Friday – August 14: Got to work early in the morning and finished up Chapter 8. I find that if I do the problems beforehand, then transposing and doing the problems on the screen goes much faster. I am waiting for the Quicktime application to code the video to finish before I can start the next one. In about 1.5 hours, I was able to do lessons 1-6 of Chapter 8.

Today, we shipped back box 2 back home. In it was my Algebra textbook and the Wacom tablet.

After lunch, we went down to 69 beach to relax a bit. The surf was up, unusual and the water looked churned up, so we just chilled and took in the view. Nice to relax and get out of the condo for a few hours.

Dinner was pupu’s at the 5:00 pm weekly Friday gathering by the pool and then DiGornio pizza, hot from the oven. Pizza on the island may be a little bleak. We (Rosie) like the pizza at Solimene’s in Waimea and the pizza at KBC down in Kona. The place here in the village is marginal at best.

It’s amazing what you can see on AMC, lots of old, cool movies. I watched “Rudy”, the true story of a Notre Dame football player.

Thursday – August 13: Today, I got in gear and finished up Chapter 7 homework videos while Rosie and Sandy were at the Hair Salon in the village.

Went to Waikoloa Village Elementary/Middle School and brought my resume and business card and introduced myself to the principal, Kris Cosa-something. The school is really an elementary school, last year, they brought on 7th grade and this year, they have added an 8th grade. I explained my goals and the principal listened. Hopefully, she will remember the resume, when the time comes again next year (hopefully).

I noticed no coolant in the Subaru coolant tank and none in the radiator. Picked up some Prestone at the Chevron station in the village. The radiator was about a 1quart and a half low. Also, the top radiator clamp was loose and I tightened it up, so it should be OK for now, that is what was causing the leak, I think. I’ll keep checking on it. As an aside, we have put close to 2,800 miles in the time that we have been here!!

For dinner, we did the final Surf and Turf, the 3 of us finished off the last of the 8 lobster tails. Yummy!