OT (at least partly): update on me

I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. In the work I've done with illness and disability, the most important thing I've learned is the distinction between healing and curing. There are a lot of things that can't be cured, but there can always be healing. Even if the healing is the peace of mind to go on to the next level. Often the hardest healing is done by those left behind.

Truncation, whether of a limb or a portion of them mind (as in mental illness), is often easier on the disabled one, or even the dying person. My heart goes out to the mother.

And as to you, Maren, there you go again with your fancy words. OK, what's lilikoi season. Is your koi fish Lili having babies? Is a lilikoi some enchanting elfin critter, or rambunctious plant. And how will it give you exercise? I know. It's a kind of rock you have to move, or that has been made into beads for you to work with.

I suppose I could google lilikoi, but why?, when I'm having so much fun guessing.

Uh oh, I couldn't resist. It's a kind of passion fruit! So will you be picking (and eating) and making jam (and eating) them?

Exactly what is it you do at your job? And what is UKIRT. (Oh yeah, I can google that too). Ahha. Infra Red Telescope. So what do you do with it?

And what is DD's double major? I had fantasies of combining Anthropology and Civil Engineering. You always need an engineer at a dig and you often need an anthropologist when you dig to put up a big new building.

9:30 PM; the sun should be going down in another 3 hours.

Tina

She's 83 next week, and this is the second of her 3 children that passed away before her. It just occurred to me the other night that she probably never lived by herself for any length of time. She got married at 20, and by the time her husband passed away her daughter (the one who passed away now) was living at home again (rather long story too). And she isn't driving anymore.

it's Hawaiian.

It a rather rambunctious plant, and I've been picking and selling the fruit for about 15 years now. I have some places where I go where nobody else picks them, one of the owners said "please pick all you wnat, keeps the pigs away", and of course our own. I have picked 200-300lb in a day on occasion and as this isn't orchards but closer to tropical rainforest, you can bet on that it's exercise. I should take a pruner and cut the weed vines to make getting through easier, but I've been saying that for years and never done it yet.

Instrument software. The software that reads out detectors, moves motors, writes data to disk. And a lot of minor stuff like keeping watch on instrument temperatures (they're all below liquid nitrogen, otherwise you get too much background (thermal infrared radiation), house water (on Mauna Kea water comes by truck and if something leaks you got a problem), disk space, computer performance in general, and stuff. A lot of trouble shooting.

I wish. I wish she had stuck with Physics and Journalism, but it became English and Philosophy (in between we had some that I considered worse: theater, art, dance, graphics design, business.). Minor is German. I don't think she's going to be a teacher. Reference librarian maybe. Or maybe she ends up a programmer like her mother after all . She knew more html than me when she was 12. Self-taught.

Being in the tropics, even this time of year by 7:30 it's dark. The upside to that is even, in late November it doesn't get dark much before 6. I'm just taking a break from the yard right now, got cloves to harvest too, the tree is absolutely full this year.

Aloha, Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry

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what exotic chores you have!!Thanks, Maren for this very cool peek at life elsewhere.

Thanks :-)

different places just make for different chores. We never have hip- deep snow to deal with, but occasionally hip-high lawn .

In the meantime I'm slowly getting the rest of stuff back together, got the jewelry for Trudy's Island Art (in Kona) packaged up and mailed over there (its here:

- Isn't it nice to be able to say "I got to make some jewelry"?!), another seed order (my other business, the one that goes with the plants and lilikoi) put together and shipped, something working at the 'scope that had me puzzled all of yesterday (in a way still does. I have it working, I'm not saying I have it fixed.) It may be another week until I find time to make beads, but as long as things keep coming together rather than coming apart, I can wait that long. - I think. - Jewelry is another matter, I have to make at least a few 'standard' (like the ones in the picture, just different colors) pieces.

Aloha, Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry

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Those black seeds are perfect with the little Swarovskis. They look like little stars in a velvety night sky.

T> > what exotic chores you have!!Thanks, Maren for this very cool peek at life

> - > Isn't it nice to be able to say "I got to make some jewelry"?!), > another seed order > (my other business, the one that goes with the plants and lilikoi) put > together and > shipped, something working at the 'scope that had me puzzled all of > yesterday > (in a way still does. I have it working, I'm not saying I have it > fixed.) > It may be another week until I find time to make beads, but as long as > things keep > coming together rather than coming apart, I can wait that long. - I > think. - > Jewelry is another matter, I have to make at least a few > 'standard' (like the ones > in the picture, just different colors) pieces. >

May I use that quote? (they're actually dark gray, but I've been told they get darker with age)

Aloha, Maren

Of course you can. :-)

Tina