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I usually don’t watch horror movies because the monsters, zombies, psycho killers, blood, and gore generally seem to come off as funny rather than scary. I then spend the entire time thinking “Oh, right, like that would really happen.”

So I wasn’t expecting much out of the 2002 movie The Mothman Prophecies. Richard Gere stars as a guy named John Klein whose life has been a mess ever since his wife died in a strange car accident. He mysteriously ends up in a small town in West Virginia where a lot of the residents have had encounters with a cryptic being that looks like, well, a moth man. Whatever this thing is (the movie never quite says), it knows things about everyone’s personal history. In addition, it can predict the future — accurately, as it turns out.

The movie started out slowly, but picked up in the end. I thought the final chaotic scenes on the bridge were extremely well done, and I was completely engrossed with what was going on at that time.

This wasn’t a fantastic film, but it wasn’t a bad way to spend the evening, either. Check it out sometime!

A friend of mine has been complaining about water problems recently. It seems that she lives in area that gets hard water, which is bad enough in itself. But to make matters even worse, her city doesn’t allow residents to use traditional water softeners because of the extra salt that is released into the sewer system during the treatment process.

I’d heard of this kind of thing before, so I recommended that she take a look at a magnetic water softener instead. This product will allow her to enjoy all the benefits of conditioned water while still complying with her city’s ordinance against water softeners.

I recommend keeping this in mind if you or someone you know runs into a similar problem in the future.