After my wife returned home from a seminar in Kona yesterday, She remarked after being on the road for three hours of having seen 4 different rainbows that day.

She visited the Hilton Resort for a two day workshop from an expert on autism and social behavior treatments that seem to be improving their lives. Bert teaches high impact special education.

One of the boys in her class is high functioning (I'll say!). With conventional sheets of typing paper and scotch tape, he folds and cuts to create perfect scale models of cars from any picture given him. He recently entered a statewide contest in a related art form and won first place. This is special excepting for the fact that his creations were judged along side art generated by regular ed. high schoolers.

Back to my wife: Another person might have complained about the rain and horrible driving.


This one became unusually brilliant before fading. Although I am getting repeated rainbows in the same location over the ocean, I send this one because, well, it smiled at me also.

Meet Traveler, a pure bred, female, tri-color Cocker Spaniel. She waits not so patiently on my wife's knee for something to happen, anything - This is her usual position this time of the evening. Traveler looks especially melancoly, so I thought it appropriate to share her with you.

Last night's New Years Eve the indigenous population let go with the fireworks. But out here in Hawaii, it isn't like you can go across the border to get any M80's or even pop bottle rockets. We just have thousands of miles of the Pacific. These poor folks are stuck with those one inch long little snappers. You've heard them, kinda like pumped up popcorn snapping in the microwave. Well, our next door neighbor had a million of them all in a pile on the pavement of the parking lot. I thought it reasonable that by its end there would be a puddle of bubbling tar to stare at for the rest of the evening.

Well, back to Traveler. She didn't sleep normally last night, having just seen that afternoon a History Channel rendition of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. She wants to go back to the tornado belt on the mainland. Stopped her from placing herself on eBay.