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Gladiator by Philip Wylie

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The story of Hugo Danner, an invincible man, created by his biologist father, is fun, silly and sad all at once.

A precursor to Superman, Danny is a womanizing superhuman who just wants to be loved. Sound familiar? It should. Many of the icon moments we know from comic books can be found in this book published in 1930.

From over showmanship, to money problems, family problems and just fitting in issues, this book has it all. Include a moral lesson about man meddling in god’s affairs and you have Gladiator.

I liked it and found it interesting. The characters were unique for their time and interesting while also feeding stereotypes we know so well today.

There is TMI in this Post Amoung the Weekend Updates

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So no, the weekend did not start out well with my computer dying, again. I’m actually extremely upset now as I know it’s a hardware issue. At the end of the week I should have an update on that. Any bets on what I’ll get from Dell this time?

Writing went well this weekend. Not only did I finish a chapter, but I’ve joined a new critique group. This is looks much more committed than my last group and we have a good range of folks both in ability and background. After they left I managed to pound out another 1000 words. Creativity abounds.

We did Aia’s b-day party this weekend. McDonald’s totally dropped the ball. Nothing was ready, no one seemed to know what to do. They managed to get their act together in the end but dang. We’re not going back there next year. So I need to scout out a new place.

Heroes sucks now…have I told you that? The suckage is so bad that they are now sticking random sex in for the hell of it. Noah actually waited to start shooting until after teh sexes. Stupid. Hiro is still my fav as he’s the ONLY character to learn from his mistakes. And the only guy who deals with the bad guys first. Chances of continuing to watch this show though are near nil.

Our movie night is now on LOST. Day late and a dollar short I know. We’re finding the show fairly predictable, but good anyway. We can deal with that. People say it’s gets weirder. We’ll see.

Now for the TMI. My period started this weekend. The bad thing about that? It’s only been two and a half weeks since my last period. Not good. In fact very bad. The last time this happened, I was in the middle of massive cancer screenings which boiled down to the hypothyroidism. Has it gone further in the wonky? Or is this the PCOS? With the hair loss, the bloating, the mood thing I’m worried. Doc on Friday. Hoping we can deal with this with a medication adjustment. Hoping.

Living in Perpetual Twilight: Joing the Ranks of the Jobless

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Well, alot has happened in a week and a half.

Vegas was awesome! From food, to entertainment to guns. The ride was a bit weird. I came to the conclusion that Utah just doesn’t want you there. We had a short jump through Arizona. The ride was beautiful. I always pictured Utah as full of barren grey rock for some reason. Really it’s full of all kinds of painted rock formations and strange landscape. Virgin Canyon in Arizona was majestic.

The Paris was my favorite casino. The outdoors inside was beatiful. The food was the best for the price. (check out that night buffet, num). Also the cigar bar, Napolean’s. Good drinks and a free dueling piano show. Those guys will play anything…even if they don’t know it.

We saw Love at the Mirage. If you like pretty, or the Beatles…take a look…they did some really cool things with that song.

We shot guns. (of course). And we got a tour of Nellis Airforce base. Awesome stuff. It gave us a good idea how underfunded our troops are.

Inside the Bellagio they had a garden and some huge pumpkins.

And the Venitian…which was just cool.

So then we came back. Caught up on HerosThe most awesome show on television right now. nbc and scifi are showing it.

And I got fired.

I’m relieved and scared. Glad to be gone and worried about money.

Sigh. Anyone hiring?