Old Home Week

Old Home Week was Originally Posted on September 27, 2008 by lavarock

I was up at Kaiser yesterday getting my eyes checked. I came through with flying colors which surprised me. The eyechart was quite blurry at the distance they had me, yet I received a 20-15 rating on my eyes. They dilated my eyes and looked for the cause of some of the problems. The report is that I have a common problem where the gel separates from the lining of the eyes and I see light flashes when I turn my head. A somewhat related problem will be investigated in October when I get to Oahu for an MRI.

While waiting at Kaiser to see the Opthalmologist, I saw Joan go by. She is a Doctor there and her daughter used to go to Sandras to care for her labradors.

I went back to the office because I was not seeing clearly enough to drive home yet. With the rumor of free food, I wnet to a local restaurant that had its grand opening for dinner (they used to only serve breakfast and lunch). It did indeed turn out to be a rumor, but was a pretty nice time none the less.

My boss knows the owner and I’ve met him before, so we went at 6pm. We arrived at U-Top-It (there is a story behind the name, something about you create the topping for breakfast crapes). The first thing I noticed was that they expanded into another storefront next door. There was a guy putting a dimmer switch in to lower the light level in the second room. The guy was Ignatio (his nickname is Natcho) and he works at the condos for us as a maintenance man.

After chatting with him for a few minutes we take our seat. There are two guys playing live music ad the guy on the right is a guy we just hired to help Natcho fix up some of our units. He used to work at the real estate place, but times are tough.

Outside at a table is Calli and her boy friend. Calli works with me at the front desk at the condos.

Midway through dinner our waitress gets up and performs a hula with the musicians.

While we are eating, Curtis the owner makes his rounds going table to table, thanking people for coming by the grand opening for dinner.

Although I don’t know him, I did recognize one of the other patrons whom I’ve seen around town, by his somewhat unique hairstyle.

Kailua-Kona is a small town yet at a somewhat small and local event I knew 1/3 to 1/2 the people there.

It really does feel like home here.