So I watched G.I. Joe Saturday night. Yes it was a very bad movie, but despite the bad acting bad lines I really enjoyed it. Having grown up in the eighties and having nearly all of the first 4-5 years of the action figures and toys and an avid watcher of the cartoon the movie brought back much of those good memories. The massive submarine battle at the climax was very reminiscent of the cartoon. It all it was a pretty good conversion of the cartoon feel into a live action movie.

I did find it funny how many actors from The Mummy movies was in G.I. Joe it almost became a distracting trying to see who would show up next.

We all had lots of fun with Halloween. Abby had funny walking around in her costume. She was less excited about going up to stranger's houses. I couldn't get her to say "trick or treat" or "thank-you" but she would frequently say by-by as we walked away. After we went up and down our street she had a lot of fun handing out candy as long as the trick-or-treat'er was not too scary. Little princess got an extra big handfuls of candy.

<- Notice this is grumpy Troll as opposed to the geeky Troll in the previous post. :)

I have probably ranted about Tactical Reloads before but Tactical Reloads have always bugged me. What's a Tactical Reload? Well that it is, in a gun fight, reloading a weapon while retaining the partially used magazine in the gun for possible later use. Part of my angst for it comes from the draconian enforcement of it in IDPA competition. Part of it comes from my realization that in a real gun fight the likelihood of it being useful is slim and is something I would never want to try while suffering an adrenaline dump.

This YouTube video covers sever good reasons why I don't like it and when and why it might be appropriate to use, better than I probably can.

So we were at Grandma's and Pa-pap's tonight for dinner. While we were getting ready for dinner Abby got a small pot lid and a triple-spoon-rest from under the range top and as she walked around the end of the kitchen cabinets my first thought when I saw here was she has a buckler and was wielding a small battle axe. Sorry Abby, your dad is a geek!

So we had a lobster/claim bake at the bosses house yesterday afternoon. Abby found the lobsters interesting.

Abby built that entire tower of Duplo Blocks pretty much on her own tonight. I built a short wide base and she very carefully and deliberately stack the very tall thin tower of blocks. The best part was when she had a block in both hands, as she attempted to stack the block in her right hand she realized she had grabbed the block upside-down. Rather than dropping the block in her left hand to help adjust the right hand block she put the miss-grasped block in her mouth adjusted her grasp on it and then placed is successfully on the tower follow shortly by the block in her left hand. Watching the intensity and focus with which she went about her building was very cool.

Enjoy!

Proposals are finished time to get some sleep and start writing a progress report.