I’m In Maui, Day 15!
The carpet people came way early (idiot carpet lady says 10, 10.30, they’re here at 8.05) so I’m exiled by the pool, improperly sunscreened, huddled against the sun, finding out my furniture won’t come until at least tomorrow and thinking I might have to stay an extra week. And the chairs I’m supposed to be painting are going to need about 85 coats.
And the poor laptop is on the balcony somewhere amongst all the rest of the crap that’s been stacked out there so I’m limited to Peter’s iPhone for internet today, looks like.
Update:
Me and my thumb went in the ocean today. Without any excruciating pain and stinging. And to congratulate me for my bravery, I saw TWO turtles (the big one from the other day plus the little one from the day after I chopped up my thumb which I took pictures of but haven’t uploaded but remind me and I will later) and TWO squids! And how cute were they?! Or at least what I could see of them since I can’t wear my glasses under my goggles but Peter got pictures of them with his new underwater camera which he bought after the Fujifilm one he bought before got cracked and the guy at Ritz camera managed to salvage a bunch of under-water pictures of me but none of the turtle which is okay anyway since I got pictures from above water since my thumb was chopped up. And Peter thinks the plural of squid is squid. Like sheep and sheep. Oooh, and Dictionary says “pl. same or squids”. But it also says “military slang for sailor” and who’s gonna believe THAT?)
And now we have carpets and we sat on our carpets and watched Ratatouille which we bought especially for the new TV since none of the channels out here are 1080p which makes Peter rant that our free over-the-air signal we’re getting at home is better than this. And now we have to remake the beds. Because the carpet guys took off the mattress cover when they put the brand new expensive (and oh-so-comfortable) mattress out on the balcony because it’s not like stains void the warrantee or anything, oh no. I hate making beds. And that’s beds that have frames. Oh, to have a frame…
Btw, the Augustus Redux post next is from Saturday. I kid you not: Saturday. But this stupid WordPress thing makes you get documentation signed in triplicate and then notarized if you want to actually publish anything. You can save, but it’s extra paperwork if you want to actually publish. And I’m really annoyed by that.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
The Carpet People, bad business, they works for the little gray guys.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
But wait a sec… day 15? Time, it is moving on, moving on.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Did I count that wrong? Don’t think so… Tick tock…
April 4th, 2008 at 8:04 am
“since I can’t wear my glasses under my goggles” Oh Ye of Little Optical Faith! Fear No More the Watery Imperfection and SEE! Neither can I and I’m blind without them, but Ho! There is a Magnificent Visual Solution! RX Diopters that pop into your snorkel Mask!! I was blind-swimming for YEARS, I was even on the swim-team and played water-polo! BLIND as a BAT (well, really-really-really fuzzy to complete indistinguishability) — up until our trip to the Big Island and we discovered them, and worth EVERY PENNY! It was like the first time I got glasses at the end of 5th Grade, and could FINALLY SEE!! To read a road-sign and see at distance. JOY!
They’re basic compensation optics that work well without being precise because of the nature of underwater vision, but even pop your heard out of the water and you can clearly see the shore. I take a 5.5X and most dive shops will have something in your visual range. My wife takes a 3X. You gotta do it.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:48 am
DC… do they have a web-site? I need.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
You can get them at most any dive-shop, lotsa scuba-folk use them. They are different depending on the shape and contour of the mask - the more popular masks have them readily available. It doesn’t have to be an, exotic super-special, custom-ground, particular-prescription thing. For me it was a total revelation. Being able to see clearly underwater made the whole notion of “all those teeming fishes” a resounding reality, especially in sparkling clear water, and now snorkeling is one of our favorite activities. Get thee to a Diveshop where scuba people go! :-)
April 4th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Well, as one who until this trip never liked snorkeling (too much groove to get into whereas just swimming is easy for me (and i never saw anything anyway)) i didn’t really put anymore preparation into our snorkeling than picking up something adult-sized of my cousins’ out of storage. And i can see sort of, but yeah, it would be like getting glasses in the fourth (in my case) grade and suddenly being able to see, to get those insert thingies. I think I might, next time.
The turtles in the Maui Ocean Center aren’t nearly as big as my friend the green sea turtle at the Black Rock beneath the Sheraton. Although maybe as big as her littler friend. But people were holding out bits of seaweed to her and she’d eat it out of their hands. I started to disapprove of that, but other people were going up to her to touch her which besides being illegal is just a horrible thing to do to a wild animal, and at least unlike bears they weren’t feeding her hershey bars.
I think we’re going up to Hana tomorrow. Not the whole way, I don’t think, unless we get there and it’s the most magical thing we’ve ever done. Just half way and then maybe stop at Macy’s on the way home for dishes.
I keep bumping my thumb tonight and crimminy it hurts.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Never enjoyed swimming much. The water used to put my cigarette out.