2006jun24. I need social engineering retraining. I met a good friend at the Ferry Building to-day to admire overpriced vegetables and whatnot and there was an opportunity to re-direct a laptop’s web browser to her webcam that points at her cats 24/7 (I still don’t know how that’s possible, but okay), and I chickened out. Later I went into Hotel Nikko to use the payphone. Why would you use the crap ones on the street, always always go into hotels. There was a guy tinkling on a piano, the payphones were clean and operating perfectly. On the way to the phones there were women from Aloha airlines greeting all the hotel guests at the top of the escalator with leis and when she got to me she was about to lei me and I made a motion like I’m-not-part-of-this-group and she got it and there was no leiing. Then on the way back I thought “well, hell yes I want a lei, damned the consequences” because I never got one in Hawaii (those cost $36, major credit cards accepted, not a joke) so I tried to time it so they weren’t busy with anyone but no such luck, and I wasn’t going to wait for a lei because I’m a guy who’s on the go so instead I opened the front doors and ascended verily into my totally awesome future.
