(001)▪︎[ Subjects … 2025 ]

What was your favorite subject in school?

[ What Was Your Favorite Subject In School? ]

[ In Junior High School, You Can Remember (2) Subjects That Really Stood Out For You, Your Typing Classes & Your Health Class ]

[ Not Alot Of Guys Were Learning How To Type @ (13-14yrs) Old In The Mid 1970’s. Primarily Girls. It Definitely Paid Off Once You Were Old Enough To Go Off To College. Before You Went, You Asked For An Electric Typewriter For Your Birthday. Not Too Many College Students In 1982 Had One. Word Got Out In The Dorm That You Had Your Own Typewriter. So You Earned A Couple Of $’s Typing Other Students Papers For Them. The Typing Skills Also Made You Better Qualified For Some Jobs ]

[ The Health Class Was Your 1st Exposure To The Bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger, & The Whole Idea Of Perfect Symmetry Of A Bodybuilder. That Changed Your View & Purpose Of Your Lifting Weights ]

[ There Were No Favorite Subjects All Through Your High School Years ]

[ Your Favorite Subjects All Through Your (2) Different Stints In College Were Philosophy, Psychology & Criminology ]

[ You Liked Your 1st Philosophy Class Because The Papers You Needed To Write Made You Think Outside The Box. The Professor Gave Us All One Tip That You Still Remember To This Day. He Always Wanted You To Put Alot Of Thought Into Your Papers & That “You Can’t Flunk Your Own Opinion” ]

[ You Loved All Of Your Psychology Classes. There Were A Couple Of Class Subjects, That Stood Out. Human Development Was One. It Was Very Fascinating To Learn That No Matter Where You Were Born In The World, People Will Go Through The Same Stages Of Development As They Age. In That Same Area You Liked Researching F.A.S. When Women Would Drink, Smoke Or Do Illicit Drugs During Their Pregnancies, It Would Cause Catastrophic & Irreversible Effects On The Fetus. With What You Researched, It Showed That These Were Very Self-Centered Actions That Would Totally Change The Future Of That Baby. The Research & Studies That You Found Were Very Sad. Another Subject That You Researched That Fascinated You Was “The Use Of Eugenics In America & The World.” “Eugenics Was The Pseudoscientific Practice Of Improving A Human Population Through Selective Breeding, Aiming To Enhance Desirable Traits And Eliminating Undesirable Ones.” This Practice Was Used By Adolph Hitler In Germany. So If A Baby Was Born With What They Labeled As A Defect, When The Person Came To A Certain Age, The Doctors Used Forced Sterilization On The Individual. Hitler Went A Step Too Far With The Jewish Community, Because He Wanted & Tried To Erace A Whole Group Of People Whom He Felt Were Far Inferior People. Now If You Think That Was A Horrible Thing For Hitler To Do, The U.S. Still Used This Practice Of Birth Control Clear Into The 1970’s ]

[ Now Is Your Favorite Class The One That Entertains You, Or The One You Learn The Most In?

[ Okay, Your Utmost Favorite Class Is … Life! ]

[ Everyday Brings A Different Topic To Work On ]

[ Each Day Brings More Highs & Lows ]

[ It Shows To Expect … The Unexpected ]

[ Whether You Like It Or Not, There Is Usually The Opportunity To Learn Something New EVERY SINGLE DAY! ]

[ You Are (62yrs) Young & Every Day You Keep Waking Up For Another Class Of Life ]

[ You Also Fell Madly In Love With This Girl In Class Over (31yrs) Ago ]

[ Maybe Someday You Will Get The Courage To Ask This Beautiful Girl Out On A Date! ]

[ You Really Hope She Will Like You ]

[ Maybe Over Time ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(447)▪︎[ The Holiday Season … 2025 ]

[ Yo Ho Ho, It ‘Tis The Holiday Season Of The Year ]
[ When It Is Time To Go Broke ]
[ It Is Supposed To Bring You Good Cheer ]
[ & When You Start Mixing Some Kind Of Alcohol, In With Your Diet Coke ]

