Hawaiian Bryan

Currently:
I'm working on a rather large project at the time. I'm trying to put together an all Oahu page with hundreds of links as well as information for tourists and locals. I'm writing articles on surfing, hiking, biking, parasailing, beaches, hotels/motels/resorts, actives like luaus an much more. You can see how it's coming along here Oahu4u.com
As I'm working on this I'm also trying to maintain my other sites as well as trying to get business doing web design. You can imagine how busy I am with all this and a 16 month old baby to take care of during the day.

My latest project was a joint effort with a friends mother. Joe was an electrician in Grand Rapids, he was one of my apprentices and became a good friend. He moved here to the big island of Hawaii recently to work on charter fishing boats and get a captains license. He loved fishing Lake Michigan but it just wasn't enough.
His brother came here first for the same reason, and started working right away. I think is was his first week here when the boat he was on capsized and he was the one that saved the passenger at his own expense (from the Grand Rapids Press, the rest of the story is here, this is an Adobe acrobat file 599k, get Adobe Acrobat free here).
Joe noticed that the boats with web sites were getting more business so his mother started building one, then he told me and I took her layout and coded the page for optimum viewing. The site is Golden Dragon Charters.
Joe and his brother have received their captains licenses and are doing very well.

Some of the things we had to adjust to when moving to Hawaii:

Figuring out how to pronounce Hawaiian street names.

Cockroaches outside that are larger than a silver-dollar and fly!

You can legally drive your car and enter stores/public buildings while barefoot and Men can go shirtless.

Many locals speak a version of English called Pidgin which takes a while to get used to and understand.

National sporting events are usually on in the morning due to the time delay and are then also rebroadcast in the afternoon.

Being Caucasian and being a minority.

People will walk across the road without looking to see if a car is coming. Middle of the night, dressed in black, they expect you to see them (almost 2 people a month get run over in the highway in my town).

The people on the road, they drive like they are all insane.

You can make a phone call from one town to another town 30 miles away and it's still a local call.

Giant centipedes that can really hurt you and even kill a small child

Something I didn't expect was the great service I get with cable internet. Here in Hawaii we have Roadrunner. I'm on the far end of the island, over 30 miles from Honolulu yet my speeds are fast, and the price is only $45 a month, I think I was paying that in Grand Rapids (speed results here).