Jachnun

The Friday night email from Motek Bakery said, "Aloha Bread Lovers – This Sunday Motek will be serving Jachnun! You remember Jachnun…right? It originated in northern Yemen and consists of a dough that takes a bath over night in oil. It is then spread out thinly, slathered with butter and rolled up into tight rolls that are then placed in a pot with eggs, covered with date syrup (silan) and slow-cooked overnight. It tastes…amazing. It is served with one of the eggs from the pot and a spicy “zchug” hot sauce (a Yemenite hot sauce that we make).  It is a real treat. AND, we will again have our favorite Uke Jammers on Motek’s lanai making music and keeping things fun." I was looking forward to the breakfast as well as the Uke Jammers, several of them were at Uncle Jeff's book signing event at the Kohala Heritage Center last night. In particular, I was hoping to see Kim & Marcie, whom I had never met before Uncle Jeff's event. But only Kim was there playing long with Kije, Gordon, & Carlos; I left before Marcie arrived.

When I woke up there was a light drizzle; it was gray all morning as I started my day. It sprinkled on & off throughout the morning; it was a little drier than yesterday. In the afternoon it started to rain a little more but still not as much as yesterday. It is drizzling tonight as I write this. I have included the graph of the power generation by the solar panels; normally it is a fairly bell-shaped curve when the sun is shining. Not today.

Eight minutes after sunrise.

At 7:02 am.

At 1:22 pm.

Lots of gaps when it was raining. Blue is power sent to house, green is to battery storage.

 

On the way to Motek this morning, I made a quick stop on the side of the road to take a photo of one of the few Halloween decorations along the main road. I've seen a couple of smaller displays along Kynnersley. Don't know whatever else there might be around since I don't go looking for these types of things.

Around 4 pm on Sundays I try to check on my status on Duolingo. If I am close, I work to keep my self out of the Demotion Zone. If I am high enough on the leaderboard, I try to get in to the Promotion Zone. If I am really up there with my points, I try to finish in the top 3. Today I started at #4 with about 450 XP, I decided to go for the top spot since it was less than 100 XP away. About 14 minutes later I was in the top spot! I had not seen any of the 4 other people doing anything so I decided I could just wait them out for the last 12 minutes.

With 26 minutes left, I decided to add more XP to stay ahead.

Since I saw no others gaining XP, I figured 70 XP lead would hold.

When I checked later in the evening, I saw that my strategy worked, no one else tried to bump me out of the top spot. I earned 100 gems for it! And I got promoted to the next level up, I am now in the Amethyst League. I now have to work on my strategy as to when to join the leaderboard so that I can stay in the Promotion Zone.

Today Realtor.com sent me 3 emails. To be fair to them, perhaps these were before the 24 hour cut-off. I can't remember exactly when I submitted the 'Unsubscribe' request.

Nope. Not what I told them I was looking for.

The window for the start of the next episode of the eruption at Kīlauea has narrowed. It is now most probable that it will begin some time between the 6th & the 9th. Hopefully it will erupt while Barb & her family are here so they can witness this amazing natural phenomenon. 

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Christian, Chris, & Kai!