Thought of the Day: Zombies

Before I jump into my thought for today, let me give you a brief rundown of the morning. Don't get too excited; nothing crazy happened, but I did talk to the school I work at about the whole "snow day, 2 hour delay" thing. I asked the secretary at the school if I can just follow the district outages since the school takes so long to post their own (it was up this morning at 5:00am). She said, "yea, we usually follow the district." I already knew that much..."usually" didn't help me at all. Hopefully we don't get too much more snow that would cause delays or outages. Typically we don't get enough snow...Jack Frost is really getting after it lately.

Now, back to the thought of the day: zombies. I'm sure most, if not all of you, have heard about all the dead birds and fish. Last week it was dead birds and fish in Arkansas and around the area. Dead fish, to me, is less of a "weird" thing. You've got all sorts of things in the water that the fish need to survive and if things get thrown off it's not too far fetched for fish to die. Birds, on the other hand, is a weird one for sure. I don't know if it actually happened this way, but I just kept picture birds falling out of the sky. Time has passed (only a week or so) and I started to give less and less thought to it. Honestly, I had almost forgot about it.

Today, while I was sitting at home eating lunch watching the news, there was a story about all these dead birds in California. What?! So...there were dead birds in Arkansas, and now they're in California? If it's the same "disease," or whatever it is, it most definitely jumped since I didn't hear any news of dead birds between those two states. Now the thought of these strange occurrences are right back at the front of my brain. My brain, creative as it is sometimes, starts thinking up all kinds of different reasons why this could be happening. One thought: zombies. Yes, I said zombies.

I have always been one of those people that believes, very lightly, zombies are a possibility. I even have a "zombie escape plan." I mean with the creation of synthetic life who knows...hasn't anyone ever seen a zombie movie? Create this awesome thing that will help humanity, but then it turns humanity against itself. You know the drill.

You might be thinking to yourself, "come on, The Sleeve, zombies aren't eating the animals. they're all fully intact." You're right, zombies are not eating the animals. Duh. However, what if they're dying from some sort of zombie disease? "Sleeve, they aren't reanimating either." Yea, I know. Maybe it's some disease that would only cause a human to reanimate or maybe it takes a month or even longer for things to reanimate. Obviously it's not airborne either or we would all be dropping like birds. I know this is a huge stretch, but hey, my mind was feeling creative.

Zombies, be prepared...either way I don't think all these groups of dead animals are a sign of something good.

Side note:
The picture I attached is the cover of a book written by Max Brooks, comedian. The book, of course, was meant as a joke, but there are many that have taken many of the techniques as good ideas. I own this book and I would agree that the techniques to survive are definitely viable. Honestly, they would be viable in any sort of massive disaster, like nuclear fallout. I recommend giving it a read, even if you don't believe, as it is still fun for the mind.