fan friendly

If pro jocks were this accessible and agreeable all the time, nobody would complain about them. The Pro Bowl is absolutely the best environment I've seen for fans to bother their favorite NFL men. There is almost no place Joe Fan can't go when the players are around. More, the players dont seem to mind. Joey Porter, posing for pictures with kids and adults and babies, smiling without being asked, signing everything thrown in front of him. Steve Smith, normally reserved and untrusting of the media, talking at length about anything and everything. Not one player I've seen and interviewed here is anything like the guy I've seen and dealt with during the season. (Except Chad J... 85 is the same, always, the media's Oscar winner, daily)...

75, sunny, breeze off the water...

Short Attention Span Travel Guide to Oahu: Honolulu: Traffic with a beach; Waikiki: A beach with (tons of) human traffic. Think LA beaches, without the big rock at one end; North Shore: Isolated, country, 10-foot waves, curling like a postcard. Sunset at waimea bay: priceless...Diamond Head (the big rock): striking, but not as impressive as some of the other Heads around the island... shrimp trucks: along the side of the road, walk up, buy them, eat them... like a good humor truck with crustaceans... Luau: duck and pork and mai tais.. fireworks over the bay at Ko Olina...I'd recommend it.

Winter Olympics: What winter olympics?

Song of the day: Jack Johnson, "Where've all the Good People Gone?

True directional story, given to me by a valet at the hotel: Right on Kalia, left on Ala Moana, right on Kalakaua, cross Kalaimoku, right on Ala Wai...Uh huh

They film the TV show lost on Oahu. No wonder.

Oahu could use a little vowel surgery. Aloha.