Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Wednesday Less


....this is how the weather's been throughout most part of the day, kinda iffy. Not even a single drop of rain yet, but seemingly about to pour buckets at any moment.

There's this mime that's existed on the blogosphere for several years already, titled "Wordless Wednesday," whereupon participating bloggers simply paste a photo or two for their Wednesday's post and caption it with a few words, or as the original WW formula dictated, with no words at all, and over the years, the mime has developed into a popular theme. Obviously, for WW participants, writers block does not exist on Wednesdays in perpetuity. So, if you've ever found yourself at a lost for words for a post and it also happens to be on a Wednesday, then that's the solution. Upload a picture, done. However, photos are the norm on posts everyday of the week in this era of the blogging. That is, it's arguably more worthy of a task to have instead a "Photo-less Wednesday." Or, "Picture-less Wednesday." That'll screw things up. I happened upon a post today by Diane Ako, KHNL morning news anchor, that didn't have any pics accompanying it, but nonetheless, the irony is that it simply leaves the reader instead of the writer "wordless," and gave an entire different meaning to Wordless Wednesdays, yikes.  At least it did me. Here.





As all of my 5 loyal readers already know, I've been making my very own cigarettes at home. In the box above, there are 200 empty cigarette tubes which is the same number of cigarettes that there are in a carton of cigarettes. *"Quit smoking" .... I heard that. FYI, I'm contemplating switching to smokeless cigarettes, but I've found that there are many models of smokeless cigarettes available on the market today by different manufacturers all anxious to cash in on the new trend.  I haven't decided on which particular smokeless cigarette is the best, starter kits cost $70 on sale, $100 regular price, so taste-tasting the various brands gets expensive. Plus, I still have a stash of raw tobacco leftover, and I minus well use that up. I ran out of empty tubes, so I had to buy some more in order to use up the tobacco. And that's all for the evening news. Well, a little more.



Here's a closeup shot of an empty tube ready to be filled with tobacco. Being that a pack of cigarettes sell for $7 locally, it's well worth the effort to make your own which breaks down to 11.7674¢ per individual cigarette. Every fraction of a penny counts in today's down economy. Talk about a down economy, there's this entrepreneur doing body and fender work on a van parked on the Ala Wai below my apartment. You can hear him pounding out the dings and dents. The van just happens to belong to a person who lives in our apartment building. The owner usually parks his van in the basement garage in a parking stall nearby my motorbike. The other day, I overheard him bartering with the body and fender man on the price while I was polishing my bike. To say the least, it's getting kinda noisy, all that pounding out the dents on the van.



Another close-up shot of an empty tube.

8 comments:

jalna said...

Wow you're right, Diane Ako's post DID leave me speechless. I thought her husband's fangs were kinda intriguing in a vampirish way.

RONW said...

Jalna- gave me the hibbie jibbies. I wasn't aware that she been marry a mortician, and perhaps it was her way of informing those that weren't aware.

Brad Farless said...

Interesting. I didn't realize they sold those empty tubes like that for cigarettes. My wife and I quit smoking about two months ago. Closer to three now. It was half because we wanted to, but mostly due to financial reasons. It's so damn expensive here and we have other things we need to save money for right now. So, halfhearted as it was, I still crave smokes every single damn day. In fact, I have a feeling my "quitting" isn't for good. I never should've started smoking but I'm 28 and started at 15 so it's not a habit that's going to go away in a short time.

RONW said...

Brad- I'm in the process of selecting a "smokeless" cigarette. Look into it yourself, and if you find the better brand, let me know.

jalna said...

I started smoking at 15, quit at 30. I'm 55 now . . . no wait, 56, and til this day, I don't even dare take one puff 'cause I know I'd be hooked again . . . that's how addicting it was for me.

RONW said...

Jalna- you jogged my memory. I have a cigar in the same package the tubes were in. Thankx. What were you saying, now.

Brad Farless said...

It is hard to keep the monkey off your back. That's for sure.

jalna said...

hahahaha