Today was less fun than yesterday, but not bad. I went to work with some stabbing leg pains (I must be getting old [;^)]). A few of my female coworkers put streamers and balloons around my desk, and we had a snack day. I managed to stay awake, though I did eat more than usual at work.
I got home and finished the DVD Tony had loaned me. It was exciting stuff, but obviously a sequel is in the works since the machine demons were still around and the discovery that the amored hero (Karas) has a weak spot after all.
I've been reading the second of a trilogy of books called "Star of the Guardians." As I've been reading these books, I have imagined myself as one of the main characters: the Warlord, Derek Sagan. He is a man who has second thoughts about another man (Robes) he helped to overthrow the galactic king over a decade and a half before the story's present time. Sagan is powerful, possessing genetically-engineered psychic abilities and an army of loyal men, as well as state-of-the-art technology. In this series, he has tracked down the last heir of the dead king and hopes to use the heir (Dion Starfire) to overthrow Robes, the President of the Galactic Republic, and use the heir as a puppet to further his own ambitions. His opponents include a woman he is mind-linked with who has similar psychic abilities (Lady Maigrey), Dion, some mercenaries (including the son of a man he killed in his search for the lost heir), and a powerful psychic named Abdiel who can control people's minds using nanomachines. It's pretty interesting stuff, and I do get a thrill imagining myself as Sagan with his powers and loyal army as I read these books.
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