No news is good news from kona? Beth and I are pluggin along out here. I, job searching, she, working hard. We filled our after work hours tonight with Bikram Yoga.We've been three times now, and I like it. It makes my back feel good. Kind of like streaching in a sauna for 90 minutes. A little pricey though, especially on my budget.
I have some appreciated, but financially unrewarding work building up bikes for the local shop here. I am happy to go in and work, but I'm not a very fast bike assembler, so it doesn't make much dough for me. However, I have a good time, and I'm happy to do it. And I build up a good bike, no matter what they pay me. It's a good shop and I like the employees.
Currently, I'm hoping to get some work down in the National Energy Lab area, as it's called, the industrial park where Beth's company is. The companies down there utilize a huge volume of sea water pumped up from 3000' under the ocean surface. At one point, someone thought the difference in temperature between the deep sea water and surface sea water could be used to drive turbines to produce electricity. It didn't work as well as they had hoped, and I'm not entirely sure of the specifics, but now that the infrastructure is there, they keep the pumps on and distribute the water to a variety of users. Most of them use the mineral-rich water to grow algae, then feed it to some type of shellfish they are raising for food. So I guess I'm hoping I can follow in Beth's footsteps and become and algae farmer! I like that I would learn a bit about marine science, and that it would be a making something. We'll see. If I spent as much time applying for jobs as I do talking about applying, I'd have a job by now!
Excitement on the horizon: my folks are arriving on Saturday! We are looking forward to exploring Hawaii with them, and their visit will certainly provide some more exciting pictures for the blog! Have you checked out the Picassa album yet? There is some good stuff from December in there.
Here are some favorites:
They are all from our trip to Volcanoes National Park. The top two are at Kilauea Iki crater, reshaped by an eruption in 1959. Beth is standing on rocks younger than her parents!
The bottom two photos are looking at Kilauea Caldera from the Jagger Museum visitor's center. You can see a big plume of gas billowing out in the daytime, and the reflection of lava in the crater onto the plume at night!
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