Ok ... a number of friends have suggested I add a blog to my little website so here it is:
It will start at a random date and continue with random thoughts etc.............................
Aug 26 2008 Well here it is ... Aug 26th already .. I have rented a house in the San Diego area .. Del Mar is nearby .. and I will be here thru Sept 30th ... and I will start thinking about where next in the next 2 weeks .. I just returned yesterday from my Doc appt. ... not really good news .. the neuropathy of my feet is aot reversible and I will be handicapped the rest of my days .. so .. lifestyle changes are a fact of life now and will effect where I decide to spend winter .... I also just returned from Laughlin .. and gambling is no longer something I enjoy .. the corporate types have managed to remove any of the entertainment factor of playing video poker that I used to enjoy .. they now have set all the machines to separate you from your money at the fastest rate possible .. no longer can you sit down at a machine and expect it to allow you to play for a while before taking your money ... I must have played 200 machines and only cashed a ticket on 2 lousy machines ...... Harrah's sucks and I will likely never set foot in one of their places again ... they have changed the payout for a full house from 45 or 50 coins in the past to current 30 or 35 coins ..... robbery .. anyhow other than that all is good ... I love life and look forward to making plans for the foreseeable future aloha Vytas
Aug 14th ... life here in Manhattan Beach is good, but I have been staying with friends for a while now and am feeling like fish, ....I have been here too long, but the dr's appointments are spread out, and a place I was to move into in San Diego has had some hitches .. and for a week now I have been waiting for the OK to move in ...I'd be there for 2 months or so aqnd then who knows .. the life of a homeless vagabond ha ha ha .... so not too much to report .... ?I am off to Laughlin for a few days on the 21st to gamble hope I win lol aloha vytas
Aug 2nd 08 ..... Hi all .. it is another great day in Manhattan Beach .. today is the surf festival weekend and I am getting ready to go down and watch the biggest and best 6 person beach volleyball tournament on the planet .. I hope to post some pix later today .... and after I visit there I will continue my search for a place to live for at least the next 4 months ... it is frustrating as I have no idea what I am loking for and rents are sooo very high near the Beach here .... not like the current renters market in Kailua oh well .... boy life is good more later Vytas
July 15th ... as planned I left Hawaii July 2nd and am spending time in Manhattan Beach, San Diego and Reno thru the end of the month. I am also looking for a place to hang my hat for 5 or 6 mos ... have looked in Escondido .. wasn't very happy with the placesw I saw ... will look in point Loma tomorrow and who knows where else??? HAVE HAD FUN BEING BACK IN SOCAL BUT IT HAS BEEN CULTURE SHOCK AFTER ALMOST 9 MOS IN HAWAII .. THERE ARE SOOO MANY PEOPLE HERE AND EVERYONE IS IN A HURRY AND EVERYONE oops caps lock sorry :-( seems to think they are more important then everyone else ........ arg people !!!!!!! and of course since I left KAILUA THE WINDS HAVE CHANGED AND IT HAS BEEN SUNNY ALMOST EVERYDAY ANOTHER ARRRGG .. oops caps loock again .. I need to get used to my new laptop's keyboard sorry .... anyhow I realaly am trying to figure out what to do the next 6 mos and I really hate looking for a place to stay .. but oh well .. such is life .. I hope all my friends are doing great .. and more blogging to come later ... woo wooo vytas
June 27th wow a very subtle shift in the wings, coming a bit from the North and the last 2 days along Alii Dr have been like days of old, nice. The sun is out and out all day. Now maybe 1/2 mile Mauka they are in the vog still, but here along the water's edge w2 glorious days. I know remeber how important it is for me to see the sun woo woow woo 
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I am getting things packerd and have sent out about 5 flat rate boxes of stuff with the USPS. I have one giant borrowed piece of luggage that I am trying to keep under 50 lbs and will do on line check in exactly 24 hours before the flight and try for either exit row or if not, economy plus for $70 more $$.. being 6'7" tall is a pain on current aircraft... the bastards must assume all people flying are 5'2" tall lol ... that is it for now 
Vytas
June 25th .. am packing up slowly for my departure from Kona .. most of my friends are here, but I need to leave for a while and rethink what I want to do in my "older" years .. I have just added a few pictures of Kailua vog, most taken from the old airport looking South ... depressing oh well life goes on see my friends later Vytas
June 14th .. lo and behold a beautiful morning .. the first in 3 1/2 months .. I don't know what is going on with the volcano .. but it is a great morning today .. you can see the mountains and there is a parade on Alii Dr this morning ... ahhhh I have been waiting for this ... sunshine .... you can bet I will be at the pool for a change today .. I also have my bags partially packed already for my trip back to the mainland July 1st ... scheduled return Nov 08 .... everyone have a great day I know I will ALOHA Vytas
June 4th .. well I am reluctant to talk about this as it has the potential to have a negative affect on many people and many of my friends, but the vog issue here is and has been bad .. very bad for the last 3 months or so there has only been a few visible sunsets .. everyday the mountain is obscured by vog .. thick vog and on Alii dr there might be sun and shadows from 9:30 AM til 10:30 AM then it is sooo voggy there are no shadows ... it is depressing .. and with airfares up, cruise ships down by 50%, toourism down, recession etc I worry about the business owners here ... people love Kailua Kona for its kick back aura and the sun .. well the sun is gone ... and for how long ... as I type this I can not see the water a few hundred yards away and I can taste the sulfur dioixide in the air .. not good times for this part of Hawaii right now .. ALOHA Vytas
