Literary

A mustache only a mother, I mean wife, could love.

If I had two more months, I think I could have a Twainstache.  That being said, I don't have two months, but I did get another 'stacheliment tonight.  Basically, my mustache is better than a 22 year old Lt.  Easy win.

So far I've finished 10 books while here, about one a week.  I've also read the following graphic novels, which is a nice way of saying, "I'm an adult, still want to read comic books and you can't stop me."

• Hush - Batman faces pretty much all of his well known enemies and finds out that kids carry grudges.
• Arkham Asylum - Batman goes into Arkham Asylum and is saved by a quarter.
• No Man's Land - Gotham has been abandoned and can only be saved by (hard to guess) Batman!  Also, the Scarecrow vs. God.  God wins.
• The Eternals - The Earth has aliens living here who think they are humans, but are really our protectors against yucky monsters.  So, this one is basically true.
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II -  A band of heroes stop Martians from destroying Victorian England.  This is not the movie.  If it was, I doubt audiences would have liked to see a thin, opium-addicted Sean Connery.
• Heart of Hush - Hush is attacking Batman again and we learn more about why Tommy Elliott hates his parents.  In the end, we think Hush is dead, but he's somewhere on crutches.  Darn.  

I am so confused.  I finished reading Yann Martel's Life of Pi three days ago and the ending threw me for a loop.  I hope watching the movie will help, but I feel like I "got" the book and then the last 30 pages it was like "Hi, I'm that boy you got to know over the last 360ish pages.  I am really a liar."

Stephenson's Zodiac is not at all like Cryptonomicon and I hope that Snow Crash, The Diamond Age and Anathem are much geekier than Zodiac as well.  Actually, the Zode feels like Fletch meets "Good Will Hunting" with some LSD and nitrous oxide.

Batman and Philosophy contains 20 essays about, you guessed it, Batman.  They consist of 80% philosophical nonsense and one or 1.5 pages of each essay of getting to the point.

Last night I picked up The Code Breakers from the library which is a 1000 page tome about cryptography.  It might be a stretch to finish it before I leave, but I will at least use it to help me get to sleep.

Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things is a collection of his short stories and poems that have been printed elsewhere already.  It was a slow start, but now it is very hard to put down.  I've read 100 pages each of the last two days.  Many of the stories feel like they could be episodes from the TV show "The Twilight Zone" or movies directed by David Lynch.

Workout
Squat: 5x5-265,
Bench: 5x5-215,
Bent Over Rows: 5x5-115
...and 20 pushups

Meal is bare-bones so I can get to sleep earlier and not waste time going to and from the DFAC.

+1 if this is your dinner, too.