OT (at least partly): update on me

Aloha all,

things have been hectic at best, but it looks like it's finally
slowing down to the
point that I may finally some time next week get back to what I was
supposed
to be working on at work since at least February. Fact is, I haven't
been able to
look at it since March. Things got hectic at work, then I found out a
rather close
friend of mine was in the hospital, and outside of work I spent a lot
of my non-
existing spare time with her. She passed away 2 days ago (Mary, I'm
OK,
at least vaguely). Now I got to get back to work which is also
throwing me
curveballs (not that haven't worked more than regular hours all
through this),
and then some. Of course lilikoi season hit somewhere near the end of
this
too, so I'm also getting back to my favorite way to exercise.

I'm rather worried about my late friend's mother. She has never lived
by herself so far (going on 83), and she isn't driving anymore.

Add a thing about my job: it now looks like it's going to last 3 more
years
at least (if anybody in the UK (actually: or elsewhere) wants to put
in a good
word for UKIRT, please go ahead. It's not just my job, there's a few
more
people.) I hope it will. Even another year would allow DD to graduate
with
her double major (never mind that I'd be caught dead before majoring
in either)

The non-OT part: (no, no more glass beads yet) I got my first check
from
the place I went back to consignment for today. If that goes like that
I can
keep going on it. Not something to make a living (yet?), but most
certainly
also not something to sneeze at. Maybe this one will work out in the
long
run.

Aloha,
Maren
HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry
http://www.hilobeads.com/
Blog at: http://hilobeads.blogspot.com/

I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. In the work I've done with illness
and disability, the most important thing I've learned is the distinction
between healing and curing. There are a lot of things that can't be cured,
but there can always be healing. Even if the healing is the peace of mind
to go on to the next level. Often the hardest healing is done by those left
behind.

Truncation, whether of a limb or a portion of them mind (as in mental
illness), is often easier on the disabled one, or even the dying person. My
heart goes out to the mother.

And as to you, Maren, there you go again with your fancy words. OK, what's
lilikoi season. Is your koi fish Lili having babies? Is a lilikoi some
enchanting elfin critter, or rambunctious plant. And how will it give you
exercise? I know. It's a kind of rock you have to move, or that has been
made into beads for you to work with.

I suppose I could google lilikoi, but why?, when I'm having so much fun
guessing.

Uh oh, I couldn't resist. It's a kind of passion fruit! So will you be
picking (and eating) and making jam (and eating) them?

Exactly what is it you do at your job? And what is UKIRT. (Oh yeah, I can
google that too). Ahha. Infra Red Telescope. So what do you do with it?

And what is DD's double major? I had fantasies of combining Anthropology
and Civil Engineering. You always need an engineer at a dig and you often
need an anthropologist when you dig to put up a big new building.

9:30 PM; the sun should be going down in another 3 hours.

Tina


"Maren at google" wrote in message
...
Aloha all,

things have been hectic at best, but it looks like it's finally
slowing down to the
point that I may finally some time next week get back to what I was
supposed
to be working on at work since at least February. Fact is, I haven't
been able to
look at it since March. Things got hectic at work, then I found out a
rather close
friend of mine was in the hospital, and outside of work I spent a lot
of my non-
existing spare time with her. She passed away 2 days ago (Mary, I'm
OK,
at least vaguely). Now I got to get back to work which is also
throwing me
curveballs (not that haven't worked more than regular hours all
through this),
and then some. Of course lilikoi season hit somewhere near the end of
this
too, so I'm also getting back to my favorite way to exercise.

I'm rather worried about my late friend's mother. She has never lived
by herself so far (going on 83), and she isn't driving anymore.

Add a thing about my job: it now looks like it's going to last 3 more
years
at least (if anybody in the UK (actually: or elsewhere) wants to put
in a good
word for UKIRT, please go ahead. It's not just my job, there's a few
more
people.) I hope it will. Even another year would allow DD to graduate
with
her double major (never mind that I'd be caught dead before majoring
in either)

The non-OT part: (no, no more glass beads yet) I got my first check
from
the place I went back to consignment for today. If that goes like that
I can
keep going on it. Not something to make a living (yet?), but most
certainly
also not something to sneeze at. Maybe this one will work out in the
long
run.

Aloha,
Maren
HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry
http://www.hilobeads.com/
Blog at: http://hilobeads.blogspot.com/

On Jul 4, 7:26 pm, "Christina Peterson" wrote:

My
heart goes out to the mother.

She's 83 next week, and this is the second of her 3 children that
passed
away before her. It just occurred to me the other night that she
probably
never lived by herself for any length of time. She got married at 20,
and
by the time her husband passed away her daughter (the one who passed
away now) was living at home again (rather long story too). And she
isn't
driving anymore.

And as to you, Maren, there you go again with your fancy words. OK, what's

it's Hawaiian.

lilikoi season. Is your koi fish Lili having babies? Is a lilikoi some
enchanting elfin critter, or rambunctious plant.

Uh oh, I couldn't resist. It's a kind of passion fruit! So will you be
picking (and eating) and making jam (and eating) them?

