Tornado's Thoughts

2006-05-04T15:21:00.000-07:00

Hello!, well I havn't posted here for a little while now, no particular reason though. I was thinking about something while going through another persons photo album. It really urks me when people get a still camera and instead of framing the shot properly, they turn the camera sideways, god this gets on my nerves! and if you ever have someone taking your photo when they turn the camera sideways, they act all suave and crap like they are a professional photographer or something. Ok, so I put it out there. Anyone else hate this, or get bothered by it in the slightest?

2006-04-23T22:43:00.000-07:00

Gas prices! ARGH!! I just heard a report that oil will reach $100 per barrel this summer! with a national average per gallon of gas at $3.75 per gallon! I and many other people won't be able to afford this. especially people that have a commute everyday to and from work. This ridiculious pricing is all driven by the oil companies. Don't think for a second there is any oil shortage, it is created by the oil companies themselves. Exxon has posted the highest percent profit earnings ever for the quarter somewhere around the 65% range. No other business or fotune 500 company relies on outlandish profits like this to run business. The majority of Americans are tolerant of this so far, but I can see where some may become so upset that they would be willing to commit crimes against the oil companies.

Oil prices not only affect you at the pump, but everywhere else also. Anything that is hauled by truck, train, or airplane will be adjusted in price to compensate for the increases that the end consumer will ultimately burden. The cost of living is rising at an unbelievable rate!

Oil companies are putting themselves in position for a hostile takeover of the United States of America. The one who controls the money controls the people and the oil companies are making abrupt changes in the amount of money that they control. Pure greed.

I know that writing here is not going to solve or change anything. I don't have the financial ability to wage any type of protest against them that would effect any changes nor am I a criminal willing to risk all and change anything. Speaking out is the only weapon I have, and it seems extremely weak and worthless to me.

People, we are under complete control of oil companies, they are complete bastards, and I wish for no good deeds towards them. We are being driven into poverty, even families that would otherwise be considered as financially comfortable are beginning to feel the constriction of the snake that is the oil companies. I'd like to punch that friendly looking cowboy hat wearing CEO right in the mouth. This goes for any of them. I've certainly paid my dues to them, I feel I should have the right to do that at least once.

I'm so upset about this it ties my guts into knots thinking about it. Rage boils up inside yet I can't seem to find the right words to express the exactness of my rage. You're reaching into my pocket you rich greedy bastards! You're more of a coward than the typical pick pocket or street mugger hiding behind the walls of your company laughing at me, watching me get angry knowing I am just a single person with no explicit power to retalliate. I can see you laughing and pointing like a schoolyard bully who has just taken another kids lunch money. It is no different in my eyes. You are stealing my calm and creating rage pent up in me, stress levels risng and disgust every time I see a fuel station's lighted sign displaying today's current gouging. I have fantasies of destroying those stupid signs that cause my anger. My fists tighten and my blood absolutly boils when I see those damn signs. Fuel stations and the oil company behind them make me sick.

2006-04-16T11:09:00.000-07:00

This was the view out of my window this morning. It's raining with some snow showers mixed in. I hope this clears up by tommorrow so I won't freeze while I'm out riding the dirt bike.

I've been playing a game ove at freeonlinegames.com called dirt bike 2 it's really tough and it's sucked up a good deal of my time click here to play

Here's the April snow shower we got up here. It was beutifull yesterday then all hell broke loose today. This was about 7:30pm it was almost double this by 9:00pm.

2006-04-15T20:38:00.000-07:00

Her'es a photo manipulation I did with Photoshop with three different pictures. I thought it looked pretty good.

Ok, well now that you have that one, I was having fun with that nuclear bomb mushroom cloud and manipulated this dirt biking picture.

2006-04-15T15:43:00.000-07:00

Today I got my bike loaded up and cleaned, and maintenance is done, now I'm ready to go to Fort Sage on monday. My garage was a complete disaster.Argh!! I have to get that cleaned up. Maybe that will be my job for tommorrow.

Here's a front view of my bike on the trailer. My Dad built this trailer from scratch around 1990 or 1991. It sure has had lots of use. I built the wood header board for it last summer so I could carry bikes on it. Im thinking of getting rid of that though and installing three tire shoes about the same place as the header board. You might be wondering about the rope holding the bike, well I couldn't find my tie down straps! I went to Wal-mart to get some, but they looked so cheesy, I decided to put my trust in the old faithfull rope trick instead. Geez, another order to rockymountainmc.com! They get too much of my money, but you can't beat good ol' Ancra tie downs.

2006-04-14T18:43:00.000-07:00

After work today I went to Jack in The Box to have a little lunch, I just happened to have my camera with me so I snapped this shot. Not sure why, but this is about all the real action I had today. Still looking forward to Monday to go dirt biking. All plans are a go and confirmed. I'll be heading out at approximately 8:00am to go pick up my riding partner. Going to be loads of fun!.

2006-04-12T17:54:00.000-07:00

Today was quite an uneventfull day as with most work days. I do have a picture of my dirt bike to share though. It's a 2004 Honda CRF450R. On Monday, April17 2005, I'm going riding in Northern California at Fort Sage so I'm looking forward to that. It's been several weeks since I went riding because the weather has been terrible when I have time off work, that's the way it goes though. Anyways, I'm still excited to be going, I just hope the weather turns good for a couple of days.

So I got home around 2:30pm from work and havn't done a darn thing except sit here at the computer and going to different dirt bike and Photoshop forums, Quite boring to say the least.

I played around with Photoshop for awhile making some graphics. Funny how you can work on something for hours then decide you don't like it and just delete it like it never happened argh! and some people wonder why you can be working at the computer for hours and have nothing to show for it.

I was going too take some pictures from around town after work, but with the rain and the overcast the pictures were not too exciting so they got deleted from my albums. This is what I love about digital cameras, you can go out and shoot a bunch of pictures, get instant processing and throw out all the ones you like without having to wait for the clerk at a photoprocessing place. Just awesome.

2006-04-11T19:55:00.000-07:00

My parody on cigarette adds created with Photoshop.

2006-04-11T18:35:00.000-07:00

Here's the sunrise from Main street. A very cool light effect. It's shots like these that make me feel like I actually have a clue with the camera.
I was out eating dinner, and I thought this was a nice picture of the sun going down. Well actually it is almost completely down, but the blue hue on the horizon was very peacefull

Here's a picture of a gas station at night. I just really liked the effect the lights gave off, and thought it was appealing. This was just after sunset

2006-04-11T17:43:00.000-07:00

Like it says in my header, I'm into Dirt Bikes also. I have a forum called MotoXHideout stop in and say hi!

2006-04-11T17:30:00.000-07:00

Hey, so this is me. Well in case you didn't notice I did a bit of Photoshop manipulation to that photo. Who uses actual photo's anyways? Oh, yeah, Photoshop is another of those things I enjoy and create with on a fairly regular basis. I am currently using Photoshop 7.0, not the latest version, but it's still a very good program.