UhOh I'm thinking again!

Thoughts that go in my head are usually profound and often to complex for the human range of understanding. So I'll include you in the ones that are a little more simple and not so epic. For example the capital W is way to overpowering in a title. When it's the first letter then it's ok but when it's placed somewhere behind the first word, woah it comes off too strong. I discovered this by writing a paper for my english class. I haven't been able to find a proper title yet and I am starting to like the one that I've come up with recently. My essay is about the amount of energy and emissions that a hybrid vehicle produces over a different car. I have come to the discovery that hybrid vehicles are not to good for the environment and takes close to an entire lifetime of a normal car to catch up to other cars. I have properly titled the essay as "Thanks Hybrid, Now Green Peace Will Destroy the World!" but the W in Will just leaps of the page and strangles you. No longer is green peace for the world but now it WILL DESTROY!!! the world. I'm not trying to be so strong in the title more kind of like a gentle... green peace you're not really making a good move in purchasing the hybrid cars of the future because it is causing a lot of pollution without you knowing about it and because the marketing is aimed towards you and your friends it's going to destroy the world quicker then it already is now especially if there is such a great demand for the cars that they become the norm and the energy costs that are already high are going to increase so please stop buying hybrid cars please. Thats kind of the direction that I would like to do with the title so I'm looking at a better word then will or I just don't capitalize it. Kinda something like "Thanks Hybrid, Now Green Peace is Destroying the World." this is a little better. Still that D is now too much... Hmmm new thought. My body hurts from working out, dragons are real and unicorns play in my backyard... see I tell you my thoughts are just too much for people to understand.

Observant Much?

Wednesday I went to school, my mind was not focused on school. I went into my first class and received a message from my mother about my doctors appointment the next day. She said that the doctor wasn't going to be able to meet me for the appointment but had an opening at 11:20. Right after my 10 o'clock class I took off to the doctors. I decided it would be fun to drive fast, but just my luck I ran into traffic. I got to my appointment and got a couple of prescriptions. I went to the pharmacy on the first floor of the clinic to have them fill my prescription. As I'm sitting, waiting for my prescriptions to be filled I felt that I might have a different appointment at the same clinic. I go to the second floor and discover that I did have another appointment but had two hours to kill before the next one. My mind began to go wild with what I could do in the two hours. I decide that I could grab some lunch and study some school work. Seems like a good idea, until I got to the Corner Bakery Cafe. This is where it all started I observed that this must be a good restaurant because the line was all the way out the door when I got there. Now that I'm in observant mode I start listening to conversations that people are having around me and what people are doing around me. The first thing I did was scan the area for potentials (girls) and after finding out that these where old people I quickly restrained my focus. I got a seat right next to a couple of ladies who had there children with them. I just thought of how awesome it was that these women have all this stuff going on in there lives and are managing there kids like it's just second nature. they never missed a beat in there conversations and kept the kids clean and in there seats. I can see why women have to be able to multi task so well. I dug into my Loaded Potato Soup Bread Bowl and read a little in my Economics book. Two ladies sat on the other side of me and talked about a lot of absolutely random stuff. By the end of there conversation they talked about coffee, what their food tasted like, deserts, breast feeding, table manners, jobs, hates, loves, and by the end of this exhausting conversation they concluded that they should take a walk afterwards and walk across some bridge. I figured I had been in the restaurant for too long after that conversation so I drove back to the clinic. The Clinic has been undergoing some renovations and have bought some property on the corner of the property. The lot was being cleared out for space to put a new building on. It was in primed for skateboarding. Some reason in high school I became a wood pusher and skateboarded a bit so I knew what I was looking for. I pulled into the parking lot and saw a couple of kids and I knew from the moment I saw them that they were boarders. So I got my creep on and stalked them for a bit to confirm that they where truly skateboarders. One was outside of the car talking on his cellular device. The other was gathering some sort of imaging device, I couldn't see from my strategic location... directly in front of them. I even backed into the stall to get a better view. I watched until the proof was revealed from the trunk. Two skateboards and there owners. I went upstairs to the waiting room as fast as I could so I wouldn't miss any of the action that was about to go down on the corner of 400 S. and 900 E. One seemed to have a little limp and continued to stay on his mobile. The other with the camera set up at a drop between some trees, and a third had been practicing his twisty twirls and flipty flops. They began to make some action happen, I was glued to the window on the second floor. standing in the lonely waiting room of a doctors office became exciting and dangerous. Try after try the skateboarders finally found a trick they liked. First a kickflip then a backside-flip, then... cops I was so bummed. The officer of the law pulled up in a big white van thinking he was all cool ran right into the path of the imaging device. No more footage and no more fun to be had on a completely empty lot. I couldn't understand why the cop had to be so forceful with driving in all intimidating like. I didn't like how it was handled. Luckily my mind was onto the next thing. A father and his child had stepped into the waiting room and sat down to fill out some paper work. He called his wife and asked her some general questions on the paperwork. Questions like how many months had the wife been with child before he was born and how much he weighed were the ones I liked the most. As he asked he first answered his question, and in all seriousness he said "wasn't it like 6 months after you got pregnant that he was born. At 17 pounds or something like that?" after a couple of remarks from his wife he said "really it was nine months? he was 7 pounds yea that sounds right." I thought it was great that he was such a dad.

