It's Friday the 13th!

Do you know where your carousing teenagers are? Mwu-ha-ha-haaa!

I probably won't be able to see this re-imagining of the '80s slasher classic until DVD, but it looks like a lot of fun! I'm excited, if for no other reason that I grew up with Jason Voorhees. Probably my best Halloween costume ever was this Jason outfit I threw together one year. (I paid maybe $5 for a white, durable plastic hockey mask and maybe $2 for red electrical tape to make the designs on the mask with. Then maybe another $1 for a bald wig. Try to put together a decent -- not even great, just decent -- Jason Voorhees costumes nowadays and see how much you spend. *sigh*)

Still, I'm having a great week so far!

Wednesday I got my official Texas Spirits work short!!! :D It's all official looking and pretty! :)

And then today, when I woke up, Brian had grabbed the mail and I had received our red LED conversion packs!

See, since TAPS Family member groups do things the TAPS way, that means we investigate with the lights off. But you need a flashlight to check out stuff, such as the readings on your EMF meter, or whether or not that was another investigator you just saw move in that corner over there. But -- and this is something I had never considered before, since I've never been ghost hunting yet -- you don't want to use white light, because that screws up your night vision. Your eyes have to readjust to the white light when you turn the flashlight on, then re-readjust back to the darkness when you turn it off. However, apparently, red light doesn't force your eyes to do all that readjusting.

So last Friday, I believe, I woke up 3 hours before I needed to be at work, so I ran around to all the nearest stores that might possibly sell red bulbs for MiniMags (2 AA batteries, easy to transport, reliable Maglight flashlights). I spent the 2 1/2 hours I had at my disposal and came up with NADA!

So after I got settled in at work, I went online to see if maybe I can find something for a reasonable price. AND DID I! For less than $35 I could have purchased a couple of LED flashlights that can alter between red, green and white light. I'd like to point out here that the difference between LED flashlights and halogen light (the type of bulb MiniMags use) is like the difference between your car's high beams and your car's low beams, respectively. LED is just a MUCH more powerful light. AND, ironically, LED bulbs require less battery power, and last longer! So I was willing to make Brian's and my MiniMags pointless by purchasing a pair of these multi-colored LED flashlights. BUT THEN...! I scroll down further on the page and find these little converter kits for $10 each! They replace the MiniMag's halogen bulb with 3 red LED bulbs! And in doing so, they extend the life of the 2 AAs in your MiniMag! So you get the reliability of the Maglight with all the bennefits of an LED flashlight!

And those arrived in the mail today! :)

So I'm a happy little ghost hunter. ;)

Also, this week's episode of Nightwatch is about H. P. Lovecraft during the first half, and the last half was an interview with David J. Pitkin, a very cool author whom I love listening to in interviews!

Now, if only I could find 3 friends who believe they may have a ghost in their house to invite me to investigate this coming Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, I would just be a blissed-out mess, lol. Actually, I guess a single investigation on Monday night would be wise, because there is a rule-of-thumb equation for reviewing evidence which is: 1 hour of investigation time = 3 1/2 hours of evidence review time. So if we investigate on Monday, we've got Tuesday and Wednesday to review what we've recorded.

Blah.

Okay, just fantasizing now, lol.

DUDE!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO MY GNOMEY GODDESS!!! xoxoxo

And Happy Valentine's Day to anyone reading this! I hope this Valentine's Day finds you feeling deeply loved and appreciated!!! I wish like hell I could spend this Valentine's Day with my True Love, but I know she loves me and I suspect she has an inkling of how much I love her! ;) But I hope EVERYONE feels loved this year! Whether you're with your loved one, whether you have a loved one, I hope everyone FEELS LOVED! Because I think we all are -- each and every one of us -- loved by many, many people, and we just forget it from time to time. So I'm hoping VD 2009 we all mysteriously, inexplicably FEEL how loved we are, even if we don't understand where that feeling is coming from!

I know, I sound all gay and stuff, but that might be a groovy, groovy experience, yeah?