Went to the beach today for the first time in a while. Kailua Beach is one of my favorites on O’ahu because the sand isnt as coarse as the other areas and the ocean floor isnt jaded with rocks.

My parents called and said they would be making a trip out soon. I’ll believe it when I see it.

It’s been a few months since I’ve been home and I really miss seeing everyone. My parents and sister went up to Chicago for the weekend to hang out and have been trying to make me jealous by sending me photos of them shopping and eating at some of my favorite restaurants. Meanwhile, I’m stuck in Hawaii….stuck….in Hawaii….

Last July I came across a new internet start-up recommended by TechCrunch. Geni.com is a geneology website infused with social-networking. Anyway, I added a few people to my family tree along with some of their email addresses and watched it start to grow! Not even a year later, I have over 430+ connections to my family tree and relatives of mine are adding content on a daily basis. It’s fantastic!

If you’re a social-networking user and can appreciate the cleaner interface that sites such as Facebook have to offer, then you’ll really enjoy Geni.com. It’s painless and has a consistent layout.

Go check it out and plan your next big reuinion!!!

It’s nice to see companies feverishly updating their code and churning out releases on a regular basis, but COME ON WordPress!!! Do you seriously need a new update every week? It’s a bit of a hassle to be updating my blog and all the other clients that are running WordPress on my web server — all in the name of security.

I’m damned either way, because if I don’t upgrade these stupid things then I’ll be cursing when some script-kiddie acts all 31337 and hax my site….but I really hate spending the time almost on a weekly basis to upgrade these stupid things.

Oh well. Lets get it right the first time, shall we?

It’s been a really long time since I’ve blogged anything, and so much has happened these past months. After 6 years of service, I’m finally out of the Navy. I took a month of terminal leave and just started a new career with SAIC as a government contractor working up at Schofield.

I finally sold my jeep. I got a good price for it and am happy that it sold so quickly. I only had it up on Craigslist for 3 days. I also got a new motorcycle, the incomparable Ducati 1098. I will be selling my Yamaha any day now and plan on just keeping the Ducati as my only transportation for the time-being.

Anyways, I’ll try to be a little more active on the blog since most of my family members feel out of touch. Joshie, you better still be coming out to stay in June!!!

After quite a bit of prodding by friends, I’ve finally started to play golf on a regular basis. I’ve been taking lessons up at Leilehua Golf Club near Schofield and the pro there has been helping me to un-learn some bad habits. It’s been hard work but it’s already proving to be rewarding. I really wish I would have started doing this two years ago when Ray was still on the island.

If you guys are wondering where I’ve been, I finally made it back home for the holidays after nearly ten months away. It was a really long flight and I had countless layovers and delays but it was well worth it. I’ll see you all when I return and I’ll be bringing my cousin and her friend along for a visit. Hapy holidays and God Bless.

This morning some of my friends and I headed down to Waikiki to participate in the annual Toys for Tots Motorcycle cruise. The weather wasn’t on our side, but it was pretty cool to see everyone come from all over the island to meet up at Ala Moana Beach Park and make the 3 mile journey to Kapiolani Community College with their gifts. I added a few photos up that I got from Roth, but since it was so wet outside I didn’t take any pictures. Hopefully more will surface from some of my other friend’s soon.

It’s been about ten days now since I’ve installed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on the MacBook and, aside from a bizarre installation bug where the target installation media takes 20 minutes to appear on the installation path screen, it’s been fairly painless. The new features far outweigh the cost and I’ve noticed that things are much faster to render on screen, especially when multi-tasking. Spaces, the new virtual desktop manager application, is fantastic too. It’s easy to navigate and keep things organized. I don’t think I’ll be going back to Microsoft any time soon.

PS~ I heard Corinne’s MacBook charger caught on fire yesterday! YIKES!!! Mine doesn’t seem to have a problem dissipating heat but I guess I might have to check and see if there has been a recall. I leave this thing plugged in all the time and that would suck to have my house burn down because of it.