Message 1294

Yesterday The Economist came in the mail and I started reading it. I called Josh and told him I was going to dinner and a movie with the Ariagnos and Morrills, so would not be able to watch the Sharks game with him. I later saw on the news that the Sharks lost to Phoenix 3-5, including an empty netter by Phoenix at the end. It was my turn to pick the movie so I picked The Artist (the famous new silent movie.) We had a good dinner, but when we went to the movie we learned it was sold out, so we drove to Sunnyvale and went to see The Grey, in which Liam Neeson plays a professional hunter who protects oil workers from wolves. A plane filled with Neeson and some oil workers crashes on the way to Anchorage, but seven of them survive the crash and the blizzard and are picked off one by one by a pack of wolves. It is a bizarre story about survival in a kill or be killed harsh environment. I cringed at all the impossible things that I knew from experience were not reasonable, but at least it kept me awake. I feel good today.