Sovereign Nations

So I was bitching about not having a job…now I’ll bitch about not having my own internet access.  And the silly thing is – here I am, on the internet at home for the first time in years.  But it’s pirated wi-fi and I would feel bad if I absorbed all their bandwidth.    I’m just going to have to give in and admit that I haven’t felt like working on this site.

I need some education.  Where should I go to get internet courses that’ll help me work on the back end of wordpress?  Hmm…

Once I do, the links above will work, and all our pages will be on this site rather than edited in Dreamweaver.  I certainly have a simple internet connection more often than the upload-kind I need for Dreamweaver.  Well, that’s why we picked this program…about a year ago…

Hawaii has not turned out to be the job mecca we were expecting.  I knew that Hilo was a depressed area because it had depended on the plantations.  Kona, though, is in a building boom and we’d heard that we could find jobs wielding a shovel that would pay $20/hour.  Well…

There are some jobs somewhat like that.  They’re not very easy to get a hold of, though, if you don’t know anyone.  It’s a little bit Mafia around here – families run things, and large families run large things.  Being new in the islands, we don’t even have friend of the family status with anyone.  We finally went to Altres Staffing – a temp agency – and we’re hoping that they’ll help us get our foot in the door.  James got called by the agency about an hour after we got home from filling out the paperwork.  They were asking if he was interested in a job with Koyo Corp – a deep sea water bottling company.  He said yes and they sent his resume.  Now will Koyo look at it?!?

Anyway, I’m interviewing for a job with the newspaper, selling classified ads.  Hey – I’ve done it before and I could certainly do it again.  We’ll see whether or not I’m ohana enough for them.