February 2012 Journal Photos

Andrea with the demolition of the shed at the back of the house to make way for a new water heater enclosure on Wednesday,
February 1^st.

Andrea and I supervised at the robotics lab Wednesday evening. Here, students work on the ball handler.

Andrea made pulled pork for the team.

Mentor Matt and team Captain Eric got the PID (proportional, integral, differential) algorithm working for robot control.

Testing the ball handler on the robot chassis.

Freshmen add retroreflective target rectangles to the goals.

On Thursday morning Andrea and I drove to Kahaluu at Kaneohe Bay for the twice-monthly bonsai workshop at Larry and Jan's house.

Steve and Jim were also there.

A view from Larry's house of Kahuluu.

Another view of Kahuluu, a little more to the right.

We stopped by Horan's house to visit. Suzi brought lunch from Pah Ke's Chinese Restaurant.

We enjoyed some time with Horan.

Horan took us to his "Sweatshop" and showed us a cable reel top cut in half that he offered to us for making into a table.

Arnel and Chito excavated for the footing for the water heater enclosure.

Ray and Mike vacuum up dust in preparation for laying the pebbles in the shower area.

Thursday evening I went to the Small Satellite Laboratory at UH for the Hooponopono "FlatSat" demonstration.

The lab was busy.

The payload demonstration setup with RF feed horns.

The ACS (attitude control system) demonstration in the clean room.

Friday morning, February 3^rd, Cory Kot came over to talk about etching some artwork on the bathroom mirror. We're thinking
about a mermaid. Cory's going to bring some sketches in two weeks.

I like to stop and look at the chess games in progress. Second table area Diamond Head of the Moana Hotel at Kuhio Beach is the chess scene.

The new restaurant is open at the Circle Hotel. It was under renovation when Elizabeth and Milan stayed there a year ago.

We walked into the ground floor of the Hayatt Regency Hotel and found a polynesian dance show in progress, so we watched for a while.

Male hula dancers.

Female hula dancers.

Maori dance with "poi balls."

Samoan fire dance.

We went to the Swim Bar on the third floor of the Hayatt and listened to some ukulele music with drinks and pupus.

The female ukulele player (Lani, I think) was really good.

Then we went to the Moana Hotel banyan courtyard for more drinks, pupus, and hula.

Andrea enjoyed taking photos too.

Saturday morning I took this photo of the rebar for the footing for the water heater enclosure.

We noticed this large art plate in the hotel lobby.

An example of a Dickey roof, a distinctive Hawaiian architectural feature. This is the public restroom at Queen's Surf Beach.

Artists display their wares on the zoo fence on Monsarrat on weekends. We liked the mermaid and the dancer (left) by Christine Provenza.

Paul Forney with some of his new paintings. He's inerested in doing an etched scene on our glass sliding door.

Looking for the elephants at the zoo.

Examinin the foliage of a hao tree.

Andrea photographs the elephants at the new zoo exhibit. It's very roomy.

Andrea with the always popular giraffs and zebras. Then we headed back to the zoo fence to buy a painting.

Stephanie Kempf with her work on the zoo fence. I bought the indicated one called "Wave Expression."

Paul started a new painting.

Paul's always glad to talk to passers by.

Andrea with the painting in the lobby of the Kaimana Beach Hotel at Sans Souci Beach.

This is one of my favorite Kiawe trees in Kapiolani Park.

Andrea took a picture of me taking a picture of the tree.

I took this photo of Stephanie Kempf's painting after we got home.

Andrea's Paul Forney print.

Andrea, Arnel, and Cliff discuss the interior wood.

Shower pebbles are done, starting on the wall tile.

Three-fourths inch mahogany plywood paneling had been installed on two walls of the office.

Half inch plywood was installed to the bathroom-office wall, making it an interior shear wall.

Andrea prepared Parmesan chicken for the robotics team. See how small the kitchen workspace is? That's our next project.

While the interior work progresses, the exterior is ready for painting.

Students fabricate robot parts.

ZJ works on the ball handler to robot interface while mentors Andrea and Matt look on.

The students liked the chicken, garlic bread, and salad for dinner that we brought.

Bob and Cliff after visiting the plant sale.

Andrea asking a question at the plant questions table.

Heading toward the rainbow arch.

Andrea shoots me standing under the rainbow arch.

Trumpet flowers.

