ANNUAL EASTER BREAKFAST CELEBRATING BOB'S ARISING

Da Hawaiian. King Kamehameha must be goin' bonkers in his grave.











New Sakihara addition. Number five. Mother didn't show up. Must be worn out.











Woman talk. "Did you have sex last night?" "No, did you?"






















How can a guy this ugly have a daughter this hot?



















Ol' man giving the big kid some advice. Kid thinking, "What! Again?"



















Couple of nice "old" babes.









Geez! Why do women stick their tongue at me? Now, if I was a girl....









OhMyGawd! Can you imagine waking up and seeing this?









Ready for a test? Which one doesn't fit?









Last picture of these two together for a while. Brother leaving for college.



















"Roberta"









How come I don't have cute kids like these?












The "cutie"......and the little girl












Another good lookin' kid with ugly parents.









Seems like yesterday this kid was poopin' in her diaper. Yes, I'm talking about the big one.









Along came a spider, and sat down beside her....









More cuties.









The ol' man thinks these kids will take care of him when he gets old in a couple of years. Can you spell A-s-s-i-s-t-e-d L-i-v-i-n-g H-o-m-e?












Geez! Rabbits don't lay eggs that high.

















































I just bent over and picked something up. Hmmm, wonder what it tastes like.



















Happy grandmaw












What part did you say is Hawaiian???






















Parents of da Hawaiian kid.









Oh, I so want another one.












The other twin...Steve... or is it Bob.









This must be Bob, no, Steve, no, Bob.









Steve and Bob's parents.









Grandma would say, "Oh, how cute." I say, "Just another Social Security contributer."









"Now class, I want everyone to be good to Uncle Bob."












Dancing to "Dancing Queen." Cute now. Check back when she's 14.

BAD NEWS/GOOD NEWS

BAD NEWS...Took a trip to Las Vegas

and lost money.

GOOD NEWS....Wasn't my money.

It was the kids' inheritance

WHICH ONE IS YOUR KID?

CUTIE

A new family moved into the neighborhood a couple of months ago, and this is their adopted daughter. Her birth mother is Caucasian and the father is a mixture of Hawaiian and whatever. Jess is about 18 months old and lives down the street three houses away. Whenever she sees me, she comes running, her little legs going a mile a minute, to get me to pick some flowers for her from the hibiscus tree in my front yard. She is loving, personable, headstrong and has pretty blue eyes.
I don't know where the Hawaiian is in this kid, but I suspect it's in her feet.

WHAT DA HECK???

I always get incidental cash from an ATM located in the nearby Safeway, which also has a mini Bank of Hawaii branch.

I tried inserting the card into the machine, but it wouldn't take it. I reversed the card, turned it upside down, blew on it, etc., and each time the machine still would not accept it. Jeez, nothing works!




My eyes finally ended up on the display which read something along the lines of the ATM is being serviced, sorry for the inconvenience, blah, blah, blah. So, when I said, "nothing works," it includes my brain.

So, I walk over to the other ATM, stuff the card into it, and the machine accepts it. Enter my pin and a strange menu pops up. Something about this ATM is a BOH machine and there will be a $2.25 charge for this transaction. Do you accept this charge? HELL NO! I think there was a glitch and cancel the transaction. Stuff the card back in and get the same menu. Could it be the bank has added a new service charge??? I need the cash, so I accept the charge with full intentions of getting in the bank line and giving the teller a piece of my mind. I'm pissed! With card, receipt, and money in hand, I'm now behind one other person in line, then I'm next. I'm standing there impatiently tapping my foot wishing everyone wasn't so slow when the teller signals to me to come ahead. At the same time, I look at the card in my hand, and it dawns on me that I used a credit card instead of my bank card. CRAP! I wave back, tell her I've changed my mind, and slowly skulk out of the store. No need to tell you what it would have felt like to have the teller point out my mistake.

Stupid, stupid, stupid! Now that I'm 60, at this rate, I wonder what it will be like when I'm 70.

TIME FOR SOME HUMOR

Received this from someone the other day.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAWAII & WISCONSIN:

HAWAII
















WISCONSIN
















Of course, the Hawaii girl will probably end up looking like the Wisconsin girl in just a few years.

STATUS QUO NEEDS CHANGE

Politics is not my passion, and I don't classify myself as a Republican or Democrat. But I'm becoming more convinced our government needs a radical change. The gridlock between the Legislative and Executive Branches is a big part of the problem, but the lions share of not getting things done rests with Congress. It's time to boot out a bunch of entrenched politicians that have been in office since Christ was a sergeant. We need young, vibrant, intelligent people not beholden to "big money and special interest groups," and Barack Obama may be worth consideration for the Executive Branch.

The following is part of what Obama had to say at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta this past Sunday. Not about plans for fixing some of the problems but about things we as Americans, should reflect upon.

http://www.digg.com/2008_us_elections/
Barack_Obama_Speaks_at_Dr_King_s_Church

"We have an empathy deficit when we’re still sending our children down corridors of shame – schools in the forgotten corners of America where the color of your skin still affects the content of your education.
We have a deficit when CEOs are making more in ten minutes than ordinary workers are making in an entire year; when families lose their homes so unscrupulous lenders can make a profit; when mothers can’t afford a doctor when their children are stricken with illness.
We have a deficit in this country when we have Scooter Libby justice for some and Jena justice for others; when our children see hanging nooses from a schoolyard tree, today, in the present, in the twenty-first century.
So we have a deficit to close. We have walls – barriers to justice and equality – that must come down.
All of us understand intimately the insidious role that race still sometimes plays – on the job, in the schools, in our health care system and in our criminal justice system.
And yet, if we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that none of our hands are entirely clean. If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll acknowledge that our own community has not always been true to King’s vision of a beloved community.
If we are honest with ourselves we have to admit that there have been times when We have scorned our gay brothers and sisters instead of embracing them. The scourge of anti-Semitism has, at times, revealed itself in our community. For too long, some of us have seen immigrants only as competitors for jobs instead of companions in the fight for opportunity.
Because if Dr. King could love his jailor; if he could call on the faithful who once sat where you do to forgive those who set dogs and fire hoses upon them, then surely we can look past what divides us in our time, and bind up our wounds, and erase the empathy deficit that exists in our hearts."

BIG BUSINESS AT ITS BEST

I don't want to say that I'm old as dirt, but the Wright Brothers first successful powered, piloted flight took place just a few years before I was born. As far back as I can remember, I've seen many changes take place in the airline industry. I can remember being greeted at the door by the following:




Nowadays, it's likely to be along the lines of this:










Present day experience
But no matter how long I live, I will never understand airline ticket pricing. For instance, less than 48 hours ago, I made an air reservation at a cost of $518. In less than two days, the cost for that same reservation is now $735. Go figure! By the way, inferior meal quality has gone to no meal quality.

IT'S BACK

Robin finished the quilt and sent it back yesterday. It's the best. Thanks, Robin


I'll be out tomorrow night trying to round up a couple of these to break in my new quilt.

MILILANI WAR ZONE

Annual welcoming of the new year on Lonomea Street. "Evil Spirits" had to have been confused.
























































































Next stop
Burning
Man 2008



















Anybody know the number for the fire dept?






































Ah, nothing like a little smoke to clear one's lungs.