Hey everyone!  Thanks for the birthday wishes and playing the Word Association Game.  Hope you had fun.  And thanks to QueenBee Shauna for making sure everyone behaved - and for playing along too. 

I’m in the process of uploading my pictures and writing my entry but the vacation is catching up with me (in other words, I need sleep) so I won’t have an entry ready until Friday.  But I’ll leave you with one picture for now:

Treasure Chest poker: 4-of-a-kind brings up 5 treasure chests then you pick one.  The treasure can be 140, 180, 250, 500, (that’s credits) and the jackpot is $1199.  Close but no cigar.  Considering that 140 usually comes up a majority of the time, hey!, I’ll take it.

Okay, I’m going to “man-up” and admit that the 3 Word Game isn’t happening as planned.  And since I still have some time on my hands I’ll start up the plain old Word Association game.

Type in one word associated with the previous word.  Pretty much the same rules apply like the 3 Word Game.  Full names and phrases allowed, such as, “Banana Fish” or “sunny day”

I’ll let both word games play out while I’m away.  Queenie will be watching

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Here’s a simple game.  I’ll start off a story with 3 words.  The next poster will continue with 3 more words.  Then the next poster will continue with 3 more words and on and on and on.  Punctuation marks don’t count as a word so feel free to end a sentence and start a new one.  For example:

#1: Back in the
#2: day, there was
#3: a goat and
#4: a banana fish
#5: that were best
#6: friends.  They went
#7: steady for 20
#8: months until they
#9: had a baby.
#10: It was one
#11: ugly thing that

You get it?

Now, the rules are simple:
- Only 3 words per entry
- Can’t reply to your own post
- Keep it clean (as much as possible)
- Acronyms count as one word such as: “one SBD fut”
- Emoticon don’t count as a word
- Hit the refresh before posting (you shouldn’t lose your work)
- Feel free to write comments under the 3 words
- If a late post sneaks in between, try to ignore one and keep it going as I won’t be here to clean up.

And Queenie (Shauna) has graciously volunteered to moderate (and play) in the game so don’t think just because I’m gone nobody is watching.  She has permission to whack the back of your hands with a ruler if you don’t behave yourself.  *Shauna, call me if they’re not playing nicely.

So, let’s get started!  Let’s see how far this will go.

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Yup, next week Monday (7/21), I’m hitting the BIG 50.  So Paula and I are heading out to Las Vegas to celebrate my 50th birthday.  Where does the time go?  Wasn’t that long ago that I was staying up until 4:00 AM dancing the night away at The Point After.  Nowadays, I have a hard time just staying up watching Stephanie Lum - and that’s the 9:00 news!

I guess time flies when you’re having fun. 

So I won’t be blogging until I get back.  Between the shopping and eating and gambling, I’m going to need what little time is left to sleep.  But I’ll take my camera and snap some pictures for a later entry.

But first, let me share this funny story.

Ever since I was little, we always celebrated my birthday on July 20th.  It was a pretty good day - after all, that was the day that man first walked on the moon.  Then when I turned 15, I went to get my driver’s permit.  After I filled out the form and gave it to the lady, she looked it over along with my birth certificate and said “You wrote in the wrong birth date”.  I said, “No, July 20th”.  Then she said “Look at your birth certificate, it states July 21st”.  Huh?  I’ve never seen my birth certificate before and sure enough, it stated July 21st.  I look at my mom and she shrugs her shoulders and says “Eh, hard to keep track of all 4 boys, you know”.

So for 14 years, I celebrated my birthday 1 day early.  Wassup Wit…, I mean, ho, da ODD… I mean - Sheesh!  Talk about a Midlife Crisis!  At 15 years old!

So anyway, while I’m away I’ve set up another entry for a word game to keep you folks busy until I return.  Play nicely.

We have a winner!

Remember the Dillingham plaques that I challenged you to find in the July 3rd entry?

NickInMoiliili knew he had seen those plaques before, it was just a matter of following his hunch to locate them.  Then he send me this on Monday:

Hi Rod,

Never being one to turn down a challenge… so those Dillingham Markers were just too tempting to pass up. Attached are the photos of our quest on Saturday to locate them. My wife and baby had fun and I knew the location (sort of) as I remember reading one of those markers a while back. I am convinced there are only three as the area around Macy’s was never re-tiled when Ala Moana went through one of its many renovations. I find that kind of odd as Sears on the Ewa end was re-tiled. Liberty House was an anchor tenant so that was a good place to start! You may use the photos on the blog if you wish but they are low resolution form my iPhone.

See the plaque at the bottom of the picture?

    
NickInMoiliili and family next to plaques.

As you can see, the plaques are located in front of Macy’s.  The large picture and the one with Nick is located on the mall level, diamond head side of Macy’s.  The picture with Nick’s wife and baby is one floor right below that - the street level, diamond head side.  And finally, the one were I took my picture of the plaque is also on the street level, but the mauka side - where the colognes are.  Go figure. 

Way to go Nick!

btw, Nick passed on the 2 free Blockbuster rentals.  He did it just to follow his hunch and have a fun day out with the family.  Congratulations Nick!

Maybe if I can think up another contest, I can give away those free rentals.  How about it folks, any good contest ideas?