March 23, 2004
"You are guided by water..." Quizilla reprised
While blog surfing, I came upon a blog with a photo of a tornado lodged in its body. Intrigued by the quiz, I took it and here it is. Im hoping to encourage a certain blogger to try it out...
You are guided by water. You are generally calm and
peaceful, but you can be very destructive
without even realizing it.(Rate my test)
What force is your soul? brought to you by Quizilla
Darn I was really hoping for the twister!
Yet I think that this is fairly accurate. I am a lover of the peaceful quiet situation and enshew noise to the point of mania. Anybody out there hate Boom Box cars?? I think that the owners of these things should be locked it a small room and forced to endure the BoomBoom bassy subliminals until they are deaf or mad or both...
I love the peace of East Hawaii, but have a lot of trouble with the everyday noise of people as it is so much louder here... I can remember one night early on in our sojourn here thinking..." Will whoever that is with the noisy car shut up so I can sleep!!" Friends, that raspy almost subsonic rhythmic sound was my own labored breathing...That's right. I grew up and lived most of my life near a raised 8 lane highway, and busy city streets so I have always had a certain level of background noise...For example, the area where I lived before was on the flight path for LAX, here there is no commercial air flights over the area unless a airtour helicopter makes a wrong turn or is in trouble.... I have a large fountain suitable for a garden in my entry way that runs day and night to deal with the lack of background noise as well as the kitties love to play in it and drink out of it... Like having a running stream in your home.
This is a real struggle for me. The Band People next door are not nearly the problem of the across the street neighbors, who can have as many as 50 people over and you only know it cause there are so many cars on the lawn and around the block, but the stereo has a preset bass that goes Boom ba boom all day and is maddening. They don't understand the problem and are great other wise...A barking dog can be heard here in Puna on a clear night up to two miles away. We can hear the next door neighbor's toilet flush at night. the house is up on pilings 20 feet and is 50 feet away from our lot. They could not believe it when we told them.
I broke my moratorium on credit cards and ordered a white noise machine for my office and if it works, one for each of the major rooms of my house. the sounds of swooshing air will drown out the ghetto blasting sound pollution of our 'aina (land) and hale (house).
I think its Change of Life.... Woody is understanding but nearly deaf so he cannot hear the problem.
Woody is still looking for work and he has a few leads, but they are for jobs that pay marginally. He is now pursuing work in Kailua-Kona on the West side of the island, with various security firms, in hotels and at the airport. Once he gets something then we will have to arrange for him to stay somewhere for the 3-4 days a week he will be there. Its going to be hard but I know that God is in control and He will provide a way for us.
The shop did well last week and really well the last three days... Should this be the "norm" in the new location, Woody wont have to go to Kona. We could live off the sales of the business. That was the plan and our hope.