May 25th .. just turned 60 yesterday .. a quite day, as I don't adverise my Birthday as I so not like attention .. so that worked well ... tonite there is a SoCal Konawebber party .. we started getting together in CA some 5 years ago .. dreaming of moving to Hawaii .. well now there are about a dozen here .... I am getting to be in beter spirits as I heal from the foot thing .. and I am again planning to go to the mainland for a few months .. leaving July 1st .... to get to see a specialist at UCLA and to get away from the vog .. the vog is annoying as afternoons are always gloomy ... anyhow .... I am not sure when I will return, my ticket says Nov, but we'll have to see ... I love the temperatures here, but vog is ... well vog !!!! Making moving arrangements for the 3rd or 4th time in 2 1/2 years is amazing .. retire and spend 8 mos in Hawaii, buy a home inn Texas and try that for 12 months .. sell and slowly get back to Hawaii and now back to the mainland again lol ha ha ha ... we'll I am helping keep Pasha in the money shipping cars back and forth .. that is it for now ... everyone have fun out there ... love and kisses Vytas
May 12th ... I am soo sick of the vog .. we have only short stints of sunlight due to the emmisions of the volcano .. madam Pele flexing her muscles .. and since I need to seek some medical evaluations that cannot be done here (no doctors) I am planning to go tho the mainland maybe July 1st for a number of months and go on from there based on the situation I am in then .. ALOHA all Vytas .......
April 20th 08 .. I am slowly healing from my foot ordeal .. doc says a few more months before the swelling will go away and the feet feel very uncomfortable but no more open wound that only took 3 1/2 months .. life is getting better and Hawaii is wonderful although Pele has been belching tons and tons of stuff into the air and the vog in Kona has been very bad.. have barely seen the sun in the last 3 weeks .. much like June Gloom in Socal .... depressing but at least it is warm every day ... trying to get to the mainland for a quick trip, but with 2 major airlines that serve Hawaii going under prices at least for the short term are too high for me ... that is it for now later dudes and dudettes ...
March 19th ... still under doc's orders to stay off my foot .. but the end is near the wound is very very close to being closed .. just a few more days I hope ... and dang as soon as I can get in the water I need to paddle and work out and spend everyday trying to lose the additional 18 lbs I gained in the last 2 months and another 15 that I planned to lose when I got here lol .. another great day in Kona even though all I have to look forward to today is to get out of the condo at 11:30 for a doc appointment .. ALOHA Vytas
March 5th .. I have a few people I know comment on no new pictures on the site ... well since that foot infection and surgery I am still confined to my condo until the wound closes .. and I am going crazy .. it has been 2 months already aarrgggg !!! I was hoping to be somewhat healed by now, but looks like a week or two more til the wound closes and than 3 or 3 more months before it is really healed ... crap !!!anyhow in a few weeks I hope to be adding some new albums to mauiwow. ALOHA Vytas
OK some time has passed here .. this has NOT been a good year for me .. Jan 2nd I somehow got my foot infected and spent 3 days at home thinking I had the flu since I had 105 fever .. then by day 3 my foot swelled up and I went to the doc and I was immdeiately put in Kona Community Hospital where I spent 15 days ... arrrg !! and in day 3 I had surgery to remove all the tissue that was damaged by the infection and now I am looking at 6 to 8 weeks of condo living watching TV as I must stay off my foot as it heals .. damn it !!!!!Oh well I didn't lose my foot, though I am told it was close .. and so I will resume life somewhere around March 1st I hope .... that is the new news for now ALOHA Vytas Feb 2 08
Entry 1 ... Nov 18, 2007 .. I am almost fully settled into my second condo on my second move to Kailua Kona .. I feel blessed that in retirement I am able to live in Hawaii and make moves like the one I made 16 mos ago ... moving from Kailua Kona to an Austin Texas Suburb ... Pflugerville .. and ironically bought a home on Lava Bed Dr .. well 12 mos in Texas was enough .. err too much for me ... when I got there it was over 105 F 45 days in a row and the lake levels were over a hundred feet below normal ... then in 1 week it went from summer to winter with temps in the 40s and lower ... and I got to experience a Jan ice storm that covered everything in a few inches of solid ice ... so far so bad .. then it rained off and on in Jan and the lakes filled up .. but no enjoying them as it started raining daily in Feb and rained hard virtually everyday .. closing all the rivers and lakes to recreational use due to flooding ... OK enough of that ... Now on the Big Island it is warm and nice everyday ... and I can leave my condo and enjoy the out of doors ... woo woo ... I am tryingto aget enough people at the canoe club to get interested in paddling at 8 AM instead of 6"45 AM .. as I refuse to set an alarm in my retirement to go paddle in the dark lol .. I am thinking about getting a paddle board or OC1 outrigger canoe so I'd be able to paddle when I wanted to ... anyhow enough of today's ramble ...