Congratulations on surviving yet another Zombie Apocalypse!

I strongly encourage you to join the Facebook GROUP that supports this event each year. It really helps us keep in touch and helps us remind one another when the next event is happening:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/home.php?sk=group_114550045231143

You can also sign up for NEXT YEARS BLITEOTW if you are so inclined:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=114614638626571&view=wall¬if_t=event_wall

As always, the LJ variant group is here:

http://bliteotw.livejournal.com/

...and the Twitter variation can be followed by searching #BLITEOTW or by following the RSS feed:

http://bliteotw-tweets.livejournal.com/

Stay safe, people!

Peace...

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The Conga line's heading for a big tent. I dunno about that, I'm not into raves. And it sounds like they've got a mosh pit going, too. Meh.

I think I'm going to go to the store, I was supposed to get something.

Oh hay!! Two guys in white lab coats are offering an iPad to me!! That's better than this phone! ...I wonder what the net's for?

It's night in Merry Ol' San Bernardino! CONGA LINE!!! WooooOOOHooOO! I wonder if we can get into the world record book because this is the longest conga line I've ever seen! It's been a while since any of the military dudes have been through here, most have joined the party.

...you just need to be able to make it through the night in one piece. That's the important bit. The cycle will be over for another year in just a few hours and most of you will just forget about all the crap you are enduring presently.

Don't give up. Stay safe.
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A gaunt-looking Indian woman walked right in front of our car as we were pulling into the parking lot; we laughed - thinking she was drunk - but then I turned to D and said, "Oh! Maybe she's a zombie!! Wouldn't that be a trip!" We laughed as we went in and enjoyed our roast beef sandwiches.

After, we made a bit of a joke of shuffling back out to the car, banging into each other as our feet scuffed the pavement, struggling to get the car door open...how funny it seemed then, before I realized that our little joke had saved both our lives.

Wow, all kinds of soldier peoples! They've been coming in on big damn aircraft and rolling around in big trucks. It's like a parade they didn't organize.

It's a good thing I left the bbq Honda when I did, all these soldiers opened fire and jeeez, guys, just ask for a rib if you want one. How rude, I mean. I was fine with sharing.

I've got a neat iPhone now, I borrowed it from some lady who was screaming her fool head off. Her arm came off with it, I guess I pulled too hard. Anyone need an arm? It's real pretty. Haha I'm ARMED!

I think I broke the Honda, which is sad because I had the Droid plugged into it. It was fun while it lasted, though, it went fast!

Dang these people scream! You'd think it was the end of the world. And they had a Honda parked on top of them. They shouldn't have been in the street anyhow. I mean come on. I'm trying to drive here!

Found a Kindle! Ooh. Diary of a Mad Housewife is on here.

Oh, I was going to get bbq, but the car's starting to burn now and that'll work. Anyone got any Chris'n'Pitts???

The neighbors were making quite a racket earlier, but they're young people and hearing moans from their side at odd hours of the day isn't uncommon.

The grocery store was pretty empty, not even any staff manning the checkout lanes (mental reminder to talk to the manager about that).  I just went through the self-check lane, got my stuff, and left.  Some weirdos tooling around the parking lot, but I didn't examine them too closely.

I've read some news on the internets about some sort of virus going around, but frankly, I think it's got to be some sort of hoax.  Even so, I'm glad I live in a gated community that keeps those kind of people out. 

Mental note: iPads make bad clubs. They get all gooey and gross and crack. :( Stupid pack of guys tried to take it from me! Who's the 'zombie killit' now?! Huh? Huh?? I found a Droid, it looks really neat, too. Still on the way to the store, I decided I want bbq. OH HAY! Some lady just left her car with the keys in it. It's a nice Honda, too.

