The Macbook is now at a repair shop in Kailua. They’re an authorized repair shop (that means expensive) and seem to be a pretty professional operation. I should hear from them on Friday. Hopefully it’s fixable at a price less than half what a new one would cost….
The “magic” I used to get a photo on the blog last night isn’t working today. To do that I turned on a sharing option on both the iPhone and the iPad and, because I have over 34,000 pictures in the photo library, both devices have no more memory left. With no Macbook, I can’t back them up, either. Every time there’s a little space that opens up on either device, they download another picture from the library. Meanwhile, the background picture process eats up the computer cycles and the battery. So, I have to turn it off somehow. According to the Internet, the solution (until Apple finally figures out the cloud thing) is to have multiple photo libraries. I think that’s not much of a solution.
Every Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday there is a huge flea market at the Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. The flea market is in the parking lot and goes all the way around the stadium. I stopped by there for about an hour on my way back home and walked around about a fourth of the way. It’s kind of like ten different kinds of stores repeated fifty or more times. “Handmade” crafts, Hawaiian shirts and muumuus, hats, phone accessories (particularly selfie sticks), Hawaiian fruit and nuts, jewelry, posters, etc. There are so many of the same kinds of shops that there isn’t much room for bargaining. I bought three ties and that was the extent of my spending. Sometime Nina and I will go down together.
While I was off wandering around, Nina spent the day cleaning and working on her muumuu for the Polynesian Cultural Center. It needed shortened (done) and fixed in the back (not solvable). We’ll probably have to buy another matching pair sometime. Tomorrow we’re back to work at the Center from 9:00 to 2:30, then taking tickets at the PCC from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. We’ll be pretty tired by the end of the day tomorrow, for sure!
Life is good.