8.17.2008

Stepping back and moving forward

This is a long over due post just to let you know. A few weeks ago I went home to Kona for a family reunion. Not the typical small family reunion with just the immediate families. This was one of the big ones; the Kaupu ohana reunion. I took a couple of days off from work for this worth while time. After I flew in I went to my grandmothers to pay my respects to the family there. I meet up with my cousin Sam; who is like a brother to me.


I pretty much grew up with Sam and his brother Jr. in Kauai and Big Island. Meeting up with him after over eight years brought back some old memories for me. How things pretty much went was that Jr. was the oldest and pretty much got pinned for most of the trouble. Sam was the middle and I was the youngest. I remember vague memories of cutting a hole in the screen at the apartment in Kauai with my new Swiss army knife and they got blamed for it. Which is how most things went since I was the youngest, the only-child, and we were staying with my parents. Poor kids. . . parents are the last to admit their kids are bad. Then I also remembered a time when we first moved into an apartment in Kona; Kona Coffee Villas, and we were playing fighting. Jr. did some type of kick and knocked out one of my baby teeth. Yeah, he got a lot of grief for that one.


Well, that night I kicked back with him and some of my other cousins that I grew up with remembering the good old times. That pretty much started the drinking that continued through out the whole trip. The next couple of days were interesting. I meet up with Jr. and the rest of their family. Their daughters are just the cutest and most social kids I've meet.

That made me feel OOOOLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!! Pretty much all of my older cousins have kids and what not. Nothing like coming home and being surrounded by a bunch of ankle biters. Yeah. . .and then my cousins all subtly hinting that it's my turn next. FUCK THAT!!!! or at least for another couple of years. After the reunion, the family . . . turned interesting. All the cousins and I all went to Lulu's for drinks and what not. And sure enough, the cousin that we all thought would turn out gay years ago came out like Twister drinking Jager. I'm going to post some of the photos on my gallery later. Good times and hilarious memories.

[Moving Forward]

Well, I have a new job. Getting paid twice as much as I am now. The only bad part is that it's over in Maui. Hmm. . . I just have to figure out how the social thing is going to go about. The position is as a Unix/Linux Admin. Akwardly labled as a "Network Administrator". A good side is that I don't have worry about completely starting over. I'm going to be over there with Aaron. Keep the "Aaron's Bitch" jokes to a minimum please. I figure two or three years over there would a good career move and help with my goals to work and live over in Asia and Europe. So, last week I said my farewells and goodbyes to everyone.