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| When I got back to Hawaii, Mary picked me up at the airport and I stayed the night there as she lives in Aiea which is moderately close to the airport while the CDI housing in Ewa Beach is way out of the way. The trade winds had been mostly absent for the last few days and it was unusually hot when I arrived (about 93 degrees as the high). Mary's son, Chris and his wife, Amanda, and their son Rider all live with Mary. Above are Chris and Rider as dressed for the heat. Also above is the back view of Mary's condo as facing on the pool area (Rider loves the pool). Here is a view of the pool. |
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| Here is the front / street view of Mary's condo. |
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| Mary was off to work early the next morning, so I took the bus back to Waipahu where I had reserved a rental car for 8AM. Hawaii has excellent bus service, but restricts luggage to stuff that will fit on your lap or under the seat (carry on baggage only, really). After work that day I went bag and picked up my luggage and there was a lot of it. Two checked bags at 50 pounds each and a carry on at 40 pounds and another bag that fit under my seat (barely). The folks at CDI had mostly finished the move to the new site, but I was able to help with the last few things. I picked up my rental car and, later in the morning, headed to the new site below. There you can see the stacks shipping containers (filled with tools and such) as well as two of the new sixty inch processors, not yet delivered to the big island site. |
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| Above is a view of the pallets of stuff that are stored around the site on pallets and such. Also above is a picture of the front corner of the site where the first new building is going to go. Here is a picture of the site as it was when I got in first thing Monday morning. One member of the crew lives at the site and they had a ammonia spill at another part of the Campbell Industrial Park which caused them to close one of the roads into the area though you could still get to Kaomi Loop where the CDI site was. The resident parked the Gradall across the entrance to the site and left when he got a call from his relatives at 5:30AM. I hung out and people came back later in the morning. Below is another view of the site from further down the road. However, we didn't get internet access until Thursday. HawaiiTel tried to get DSL to work as it worked OK for our neighbors, but it seems we were too far out. Oceanic cable agreed to run cable to our site for a fee, but it would take two to three months. Yikes! ClearWire did a test and found that we got fine access and so we had a shared connection over a two megahertz line. As we mostly do email and web browsing, that worked out OK. |
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| Myself and other members of the technical crew were in the sideways trailer. Above is Bill at his temporary table / desk with Mitch in the background. Bill is a part time sales representative. Here is Mitch who will be doing technical analysis of the burns and such. Below is a picture of Wes, whose desk was opposite to mine and who does mechanical drawings of the canisters and such. Next to that is a picture of Robert. |
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This page was last updated on June 13, 2009.
