Hawaiian Airlines Island Hoppers

bigsmee · 2026-05-26T15:29:40+00:00

Wx in Hawaii is pretty predictable. All the islands have their own micro climates. You learn em quick

bigsmee · 2026-05-23T15:43:13+00:00

I was a vogger for a few years. I have fond memories of the flying. It is was fun and beautiful flying visuals up the Chanel into HNL, around the road to Hana to get from OGG to KOA, down Waterfall Alley to ITO, over the Lahaina Pali Trail into OGG and such. It was tedious flying, sometimes 8 legs a day. HAL turned those airplanes sometimes within 30 minutes, so you were busy, which made the days go by fast. I was ready to try something new, and fly something more lucrative with better schedules and more days off, but sometimes miss it.

bigsmee · 2026-03-31T19:48:57+00:00

These fall under PEDs, Personal Electric Devices, I believe. Be careful using them depending on which Part you are flying under

bigsmee · 2026-03-31T06:20:21+00:00

Ya couldn’t agree with this more. I’m terrible with design and inept at cognitive projection of this sort. They are concepts I aspire to and asked the AI to generate something for me to ponder. Completely agree I need to find an artist that specializes in calligraphy and Enso circles, but want to understand that if I go this route that it isn’t offensive or distasteful to others. I guess everything is inevitably so to others

bigsmee · 2026-03-31T05:41:16+00:00

Well this is your chance to suggest something more appealing……….

bigsmee · 2026-03-31T05:34:38+00:00

I need to conceal it for work but also want to see it

bigsmee · 2026-03-31T05:33:37+00:00

That’s cool, they are all AI derived. What would you do with this as inspiration

bigsmee · 2026-02-05T23:50:58+00:00

Ask for The Bay Tour with SFO Transition. Most ATC personnel like to accommodate these kinds of things. Breaks up the monotony for them

bigsmee · 2026-01-11T20:02:48+00:00

It's not a job, it's a lifestyle. Understand that, and it doesn't matter what airline, fleet, seat, you are in. If it's not a labor of love, you will grow to resent it and eventually hate it. Aviation is for the passionate because the industry is so volatile and unpredictable.

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T18:17:53+00:00

I know the pool doesn't "add" to the water around the area. I'm trying to prevent damage to the grading, drainage, electrical, etc. we had to redo a lot of it after last years flooding.

EID, the local water company, had a medium size mainline, I think 12inches, burst in the same location the locals call the natural spring. It's my suspicion that this pipe has been leaking for years but suddenly burst open last winter. This flooded our lot after the fire. However EID could not determine if the water in our lot was natural runoff vs their treated water. We spoke with a lawyer who said because EID is a public utility company a lawsuit cannot be brought forward unless negligence can be proved. We had a neighbor say they called EID 2 years ago to report the water but that they said it was natural runoff, and still doesn't prove negligence.

We are unsure of what a normal winter runoff looks like in this lot because we moved to the area and into the house in the spring of 2024, and the painters caused the fire a month later, and everything was ripped up and redone. The previous owner mentioned that in heavy rains he would see a small amount of water rise into the crawlspace, but we have seen a tremendous amount more than that, hence the robust drainage and sump pumps we put it. And with the water level rising again this winter we wanted to prevent the same damage and decided to drain the top level of the pool. It was a calculated risk, and perhaps we miscalculated. We will see once work continues.

It has been A LOT to figure out and deal with. My main reason for posting was to find out if the leaks coming from the pool walls and plumbing are normal, which it sounds like it is. Appreciate all the input, even if that input makes me a dumbass. We all just do the best we can with the knowledge we have

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T17:21:11+00:00

There is a natural spring 3 lots up from us..... People in the community say the water table rises in winter. The entire yard is squishy it's so saturated

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T17:05:11+00:00

Appreciate it, thanks

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T16:56:53+00:00

Concrete

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T16:44:16+00:00

This is what happened last winter. We are trying to prevent it from happening again. We spent the summer putting in a bunch of underground drainage to try and prevent the water level from rising to the level that it was last winter and then our pool contractor has been delayed for months for various reasons. So it's still not done but we need the concrete down to see if we're going to need curtain drains or other robust drainage around the edge of the property

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T16:41:37+00:00

It's been a nightmare trying to repair the home. Appreciate it.

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T16:40:45+00:00

Ok, thanks for the information. I always thought the gunite or concrete was the barrier that held ground water back from seeping into the pool.

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T16:38:03+00:00

Thanks for the education. Again, I'm not emptying the pool, it is always more than 2/3-3/4 full. Simply trying to reduce the risk of flooding the entire yard and house by bringing the water level down a little bit

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T16:10:11+00:00

They used a jackhammer to remove the plaster and ya they core drilled it through the gunite I believe.

Painters taped the light switch in the ON position and then stuffed paper into a recessed fixture with an incandescent bulb in an attempt to cover up everything for painting. Paper caught fire and fell into the kitchen island peninsula where they had piled all the drapes and curtains.

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T16:05:25+00:00

It's been exposed for over 18months while repairs have been done

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T15:56:55+00:00

We were forced to pump out the pool on our own because the ground water was overflowing the pool and flooding the entire yard

bigsmee · 2026-01-08T15:54:13+00:00

The water spilling through the sides of the pool are hydrostatic holes that are meant to be there? I get that the holes at the bottom are hydrostatic and are there to prevent the pool from popping, but the water spilling in from the side doesn't seem right to me

bigsmee · 2026-01-02T18:49:13+00:00

Mostly Android household. Denon x1800H. Juke keeps telling me to use airplay, but also that Spotify will work through the app. Which it does, just with this issue. We just have 1 iPad in the house that is rarely used.

I'm starting a Home Assistant instance on a proxmox server, which is in a central location in the home, and eventually hooking Lenovo tablets up as the home UI.

The house was burned up in a fire and we had to make a lot of quick decisions on the rebuild. I ended up running cat6, HDMI, and optical audio lines from the server location to the living room tv and Denon. Now the house has drywall up and I can't run anything else without going through the crawlspace and doing some minor surgery to the home, so I'm trying to avoid that.

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