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Day 10: A Dark New Year's Eve Afternoon (March 23, 2008 Gregorian date, Blue 30, 2011 Milliean date).

It's Sunday, or more like Unday, because the eclipse of the Sun by the satellite Taft put the El Zona region in total darkness for at least an hour. I didn't keep track.

Plans were almost finished for New Year's Eve as fireworks displays were set all over the county. The fireworks would go off first in the area that's in the Mountain West Time Zone at midnight their time, which is 11pm Pacific Standard Time. An hour later, the western half of El Zona celebrates the new year.

Anyway, Sunday morning, my folks surprised me with a Gregorian Easter service at the SuperCross on top of Mount Coyote as the New Wave Church was holding Easter services three times a year: once for Gregorian on Blue 30, today, which translates to March 23rd, once for Milliean which translates for Aqua 21, which is April 13 in Gregorian, and once for Julian on Green 5, which is April 14 in Julian and April 27 in Gregorian. This is so that visitors from the real world who are away when Easter is on in their homeland can celebrate it here. It's possible that all three of the Easter dates from the three calendars may be on one date one year, but I'm not sure whether it's happened yet or if and when it will ever happen.

After we all got to our homes, we prepared for the worst when the eclipse of the sun by the satellite Taft occurred. Before that happened, Scott got a phone call from Albert Edison on Atlantica Island, and he tells Scott that the Starship Enterprise was a loan from a future year, and that there is a crew on board that traveled from the year 2727 A.D. (whichever calendar date it may be) to this time for a week. Santo Pedro made the request in his futiquephone, which he used to dial it from into the future.

Albert asked us if we would like to join the Starship for a week aboard the ship to venture out near the satellite Al to see what's going on there.

I, Scott, Hoss, Lenny, Alyssa, and Carlotta wanted to go. Chachi and Angelina wanted to stay behind to mind the city in case he's needed for help. Hoss got his brothers, Adam, Ben Jr., and Joseph to mind his Comedy Music Worldwide Ministries Headquarters in the city of El Zono Loco. Wendy and Jennifer would housesit Scotty's house while Mindy, and Conan stayed at her parent's house. Mindy asked Wilma to stay over.

But at noon, it was eclipse time. We and the militia had to get into our defending positions. Taft eclipsed the Sun. Only a less than 1/2 full satellite Hiro dimily illuminated the eclipsed sky. The planets Venuts and Hotcury were visible to the naked eye.

As expected, the demons came out from the hellhole underneath the town of Sunnychip. They were raging and coming out for the attack. Their goal is to take over not just the town, but the cities nearby so they can grow. The citizens armed with fighting skills, swords, knives, machettes, and other weapons fought the demons with their might. Some of the citizens sadly got killed while defending their fellow man. The militia used some cannons to fire at them to scare them back; some of the cannons crushed a few demons to death.

A few of the demons got away and began heading off to nearby Sam's Car Lost town. Some of us headed their way to get them. The demons got into a nearby Six-Twelve convieience store where they came in and attacked a clerk by sucking his blood, and turned the clerk into a blood-sucking zombie after they left. We entered the Six-Twelve just missing the demons for a drink, but the zombie clerk tried to attack us. He almost killed Lenny, but Hoss slugged him with his right hook, and the zombie clerk fell over into the giant oven where it was cooking the cheap meats they use to create 99 cent burgers. Chachi kicked him further into the giant oven, and I shut the door. The demon began to pound on the door, but the flames in the oven set him on fire and he burned until the soul left the corpse. After we killed the zombie clerk, we picked a couple of Bolt colas superfortified with caffiene and sugar to help us through the day. We put some money on the counter to pay for it so that the clerk that's coming around to take his shift later would be paid for the drinks. Then we left and went to look for the demons who were wandering around somewhere.

Meanwhile, back at Sunnychip, a disturbed Sid came from inside his coffin and the demons began to attack him, Sid fought back, but he was about to get killed by a demon when a sword came from behind and vanquished the demon. The sword came from the hand of Mindy. Sid thanked Mindy for saving his life, but Mindy tried to vanquish him. Sid grabbed the sword and held on to it and begged for Mindy to not kill him. Wilma came over and told Mindy to relax and not to kill Sid. Mindy was puzzled but agreed. Wilma told Mindy that Sid is her friend. Mindy was confused but was convinced by Wilma that Sid was on their side. Mindy's adoptive male mother Wendy also kicked the butts of some of the demons.

