From my first trip to the Big Island I learned that it takes about two weeks just to settle into a new rhythm and that's about where I am now on the arc of this journey.
For example, yesterday I slept in and then went to Lihue to do a few errands.
- Bought shoes for garden work - I will be volunteering doing work at the National Tropical Botanical Gardens later this month and they require closed-toe work shoes.
- Picked up Apple OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) to upgrade this laptop (more below).
- Hamura Saimin for lunch.
Addendum on computer stuff
I brought the six-year-old MacBook Pro out of retirement to take along on this trip. I actually considered not having a computer - well, just my Android phone, which is quite a computer - but of course in the modern digital age that would have made blogging and photography quite difficult. Definitely glad I have the laptop now, even though I spend too much time on it, though nearly all is documenting the trip in the blog and photo post-processing. With the original Tiger (10.4) version of OS X, I'm happy with it; however, the world has mostly moved on, and most software today requires a newer version.So I finally gave in and for $39.95 got the OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) disk at the Lihue "Mac Made Easy" store (not an official Apple retail store) from the friendly genius-looking guy. Glad I did: after about two hours I had everything running again and also could now install Google Chrome, at last.
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