I’ve decided that the problem with the world today is a serious lack of communication skills. Case in point, today I took my grandparents out to lunch at Yanagi Sushi on Kapiolani Ave. It’s a small Japanese restaurant with very limited parking. My grandfather has a hard time walking so the state has issued to him a handicapped parking pass. But of course by the time we get there the handicapped stalls are all gone. Now, Yanagi Sushi to their credit has a man outside whose sole responsibility is parking (or at least that’s what his little name tag would indicate). So I pull in and there is already a van double-parked in front of me and I’m just barely in the lot. There are cars whizzing around behind me so at this point I can’t go forward or backward. Being the nice grandchild that I am, let my grandparents and my cousin Christian out of the car and they go into the restaurant. Then the little valet guy walks behind my car and grabs a cone and places it in the grass. At no time does he ever indicate that I am to stay there or get out of my car. In fact, he never even glances or acknowledges me. So I don’t know what to do and there is now another car behind me waiting to turn in and he’s the one blocking an entire lane of traffic. The little man at this point had already walked away and was standing by the adjacent lot. Not knowing if I was supposed to go there or not since he never talked to me, I reversed out and tried to follow him. Just my luck, that lot was completely blocked off and full of cars and I had no where to go except maybe around the block. So I end up driving up to King Street and I find a metered parking stall up there. I’m pretty much not in the mood to do anything with that little man now so I just park there and walk to the restaurant. As I’m walking around the block the little man sees me and throws his hands in the air like “where did you go?” Sheesh, I was pretty much over the whole situation so I just let him be and walked in the restaurant. Of course my grandparents were wondering why I took so long so I had to explain the whole situation to them. Well, such is life, that’s what I get for trying to take them out to lunch. I think if I hadn’t been praying in tongues the whole walk to the restaurant, I would have been pretty salty.

After lunch though things got better. There is a small computer store in Kamehameha shopping center called Byteware that’s closing tomorrow. I did manage to pick up a nice 20″ flat screen Sharp TV for $150 so I was pretty stoked by that. It will go great in my kitchen for when I’m cooking since the other TV that used to be in the kitchen died a few years ago. You’d think that I’d be used to not having a TV in the kitchen but I’m not. I still really missed it and I’m really glad that I have one back.

Then I had to go to church. We’re hiking tomorrow so I asked Keao to make me a flyer. God bless her heart because she made a really nice flyer. Here is a copy of it for your viewing pleasure.

Anyway, I like it. I think I’m going to make her the official flyer person for Ignite. But don’t tell her I’m going to surprise her with the fantastic news.

Church went really well. It seemed like a smaller crowd than normal, but I suppose there is GO camp going on and there are mission teams out in the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan and Japan so keep them in your prayers. Afterwards I got to talk to Malia and Kara. They crack me up. Malia always looks like she’s so deep in thought. If I haven’t mentioned it before, I really love my MiniChurch. Anyway, I also had a nice chat with Sea Biscuit but that got cut short when Frank asked if I wanted to ride his R6 around the parking lot and stuff. So it was a good fun night. Worship was awesome and there was a good message as well. I’m off to bed since I have to go hiking tomorrow.