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Hawaii was great. But I missed home. Especially Cyrus, who is currently wedged between me and the keyboard, sleeping. I would take a picture, but if I move my arms enough to take one, he will wake up.

And possibly shred me.

Since I got back, he seems to be displaying some pretty heavy separation anxiety. Every day now when I try to go to work, he does his best to interfere with the process. Getting out the door is down to trickery and rocket science when it comes to keeping him from escaping outside.

When I arrive home, he is waiting for me. This is like before, but he is much more insistent on getting playtime in. If I don’t play with him, he begins being evil. Such is the way of things.

I never fully understood how I got such a clingy cat, though I’m definitely not complaining. Cyrus, though thoroughly capable of being evil, demands a lot more attention and affection that almost any other cat I know of. Which is fine with me. He helps keep me sane.

Speaking of insanity… I went tornado chasing on Saturday.

But I’m going to make you wait a day before I tell you what happened.

One hint: I said the words “This is so not a good place to be in five minutes.”

And I was right.

Fuuuuguuuuuu

Okay, I have to ask you all to watch a pair of videos to fully understand the depths of my insanity why the story I am about to tell you is hilarious to me.

Then…

So as I was swimming yesterday over a small coral reef (glub glub!) my stepmother waved me over to have a look at a small fish. Turns out, it was a puffer fish. Also known as… yes, you guessed it, Fugu.

Let’s just say explosive laughter through a snorkel doesn’t go so well.

Oh yeah, and I took some more pictures…

Swimming with the fishes

Our first full day on Kauai was a bit of a marathon. We saw the mountains, canyons, waterfalls and more.

The real exploration seems to be discovering a new equilibrium with my family. I’m fully aware that they are totally insane, mind you. I inherited that trait. Sometimes, however, my time away shows. I am different from them and it is a strange feeling of isolation to be with family and yet not fully understand why they do the things they do.

Today I also swam in the Pacific. Swimming in the ocean is one of my favorite things to do and I don’t get to do it often enough. I wish I could take my camera underwater to show off some of the things I saw beneath the waves today, including a fish that looked like it got dunked in Superman ice cream.

That’s all there is for today. More coming tomorrow.

“I think he was Samoan”

When I was in college, a guy came into the campus paper and mentioned that he has been in earlier and talked to someone, but he couldn’t remember who.

He could, however, remember the guy wearing a Hawaiian shirt sitting on the couch, whom he mistakenly thought was Samoan.

Yes. That was me.

So fast-forward a few years in time. At the end of this week, I’m taking vacation time off. On Saturday, I’m flying to Phoenix. From there… going west.

This was, sadly, the only humorous picture about Hawaii I thought appropriate.

More to come on this upcoming CROSS PLANETARY EXCURSION (NNNNNNNN echoes).

In lieu of original content

And because I needed to remind myself how to put Youtube videos into posts.

And who DOESN’T want to see a Star Trek opera based on The Wrath of Khan?