Hawaii Day 06

It’s our last full day here in Maui, and tomorrow afternoon we board a plane back to Pittsburgh. The day started off with breakfast at CJ’s Deli and Diner. Bunky had some pancakes and I had a ham and cheese omelet. The food was ok, but nothing spectacular; mostly we ate there because it was near the UPS store. We mailed back Bunky’s wedding dress and it was only $18 to ship! It cost over $50 to get it out to Hawaii… After breakfast we checked out the Lahaina Cannery Mall. The LCM was pretty pathetic, and we breezed through it in about 20 minutes. We did pick up a few more kitschy souvenirs, though.
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Cleaning Up Messes

I went back through my archives and recategorized/tagged 75 posts from the huge number of posts that I wrote when the blog was still on Blogger (290 remain…). This process totally sucked. I did notice a few things:

1. Either Blogger or the Wordpress import tool inserts <br /> tags for line breaks.
2. I think every post that is about Richmond involves me complaining and ranting.
3. Back in those days, I did not understand the beauty of short paragraphs. You can see this in early posts on SS!AB also.
4. Hindsight is 20/20. I enjoyed my post about how Firefox offered nothing that IE didn’t.
5. Looking back at my time in Richmond… wow I hate that place even more than before! Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder when you are talking about hellholes.
6. It was tough categorizing posts, because I talked about so many different subjects in the same post. I think Blogger still doesn’t have categories, but they might have labels (like tags) now.
7. Wow, I’ve been blogging for over 5 years. I like to think my writing skills have gotten much better, but we’ll see what I think when I look back at my posts in another 5 years.

I’m not sure when I will get around to fixing up the rest of the entries. Wordpress in those days was pretty bad too, from what I remember.

Change The Theme… Again

Mandingo theme was slick, but several features caused major slowdown. The charlie horse post barely even loaded. No one messes with the charlie horse post, NO ONE.

Undergoing Construction

Adding a little bit of color… when I get back.