Things are looking pretty clear out at the moment. I am going to make a break for it and gather supplies. Hopefully will be back online in a couple of hours...
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after trying to figure out what on earth was going on, why dont people take better precautions after all we have learned, i finally have the answer (and the answer to why the CDC hasnt been answering most of my letters)
http://www.facebook.com/notes/larry-schell/zombie-plague-facts/10150204429644645

~~Summary~~~
apparently the zombie virus can infect the living. it doesnt change them in to zombies, at least not soon.. but during the "active breeding phase" or outbreak cycle, the host becomes aggressive, and more prone to spread the virus.. however the virus COULD be spread at any time trough body fluids.

after death the infected will re - animate during this phase to spread the virus.. for so long as the body can be moved.

hyper infected hosts (high volume of virus) will essentially "zombify" in place.

after the breeding phase is over the living infected demonstrate short term memory loss, which is why they DONT REMEMBER previous outbreaks.

a handful of people appear to be immune or resistant to the virus.
~~~ end summary~~~

sadly many of the survivors of prior outbreaks are now infected.
which means that they are less than helpful right now

now, what can i add to this?

Severely infected living carriers are immensely attracted to/hostile to uninfected persons, as are the re-animated hosts. they attack them by preference.

moderately infected carriers are also attracted to uninfected humans, but usually in a sexual fashion.. (which also spreads the virus)

uninfected individuals can therefore be recognized because they are *attracting* the infected.
an uninfected individual can also easily bait the infected into traps.
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The re-animated individuals, as i discussed last year, are easily killed by/injured by salt. they take FAR more damage from being shot with rock salt than normal shotgun pellets.. and now i know why... it disrupts the electromagnetic resonance that is the *communication band* of the virus....

this is why a line of salt will often stop the zombies.. they cant "hear" you across the salt. mind you, they also cant "hear you" across an EMF cage... but the salt will also injure them if it gets into their system, and most re-animates have injured feet anyway.

the down side is that infected living carriers will have no trouble seeing you, and crossing a line of salt to get to you.

extremely high salt levels in blood appear to prevent transmission under "casual" conditions.. but can be dangerous to the individual...as the levels of salt needed to ward off infection can be toxic.

An immediate treatment for a bite or blood splash may well prove to be what i was doing last year.. a extreme saline solution rinse/bath.

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NOTE: in lab conditions, zombie blood was still showing active response after being treated with a dilute bleach solution. (similar to a weak bleach wash on surfaces) i suggest using a STRONG bleach solution to wash any spills,

in lab conditions a weak salt solution reduced activity dramatically, but full saturation solution of salt in water OBLITERATED all action in a test sample.

huh.
once i found out that school was cancelled i went back to bed, and of course utterly failed to get a nap.
sigh
i dont nap well.
so i keep getting disturbed by the dog going off, and some one outside banging things.. which i thought was just the neighbors construction folks (they had a fire and are gutting and re doing their kitchen)

but when i went downstairs for lunch the front porch was trashed and someone had half ripped off the board on our front window!
(our front window is boarded over, kids kept throwing rocks through it and we cant afford to replace it again)

they really damaged our front window.
meanwhile of COURSE no one is around to have seen anything. even teh construction guys seem to have taken the day off.
and a neighbor left his car outside double parked, door open and radio blaring.
i hate this neighborhood

Oooh I see why people love their iPads so much. This one belongs to some girl, she fell running from me, dunno why. I'm just borrowing it, you'd think I'd shoved her to the ground and tore her precious toy from her hands. I mean, she totally tripped running away. I'm sitting on her back to keep her there so I can give it back.

I DO wish she'd stop screaming.

It's a lovely day but I still haven't made it to the store. I can't remember what I was going to get, but I'm sure I'll remember once I get there.

The parking lot was pretty empty when I got to work this morning. And traffic was a snarling nightmare.

Also, it seems that training I got last week for running the PCR to run Flu, Pertussis and H1N1 will pay off. It's all hands on deck, there is a HUGE influx of patient samples, which is odd.

