Month: September 2009

• September 30, 2009

  Adventures on the AFB

  Today I learned some important things. 1. When J has to be at his ship at 6am, and isn’t coming back until Friday night, and we only have one car, I have to drive. 2. Getting to the ship is easy! Go through gate, turn left. 3. Getting back from the ship at 5:30am is…
• September 29, 2009

  No Tsunami

  The news this morning was that Hawai’i was on tsunami watch, but I found the following through Weather.com, according to NOAA: AN 8.3 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED NEAR THE ISLAND OF SAMOA IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN THIS MORNING. BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A MAJOR TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED TO STRIKE THE STATE OF…
• September 27, 2009

  New House Walk-Through

  We did an unofficial walk-through of the house on Friday so that I could take some photos and make notes of anything that needs fixing or that is not in “perfect” condition so I won’t get blamed for it later. We have an official walk-through with an inspector on Monday (tomorrow!), but as we’re also…
• September 18, 2009

  Welcome to Hawai’i

  Well, we made it. We’re in Honolulu at a Best Western near the Navy base. And the best news: We have the kitties! The trip yesterday was long and exhausting. We had to be at the airport at 4am to drop off the cats for their 6am flight, then we boarded at 6:30 and arrive…