Pics, Heroes, arrival

I posted the pictures I took from the Swamp Stomp here.

This morning I had my latest brain sputter.  My daily lunch always includes one of 5 plastic cups that fits nicely next to the Tupperware sandwich container.  This morning, without thinking, I grabbed a glass and came to just as I was trying to shove it into the lunch box.  It is almost my brain checks out of active thought and goes on cruise control.  It is bizarre and very concerning to me.

Another fantastic episode of Heroes last night.  There are so many damn commercials, I bet the hour long show is 25 minutes of commercials.  I was trying to explain to Ali some of the plot lines and characters and realized there is just a staggering amount of things going on.  I thought it would be interesting if I tried to name all the characters and their roles/powers.  Forgive me if I am fuzzy on some of the names.

There is the cheerleader, Claire, her super power is she can heal herself.  She has run into fires, been impaled, shot and had various other nasty things done to her.  She heals right on up.

Claire is the adopted daughter of Beckett, a nerdy looking guy with glasses.  He is the head bad guy in the series, although now they are showing a good side to him.  He works for a company that is fronted as a paper plant but in fact has some sort of weird tie in with all of these mutants with super powers.  Exactly what they want from the mutants is fuzzy.

Parkman is a chubby LA policeman, well former policeman, he was suspended.  His power is he can hear people’s thoughts.

Nicki/Jessica are the same person.  Nicki is a good looking woman that has an alter ego, her dead sister, Jessica. Nicki is normal, Jessica is evil and possesses super strength.  Right now Jessica is control of the body.  She is/was married to a black guy named D.L.  He also has a super power, he can pass his body through solid matter.  they have a kid who ALSO has super powers, named Micah.  His deal is he can control machines.  he has done stuff like make a pay phone spit quarters and an ATM spit out cash.

Hiro is a Japanese kid who discovers he can stop/slow/transport through time.  Early in the show he had good control of his power.  Now it has faded and he is searching for some great samurai sword to allow him to focus his power.  He is accompanied by a fellow co-worker named Ando, he has no powers.  Hiro’s dad is played by George Takei who has some sort of tie in with Claire.  He was the one who presented Claire to Beckett when she was a baby.

Isaac is a painter.  He can predict the future through his paintings.  In the beginning, he could only do this when he was high on drugs, however he has since learned to do this sober.  When he does these paintings, his eyes turn white.

Mohinder is the son of some professor that was studying these mutants.  He found a list of names his father had (before he was killed) and is trying to contact the people on the list.  He has no super powers.

Syler is an evil “hero” his original power was not clear but then he discovered it himself.  By cutting open the skull of other mutants, he acquired their ability.  He has been going around killing other mutants to become more powerful.  Beckett has been trying to stop him.

Nathan Petrelli is a guy running for a political office.  He has the ability to fly, although he is very secretive about it and doesn’t seem to want to use the power.  He has tie ins with a shady, powerful man named Mr Linderman (whom they have never shown to this point)

Nathan is the older brother of Peter Petrelli whose powers were hard to figure out at first.  It turns out when he was in the proximity of other mutants, he could absorb and duplicate their powers, without cutting their heads open.  However unlike Syler, he lost those powers when he was not around the mutant.  However in recent episodes he is learning how to use these powers without being around the other mutants, making him the hero of all heroes.

There have been other mutants along the way.  There was a waitress that had the power to remember everything she saw or read, exactly.  Syler cut her head open and sucked out her power.  Hiro tired to go back in time to prevent this from happening but was unsuccessful.

There was a guy that could touch solid objects and make then turn into puddles of liquid, Syler got him too.  A older woman mechanic had super hearing, ditto for how she wound up.

We recently discovered Claire’s real mother could shoot flames from her hands and that her real father is Nathan Petrelli, flying boy. 

 There is the invisible man, who evidently used to work with Benett years ago but since then has gone off on his own after Benett tried to kill him.  The invisible guy has been helping Peter learn how to control his powers.

Recently another mutant was brought into the plot.  He has a scary, destructive ability to emit radiation.  He could literally go off like an atom bomb.  His power is tied into the ultimate catastrophe that is trying to be avoided, the blowing up of NYC.

There is a scary looking Haitan guy that appears to be Bennett’s right hand man.  His deal is he can put his hand over people’s faces and selectively erase sections of memory.  Bennett uses him to cover up his tracks.

To go into how the plot ties all of these individuals together would take forever to explain. Let’s just leave it at it is complicated but extremely entertaining at the same time.  The show is so damn good.

My dad should be arriving tomorrow sometime.  I found out yesterday that my brother is going to be bringing a buddy for his four or five day stay.  My dad mentioned that possibility months ago but confirmed it yesterday in a voicemail he left for me.  We had to do some modifications to our accomodations to account for this but it should not be a big deal.  I look forward to a fun next 10 days or so.