LIFE AT 15 CRAIGSIDE

I will have been living at 15 Craigside for 10 years as of this coming May. For those seeking a secure and comfortable lifestyle for the rest of your lives, this is the place.

This 13-story tower offers 170 independent living units (140 one-bedroom apartments and 30 studios), a 41-bed licensed nursing facility, 4 boarder beds, and assisted living services throughout the building.

Here is a rating from U.S. News and World Report. And another. Interested? Click here.

Here are photos of recent and upcoming activities. First, we are back to wearing masks. After all, the average age is in the mid-80s.

The administrative staff, with Chief Operating Officer Bree Komagome.

We have a monthly Aloha Hour, where new residents and new staff members are introduced, with drinks and appetizers. President of the residents Irene Nakamoto with Renee Ohta, executive assistant to Bree, followed by Lorri Kobata, director of talent and acquisitions

We invite speakers, such as Robert Toyofuku, lobbyists, who educated us on how to get a bill passed by the State Legislature. He represents 62 organizations, including Boy Scouts of America, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Johnson Controls, UBER Technologies and Hawaiian Humane Society. Joined us for lunch.

15 Craigside provides three meals a day. For dinner, we bring our own drinks. Below, David, who made purple martinis, and below that, Steve with our wines.

We have dining tables for dinner on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

My brother Dan from Las Vegas with his bridge team for a tournament at the Hawaiian Prince. We had lunch at Oceans in Halekulani, Nice Day and Fook Yuen. The following meal is only for Fook Yuen, where we had the $480 dinner for ten.

There was a line outside the restaurant through our entire 2-hour meal. Dan, Kyungwon and Sooja, followed by Hannah in the second photo.

Janice and Yas.

We started with a Decoy Chardonnay, went on to a Meiomi Pinot Noir, then Justin Cabernet Sauvignon, ending with cognac.

Caught the #4 bus outside of 15 Craigside, which passed through downtown, up to the University of Hawaii, and down McCully Street to a bus stop exactly at this restaurant. Took the bus home. Night bus travel is iffy, but this one worked out fine.

Here are the activities for February.

February 6. Tai chi classes cancelled because our instructor is on a trip to Japan.

February 11, Super Bowl shown in our theater.

We just had a Korean lunch, where Cass Beer and Korean shoju were served, and soon to follow will be a Chinese New Year lunch, then a Valentine's dinner.

Someone on this floor replaces the decor outside our floor elevator.

There is a monthly Action Line newsletter. That cover photo for this month is a shot I took on our recent trip to Japan. Waiting for the Shinkansen.

Among the features in this issue were a cocktail hour, John's hole-in-one and an announcement about the Photo Club.

I will today be making a presentation on our Fall colors trip to Japan.

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These a...

OSAKA EXPO: Day One

Well, the day finally came for us to go to the Osaka Expo. We were told ahead of time that the long walks would be fearful, giant lines will need to be tolerated just to get into the Expo, with those ocean breezes, it would really be cold, and so forth. Maybe it was pure luck, but we avoided all the above warnings We had a grand day, and are looking forward to Sunday, our second day at the Expo. So come along for an enjoyable ride. Our hotel is adjacent to the Tennoji Station, a very large one with several lines. We upgraded our Suica card and caught the Misosuji red line towards Umeda. Transferred to the Chuo green line at the Hommachi Station. This Osaka Metro train took us to the Yumeshima Station at the Expo site. It was a very large mob leaving the train and heading to the entrance. Took only a few minutes to get to the entrance. This mob was multiplied by at least a factor of ten of those already waiting to enter. However...

WHY YOU SHOULD CONVERT TO A JAPANESE HIGH TECH TOILET

Did you know that Oktoberfest in Germany is mostly in September? The very first day of Oktoberfest 2021 was supposed to be today, September 18, extending into October 3. Well, as in 2020, Oktoberfest was cancelled. So why is it called by that month when it is held mostly in September? The first celebration in 1810 was in October. Did you also know that Oktoberfest is held only in Munich? These days seven million drink more than a liter ( about three typical cans ) of beer each, costing around $11. Except for my wife and I when we followed the crowd to board the S-Bahn to the fairgrounds near Old Town. It was drizzling a bit. We bought a large pretzel outside of a typical barn where beer is served. We did not know that you needed to get this inside the hall. So no one came to serve us beer. After a while we decided to have lunch, and the restaurant we settled on only served wine. Thus, we might have been the ...

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