[ Nobody Cares About The Other (2) Holidays ]
[ The Effects Of Those Holidays Do Not Really Last ]
[ The Last Holiday Of The Year Pays ]
[ Really Fast ]

[ That Is The Holiday That Retail Businesses Really Count On ]
[ There Is Not Any Money Left In Their Banks ]
[ When The Year Is Almost Gone ]

[ Working In Retail Security For (8) Long Years Sure Took Its Toll ]
[ & Working Those Holiday Seasons Really Kicked Your Ass ]
[ If You Were To Go Around To All Of The Full Time Workers & Take A Poll ]
[ If Given The Choice Of Working The Holiday Season’s, Most Of Them Would Take A Pass ]

[ There Were (2) Holiday Season’s, Before Working Security, When You Even Took The Foolish Chance @ Working @ A Portland Area “Toys R Us” Store ]
[ It Was Wall To Wall Kids From The Very Second The Manager Opened The Door ]
[ It Seemed Like When A Parent Left Their Child On The Floor ]
[ They Would Run To Their Car While Yelling, “I Will Pick Them Back Up Around (4)” ]

[ It Made Alot Of Employees That Were Restocking The Shelves On The Aisles, Kind Of Nervous ]
[ The Consensus Question That Most Employees Had ]
[ “Since When Did We Also Become A Babysitting Service?” ]
[ “For Every Mom Or Dad?” ]

[ You Had No Patience For Telling A Little Kid, “Don’t Run!” ]
[ Kids Were Only There To Have Fun ]
[ You Were Only There To Get Your Assigned Jobs Done ]

[ Working Retail During The Holiday’s Is The Best Birth Control You Could Ever Have ]
[ If You Were Ever Riding The Fence About Having Kids In The Future ]
[ Working Around All Of The Screaming, Whining Kids, Will Cut Your Want In ½ ]

[ If Your Significant Other Doesn’t Understand The Work That You Have To Do ]
[ They Won’t Understand The Extended Hours ]
[ & They Won’t Like All The Time That They Can’t Be With You ]

[ Some Partner’s Never Understand The Other Person’s Job’s ]
[ More Than ½ The Time ]
[ Men Do Not Understand Why Their Partner Sob’s ]

[ Retail During The Holidays Is Really A Mind Changer ]
[ The Holidays Have Transitioned Into Chasing Or Spending The Mighty Dollar ]
[ Lost In The Transition Was The Fictitional Story About The Baby That Was Born In The Manger ]

[ What Happend To The Sharing Of Love ]
[ & Giving Your Spouse A Gift? ]
[ Now All You Remember Is The Last Customer That Gave You A Hard Shove ]
[ Then Causing You To Work An Overtime Shift ]

[ The Holidays Create Their Own Individual Mess ]
[ It Causes A Business ]
[ & The Employees, So Much Stress ]
[ Especially If The Yearly Sales Outlook Comes Out Looking Like They Are Going To Make Alot Less ]

[ Neighbors No Longer Know The Name Of Someone Who Lives In The Next House ]
[ Some People Only Want To See Their Neighbor’s Spouse ]

[ Totally Forgetting The Line, “If You Settle In To A Married Life” ]
[ “Do Not Go Next Door & Try To Covet Your Neighbor’s Wife” ]

[ These Are Some Of The Main Reasons ]
[ Why You Call The Time Around Christmas ]
[ The “Silly Season” ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(001)▪︎[ Screen Time … 2025 ]

How do you manage screen time for yourself?

[ How Do I Manage My Screen Time? ]

[ I Used To Think “Screen Time” Meant Time Watching T.V. ]

[ Well, It Is Not Like That Anymore ]

[ I Seem To Be On My Phone For Most Of The Time That I Am Awake ]

[ I Write My Thoughts, So The Urge To Write Moves Me To Write ]

[ When It Is Time For Dinner With My Wife, I Turn My Phone Off ]

[ That Is The Only Meal That My Wife & I Share. Because My Wife Leaves The House @ 0730hrs & Gets Home @ 1720hrs ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(001)▪︎[ Time … 2025 ]

Do you need time?

