I Was Thinking...

I haven't written a random thoughts post in forever. Come to think of it, I haven't written a post in forever. But the baby is sleeping, lunch is cooking, and I have a bit of the writing itch creeping up. We'll see what happens.

...we went to the Milford Drive-In last night to see "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "Taken". Both were good, although Vicki tired of me asking if Liam Neeson was "gonna kick that guy's ass" about five minutes into the latter movie. What a relief when he actually did kick somebody's ass.

...I did have one major problem with each movie. In "Wolverine", Hugh Jackman probably shouted, "VICTOR!" at least five times throughout. It would've been nice if they had figured out some other way for him to announce to his brother that an ass-kicking was imminent. And in "Taken", every time Maggie Grace approached someone, she ran up to them like a little kid. Her character was supposed to be seventeen, but she acted like an eight-year-old. If Liam Neeson hadn't wanted to save her so bad, I would've been rooting for the bad guys to win.

...my kid (or any future kids) is never, ever going on a trip - to Europe, to Boston, to the Cumberland Farms down the street - without adult supervision.

...I can't get over the number of times lately that I have seen cars pulled over by police in completely unsafe areas. Pretty sure that it's not good to completely obstruct one full lane in a two lane road, or less than a hundred feet from a highway on-ramp (again blocking a full lane and requiring cars to pass unsafely. Maybe the stops are warranted, but if they are for nothing more than minor traffic violations, better judgment should be used.

...cheap plug: my writing these days can be found at Bus Leagues Baseball (more often than it's found here, anyway). My most recent posts are an interview with minor league baseball player Paul Rutgers and a video of Jacoby Ellsbury stealing home against the Yankees.