I signed into Twitter today and there was a lot of chatter about Groundhog Day. Morbius Kromwell got me thinking when he tweeted "Just once, instead of a groundhog, I wish some mutant creature from the depths of hell would rise and wreak havoc...". I started musing about ways to improve this holiday.

This is what I've come up with.

We replace the Groundhog with a Chicken. On the special day, the chicken gets decapitated. If it runs around for more than 1 minute, it means we have a longer winter. If the corpse stops moving before then, we have an early spring (hence the term "spring chicken").

If children in the crowd of festivities get splattered with blood as the chicken runs around, it means more precipitation (rain or snow depending on the spring/winter forecast).

AND best of all, if someone eats the chicken - and by doing so, devours the chicken's living essence/soul - THEY get to overrule the outcome of the chicken run and decide what the forecast will be.

There is a small group of supporters already. Who else is with me?

While waiting to see the specialist, I noticed the sign for doctors whose reception area was next door. There, near the bottom of the list, was "Dr. Wolfman".

I need to find out what he/she is a specialist of, and get in to see them, just because.

As an update, the evil viruses on my computer are too crafty. Looks like a full restore is definitely in order. This should take place early next week, and I will once again join the blogging realm.

Will try to get a picture of the doctor sign when I go back in May.

At the moment, I am typing on my laptop, surrounded by used tissues and packages of Halls candy. Have been hit with a good old fashioned cold, and hit hard, but I'm rebounding.

I can't say the same thing for my main computer. It, too, is under the weather. It got hit with a nasty virus a few days ago, which is especially frustrating because I am very careful with my downloads and suspect this little lovely came from a hacked WordPress website that hadn't been updated by the blogger. I was already on the site when I saw the post that warned it had been seriously hijacked. *sigh*

We've been able to find some of the files on the system that have been tampered with, but it's not all clean. Now, when I'm connected to the net - and only when I'm connected to the net - and try to do a scan, it logs me out and causes a Windows restart (DCOM server process service terminated yadda yadda).

SO I'm still around but not as much (hate the laptop). If you have any suggestions, let me know. Otherwise, I'll hopefully see you soon when I am in a cootie-free zone.

As haunters, we often talk about storage for our finished props but we rarely talk about storage of our supplies. My vanishing act the last little while can be contributed mainly to trying to figure out how and where to store my inventory of goods.

I never had a considerable surplus of art supplies before this year. Sure, there were a few salvaged items left over from the Halloween decorating rush, waiting another year to be recycled into next Halloween's theme. That's different. Now that I make a number of smaller items throughout the year, each of them needing different craft supplies, it's a whole new game.