Drying Out

Drying Out was Originally Posted on March 28, 2006 by lavarock

Yesterday it rained all day and I stayed dry inside; working on a website fort he Kona Coffee Farmers Association http://konacoffeefarmers.org . I also tried adding more membory into my old HP Kayak computer. I get so frustrated with memory because I have like 5 different types of memory and can’t get any of it to work, what with DDR and SDRAM and all. It appears that none of my systems take any of the types of memory I have. Sigh.

I ordered a disk drive weeks ago and waited and waited while it was on backorder. One of my systems here was having disk problems so I finally just went to COSTCO and got a disk and fixed my problem. The next day my drive showed up. I knew that might happen, but needed to fox the problem before I could not access anything anymore.

It is still tropical here, but being up at the 1,000 foot altitude, it does get a bit cool at night. So cool that I whimped out and ordered an electric blanket. It is due any day now.

Another order I have placed is to http://WWW.FON.COM which is an organization wanting to put lots of wireless access points around the world. While not non-profit, it is still an interesting idea. I have to admit that you are on the leading (or bleeding edge) of this. There appears to be somewhat limited documentation and router shipments were slow, but the group got totally swamped with people wanting to join up, so most of us just sat back and waited. Things seem to have streamlined a bit now.

I attended a plant sale called Pua Plantasia and manned the Kona Coffee Farmers Association booth, selling coffee and talking about our organization which supports farmers and not the big processors and blenders.

Speaking of blends, we are trying to educate the public to be very careful to read the labels of any Kona Coffee they buy. Kona coffee is a product of perhaps 600 small to medium farms. We don’t “blend” coffee from farms together. What the public finds in stores is generally a 10% Kona Blend which turns out to be 10% Kona and 90% foreign coffee. The funny thing is that people think they are saving money by buying a Kona blend. So they pay $8 a pound for 10% Kona when 3 times that price would give them 100%. They could then create their own blend and still save money! I personally don’t think anyone can taste 1 bean out of 10 being Kona and suggest everyone buy 100% Kona if you want any Kona at all.

It really has turned sunny today and now I need to decide what I want to do outside. One thing is I’ll trim a few trees which kept blowing against the house in the wind yesterday.

Finally, I’ll stop by the post office to see what the mail has brought!