They, the citizens, and the militia were still overwhelmed a bit, when all of a sudden, a thundering roar was coming from up the Mission Impossigorge Road. It was the Cartwrong brothers, Adam, Ben Jr., Joseph, and Hoss Jr. Hoss Jr. You see, I didn't tell you this before, but Hoss has a son Hoss Jr. who lives with Hoss's brothers on some farms in New Mehicle, and Hoss Jr. just came back from military duty last month and his living on a farm out in nearby El Pesoro with his new wife. Hoss Jr. lived with Hoss's ex-wife Irene after a bitter divorce about a decade ago and sees his father a few times a year. Unlike his father, Hoss Jr. is into country-western music, the male type, not the chick type that you hear on the corporate-owned radio stations.

Anyway, the Cartwrong brothers...and a nephew...came along with rifles and lassos. They also brought some rottweiller and dobermans to help round up the demons and force them to return back through a hole and into their lair under Sunnychip. The ones that they helped lasso were later vanquished. They shot some of them with bullets that knocked them down so that the local Scoobies and the militia could vanquish the crippled demons.

After over an hour, the Sun was beginning to rise from the West-facing edge of Taft, and the rest of the demons ran back inside the hole and into the lair, admitting defeat until they can come up with a plan to fight back someday.

Meanwile up in Sam's Car Lost, I, Scotty, Lenny, Chachi, and Hoss were finding some bodies here and there in the town where the demons attacked the residents. The Sun was beginning to return from behind Taft when we heard some horrible loud screams. A housewife was being attacked by a couple of demons. We entered and kicked them around and into the Sun. The demons began to yell in a high pitch when the Sun shined onto them and were vanquished a couple of seconds later. One demon stayed inside and began attacking the husband of the wife. Hoss slugged the demon, but the demon slugged Hoss back and Hoss flew into a wall. Scotty threw a sword that was on a wall over to Chachi, where he tried to stab the demon, but the demon ducked and headed out to the kid's room. I put my leg out so that he would trip and fall. The demon began to attack me, then he was hit on the head by an award cup by Lenny. The demon fell down on Lenny and began to suck his blood when he was vanquished by Chachi's sword coming from behind.

The wife and husband thanked us for saving their lives. The damage that the demons have done to Sam's Car Lost was a shock to the community who thought it was amongst the safest places to live.

Later in the evening, we had a dinner at Chachi and Angelina's house as they were hosting the New Year's Eve party. We watched the two hour Futurama movie on Comedy Central. Funny thing about the show was that we noticed that one of the years that Frye traveled to was 2012, which happens to be the year we're entering in El Zona in a few hours. Coincidence?

Later, we watched a couple of Hannah Montana episodes on the All Hannah Montana Channel owned by Diznee.

At 11pm Mountain West Standard Time, where Chachi's house sits, we turned on the analog TV and radio and turned around the dial. Only a few stations were left on the air as they were going to go off the air in analog form just before midnight. Fortunately, we were equipped with the new digital TV and radio sets so that we could watch the channels broadcasting digitally. The TV and radio sets were one unit now. It could not only tune in TV and radio, it could tune in Internet radio from a high powered Internet connection, rendering corporate radio music useless. We turned it on and turned on a radio station called Vulcan Radio that was playing demented dance music like the Time Warp, Doctorin' the Tardis, Y.O.D.A., Disco Toilet, Radio Shack, Macarena, and other demented dance songs.

At about 11:59pm, we turned on the TV to watch Dick Clark's Rockin' Milliean New Year's Eve hosted by Ryan Seasick and there was this giant ball sitting on top of a pole that was on top of building on Times Cube. The ball began a slow descent from the top to the bottom of the pole. We counted down 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Fireworks went off on the Eastern side of San Rubio county as that part was in the Mountain West Time Zone. 2012 had just begun. On the western side, it was still 2011 and just after 11pm. An hour later, the fireworks went off on the Western side when that half (in the Pacific Time Zone) celebrated the new year.

Meanwhile, around town, for those who still had analog TV sets, the countdown went 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...

Just before midnight local time, the stations went off the air and the channel was pure snow. Some of the people began to panic as they thought that it was the end of the world. They came out screaming thinking that we ran out of years and Erf was going to end. It was the great panic attack of 2012 as uninformed analog TV viewers who were never informed about the switch from analog to digital began to loot the nearby shops and steal food and drinks from the stores. The National Guard and the Police were deployed to arrest the looters who thought that the world came to an end and were placed in a holding cell for the few days until they could get someone to explain to them that all they needed to buy was a digital TV set.

At Chachi and Angelina's house, we got so stone drunk that we slept over at the guest rooms until we sobered up the next morning.

I posted a blog entry in the blog website after we celebrated 2012 for a second time that I was too drunk to enter a diary entry and would do it the next day.

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