"The union forces me to let you go to lunch, in spite of the way you played. Those of you with a conscience will be not be able to eat and those of you without conscience, go stuff yourselves I hope you choke" (The Money Pit, 1986)

“We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret. Waiting. Protecting. I have been witness to their capacity for courage and sacrifice. Though internally and in many other ways we are literally worlds apart, as with us there is more to them then meets the eye.” (Optimus Prime, Transformers)

It has been a blah day:P  Running around with nothing to do.  Oh well tomorrow will be a better day.

For anyone interested in reading Halo http://www.ericnylund.net/firststrike.html

The official novel explaining what occurs between HALO: Combat Evolved and HALO 2.

Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemy’s clutches.

Now, everything depends on the Spartan known as the Master Chief. Yet even with the aid of the artificial intelligence Cortana, the Master Chief will be hard-pressed to rescue survivors and evade the Covenant ships patrolling the remains of Halo in debris-strewn space.

Ahead lies a dangerous voyage home, through a gauntlet of Covenant forces. For the sake of all, the Master Chief and his war-torn squad must not only survive, but take the fight to the enemy with a decisive first strike.

This is the third novel in the HALO series.