We've also had several announcements about remembering to not let anyone without a badge into the building. I mean, thank goodness the doors are locked, but there are a few more people wandering around than normal. I think they're from Fircrest that we share the property with. I mean, it has a few loonies over there.

Woke up this morning feeling more awake than I normally do.  Maybe it'll be a good day today?

Work so far has been strangely... dead.  Not many clients calling and a lot of of busy signals / ringing forever when I call on clients.  Guess it must just be a case of the Mondays.

The cats are all angry this morning too, hissing and picking fights for each other.  They have plenty of food in the bowl, so I don't know what's up with them today.

I am doing satellite uplinks for ABC, MSNBC, and two for Fox today... and not even ONE of them has to do with the Zombie Apocalypse. WTF?
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I have a large bruise on my forehead, and I don't know why. Talk about a fuzzy thought process. I think I'll walk to the store to get cigs. Get some fresh air and exercise.

read all about it:
https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=135968236418133&view=wall¬if_t=event_wall

Woke with a strange headache today. Mind is foggy and body achy. I'll be in the middle of something and then forget what I'm doing. Took some aspirin. Hopefully that will help.

...it is pretty much impossible to tell my cow-orkers from the zombies.

(It's a very good day to be locked behind an inch of bullet-proof glass...)
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so i sweat blood, and stay up half the night to finish my final project for class today, and the emergency alert says "school is closed today"
they dont even say why? probably more electrical issues, we have been having them all month, but i could have gotten SLEEP!

HERE
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One of the best things about working early mornings is that when the zombie apocalypse happens, most of the reanimated type zombies are still trying to dig themselves out from under...
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HERE
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the night is grey and cold here up in the MetroWest. i keep looking out the sliding glass window and feel a certain sense of...unrest. but i cant see past the fence or the bird feeder. no birds around, but still, it swings back and forth on the hanger.

the news has been nothing but reports of this country beating on that country, or all the strange weather, the crazy tornadoes. i turn off the TV.

i guess i'll go upstairs and try to read or something before i go to bed. tomorrow is a big day after all. lots of meetings.

i hope this weird feeling goes away....

So, will we be doing this again this year?

It's brilliantly bright and warm today, between that and the chickens, the boric acid, it looks like a death knell for the centipedes. I'm guessing whoever 'modified' those damn things has a fix for it, there's hundreds of lab coat guys all along the highways and freeways stopping cars and giving shots out.

Meaning these guys will have vanished by nightfall, like last time. But at least this cuts down on the amount of zombies we have to clean up.

I'm pretty sure Mel and Sean were bitten, that whole humid in Florida thing lends itself to bugs. Probably got her when she was in the pool, too, the bastards. It's always so horrible to think of a friend as a mindless, soulless zombie.

Not too many others seem to have made it. Here's hoping they're in large enough chunks for the restorative or whatever it is will help them.

Meanwhile, I've got a hell of a mess of zombie bits and bug poison to clean up. The chicken round up will likely take weeks, if not months, and I'll be damned if I'm going to eat any centipede eating chook for a long while.

(And I really do have zombie remains to clean up, the dog wasn't all that thrilled with the noodle 'guts'. Picky mutt. Thanks for the fun!)

So glad that we got a decent turnout for this again. I'm looking forward to next year since it will be on monday and getting to my computer will be easier once i'm trapped in the office. hahhaa.

everyone had some great narratives!

I created next year's event on facebook again:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=135968236418133&ref=mf

feel free to RSVP and spread the word!

364 days and counting!
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Really close call. A carload of zombies came crashing through our gate and were lumbering towards the house before we realized what happened. Flaming zombies, my favorite flavor. My pulse is still racing. I thought they'd gotten the dog, but she held her own while we managed the rest with shotguns and a chain saw. Neighbor kid had the chain saw, damn thing's almost as big as he is, but he handled it well. Ran over to rescue Lucky.

