But there are 40 days of nights and VAMPIRES!!!

Vampires are wimps. Have you ever read Twilight? (don't, it's a complete waste of time)

I'm just going to trust in my logical assumption my long years of surviving endless waves of video games zombies will manifest itself in actual, real-life anti-zombie abilities

Not really. Zombie survival skills are synonymous with actual survival skills - How to survive in the wild without the modern advantages we have like electricity and such. They don't teach you those kinds of skills in Left 4 Dead or Resident Evil - They all teach you how to shoot a gun - Not survive the 'down time' when not fighting zombies.

Yeah I think videogames have prepared me well for this.

Run like hell until I have enough ammunition gathered up then let the heatshots begin!

Either die or try to wake up, depending on whether or not I'm actually dreaming...

Haha... this dude at my work and I were just having the same conversation.

I was talking about how being a vampire while it sounds cool to some would really suck because you would explode if you got hit by sunlight.

Meaning you only had half the day you could be out... and that's when everythings closed AND unless your stupid you'd probably get home ATLEAST 45 minutes early every night incase trouble occurs making it hard for you to get back.

So you'd probably have to like 4 times as long at least to make it worth it.

Then he said that vampires probably would go somewhere like Alaska for the long nights.

The book World War Z explains that after the 10 year zombie pandemic war, most of the world is safe, but they still go into the frozen wastelands of the north every spring to shoot the zombies as they thaw out and hunger for brains again.

The book is really amazing, and covers every aspect of the zombie invasion, including how all the world's governments and the media react differently, and all the political madness that goes down between North and South Korea, India and Pakistan, and Israel, and South Africa.  It's not only a great book about zombies, but great political and social satire.  And Brad Pitt bought the rights to make a movie out of it, so you should hopefully get to see some frozen zombies in the next couple years.

Having read both The Zombie Survival Handbook and World War Z, I think I'll be ready.

I can get onto my roof really easily and I doubt zombies could follow me.  I'd just need to get to the supermarket 2 blocks from here to stock up on food, and then get on my roof.  I'm also in Oakland, so the zombies would have to get past all the gangs before they get to my house.  There's been shootings on my street, so I know my neighbors are armed and dangerous.  I'd use an extension cord to plug my DS into the wall inside so I could play DS on the roof while I eat and wait it out.

If the internet wasn't dead, I'd take my wife's laptop on the roof and try to communicate with all you guys and everybody else I know and try to set up some sort of survival network where we could share everything we were learning about how these particular zombies operate, how fast they can run, if they can climb or swim, if fire scares them, how they react to noise, how big their swarms get, etc.  I'd also look for any armed neighbors and see if we could meet up and share weapons and supplies, and if the shit got too crazy, I'm not too far from the bay, so we'd go try to steal a boat and a stereo system.  We'd anchor our boat just a little off shore and start blasting jams so the zombies would hear us and come to the edge, and we'd shoot them all.  This would take out a lot of zombies and give us a good idea how many zombies are within music-hearing distance of the water.  I'm also right next to a Home Depot, so if I could safely get there, I could get tons of axes.  They don't need bullets so I could chop FOREVER.

And I promised my wife I'd never let her get infected, so if a zombie bit her, I'd have to shoot her first.  :)

World War Z was great!  I didn't expect to like that book nearly as much as I did and I just couldn't put it down.  I have the Zombie Survival Guide, I just haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

Become a zombie and find a retired war vet, white collar black guy, tough biker dude, and a girl to grief.