Not So Ugly

Seems like my grandfather is doing better. Apparently some sort of medication affected him not too well. He's speaking but what he's saying is gibberish, but he's doing much better than he was before.

Hey, some short movie reviews... (spoilers if anybody cares about these two movies to begin with)

Salt
As an action/spy thriller, this movie was pretty blah. It almost seemed to have made things up as the movie went on. I think I would have liked the movie better if everything said about Evelyn Salt wasn't true and she was running to prove her innocence. Yeah, yeah, I know, that's typical spy thriller fare, but it would have worked better with this movie than what it actually went with: finding out Salt was in fact a Russian agent so they had every right to be chasing after her, despite her intentions of not going through with the Russian plans. My Netflix rating: 2/5 stars (Didn't Like It)

Resident Evil: Afterlife
When will they stop making these movies? Never, I guess, since the fifth movie is slated to come out in 2012. I loved the first Resident Evil movie. I thought it was done decently for a zombie movie based on a video game, but each sequel is worse and worse. The beginning nearly turned me off from the movie but thankfully the rest of the movie was a little better. I'm glad Paul Anderson decided to retcon all the Super Alice nonsense and her clones, introduced in the last movie, in the very beginning: the clones all died in a huge explosion and Wesker injected Alice with a serum that took away her super powers. The slo-mo junk throughout the movie was not needed. Bullet time was already old in 1999. And what was the point of introducing Chris Redfield? He really didn't do anything. The rest of the movie was blah as well. My Netflix rating: 2/5 stars (Didn't Like It)

Ugly

I really need to stop going to the Washington Capitals games when they come into Detroit to play. They lost last night 3-2. When I saw them last time, during the 2009-10 season, they also lost to the Red Wings 3-2. Well, at least I got to see Ovechkin score one of his patented through-the-legs-of-the-defender goals. Thankfully this game didn't mean squat to the Capitals. They're first in their division, five points ahead of the second-place Tampa Bay Lighting, and they're still only one point behind the conference lead, which is currently held by the Philadelphia Flyers.

On to really bad news. Around 8 o'clock in the morning today, I get a call from my mom. It's morning and it's my mom calling which means most likely bad news. I almost don't want to pick up. Kermit's Rainbow Connection is becoming the song of bad news now (she loves that song so I use it for her ringtone). One of my grandfathers passed away a few weeks ago, exactly a month after suffering a heart attack. So I get the call this morning saying my other grandfather, who I call Spike, it also now in the hospital after falling out of his bed and suffering some kind of ailment. My mom told me it doesn't look good, how they wanted to airlift him from his home but couldn't because of all the trees. It sounds like bad stuff. Now I'm sitting here waiting to hear Kermit's reaping singing voice to find out how things are. Spike lives in Florida, I'm here in Ohio, so I can't exactly rush down to see him like I was able to with my other grandfather who lived in Maryland.

Perhaps a new idea I'm going to toy with, posting vanity plates I see on the road. These are the ones I saw yesterday, including ones on my trip to and from Detroit.

A Reba fan maybe?

Mickey Mouse I'm assuming

Hockey decal, could be a referee

Really don't care to know your name

Displaced Tennessee Titans fan?

The second car named Amy?

On a Geo Metro