[ Do You Need Time? ]

[ WOW, That Is A Very Broad Question ]

[ Do You Need Time For What? ]

[ To Work? To Alot Of People That Could Be A “Yes or No” Question. To Get More Work Done? Than That Would Be A Definite “Yes.” To Be @ Work Longer? Than Probably “No.” ]

[ To Play, “Yes.” ]

[ To Have More Time With Your Wife? “Yes.” ]

[ To Have More Time With Your Friends? “Yes.” ]

[ To Have More Time Around The General Public, Or Society? The Way Our World Is Going, Downhill Fast, Than, “No.” ]

[ Then The Bigger Question Is … How Do You Get More Time? ]

[ You Can Save Up “Sick Time” & “Vacation Time” If You Work @ A Job That Gives Both ]

[ You Cannot Save Up Time On Monday, In Hopes Of Using It On Tuesday ]

[ If You Save Time For An Event, What Are You Not Doing, When Saving Time For The Event? ]

[ You Cannot Borrow Time From The Next Day, Because That Has Yet To Become A Reality ]

[ When You Have A “Need”, Must You Always Come Up With A Way To Satisfy That “Need?” ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(001)▪︎[ Holiday … 2025 ]

Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.

[ The Holiday That I Would Come Up With, Would Be … “Give Yourself A Break” Day ]

[ This Day Cannot Be Made Up All Special, Like Other Holidays ]

[ There Are Too Many Holidays That People Spend Money That They Do Not Budget For ]

[ People Put So Much Pressure On Themselves & Others To Have Holidays ]

[ Buying Food, Candy, Drinks, Clothing, Travel Expenses, Gifts, Lodging ]

[ Being Forced To Spend Time With People That You Don’t Want To Spend Time With ]

[ Why Would I Want To Be Kept In A Relative’s House, Around People That Did Not Even Acknowledge My Existence The Other (364dys) Of The Year? ]

[ Wearing The Same Uncomfortable Shoes & Clothes From Morning To Night ]

[ The New “Give Yourself A Break Day” Holiday Will Cause Far Less Stress On Everyone, Cost Less Money, Cause Less Violence ]

[ Cause Less Stress Is The Goal ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(442)▪︎[ Some Well Thought Out, Thoughts … 11/2/2025 ]

[ Hi Ho, Hi Ho ]
[ You Want To Tell Her That You Miss Your Needle Terribly ]
[ Or Did She Already Know? ]

[ In The Early Morning, It Is Way Too Lonely & Quiet ]
[ It Is Hard Waking Up ]
[ When The House Is Totally Silent ]

[ Unfortunately Until She Returns To Her Rightful Place ]
[ Written Words Are Just That ]
[ Until You Express Them To Her, Face-to-Face ]

[ Your Surgery Is Coming Up Really Fast ]
[ You Hate Thinking Of The Aborted Surgery That Was Attempted Last ]
[ But It Just Hangs There, In Your Past ]

[ It Is Hard To Think On The Positive Side ]
[ When There Are Days Like Today, That Kicks @ Your Pride ]
[ It Takes You On A Downward Slide ]
[ Towards The Thought That This Is Your Last Ride ]

[ You Used To Be Afraid Of Death ]
[ But Not Anymore ]
[ Sometimes When You Close Your Eyes @ Night, You Hope That You Would Soon Take Your Last Breath ]
[ Because Death Will Be Knocking On Your Front Door ]

[ Maybe If You Don’t Breathe Heavy Or Cough ]
[ He Will Cross Your Name Off ]

[ That Would Just Be A Taunt ]
[ Because That Is Not Exactly What You Want ]

[ You Are Not Homicidal ]
[ So Please Do Not Worry ]
[ You Are Not Suicidal ]
[ Even Though You Kind Of Seem To Want Death To Come In A Hurry ]

[ What Are You Going To Miss? ]
[ You Cannot Remember Even The Last Year ]
[ That Your Wife, Of Almost (30yrs), Even Wanted A Passionate Kiss ]

[ Will You Miss Another, “Shut The F#*# Up” Spelled Out In A Text? ]
[ Sent To You By Your Loving Son? ]
[ Wondering What He Will Say Next ]
[ Sure Can Create Plenty Of Guesses That Can Sound Fun! ]
[ You Sure Am Glad That He Never Found The Bullet Proof Vest ]
[ That Was Lying Under Your Gun ]

