Gas Prices!

exxonmobil.jpgOk, After going on my Honeymoon, I’m catching up with all that went on in the world and I Fill up my car. I just spent $53 dollars filling up my car. 2 weeks ago, It was $40. 4 years ago it was $20!

Then I come across this tidbit:
“Exxon’s $10B fill-up: Cashing in on crunch”

So, ExxonMobil’s profits are likely to soar above $10 billion this quarter Alone. (Don’t get me started on that “Energy” Bill!)

Follow this “Logic”:

  1. I mix a gallon Of Element X at .50 cents.
  2. I Hold onto it and wait till and Emergency comes along and triple the selling price citing new “costs”.
  3. I get prosecuted by the gov’t for Price gouging, Right?

Not if I’m a US Oil Company! According to this administration (Run by OIL executives!), this is just Market pressure…

For a lively discussion see here.

BTW: I’m not a “Liberal”, in fact many of my opinions are fairly consevative. I suppose I’m a moderate if anything as I really get pissed off at Extremes in either direction.

Back from Hawaii

And it was Great! Nice people, beautiful islands, and quite a lot to do. We took this in Maui, south of Lahaina.

As it is, We took over 2,400 pictures! I’ll post some after I go thru some of them. After 15 hours in the air and getting connecting flights, We’re a bit tired…
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Rainbow in Lahaina

Never photographed a Rainbow before. The people we met in Lahaina were really nice and friendly. I took lots of photos like this one…

The WRONG way to Lahaina

Ok, In Maui there is a nice place called Lahaina. You can reach it in one of two ways. On the Map, 340 seems closer so we took it. The picture above? Well, it’s very common on that stretch. It’s Long, Winding and often ONE lane on a cliff for BOTH directions. The next day, we found the correct way to get there…

I’d have more pictures but my wife refused to take pictures of the cliff while I was driving…

Where Am I Now??

Free Wireless access is a great thing!!

Snorkeling picture


Well, The waterproof Case for my Canon S410 works!

I look so weird…

Here is my brother As well:

Really Odd entries in my Web log, New Form of SPAM??

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Ok, I manage my own logs and have been seeing Odd Entries. I see Links from an external pages from Poker Sites, Viagra Sites, etc.

Oddly enough, I doubt they are actually posting links to MY site, but it does make me wonder: Is someone passing these sites as where the link came from to my web server? And if So: Why?? Other than Myself, no one see’s these logs…

Bizarre.

Yet Another Motor Bike…

I don’t think I’d ever get tired of taking pictures of Motor Bikes.

Here we have a Kawasaki Ninja that I came across on 1st Avenue.

Commodore Criterion

Nothing fancy, I was on an errand when I came accross this scene, so I took a picture or two.

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Plastic Gundam Models

Years ago, prior to being married, I started assembling models based on Japanese Anime. After building a few Planes like the ME-262 I figured I’d do something different.

NOTE: That’s NOT the one I Built! That link is to a Really good website called “Roll Model’s Inc.” Mine was a Revell Kit, much smaller and unfortunately took a fatal shelf dive…

BTW: Being married is a MUCH better thing and ,No, I’m not just saying that due to my Wife reading my web log. Really!

See here for some OLD pictures and here for Old Work in progress pictures.

When I get the time to build another one, I’ll detail it here. (Blogs are a LOT easier to use for that purpose!)


Here is close up of another I’ve built.