Keeping Fit

As a Super Hero, it's essential to stay Fit because the last thing you want is to be half way through a Heroic Mission and you're stuffed and you Fail to be a Hero. So since I have stress fractures in one of my feet I have gone back to swimming to keep fit.

For some reason I really liked swimming for a few months. Then I realised that it's boring as hell, watching this black line at the bottom of a pool... up and back, up and back, up and back. Obviously I had some influence on the sport though because someone saw me swimming in my Super Horatio costume and the next thing you know, you see Thorpie and co swimming in similar outfits, but coloured black and minus the Cape.

So recently I have been pool running... running in a deep pool. Kind of like the least efficient way to tread water. I can now run one lap of this square pool with about a 60m perimeter in about 5 minutes. Pretty quick huh. Of course I get lots of people looking at me weird, they're probably thinking things like:

• That's a funny way to tread water.
  
• He's been doing that for half an hour, can't he figure out how to get out of the pool?
  
• You're supposed to run on land, not in the water!
  
• It's winter. Get out of the pool you idiot.
  
• Nice Costume!
  

Yeah so there you go. I might not be running on an injured foot on Sunday week but I'll be volunteering as I mentioned before.

City to Surf

I'm volunteering my Super Hero Abilities to anyone who needs them in the City to Surf on Sunday week. Just sing the Super Horatio song when you're on Bagot Rd a few km in and I will come and drench you with magical praised oxygenated water that will fill you with energy and help you to get to the next drinks station at least.

Of course if you don't know the Super Horatio song you won't get help.

Broadway > Chelsea's

Last night, Super Horatio came to the rescue a bit closer to home this time. There were a couple of conversations where I tried to convince people that Broadway Pizza was better than Chelsea's. Unfortunately no one else had heard of Broadway Pizza! Pfffffftttt. Thankfully they didn't say anything like "Chelsea's is better than Domino's". Then I really would have lost it.

So time ticks away, people get the munchies and set out for Chelsea's. Super Horatio to the rescue! The time magically fast forwarded to after midnight and Chelsea's was closed, but people were still hungry. Where else is there to go except Broadway? Muahahahaha. And they all said it was GOOOOOODDDD. (That's me drawing out the word "Good", not "God".)

btw, Broadway do UWA Guild discount at $9.90 for a large pizza (which is even better than the $20.90 for two large pizzas deal). I don't know if this includes the gourmet range.

Agent Horatio

24 season ending spoiler below.

Well I mentioned before that I applied for a role on 24. It didn't happen this season but astute viewers of the final episode will have noticed that I was hiding in the tanker where the Chinese were holding Jack Bauer. Click on the image below to view a larger version, this is a gamma-corrected screen capture from the last few minutes of season 5 aired in Adelaide last night. You can't see me in the uncorrected transmitted video.



I snuck onto the ship in my pig form where the Chinese put me in storage to roast and eat me later on. I have cut a deal with Jack that if I rescue him from the ship and fly him back to LA as long as he does the heroic thing and wears a cape and undies on the outside of his costume in the next series.