Sunday, March 23, 2008
I went to Wal-Mart to price out bikes yesterday (yeah, I shop from Wal-Mart and I am going to hell for it). I found a bike at the perfect price-point: $91 for a beach cruiser. It's the type of bike that would make my bike expert ex=boyfriend Jesse a little queasy. It's the type of bike that I won't go catatonic over if it gets stolen, the type of bike I won't have any qualms leaving behind if and when I leave Hawaii (which seems to be getting increasingly iffier the longer I'm here. Hawaii is like a black hole).
I didn't pick up the bike just then; after dropping $139 at the Mac store a few days ago to pick up a much needed external hard drive, I'm trying not to go willy-nilly with expenditures just before dreaded tax time. I did find a pair of sneakers. Flip-flops, my primary footwear, is awful for doing anything athletic, and my trusty hiking sandals from Arizona got shredded on lava rocks and Hawaii mud, so I needed something new. I hate sneakers in general, especially white ones, which remind me of the eighties, but I found a pair of brown ones with green stripes. Even better, they were lightweight and comfortable. Best of all, they were only $20. Ah globalism. Sneakers are cheaper now than 30 years ago and some kid in China gets to feed his family back home on the farm. Everybody wins (yes that was a sarcastic attempt at justifying my trip to Wal-Mart).
I didn't pick up the bike just then; after dropping $139 at the Mac store a few days ago to pick up a much needed external hard drive, I'm trying not to go willy-nilly with expenditures just before dreaded tax time. I did find a pair of sneakers. Flip-flops, my primary footwear, is awful for doing anything athletic, and my trusty hiking sandals from Arizona got shredded on lava rocks and Hawaii mud, so I needed something new. I hate sneakers in general, especially white ones, which remind me of the eighties, but I found a pair of brown ones with green stripes. Even better, they were lightweight and comfortable. Best of all, they were only $20. Ah globalism. Sneakers are cheaper now than 30 years ago and some kid in China gets to feed his family back home on the farm. Everybody wins (yes that was a sarcastic attempt at justifying my trip to Wal-Mart).
posted by KaOs at
3/23/2008 01:59:00 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Katharine,
I couldn't find a contact button on the site so I'm resorting to the comments section... I'm writing to invite you to techhui.com - it's a new online community for people that work in tech-related fields in Hawaii. No obligations. No fees. Just a place to network, learn, etc... We just started a few months ago and have close to 200 people.
Hope to see you there...
Gabe Morris
ps... just read through your blog a bit - we're neighbors, kind of ... i'm over on Hobron Lane (and i'm a little upset that you punctured my tightly held illusion of the purity of the waters off the beach in waikiki!)
Hi Katharine, I just left a comment but think it got swallowed up. Anyway - I'm writing to invite you to join Techhui.com. It's an online community for people that work in tech-related fields in Hawaii. We just started a couple of months ago and already have close to 200 people. There are no obligations, no dues, etc... It's just a place to network, learn, share, etc... Occasionally, we have discussion events on whatever topics people feel like discussing - the last one was on GUI and design - but most of the action takes place online.
Feel free to check out the site before joining. I don't believe you need a password to navigate around.
aloha,
Gabe
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