Alien Encounter

patricks and I went and saw "Alien" tonight. He got to watch me wrythe and cringe at the abdominal uprising of John Hurt.

There are many fine lessons to be learned from "Alien":
-Never split up. Always travel in pairs.
-When in outerspace, have various size cannisters available to capture aliens that may burst from a crewmember's body or when it alights from any other cavern or compartment.
-Never assume that just because you blew up an entire spaceship the Alien died. If you can crawl into the escape shuttle, so can IT.
-Never undress down to your unmentionables until you saw that the Alien was good and dead with your own sober, clear-seeing eyes.
-If a motion sensor can't even register human motion unless it's right in front of the little tube, don't count on finding an Alien with it. Just take the ship cat with you. Jones knows the 411 on the Alien.

Afterwards, we went to Chili's for a bite to eat. The power went out as soon as we got our lemonades. I knew finding a parking space so quickly was foreshadowing. Oh, and the fact that the first time our coaster pager went off prematurely. That too was foreshadowing.

Next stop: Elephant Bar. That went much better. The lights stayed on.

Upon returning to my domicile, I popped in "The Sweetest Thing". It's rather hilarious in a crude way. I recommend it for light entertainment.