It a rather rambunctious plant, and I've been picking and selling the
fruit
for about 15 years now. I have some places where I go where nobody
else picks them, one of the owners said "please pick all you wnat,
keeps
the pigs away", and of course our own. I have picked 200-300lb in a
day
on occasion and as this isn't orchards but closer to tropical
rainforest,
you can bet on that it's exercise. I should take a pruner and cut the
weed
vines to make getting through easier, but I've been saying that for
years
and never done it yet.

Exactly what is it you do at your job? And what is UKIRT. (Oh yeah, I can
google that too). Ahha. Infra Red Telescope. So what do you do with it?

Instrument software. The software that reads out detectors, moves
motors,
writes data to disk. And a lot of minor stuff like keeping watch on
instrument
temperatures (they're all below liquid nitrogen, otherwise you get too
much
background (thermal infrared radiation), house water (on Mauna Kea
water
comes by truck and if something leaks you got a problem), disk space,
computer performance in general, and stuff. A lot of trouble shooting.

And what is DD's double major? I had fantasies of combining Anthropology
and Civil Engineering. You always need an engineer at a dig and you often
need an anthropologist when you dig to put up a big new building.

I wish. I wish she had stuck with Physics and Journalism, but it
became
English and Philosophy (in between we had some that I considered
worse:
theater, art, dance, graphics design, business.). Minor is German.
I don't think she's going to be a teacher. Reference librarian maybe.
Or maybe she ends up a programmer like her mother after all g.
She knew more html than me when she was 12. Self-taught.

9:30 PM; the sun should be going down in another 3 hours.

Being in the tropics, even this time of year by 7:30 it's dark.
The upside to that is even, in late November it doesn't get dark much
before 6. I'm just taking a break from the yard right now, got cloves
to
harvest too, the tree is absolutely full this year.

Aloha,
Maren
HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry
http://www.hilobeads.com/
Blog at: http://hilobeads.blogspot.com/

what exotic chores you have!!Thanks, Maren for this very cool peek at life
elsewhere.

On Jul 6, 4:24 am, "Sarajane Helm" wrote:
what exotic chores you have!!Thanks, Maren for this very cool peek at life
elsewhere.

Thanks :-)

different places just make for different chores. We never have hip-
deep snow
to deal with, but occasionally hip-high lawn g.

In the meantime I'm slowly getting the rest of stuff back together,
got the jewelry
for Trudy's Island Art (in Kona) packaged up and mailed over there
(its he
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~maren/hi...080708_001.jpg
-
Isn't it nice to be able to say "I got to make some jewelry"?!),
another seed order
(my other business, the one that goes with the plants and lilikoi) put
together and
shipped, something working at the 'scope that had me puzzled all of
yesterday
(in a way still does. I have it working, I'm not saying I have it
fixed.)
It may be another week until I find time to make beads, but as long as
things keep
coming together rather than coming apart, I can wait that long. - I
think. -
Jewelry is another matter, I have to make at least a few
'standard' (like the ones
in the picture, just different colors) pieces.

Aloha,
Maren
HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry
http://www.hilobeads.com/
Blog at: http://hilobeads.blogspot.com/

Those black seeds are perfect with the little Swarovskis. They look like
little stars in a velvety night sky.

Tina

"Maren at google" wrote in message
...
On Jul 6, 4:24 am, "Sarajane Helm" wrote:
what exotic chores you have!!Thanks, Maren for this very cool peek at
life
elsewhere.

Thanks :-)

different places just make for different chores. We never have hip-
deep snow
to deal with, but occasionally hip-high lawn g.

In the meantime I'm slowly getting the rest of stuff back together,
got the jewelry
for Trudy's Island Art (in Kona) packaged up and mailed over there
(its he

http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~maren/hi...080708_001.jpg
-
Isn't it nice to be able to say "I got to make some jewelry"?!),
another seed order
(my other business, the one that goes with the plants and lilikoi) put
together and
shipped, something working at the 'scope that had me puzzled all of
yesterday
(in a way still does. I have it working, I'm not saying I have it
fixed.)
It may be another week until I find time to make beads, but as long as
things keep
coming together rather than coming apart, I can wait that long. - I
think. -
Jewelry is another matter, I have to make at least a few
'standard' (like the ones
in the picture, just different colors) pieces.

Aloha,
Maren
HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry
http://www.hilobeads.com/
Blog at: http://hilobeads.blogspot.com/

On Jul 14, 12:34 pm, "Christina Peterson"
wrote:
Those black seeds are perfect with the little Swarovskis. They look like
little stars in a velvety night sky.

May I use that quote? (they're actually dark gray, but I've been told
they
get darker with age)

Aloha,
Maren

Of course you can. :-)

Tina


"Maren at google" wrote in message
...
On Jul 14, 12:34 pm, "Christina Peterson"
wrote:
Those black seeds are perfect with the little Swarovskis. They look
like
little stars in a velvety night sky.

May I use that quote? (they're actually dark gray, but I've been told
they
get darker with age)

Aloha,
Maren