Honey, We're Not In Unalaska Any More . . . .

I'm sitting on the terrace of our rental in Laie on Oahu with a morning's worth of blogging ahead of me because not only have I been in Hawaii for a few days, I wasn't particularly caught up before I left home - you know, that other island, where it is 30 degrees and blowing 45 knots right now . . . so I've got a friendly cat, a glass of juice, and a pot of good Kona coffee, and I begin.  The weather, as you can see, is miserable, but I'll work with what I've got . . .