I just had Message Boards added to this site. Now, we can all discuss things easier and I should be able to answer your questions easier.

I will still use the blog to post stories and other items I find interesting. Feel free to discuss them on the boards, I may even join in.

The link to the board is above on the navigation bar.

Enjoy!

http://gralienreport.com/fortean-phenomena/they-stalk-by-night-vampires-and-ufos/

I wanted to ask your opinion. My host (Internet Host) has offered to set-up a message board so people can discuss things with each other more easily than replies in the blog postings. Is this something you might want to see?
I think it might be easier for me to join the conversation as well as I have found responding to your questions is a bit more difficult than I thought it would be using the blog. Message boards would allow the conversation to open up among yourselves and I can add my responses into the mix.

Let me know what you think.

This New Scientist article describes a skeleton found with a brick in the mouth, something that was done to people suspected of being a vampire. Why they thought a brick in the mouth would stop a vampire from awakening eludes me.

Enjoy!

Las Vegas was great. Saw a few shows, hung out with friends and met some new vampire friends as well. 

Welcome to all the new readers. I will get to your questions in the next few nights.

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/12/ebay_pocket_sized_vampire_hunt.php

Only the stake is effective against a vampire but he would have already killed you while you fumbled with the cross, holy water and garlic, none of which cause a vampire any problems.

Until the last few years, this has been no problem at all. I always keep several identities working at any given time and begin new ones every few years. It is much easier than you can imagine but it is getting tougher.

First, it has always been easy to get a birth certificate (when they became standard about 125 years ago). By watching the newspaper for deaths of very young children or infants, the hospital, birthdate and other info is usually listed. Wait about 10 years and request a certified copy of the birth certificate. Using the birth certificate, you can register for a Social Security number and now have two forms of ID. At 18 years since birth, use those forms of ID for a Driver’s license and then apply for a Passport.

Keeping these identities in constant rotation gives me about 7 or 8 identities between age 20 and 40.  Recently, there has been an attempt to link death certificates with birth certificates and this will make it more difficult. It may become necessary to generate new identities in third world countries were records are not as well kept or can be made up for a bribe.

Transferring the money is actually very easy. Using trusts and paper assets like cash and stocks (in certificate form) money can be moved around quite easily. I have professionals that take care of many of the details for me but I have a good understanding myself.

Offshore accounts and multiple identities, some connected financially to facilitate moving money around, allow me to change primary identities every 15-20 years. I maintain residences, subscriptions, file taxes and many other things on the identities to give them life.

Ask yourself how Mexican’s, many of which cannot speak English, can come to the US and establish identities to get jobs, buy property and live fairly normally without being caught? Many even use sloppy forgeries and fake Social Security numbers. Imagine how well it works when done skillfully with real documentation.

The future could become a problem though. As databases track everyone’s movements, money transactions, employment history and more, it may become more difficult. Having fingerprints (yes, vampires have fingerprints), DNA or other biometric information could expose people with multiple identities. I suppose, the vampire community will come up with ways to circumvent the system and share. While I haven’t seen an online community for vampires yet, I expect there may be or will be soon. We can use technology too.

If you have any questions, just comment and I will try to respond.

Again, sorry for my absence the past couple of weeks. This blog is interesting to me but not a priority. When life gets in the way, I may go silent for short periods. I will get back to the questions that have stacked up

First, what do I do with my time? I am somewhat addicted to television. I have DirecTV with every channel they offer. I love HD and use a DVR to record the programs I like. I love science fiction but I don’t care for fantasy. 

I spend many of the daylight hours in bed watching the stuff I record. Current favorites are Lost, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, and MythBusters. I like The Office but I don’t get some of the jokes. Guess you need to work in an office to understand.

I do not like sports at all. I do record the Superbowl for the commercials. Not so good in recent years.

I laugh at the History Channel. So much of what they show is off somewhat. Mostly correct but just as you would expect being told by people that study history but haven’t lived it. The timelines are correct but the nuance is missing. Also, what historians find important is not always what I think was important.

Saw something on Vlad the Impaler the other day. Anyone that thinks he was a vampire is not looking at the facts. The guy fought wars, outdoor, in daylight. He was brutal. I wonder if any vampires really live in castles in Romania. Wouldn’t that just be ironic.

I have to cut my hair weekly and my nails every few days. They grow so fast. Many of the vampires I know have long hair, just like TV and movie vampires. It is so hard to keep trim, most just let it go. 

I shower daily and feel dirty if I don’t. I also have to trim hair all over my body as it grows fast and out of control if left to its own.

My friends that are not vampires feel a uncontrollable desire to test me. They try to slip things by me to see if I will notice. They have disguised heavy objects as light ones to see if I can pick it up. Think about all the things you would do if you had a friend with abilities.

I plan to write more about vampires and dating. A small taste for now. Vampires can see slightly into the infrared and our hearing is like a dog’s. When I enter a room, I can clearly see how women react to me making it easy to approach one that is interested. When a woman looks at me, if she is interested, her heart rate will increase and the blood vessels in her face expand flushing her face. It is not really perceivable unless you can see it in infrared. You might look funny carrying an infrared camera in a bar looking for the right woman. My eyesight is extremely good and I can catch the glances she doesn’t know I can see. Women like confidence and that comes easy when you can read them so easily. 

So, what did I do tonight? For the last few months, I have been taking lessons. It was difficult to find an instructor that would do all my training at night and the requirements were difficult to complete entirely at night.

Tonight was my check ride and I passed! I am now a fully licensed pilot.

I don’t know if any other vampires have become pilots but I doubt many have due to the difficulty, not of flying but training entirely at night. I had to be careful what I described to my instructor as well because I can see very clearly with a minimum of light. 

I have trained in a Cessna 152 and look forward to moving up to the 172 or the Piper Warrior. I rent planes from an FBO at a local airport.

Since I was a kid, I wondered what it would be like to fly like a bird. Modern technology has made it possible and I can’t believe I waited this long to try myself. I have flown for travel but always in the back of an airliner. 

I am off to pick up some supplies tonight and will post more later.