January 30, 2004

In The Fullness of Time

I am always getting ahead of God. I should know that by now, when things are right, it will be right. When things dont happen when and where I want them to, I need to step back and wait and see how things are going to turn out. I need to leave room for a miracle.

I am holding that miracle in my hands... I have a set of keys to the store front at 60 Waianuenue, where the tattoo parlor was and I have the thanks, hopes and encouragement of the whole building there to get my store in there and be a raging sucess.

It is a miracle. This spot is in what we teasingly call "Hilo's Rodeo Drive". From the Bayfront, where the high end furniture store, Koehnen's resides, to the top of the drive where the illistrator and ad-man Nelson Makua, has his classy shop NaMakua This is the prime shopping area for downtown. If I cant make it here, with Resturant Kaikodo, just across the street and Ets'ko down the way, I cant make it anywhere.

As Woody put it so well, "Do we want to go down fighting on Waianuenue, next to Kaikodo, or in the bloody Cunningham???" It has been so bad here at the Cunningham resort for the insane this past week that I can no longer sit in denial about it.

For one thing out of a misguided sense of compassion, they have allowed "Violet" and her little posse of girlfriends to move back in..." Her mother wants her back and she has no place to go" So??. This chick makes noise all day long banging on the floor, dropping large objects, like ice chests slamming stuff and moving the furniture around, all of which we can hear. Add to this the family of five in the unit across the hall and we have a really bad noise problem above us. Add to this a huge number of "new" drunks and other nonfunctional and its very apperant that we are ment to be out of here.

Add to this the fact that the place is being sold and we will see an increase in the rent. For sure. Best to get out now

All of this started to happen when the landlord called me at home last monday to tell me that the deal had fallen through with his first renter and that he wanted to know if I still wanted the place... We looked at it and while it is still rough, the worst of the damage has been repaired. I took snaps of the place and will put them on the snapshots page( once the thing lets me in...) The rent is double, But I think the potential is there.

I have the phone and the alarm people notified and we are getting ready. I was able to get the corrections made in the This Week and the Hawaii Drive Guide. Amazing but I know that this is God and that things will be ok. I just need a few good sales to help me pay for the move and things will be alright.

Woody is working at a storage place at 7.00 bucks an hour. At this rate we will be in the hole so deep we wont see the light of day ever...Thats 25% less than what we need to basically survive. Its a really bad thing but what can we do?

Pray for another miracle.