A sundial garden. The gnomen points to the north star, 21 degrees above the horizontal. Andrea sits with the orchid
she bought and the porcelain bud vase I bought, made by Dorothy Ukumoto with plumeria flowers.

I check my watch against the sundial indicated time. Close.

On the way back from the Urban Garden we stopped at International Tile. Richard, the owner, returned our money for the
unused stainless steel dividers.

We then stopped at La Mariana Sailing Club for lunch.

Andrea had a shrimp salad and I ordered the bacon avocado sandwich.

The last piece of tile goes into the shower wall, Saturday, February 11^th.

Interior wood panel installation continues. The half inch plywood plywood in the closets makes that a shear wall. Even
though the mahogany plywood is three quarters of an inch thick, it cannot be counted on to form a shear wall because it
is installed with finishing nails, which can't take the load that common nails can. The exterior walls have half inch plywood
attached with cement coated galvanized nails, so all the walls in the new construction are shear walls.

Arnel installed the bathroom cabinets on Saturday, February 11^th.

We attended the pre-show lecture. Don Pasquale by Donazetti is an Opera Buffa, meant to be light and funny.

Norina (soprano) and Dr. Malatesta (baritone), from the HOT Website (fair use).

The auditorium lobby during intermission.

The food was good at Kit 'n Kitchen.

Lenore had Kit's sampler.

On Tuesday, Valentine's Day, the finish work on the office and bathroom ceilings began.

We wen to the beach on Valentine's Day. At 4:30 PM the Hao Tree Lanai looks ready for the Valentine's Day dinner crowd.

I took this photo of a plaque affixed to the railing at the Hao Tree Lanai. It erroneously refers to "Kaimana Beach."

Andrea and I brought dinner to the team on Tuesday evening, February 14^th, Valentine's Day. The robot is coming along.

On Wednesday afternoon, February 15^th, I walked around the neighborhood taking photos of single wall construction styles.
Single wall construction is typified by vertical tongue-in-groove boards that take the roof load.

This is an example of a single decorative horizontal band style.

This is an example of a double decorative horizontal band style.

Our house needs some electrical work on the outside. February 15^th.

On Wednesday, February 15^th, Andrea and I went to the beach. I went across Kahala Avenue to Kapiolani
Park and took this photo of the Diamond Head plaque installed in 1968.

Jeff begins surface preparations for painting the exterior of the house on Saturday, February 18^th

Andrea stripped the paint off the existing door into the rebuilt bedroom.

Grant worked on the robot before the competition started.

All set for the first match to start.

Meanwhile, other team members help youngsters with bristle-bots.

That afternoon, Andrea and I took Lenore and Estelle to see The Butler Did It, a farce, at the Diamond Head Theatre.

We joined Flo and Lynne for dinner afterward at Assagio's Bistro in Kahala.

The Moanalua cafeteria is a good venue for the scrimmage. Moanalua had the field set up and the restrooms open when we arrived.
The large mural on the wall is a painting of Iolani Palace in 1975 in downtown Honolulu.

This is the view towards downtown Honolulu from the campus.

The campus is just across the freeway from Tripler Hospital. The cafeteria is in the center of the photograph.

The team readies the robot.

The team work well together as an efficient pit crew.

It's a fine looking eight-wheeled machine.

Afterward, Lenore took us to lunch at Kona Brewing Company restaurant in Hawaii Kai.

We arrive downtown at the number 1 Capitol District building in mid-afternoon.

View toward Iolani Palace from the number 1 Capitol District building.

The State art museum is on the second floor of the building.

View of the courtyard of the building.

View of the Eva wing art gallery. There's also a Diamond Head wing.

In the Diamond Head wing. And to think we throw these away when we clear them out of the stream behind the house.

The back of the Diamond Head wing has an exhibit of student art, including a video of students hunting a "food critic"
believing the man is an FBI agent. Part of the video is set in the House of Pure Aloha (Uncle Clay's shave ice store in
the Aina Haina shopping center).

The counterman says "but this is a shave ice store," and the food critic says, "I'm a food critic, I want coffee and I want it now."
So the counterman prepares him a shave ice.

We had arrived intentionally early at the building for the RWDC judging, so after seeing the art exhibits, we walked around the
Capitol grounds.

Behind the Capitol building is Iolani Palace.

Andrea by the front steps of Iolani Palace.

Andrea in the interior courtyard of the Capitol. Doesn't she look nice?

Andrea at the front entrance (King Street) to the Capitol.