[ You Had Them Sold ]
[ & Taken Far Away From Your Home ]
[ Because You Never Wanted To Find Out How Ice Cold ]
[ He Could Have Become If He Had Known ]

[ (62yrs) On This Earth ]
[ Was Not A Smooth Ride Since Your Birth ]

[ But Then, Nobody Has Ever Said That They Had The Perfect Childhood ]
[ You Survived ]
[ So It Must Have Been Pretty Good ]
[ It Doesn’t Take Downing A Whole Bottle Of Cheap Wine ]
[ To Wonder If Everything That You Were Told As A Child Might Have Been Vastly Misunderstood ]

[ You Feel That You Have Been Very Selective ]
[ With The Answers That Were Written Down ]
[ In Your Advance Directive ]

[ Some Might Say That You Are Being Hasty With This ]
[ If Anyone Wants To Know Your Reasons ]
[ Give You A Minute & You Will Give Them A Full List ]

[ Your Mind Is Completely Clear & Sane ]
[ You Are Not Bordering On The Insane ]
[ But You Are Oh So So Tired Of The Pain ]

[ When They Say, “Everyone Has Pain” That Much Is True ]
[ Unless Someone Wants To Pick Up Your Shoes ]
[ They Don’t Have A Clue ]
[ About All Of The Missed Social Cues ]
[ It’s Not Like You Are Feeling Down & Blue ]
[ It Is Not Like You Haven’t Been Paying Your Dues ]

[ You Did Stop & Pay What Was Due @ Every Tollbooth Along The Way ]
[ But You Never Paid Extra ]
[ Because You Never Wanted To Prolong Your Stay ]
[ For Even A Day ]

[ The Emotional Pain Is The Worst ]
[ That’s The One That Lingers ]
[ & Always Hurts ]
[ From Your Toes, Clear To The Ends Of Your Fingers ]

[ The Pain Is Slow ]
[ It Begins Down Below ]
[ Really Low ]
[ That Kind Of Pain Never Heals Because There Is Not The Much Needed Blood Flow ]

[ The Invisible Wounds Never Heal ]
[ Don’t Let Anyone Try To Convince You That The Pain Is Not Real! ]
[ The Energy That They Steal ]
[ Gives You That Rundown Feel ]

[ You Do Not Wish To Have A Service Of Any Kind ]
[ The Less Your Name Is Said ]
[ The Sooner It Disappears From Everybody’s Mind ]

[ You Have Been Losing Your Will To Live ]
[ Over The Last Couple Of Years ]
[ Sometimes You Feel Like You Don’t Have Anything Left To Give ]

[ You Have Been Trying To Slow Down Your Breathing ]
[ Most Of The Time You Don’t Really Feel Like Eating ]
[ Yes, Needle, Bump, CB2.0EV & Ms. O. You Know That This Sounds Self-Defeating ]
[ But How Do You Put A Positive Spin On Leaving? ]

[ The Only Family You Have Left Is Nicole, Your Wife ]
[ You Feel Like An Albatross Around Her Neck ]
[ But With Your Death, You Hope That She Could Start A Whole New & Exciting Life ]
[ As You Drop The Mic, Can You Ask, “Who’s Picking Up This Check?” ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(001)▪︎[ Historical Event … 2025 ]

What historical event fascinates you the most?

[ There A Few Historical Events That Has Always Fascinated Me ]

[ By Far It Is “The Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy”, On November 22, 1963 ]

[ His Life & Ultimately His Assassination Has Fascinated Me Since I Was (19yrs) Old & In College ]

[ The Very First Book I Got About JFK Was My Freshman Year & It Is Called “Best Evidence” ]

[ I Have Since Collected (175) More Books About His Life, Military Career, Political Career & Lastly His Assassination ]

[ There Are So Many Conspiracies About What Actually Happened, Who Did It, Was There More Than One Shooter, What Was The Reason, Who Ordered It, Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald, Then Who Was Jack Ruby, Why Did Ruby Murder Oswald? ]

