today

you should have seen me today, trying to lug two HUGE suitcases all over hawaii, by myself.  AND the airline was so kind as to BREAK the wheel on one of them for me.  So it keeps falling over when I try to pull/drag it.  NOW i have to try to figure out how i can fix this wheel before I leave. but it’s all good. i’m in hawaii.

But they are so nice here - i was flying from one island to the other, and i had a jar of guava jelly, and APPARENTLY i could hide a BOMB or something in 5 ounces of guava jelly (who knew?), so the inter-island airport security wouldn't let me take it in my carry-on.  But they tried so hard to try to figure out how I could still bring it over - they were going to let me check and extra bag, but the only bag i had was my backpack.  So they were insisting that I could just check in my backpack, and I almost did, but then i realized it could easily come open and i had TWO i-pods, my palm pilot AND my camera inside.  So seeing as how I was about to risk loosing about $900 dollars worth of electronic equipment in order to save a TWO DOLLAR JAR OF JELLY, i decided against it.  But the airport staff - they were so sad for me, that I had to abandon my hawaiian jelly.  Aloha spirit at it's best. . . !