Day Tuesday

I have an Idea!!! I've bought a Go Pro Helmet camera and have been on a quest to discover the best angle to film with it. I'm not complacent with the fact that it has taken 20 years to get a camera that is small enough to fit on top of a helmet and film things that have never been filmed before. I seem to think I can get a better angle then professional videographers who have years of experience and schooling under there belt. So I'm on, what may be, an impossible task but I have a couple of ideas that I've been playing with. I have to build funky contraptions, things that are goofy and awkward. What has got me fixed on capturing the best angle for filming active sports started by watching videos on you tube. I kept on being awed by the amazing things that people are able to capture. Seeing a personal view of what people are experiencing, flying through traffic on a motorcycle or base jumping off a building. These things have always been filmed from the sidelines or from a standing point. Now having a camera mounted to your head or chest gives you the "what there seeing" view. While I was watching the movie Tron, I saw an angle that only lasted for a few seconds on the screen. Sam Flynn was driving through the streets on a motorcycle being chased by a cop. Sam decided to jump off the side of the roadway onto a lower street. The angle shifted and was mounted behind Sam's back. You could see his head, upper torso and the direction he was traveling. The only thing that you couldn't see from that angle was what the motorcycle was doing. With the camera mounted in that position it only looks like he hits a bump. So the camera angle changes and shifts to a mobile unit that shows the extent of the "bump" that was portrayed. When he went off of the bump it was actually a 4 ft drop onto the other street. What I'm so intrigued with is how to capture the entire event, somehow show what the rider or athlete is doing. So I embarked on a project to first create the angle that was on Tron. I took it out skiing with me, built with wood scraps and piping left over from house projects. It stuck out 4 ft. from my back and looked ridiculous. I got a lot of weird looks. I was able to get some good angles but still it wasn't good enough. So my next project was to have the angle shifted more to the side view then an over view. I have just finished it and have not yet been able to take it out on the slopes. My goal is to see the entire person and show what the body goes through during the rigors of active sports. It still needs to be perfected but I'm just finding the best angle and position while still giving mobility and not interrupting the athlete.

Ahh Sunday

Today I began the day by waking up to a beautiful morning feeling well rested. I woke up much later then the usual time, I felt great but was disappointed to later find out that it was daylight savings and we had jumped ahead an hour. I yawned stretched and cuddled back up to my memory foam pillow. Sometimes during the night I wake up and flip my pillow over to expose the cold side, snuggle back into my covers and fall back asleep. Many years ago I had two pillows one that I would put against the cold wall and switch out the pillows through the night. I love cold pillows. Finally I climbed out of bed and put on my robe. Robes are a life essential people, spend the money on a good one, the kind you want to put on. I prefer 100% Kashwere Chenilla you won't go back to cotton I can assure you. I sauntered around the house posing in my robe. The best way to truly enjoy a sunday morning is standing majestically at a window overlooking the scenery with a small glass of apple juice, preferably watered down to a 50/50 mixture and poured into a frosted brandy glass. Sadly the only view I can enjoy is my neighbors house and back yard, a busy street, the roof of a shopping center, and a rotting fence. So I just look up and into the sky to get the same feeling of tranquility. I looked for breakfast and munched into 3 different bowls of cereal, Raisin Bran Crunch (too sweet), Honey Cluster Melody w/almonds (perfect mixture of flavor), and Grape Nuts (my favorite only after sitting in milk for a little bit so it doesn't feel like chewing on gravel). Unlike my usual sunday morning I have my Sister Whitney in town with her second child Kaden, he was very happy and pleasant this morning. I got to talk baby to him and play with his face. He had an eye goober that dangled off the end of his eye lash, it bugged the heck out of me! I got scared that I would poke his eye every time that I went for it, so there it sat, third eyelash from the right, on his left eye swaying back and forth till he left for church with his mom. Then the house was quiet I gathered up my robe bottoms and ran to the basement grabbed my computer and began watching videos of the devastation in Japan. I pondered about what I could do to help as I was mesmerized by the videos of 20 and 30 foot waves carrying cars, houses and debris through the costal cities. Unbelievable sights that are instantly posted before the news crews can even gather a story. Then I got bored and watched some videos on Dump.com a family friendly video site. I watched a man who created a static electric adhesive so I thought of ways to play with static electricity. Possibilities of printing and artwork incorporating different natural forces. I finally went to church and got a girls number! cause I'm single and thats what I do. I enjoyed church I sat down and sang the hymns. I thought it would be funny to sing loudly and no one would know, except for the fact that there aren't many people in church and I was heard loud and clear. I didn't now all the words and mumbled a few lines. All is accepted in the lords house, is how I look at it. I got to see friends that I hadn't seen in a while, we talked and laughed. I told them about my life and they theres. I miss them I wish school wasn't so consuming. I got home and was quickly taken off to down-town Salt Lake to spend some time with my cousins. We have a lot of family in town, my dear Uncle Joe Passed away. He had down syndrome and lived a fantastic 53 years. He is survived by 54 of his nieces and nephews, a 95 year old amazing mother and all 10 of his siblings. He is finally able to give his father a hug and talk to him after 14 years. I loved my uncle Joe and it was a pleasure that I was able to make a video of his life. The pictures don't do justice, you just had to meet him. Today was a good day and I'm very happy to know that my uncle Joe is with Grandpa Max his father. I'm blessed to have his name and be a part of a wonderful legend, the Tennant family.