[ I Have Watched “The Zapruder Film” Of The Actual Assassination Many Times ]

[ I Do Not Understand The Findings Of “The Warren Commission” ]

[ I Don’t Understand How They Came To Their Conclusion Of There Was Only One Shooter ]

[ America Loves Conspiracies ]

[ I Don’t Think That There Will Be One Definitive Answer That Would Make Sense, That The Majority Of People Could Say, “Ahh, That Makes Sense!” ]

[ Another Historical Event That Always Fascinated Me Since It Happened, Was The “Mt. St. Helen’s Eruption” On May 18th, 1980 ]

[ I Lived In Beaverton, Oregon @ The Time ]

[ I Was In A Car w/2 Friends, Driving On The Sunset Highway ]

[ Most Cars Pulled Over To The Side To Watch What We Could See From Such A Faraway Distance ]

[ The Ash From The Eruption Rained Down For Days In Beaverton ]

[ The Ash Ruined Your Clothes ]

[ There Were No Conspiracy Theories About That Event ]

[ People Pretty Much Knows Who Did That ]

[ The Last Event That Fascinates Me Is “Pearl Harbor”, December 7th, 1941, Honolulu, Hawaii ]

[ There Are More Than A Few Conspiracy Theories Surrounding That Event ]

[ Maybe My Curiosity Is Because The JFK Assassination Occurred The Same Year I Was Born ]

[ Mt. St. Helen’s Erupted When I Lived In Oregon ]

[ Pearl Harbor Is In Honolulu, Hawaii, The City I Was Born In ]

[ I Don’t Know, There Could Be All Kinds Of Theories About Why Those (3) Events Fascinate Me ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(001)▪︎[ Magic Genie … 2025 ]

You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for?

[ If I Had Three Magic Genie Wishes, What Would They Be? ]

[ Well I Could Wish For The Obvious … ]

  (3) More Wishes, That I Want To Win The Mega Bucks Lottery, That I Would Never Die, That I Could Have Magic Powers, That I Could Buy Whatever I Wanted, That I Want World Peace, That Billionaire People Would Lose All Of Their Money & Have To Live On An Income That Varies From Small Paycheck To Paycheck, etc… The Obvious Wishes That Could Never Come True.

[ My 1st Wish Would Be Having The Knowledge To See The Changes That I Would Need To Make, That Would Help Me Be The Best Husband/Friend/Client/Writer & Person That I Could Be ]

[ That Would Guide Me To Be The Person That I Know Is Inside My Jumbled Head ]

[ My 2nd Wish Would Be That I Would Have The Quick, But Much Better, Writing Skills That I Had In The Years Prior ]

[ My 3rd Wish Would Be That I Could Have The Imagination & Thought Process To Be A SUCCESSFUL Entrepreneur ]

[ So I Could Imagine & Produce The Next Big Want/Need Of The General Public ]

[ My Invention Could Be The Most Obvious Need For People In Their Everyday Life ]

[ My Invention Would Get Trademarked, Sold To The Right People That Would Be Able To Mass Produce My Invention ]

[ When I See All Of These Wishes Were Done, I Would Have My Will Re-Written So I Could Allocate My Life’s Belongings To The Right People ]

[ I Would Have It Be Written That Any & All Proceeds Of My Invention Be Given To My Wife, Nicole ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(001)▪︎[ Exercise … 2025 ]

What is your favorite form of physical exercise?

[ What Is My Favorite Form Of Exercise? ]

[ It Would Be Weight Training ]

[ Throw In (30-60min) Of Pedaling An Exercise Bike ]

[ That Was What I Did All Throughout My Life (8 days a wk) Whenever Or However I Found A Place To Workout In ]

[ It Was A Great Way To Release … ]

[ It Was The Best Outlet I Ever Had ]

[ It Really Made My Body Feel Alive ]

[ Getting The Blood Flowing ]

[ Met Some Of The Nicest People In Some Of The Gyms I Belonged To ]

[ Met Alot Of Nice People @ The Powerlifting & Bodybuilding Competitions ]

[ But … There Also Was A Big Buttload Of Arrogance Going On, Too ]

[ Loved It & Now Miss It ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~