Rainbow Showers

 Up at around 1, because I'd gone to bed so early (for me) at maybe 11PM last night, then woke up around 8 or 9, and went back to bed until 1-1:30. 

I've just stayed in. I read The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings, which is a pretty good book about the complicated lives of Hawaii's elite. I wondered if she was related to the surfer Fred Hemmings and researched it and she's his daughter. Old man Hemmings did OK for himself too, so Kaui was writing about the world she knows. In that world, if I were very lucky, I'd end up one of the ukulele-playing guys in the bar, "who smoke cigarettes and eat boiled peanuts on their breaks".  

My oldest sister is on the very periphery of that world, as about the only thing my father really accomplished was just barely getting her through Punahou School. It's about $30,000 a year now and was comparably expensive then. As is standard in white culture, the oldest kid gets all the support and those who came afterward are on their own. The result was one hot-house flower and 4 who are scrappy enough but have had to try to get somewhere from the very bottom.

All of this would not matter except that I am seriously considering just going back to Hawaii in a few years.

At least once back in Hawaii I'd be able to sell stuff on Ebay again if I wanted to, since I'd be out from under the non-compete thing I'm under now with Ken. It's not officially a non-compete, it's just that if I set up my own account and sold stuff, Ebay would flip the fuck out and throw us both off for life. I know this because it almost happened to me and another friend of mine years ago simply because we bought and sold between each other. And he was several miles away. So I'd need to put more like 3000 miles between myself and Ken before I thought about setting up an Ebay account of my own and selling seashells and odds and ends I find.