Views by the Bay

A journal from what was once the most beautiful place on Earth

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Ingenious, But He May Not Have Thought It Through

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The Florida police took a selfie with the passengers, a U.K. couple about to be married, at the arrest. ( WFLA ) Sometimes you just have to...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Elon Musk is Gloomy

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Elon Musk worries about asteroid strikes. Unlike you or me he can do something about them ( Harvard/NASA ) . Elon Musk's big ideas to ...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Sandwiches on Sunday

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Today is the quarterly Outreach activity where our church makes 80-90 brown-bag lunches for the community center. Digression: it has recen...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Revival, But Not in the Way Imagined

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(CBC news photo) There are very few indoor, relatively safe, public gathering places--with restroom facilities--that remain open to all. T...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Sheepishly Assenting

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Today, after years of requesting me to switch to paperless banking (primarily to eliminate the cost of printing and mailing statements), Ci...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Chickened Out

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The Foodland at the Ala Moana Shopping Center has a large selection of chips, sandwiches, and snacks. Foodland's target customers are ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

It's a Good Thing That Calories Don't Count on Vacation

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Loco moco: rice, beef patty, eggs, and brown gravy Both my brother and I had body clocks that were still on Pacific Daylight Time, and we l...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

We Know It When We See It

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The sign on Thursday, October 19th The owners of Hawaiian Rent-All continue to display their wit at the intersection of McCully and Bereta...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Waiting for the Money

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I double-paid the DMV license fees two months ago to prevent late-payment and license-expiration penalties. On Saturday the refund check ...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Helping Without Taking a Side

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The hospital's Cancer Diagnostic Center before it was damaged. Every year the now-retired rector of our church requested that we make a...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Minimal Marketing

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When I'm going for food at the mall, I don't want to waste time figuring out the menu. For example, I might be craving sushi or...
Friday, October 20, 2023

If You Snooze, You Get Frozen Out

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Pro tip: don't try to send a copy of the deposit slip via text. My brothers and I have a rainy-day account with combined checking and s...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

The Best Things in Life are (Almost) Free

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Like chicken and pigs' feet and intestines, turkey tails suffer from a "do-you-know-where-it's-been" taint that many peop...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Progress in Small Steps

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T he same price as Haleiwa and Kahuku but a lot closer. After my kid brother (also visiting from California) and I picked up our morning c...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Safe for the Moment

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At Kalakaua and King The southern half of Kalakaua Avenue runs through the fancy part of Waikiki. The police regularly keep the homeless ou...
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After spending the first 17 years of my life in Honolulu, I've happily settled in the SF Bay Area. Married with two children, I've worked for five companies, large and very small, in the field of finance and accounting. Education: BA, MBA. Professional: CPA (Inactive)
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