aloha + best wishes for a happy + festive winter solstice to you! after getting kind of beat up by the [great!] surf the last few days [inside right forearm + knuckles bruised on one side, smallkine coral scratch on the left palm, pulled neck muscle from taking a wave on the side of the head, sore knee from an awkward wipeout], we're taking the day off [so far - i just read that s shore is knee to shoulder high + good! ok we might go out for pau hana] steve went to do some quick work for surf bud kurt, baby + me just did our qi gong ... and speaking of the wonders of baby: i signed up for a month of the universal wireless that's available in waikiki and now, for about a dollar a day, i'm getting four-bar internet through the mac, including web radio on the sleek new speakers we got from kung. we can turn on live radio from kexp in seattle for fresh, commercial-free tunes whenever we want! like kdogg replied when i texted him about it - fuckin rad! just when you think hawai'i can't get any better. [now if i can just convince the current to offer a 32k alternative to their 128k mp3 stream like kexp does ... i've tried to tune in the 128k but it keeps stalling, same w/ radio k - ;p - but kexp's 32k works + sounds great - and it's kind of perfect to be listening to a west coast station now that we've gone all pacific on ya ... ]