Got the gate back up and the power back on. Our older son finally called, he's holed up at his work with the grandparents. It's a home improvement store, so they're loaded for bear with bug poison and power tools.

Back to the air raid sirens, though. The Guard decided to supplement the chickens with malathion spraying helicopters. I think malathion, maybe just boric acid, it turns out centipedes are pretty sensitive to drying out. It's still unnerving to see wings of copters flying low with their lights blaring. I expect to hear 'Ride of the Valkyries' as they pass.

More and more zombies are starting to lumber down the streets, it's become this grisly game of whack-a-mole. We're hearing about more carloads of zombies, probably people running west that didn't realize they were carrying the bugs or had been bitten.

My turn to sleep. I'm praying for us all.

 Made it off the highway..not much action so far. I've only had to use the crossbow a couple of times, ( i brought my good knife, and have been collecting materials so I can make more arrows when find a good place to hole up) Got a text message from the fam. They made it out of the city and are holed up in a warehouse in the no-mans land outside of the city. I have just enough power left on my gps/cell phone to get there. I've seen some healthy deer around, when I meet up with them I want to shoot one, hopefully we'll have some way to cook it.

I see a light in the distance, I hope it's them. . . the sun is down...I'm afraid to use my light....and i think i can hear something crashing in the bushes...

Yeah. So, chickens eat bugs, the rogue centipedes are bugs, thus release every cooped and free ranged chook into the fray. This is considerably less cool than Dr. Jones flapping his brolly at seagulls and then quoting Charlemange after downing an enemy plane with the birds.

There's a problem with this brilliant solution. Chickens will eat until they faint, sure, but they also roost when it gets dark. The centipedes - good Coyote, who is bringing them in here?! Carloads of zombies (hurrr zoombies) packing them up in lieu of luggage and hitting the 210 freeway?? The bugs are sluggish and half dead in the heat, but it cools off at night.

The other problem is the centipedes manage to bite the chickens. Soon enough, chicken zombie. The other chooks will peck the zombie hen to pieces, but I fear soon enough every other chicken out there is going to be a walking unfrozen dinner.

I brought my chickens in when I realized that the centipedes were able to bite back, put them in their coops. I've ran about a ton of Boric acid and diatomaceous earth around the property, enough bug poison to choke a pony.

So far, not too many zombies. Nothing that couldn't be handled with dogs and shotguns. Everyone's staying inside and tense. Watches are set up. I need to find out centipede habits.

The air raid sirens are firing. What the hell now?

BLITEOTW#4: We fought another wave off when the clouds rolled in again- the carnage... the carnage is... I'd describe it, but I am without words.
I think its the power plant that is keeping them here... maybe they're attacted to the radioactive pools? Or maybe the barracades around CR is keeping them from shifting south? I don't know.

Thank goodness for Andy, Chad, and serious power tools. Jeanie got a text through a few hours ago, and it seems Alanna made it to her tribe safely. We haven't lost anyone yet- though its been a close thing once or twice. Night's coming soon... I'm not sure how much longer the internet is going to hold out. So to all of you out there reading this -
"Cry God for Harry, England and St George!"

Yeah, the beautiful blue sky and puffy clouds was rudely interrupted this afternoon by a SMELL. Not skunk, but a smell I haven't smelled in a while. Careful investigation revealed my chickens going nuts on bugs up by the front fence. Could they be centipedes, we don't get them in California? They seem pretty lethargic, probably the sun and heat. The chooks are grabbing them so quick I can't get a good shot of them.

But then there was this:




This can't be good.




I couldn't find the rest of it.

I'm guessing people fleeing across the desert have brought them out here. THANKS. No really.

Gads, I should have known something was up when all the florescent "green friendly" bulbs blew out at the same time this morning.

We're pulling out the artillery and electrifying the fences. How's everyone else out there?

 Made it into the Twin Cities, but now traffic is blocked on the highway. The bike is in the car, looks like I might have to bail. The city must be worse than i thought. Wish me luckI

I'm on the run, but it doesnt feel safe...

Goodbye everybody. I wish you more luck than I had.

Wear a helmet.

BLITEOTW10: #2
Cel towers seem to be out; land lines are still working for the moment. We briefly heard from Mom & Dad- Jeanie, Jake and the kids made it over there. We gather Jake and Dad have taken up a defensive position, working on barracading the neighborhood. Jeanie and Lisa were boarding up the windows with what they could find around the house in case that fails. Then the phone went dead again.

