Thursday, January 01, 2004
Return of the mutant snow people
They're back. I'd hoped and prayed they'd gone away for good, leaving our world in relative peace. But, alas, it was not to be.
Because they're back.
You may remember my detailed account of their last visit, where I predicted their eventual takeover of the world. But my fears abated when the mutant snow people seemed to fade into nothing as the temperatures warmed, the snow melted, and their semi-formed bodies disappeared.
But yesterday... yesterday I saw them again. Many of them were well formed, looking strong and fit. Some were even wearing clothing. Their time has come. It won't be long before we as humans will be forced to bow down before their superior snowiness. "Bring me my corn-cob pipe and a button for my nose!" they'll shout, and we shall obey. Put on something warm, friends, and prepare to meet your new masters.
Our only hope to survive, to escape a life of forced servitude, is to somehow capture the power to defeat them. Yes, friends, the mutant snow people have a weakness, one which we must, nay we WILL exploit, to save personkind.
Their weakness -- heat. Snow melts, after all. These snow people may be of a hearty stock, sticking around even after the surrounding snow has melted, but eventually, they, too, shall come to rue the coming of Spring and its warmer temperatures. Unless, and this should be one of our greatest fears, they find a way to keep the temperatures cold. Because then, friends, they will be unstoppable and the world will be theirs... well, except if we use fire, or portable heaters, or heat lamps, or some other such heat source, and point them in the snow people's general direction. 'Cause then they'd just melt into harmless puddles on the ground.
So maybe the mutant snow people aren't such a threat after all. Huh. Well, never mind, then.
In other news, the new year is here (did you notice?), and with it brings a whole new period of adjustment when writing the date on things. But so continues the passage of time. I took some time today to say goodbye to my animated santa collection and related items. I plan on visiting with them again tomorrow to take pictures before I put them away, but it was the last time I'd see them turned on at night, so it was a melancholy moment. Soon they will be packed away in boxes, and I shan't see them, my holiday friends, for another year. Once the pictures have been taken, I will put them online for you to see, to share in my sorrow. I know you'll be waiting.
I'm off to bed now, to ponder the previous year, and to wonder what 2004 will bring. Either that, or I'll play Yahtzee on my handheld. Happy new year, friends. May it be better than the last.
Because they're back.
You may remember my detailed account of their last visit, where I predicted their eventual takeover of the world. But my fears abated when the mutant snow people seemed to fade into nothing as the temperatures warmed, the snow melted, and their semi-formed bodies disappeared.
But yesterday... yesterday I saw them again. Many of them were well formed, looking strong and fit. Some were even wearing clothing. Their time has come. It won't be long before we as humans will be forced to bow down before their superior snowiness. "Bring me my corn-cob pipe and a button for my nose!" they'll shout, and we shall obey. Put on something warm, friends, and prepare to meet your new masters.
Our only hope to survive, to escape a life of forced servitude, is to somehow capture the power to defeat them. Yes, friends, the mutant snow people have a weakness, one which we must, nay we WILL exploit, to save personkind.
Their weakness -- heat. Snow melts, after all. These snow people may be of a hearty stock, sticking around even after the surrounding snow has melted, but eventually, they, too, shall come to rue the coming of Spring and its warmer temperatures. Unless, and this should be one of our greatest fears, they find a way to keep the temperatures cold. Because then, friends, they will be unstoppable and the world will be theirs... well, except if we use fire, or portable heaters, or heat lamps, or some other such heat source, and point them in the snow people's general direction. 'Cause then they'd just melt into harmless puddles on the ground.
So maybe the mutant snow people aren't such a threat after all. Huh. Well, never mind, then.
In other news, the new year is here (did you notice?), and with it brings a whole new period of adjustment when writing the date on things. But so continues the passage of time. I took some time today to say goodbye to my animated santa collection and related items. I plan on visiting with them again tomorrow to take pictures before I put them away, but it was the last time I'd see them turned on at night, so it was a melancholy moment. Soon they will be packed away in boxes, and I shan't see them, my holiday friends, for another year. Once the pictures have been taken, I will put them online for you to see, to share in my sorrow. I know you'll be waiting.
I'm off to bed now, to ponder the previous year, and to wonder what 2004 will bring. Either that, or I'll play Yahtzee on my handheld. Happy new year, friends. May it be better than the last.
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