All Clear in Hawaii

The predicted 12 foot Tsunami waves for Hawaii turned out to be a false alarm. Yes, Carly and puppy Jake, evacuated from her Hawaii Kai beach hut on Oahu, and yes, she returned home yesterday safely, with nothing more than a great story. Just got off the phone with her and all is well. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program.

Happy Birthday Carly!!

It is not the Richer way to half ass anything - particularly on birthday salutations. So when I called my sister at 9:30AM EST (3:30AM Hawaii time) to sing her happy birthday ... we got the whole newsroom involved. Given her sleep interruption she was not impressed.

But when I went on to sing the second and third verse of the Richer Happy Birthday tune, I was surprised to find the version used on the masses actually has a copyright .  Hmmm. Good thing us Richers went Vanilla Ice on Mildred Hill and dropped our own version back in the day.

Take that USPTO! (United States Paton and Trademark Office).

PS. Feel free to send carly your very own bday wishes: richer@hawaii.edu