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I’ve been meaning to most something here for a while, but never got around to it.  I guess sleep took priority.  After working all week, sleeping for a day sounds alot better than typing, for some reason.  Anyway, the house has most of the roof and exterior walls up now.  Now we have some shade to hide from the sun. 

 A few weeks ago, water got turned off in our neighborhood, for two days.  As a result the city put in a porta-potty for the block.  Great huh?  Can you imagine the line for it in the morning.  Ten families all haveing to share one, that is sitting in the middle of the block.  At least they gave us one porta-potty for each street, instead of one for the entire neighborhood.  Afaik, no one actauly used them, except for one laddy who was sight seeing around the island and saw it as an opportunity to relieve herself.

 Another wonderful, half thought out idea was the drinking water we got.  Our landlord dropped off a 5 gallon jug of drinking water at our house.  This was to be used while the tap water was turned off.  Great idea, expect the jug was for a water cooler.  We had to pry the lid off before we could get any water out.  Trying to pour it was another story.  But water is water right?

 Right before I went to Molokai my laptop died.  The screen tripped out, then it refused to turn back on.  I took the machine to the sony repair department to see if they would fix it.  They called a month later to tell me it was going to be over $750 to fix it, and that they didn’t have an exact idea what was wrong with it.  I bought the laptop for less then that, and considering I can get a much better one for $1500, I decided not the fix it.  The rull of thumb on computers is that if it costs 2x as much for a new machine as it does to fix it, better to get the new machine.  Infact, Compusa had a sale the other week, and for $900 I could have gotten a 1.6Ghz Core Duo, 120gb, 2gb, Ati-x1300 Laptop.   I missed it, now I gota wait for the next one.  Unless someone has something simular they want to point me at, for under $1000.

I have had less time then I expected to here. I work 40 hours a week building the house, but the is only spaced across 4 days. For those not to quick in math, thats 10 hour days. What time is left durring the day is spent watching Naruto on youtube. Then it’s off to sleep to start everything over again. Here in a week or two though, we will have caught up on all of the episodes. I dont know what we will do then.

We filled the columns up with concrete and put the beams on them last week. This week we finished the floor and put frames for the exterior walls up. Its so much nicer now that we are out of the dirt and have a nice wooden floor to walk on. It is also nice to see some progress.

Today we went all the way out to the western most point of the island. Only way there is down a dirt road that goes through the ranch. Then is a little hike down the beach to the point. Seems most people just bring their 4 weelers there and speed down the beach and dirt paths. Us poor people just walk it in slippers.

Oh yeah. for those who care, Pictures

Ok, I’m in moloka’i for the summer.  Helping my family to build there new house.   Nothing quite like going from a desk job, to hauling cinder blocks all day long, under the sun.  I swear I have a lable someone on me that says not to expose to direct sunlight.  Oh well.  Did i mention cinder blocks are heavy, and there are about 10 pallets worth to move.

In case you were wondering about moloka’i, its friendly.  There is only one main road on the island.  Everyone waves as they drive by.  There isnt alot of cars on the street too. Of the ones you see, 90% are 4×4 trucks.  I’m sure almost everyone knows everyone here.  I still have yet to explore the island and see all the hidden things.  Maybe I’ll get some pictures too.

 There is no mail delivery, you just pick it up at the postoffice in your PO BOX.  Fed Ex you say, well I did see one truck, but its been parking in the same spot the last 2 days.  There are a few banks around.  Bank of Hawaii is here with a nice building.  But one town over, there is another bank, and it is in what looks like a portable building.  You know those temporary calls rooms they build at the highschools, out of wood.  I swear the bank was in one of those.  What ever works right?

ok, so i haven’t posted on this in a while.  Schools kept me a bit busy.  But its starting to clam down, i think.  Maybe its just the calm before the storm.  I got my midterms around the corner already.  Some things that have happend since my last post.

 The olympics
gallery.ysahawaii.com is backup
I started playing WOW (probably a bigger time sink then school)
OSX runs on intel hardware.

 Other things people might be interested in is the program i have attached to this post.  Its called RoundTripper.  It allows people to export methods from a .NET program (C# or VB.NET).   It will decompile the original program into byte code, insert a few commands and recompile it.  The whole thing is made with Regular Expressions.  If you looking for it here it is.