Yeah, I know..I just posted, but the muse is upon me and I'm waiting for Beenie to get up and get ready for school so I figured I'd write more. I saw a preview for 'The Grey' last night. It looks like it will be another new "plane goes down in Alaska, passengers have to fight the elements and a vicious pack of wolves to survive' movie. Yawn...I really wish the people that write these things would actually bother to talk to someone that lives up here before they film stuff like this. The kids want me to take them to see it so they can laugh at it. They love watching movies like this and mocking them. I guess when you have a pack of wolves that you hear on a semi regular basis in your own back yard it sort of hardens you to watching over dramatized tales about the 'vicious wolf pack' that tracks them for hundreds of miles. It might not be a bad film, It's a Liam Neeson flick, probably worth a watch, I'm sure it gets all into the 'man vs. nature' philosophy that so many writers are fond of. Ah, thank you, Jack London.. I just wish that some of the people that write scripts like this would come spend some time up here, See what it's really like. I suspect watching it from our perspective there will be a million things that the kids will chuckle about and say "You know, if that really happened and they tried something like that, they would be SO dead." Maybe someday I'll write an Alaskan survival film. a more realistic one, although there has to be SOME suspension of disbelief I suppose, or it would be a really short movie with an unpleasant ending. In the previews it showed a group of beaten up, ragged men walking across the frozen tundra, sinking inches into the snow as they walked.. All I can say is I hope they made snowshoes, although it didn't look like it, because I can't manage to go 50' into my yard without them. Maybe if the writer tried walking in 6' deep snow for a few minutes he'd gain a new perspective on things?