house right around sunrise tomorrow, because we're catching