We're holding our own for the moment here in Palo- but if Andy & crew hadn't made it through with the extra ammo and chainsaws *shudder*...

Still no word from Alanna's husband Dwight, they were in camping by the river in Dubuque.
We fear the worst...

Addendum: Alanna headed off in the truck with weapons and provisions to see if he and their friends made it to their house, its only 15 min away and mostly through back roads and open corn fields. I watched her taillights as the garage closed and she roared out of the driveway over the hordes like a bat out of hell.

I admit, I'd almost forgotten. Sitting there last night around the fire with friends, listening to the ever growing chorus of frogs. Then the train came through just after midnight. I had almost forgotten.

But a half-seen shadow came shambling across the Palo, IA marshes from the direction of 13-steps, and through the trees stumbling on the spongy ground - there were dozens of shadow's moving. rakamuffin Alanna, - who had been showing off her red wedding dress to my sister, proved that dream she'd had to be true - standing in the driveway with a sawed-off shotgun screaming "Its alright! My dress is already red!" We threw the remaining wood on the fire, and ran inside the house to barracade ourselves in as best we could with Chad's hunting equipment.

When the storm started around 6am we knew the grey dawn wasn't going help much.....

SO WHO ELSE HAS BEEN BITTEN BY ZOMBIE INFECTION-SPREADING CENTIPEDES TODAY

anyone else seeing things that dont belong in real life? i just got home from the gym and i am freaking out.

I did a bunch of websurfing to see if i could find a current event listing for this year. seeing none, i created an event on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=120746831281802&ref=ts

feel free to RSVP and then post which blog/twitter you'll be using on the event wall. spread the word!

also, i've suggested the hashtag #BLITEOTW10 for any twitter related posts.

if anyone else has already done this, just let me know and i'll update the event.

lets get this party started, June 13th is a month away!

Just wondering if there is one.

A friend of mine is trying a Facebook BLITEOW equivalent, aptly re-titled ULITEOW, on April 13 (this coming Tues.) Attendance is open to anyone, so if you want to get your apocalypse on a little earlier this year, just RSVP.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=112179265470766

Всем привет!



Недавно заметил в блоге Игоря Бигдана рекламный баннер, где он предлагает рекламу в своем блоге. И тоже задумался над тем, как бы получить хотя бы небольшую копеечку со своего увлечения.



Наткнулся на форуме блоггеров http://www.bloggers.su/forum/ на раздел о монетизации блогов http://www.bloggers.su/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=29, там обсуждаются многие вопросы, смысл которых мне непонятен. Тем не менее, некоторые из участников озвучивали цифры, и у некоторых якобы доход с блога был такой, что с основной работы можно было уйти... я бы тоже так хотел...



Особенно заинтересовала тема: Как начать зарабатывать на блоге? В ней новичкам, в т.ч. и мне, объясняют как найти рекламодателей для блога, какими способами вообще можно заработать... короче интересно блин и перспективно, как мне кажется.



А вы что думаете об этом?

Check it out here:

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/bliteotw_tweets/

If one were to add this feed to one's friend list, when ever someone tweets (globally) with a #bliteotw hashtag, it should end up aggregating on your friends page at LJ.

It won't be very helpful at the moment, but it could be helpful next year... on the off chance that the zombies return.

Yeah, I totally forgot this was happening... kind of got distracted by being deployed... shit. 

5:35pm - All quiet here...

6:13pm - Luck continues!

6:44pm - It's started to rain.

8:03pm - First sighting!

9:29pm - Car crash.

10:54pm - Power went out...

11:32pm - Scratched....

12:28am - The end.....

I didn't quite realize the zombies were coming yesterday -- but I'm much better now.. The bites heal, oddly enough, after a good night's sleep and a hit of bactine.  XD

I found recordings of last night when they finally came for me.  I think I magically avoided the smaller batches of outbreaks for most of the day until they came for me at night..

The hint, then the four entries..

Sad to see that the comm wasn't as active this year.

(5:57 PM) Hello Little Girl
(6:19 PM) Is anybody there?
(6:43 PM) Voice Post
(6:51 PM) The Birds
(7:13 PM) "Guess who's back, back again..."
(8:00 PM) "Darkness, darkness, be my pillow..."
(8:58 PM) I agree with Bones...
(10:16 PM) "Doctor, doctor, gimme the news..."
(12:09 AM) "And believe me I am still alive..."

And, everything I didn't get in there (or did in an abbreviated fashion): Tweet Like It's the End of the World