11-25-17 Sat.

I flew back on Thanksgiving day. When I was booking the trip I did not realize it was Thanksgiving day, I was only looking at price and that was the cheapest day to return. I'll have to be more careful next time. The plane trip back was the fastest ever. We had a great tailwind and are ground speed was up to 613 mph. We landed 20 minutes early. Hawaiian Airlines is great.

I was telling my friend Larry yesterday that Harriet used to do all the packing for the trip and then all the putting away things when we got home. She was much more efficient than I am. It'll take me a few days to get everything squared away. But, this morning I'm taking the grandkids to see the movie that came out a week ago Justice League of America. Some of you may remember this when you're growing up if you read comic books. I look forward to seeing Joe, Hilda and the boys this morning.

One of the things I missed when on vacation is this ability to dictate the letters. I was thinking about it this morning and when the voice recognition programs first started coming out in the mid-90s (to my knowledge) I tried both the IBM version and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Dragon NaturallySpeaking has come out ahead on this because this their main focus. It's not perfect, but it has a 95% accuracy rate and as a bonus it spells all the words correctly even if it's the wrong word. One of the problems I've had with this program for a long time is the word "sonrise". You see how it spelled it correctly and I'm referring to when I used it with Sonrise Community Church. For years it spelled it sunrise. I trained it over and over and over again and it literally took years for it to figure this one out. This is probably the most difficult word that I've had to train my computer to use.

Enough about computers let me give you a few more pictures that I took while in Hawaii. There was a little beach about a block and a half from where I was staying. It seems like there are beaches everywhere, but what do you expect when you live on the island? This is a couple of moms watching their kids play close to shore. The next day there were more kids in the water and one little boy got hit by a jellyfish and he was screaming like a banshee.


Here's a picture of a rainbow at the beach I videoed a low surfing at Laniakea. I've been here many times on previous trips and I never noticed all the telephone wires. It was not until I had to fly with my drone and make sure to avoid any obstacles. My drone has obstacle avoidance sensors, but the wires are relatively thin and it has difficulty in this area.You can see the full rainbow.

The morning I left I went down to a couple of the brakes that I have videoed and this is taken at Log Cabins. It's hard to tell but the ways were about to 12 to 14 feet here and it's almost a short break. Very gnarly.

That's it for today. I hope you have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing you at church on Sunday morning.

Maranatha,
Frank