And due to circumstances beyond my control, I have no available photos from the week and no way to post them anyway.
So I’m falling back on a previous FF from March 2003, with the same cast except no Kiko yet.
Here’s the link.
This was the week for a vet visit so that Kali and Kinikini could be checked out by our regular vet, Ann Sakamoto at the Hawaii Kai Veterinary Clinic (top quality care from Ann and their other doctors!).
It didn’t go well.
Knowing Kali’s resistance to being examined, I had carefully dosed her with a gabapentin cream three times, one the evening before, once the morning of the exam, and then a third time 2-1/2 hours before our vet appointment.
Despite that, Kali managed to retain her focus, her strength, and her skillful combinations of defensive swats simultaneous with fancy moves to avoid being immobilized. She kept her mouth clamped shut, avoiding an exam of her teeth and gums. And the warded off an attempt to draw blood to check for possible background conditions. We are reminded that Ms. Kali, the sweetest cat, can be fierce when it serves her purpose. And Kinikini? This is the first time he has resisted the major elements of his vet exam.
So both cats received only the most basic exam, but we agreed on a plan for another visit in a few months. We aren’t providing details so as to avoid the cats learning about and thwarting the plan.
Meanwhile, here come the cats.
I first posted this back in 2020 while we were all hunkered down as Covid worked it’s magic.
I just ran into it again, and thought I would share it a second time with a few slight edits. That car is too classic!
I remember it being very exciting as we waited for my dad to get home after buying a new car, which at that time he did every 4-5 years.
At that time, he was manager of a San Francisco-based hotel and restaurant supply company, Dohrmann Hotel Supply. I guess he thought the car made him more managerial? Or maybe he just thought it was cool, as I did.
I believe this was probably the day he took possession of this new Ford Fairlane and brought it home for the first time. I think it was a 1957 model, but could be wrong. I was too young to drive, so I just had to look. And, of course, I was assigned to wash it now and then.
Note the asphalt driveway, which was considered a big step up from the original crushed coral. It lasted another 30 years (with repairs) before being replaced by concrete courtesy of a crew that had poured a concrete driveway on a large new home next door and it was just enough to replace my parents’ aslphalt.
After my parents died, Meda and I supervised a complete renovation, sticking mostly to the original size and shape of the house except that we enclosed what had been an open carport, and also extended the front of the kitchen and living room out severa feet to allow a kitchen larger than the tiny cell my mother cooked in for about 70 years. I’m sure she would have considered the expense unnecessary and wasteful. Theirs was a different generation.
And here’s the house at it looks today. The large bird of paradise plant is still there outside the front door.
Not surprisingly, Civil Beat’s Sunshine Blog took another look at the continuing failure of the Honolulu Police Department and the Honolulu Police Commission to provide the level of transparency and accountability common in police departments elsewhere in the country.
Today’s Sunshine Blog column reported on the discussion of the department’s current attempt to renew its accreditation by Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) at a recent meeting of the police commission. But while introducing the matter of accreditation, HPD cut off any potential for substantive discussion of CALEA standards by refusing to answer any questions, claiming they are proprietary and, therefore, confidential.
So the public is supposed to be satisfied with the department claim to be complying with secret standards that are not subject to public review or comment?
An old friend, Jahan Byrne, appeared by telephone at the commission meeting to comment on his three decades of efforts to bring some sunshine to HPD’s policies and standards, first as a student at UH Manoa, and now 30 years later as a business executive living in Oakland.
Civil Beat then took the initiative and dispatched a reporter to look at a copy of the CALEA standards (available at HPD with the requirement that no notes can be taken and no copies made), according to the Sunshine Blog. The reporter, Caitlin Thompson, then contacted the CALEA program manager for the region that includes Hawaii, who flatly denied HPD’s claim that the standards are confidential and can’t be made public.
This descended into mutual finger pointing, with HPD trying to avoid responsibility for complying with the Sunshine Law by kicking all questions back to CALEA, while CALEA denying it requires HPD to keep the public from seeing what “best practices” the department says it will be complying with.
And the commission? Although a couple of members expressed skepticism about HPD’s shuck and jive routine, there was no indication the commission was ready to put its collective foot down and demand direct answers from HPD.
It this going to continue for another 30 years?
