Kath recently celebrated her 60th birthday! She requested humorous birthday cards to help her "laugh her way into the 60s." We chose to send her an online, animated birthday card. The animation was hand-coded using Actionscript 3.0, an object-oriented programming language with a syntax similar to JavaScript. The animated objects (witches and drops of blood) use a "timer class" to initiate their individual movements on the screen. The movement of blood drops uses a simple, constant velocity equation, as opposed to a gravity acceleration equation, because the drops roll down the face rather than falling freely. In other words, the skin surface acts as an uneven friction factor that works against the downward force of gravity. The code includes the loading and playing of two different sound files. The music file loads immediately, while the timer class is used to load the "scream file" at the same time that the "old hag" image is displayed on the screen. Also, since the music file is several minutes in duration, a timer is used to shut off the music after 38 seconds as a courtesy to viewers age 60 and older!