Three weeks ago, an organization of organic farmers set up an impromptu heiau on the Capitol lawn.

On the fourth floor, waiting to enter the conference room for the students' presentation. It's quite an honor to be selected
one of three finalist teams out of 13 entered.

The students greet the two judges. A third judge in Colorado was on the phone.

The students make their presentation.

After it's all over the students pose for a photo before going down the elevator.

Wednesday morning the closet shelves are finished and Arnel works on the window trim on the masonry wall.

Andrea chats with Jeff, the painter.

Jeff had the windows and doors all covered with plastic sheet so we went out to lunch at Zippy's in Hawaii Kai. I had the
New York steak, teriyaki style with two scoops rice and macaroni salad with a chocolate milkshake. Andrea and Lenore had salads.

Jeff in spray painting action. Wednesday, February 22^nd.

The bathroom countertop has been installed, waiting for the tile and plumbing to be finished.

All the woodwork has been finished except the linen closet shelves. Thursday, February 23^rd.

It was a beautiful day. I saw small fish near the shore.

On Friday morning I took architectural photos. This an example of single wall zero band style.

This is the masonry block wall style built in the late 40s in Aina Haina. Note the flat roof.

This is a Dickey roof in Aina Haina on Kalanianaole Highway.

Side view of the Dickey roof house.

A single wall zero band house.

Another view of the single wall zero band house.

Arnel works on the linen closet shelves, Friday, February 24^th.

Jim Crisafulli had leis for students and mentors. Here he gives leis to the Sacret Hearts Academy team.

The Kalani High School RWDC team.

Lieutenat Governor Brian Schatz conducted the ceremony.

Jim Crisafulli, director of Aerospace Development for the State of Hawaii, made some remarks.

Kalani Team Captain Eric spoke about the team's experience.

The Kalani team with their award certificates and the Lieutenant Govenor.

The winning team and mentors pose with the Lieutenant Governor.

Later that evening, Andrea and I took Lenore to the Women's Campus Club (WCC) dinner at the Culinary Arts building at the Kapiolani
Community College.

The WCC dinner guests socialize before the meal served by culinary arts students.

Saturday morning the closet doors and shelves are complete.

We stopped as usual to look at some chess games at Kuhio Beach.

Andrea likes the tapa cloth displayed behind glass on the second floor of the Hayatt Hotel.

The Hyatt pool bar entertainment was too loud so we went to the Top of Waikiki rotating restaurant.

Waiting to try the "Top Martini" at the bar at the top of the Top of Waikiki.

We had a drink and bruschetta carni at the Sunset Bar at the Kaimana Hotel at Sans Souci Beach.

This was a good looking entry by the Hawaii Chinese Immersion School.

Back view of the bipedal robot.

The corporate robots are lined up for photographs.

I took this photo of the entrance to the auditorium during the first intermission. It was raining on Thomas Square with
Punchbowl crater in the background.

There's a bust of Neal Blaisdell in the lobby.

Afterward we met Chris and Doug Miller at Pyramids restaurant for dinner.

A single band single wall house on East Hind Drive.

Two double band single wall houses next to each other on Hind Iuka.

A fine example of the double band style of single wall house.

In the afternoon Andrea and I swam at Sans Souci Beach. I took this photograph of the cast iron light fixtures on the
Natatorium (War Memorial) with the glass globes.

At the AHCA meeting, the department of water and power representatives spoke about the plans to add a second million
gallon water reservoir. This will lower electrical puming costs because the pumps can be shut off at peak hours. The
reservoir serves Wailupe, Niu, and Kuliouou valleys with 1.3 million gallons per day. All the water comes from the West
via a pipe along Kalanianaole highway. There is a small well in the upper valley, but it serves only the very highest houses.

On my daily run on Tuesday morning I took this photo on Kalanianaole Highway with Diamondhead in the distance.

On the way home we went to the park at the end of Nehu Street that has a large monkeypod tree.

I went to the beach by myself and took this picture of the Roll of Honor stone in Memorial Park.

The back of the stone with the War Memorial (Natatorium) in the background.

The hao tree arbor where I do my pullups and bar dips and the War Memorial. Kaimana pukas are in the wall.

Wall with kaimana pukas at Sans Souci beach at 4 PM. It had rained earlier and not many attended this leap day.

Jeff completed the clear varnish on the interior wood paneling. It looks great. Wednesday, February 29^th.
Photo taken the morning of March 1^st.