It's been a fun month to be in Hawaii if you are a college football fan. The 10th ranked Hawaii Warriors are heading to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on Jan 1. It's big, big, BIG news here! Quarterback Colt Brennan was a finalist for the Heisman trophy and he jetted off to New York City last week. A pic of him in NYC the night before the ceremony graced the front page of the Honolulu Advertiser. They love Colt here. Had he had this season last year, I think he might have been in the running to be on the state quarter. Sadly, they don't drink the Colt punch in other parts of the country and he's not as beloved. Recognized, just not idolized. He placed third in the Heisman voting. Not too shabby! But he will have to settle for simply having his number retired at Aloha Stadium.
They ran the Honolulu Marathon on Sunday and they screwed up the timing on some runners. Not completely the organizer's fault - they were using a new timing system and tried to give the runners instructions not to bend the timing device tied to their shoes or it wouldn't work. Well, if you're running a marathon, I guess the last thing you want is an annoying timing device bobbing on your shoe for 26.2 miles, so many runners understandably tucked it away and in the process bent it. So organizers are going through video footage to clear up the mess. There's also buzz that the owners of this software co. used this year mislead the organizers of how "accurate" the system is!
In a truly inspiring run, an 80 year old woman set a world record with her time. Wow! All those things are amazing...first running a marathon, second running when you're 80(!), finishing when you're 80 (!), and on top of all those, setting a world record for your age group (!!). If she can do that, I can probably lose that little bit of baby weight left, huh?
Update on Dec 15: OK, so she didn't break a record after all. Turns out that the organizer's checked a website for marathon record times, and the website was wrong! But I still think it's an impressive, motivating run.
And finally, Noel came back yesterday from an extended week on the East coast. He recently bought a video camera and spent the week shooting with that and not his Nikon. So, no still shots but maybe we'll have some video posts for viewing here in the future. We were stuck in traffic (yes, on the H1!) heading home from the airport at 4:00 PM in the afternoon. If you're in Hawaii, at least sometimes you're treated to rainbows while you're going 5 mph in the carpool lane! Note the rain drops on the windshield from the pics shot with my camera phone from the passenger seat. I kind of like them. 
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