It doesn’t matter if you picture an obese man in ruby pajamas with a cookie fetish, or are a big fan of flaming multi-pronged pitchforks, or put wreaths of candles and fish on your head, or just sit around with friends and get blasted – December means gifts and cards. It just does. So since there’s a geek-gift exchange under way (thanks in large part to the organizational prowess of Splatz), some GWC tweeple started thinking about card exchanges, which means postal addresses.
If you’re hip to the idea, and want to jump on board to send your favorite (or least favorite, if you white-out the writing inside the awful one you kept from LAST year) cards to a bunch of like-minded GWCers, then you can “opt in” by sending me (Keir) either a PM here in the forum, or a DM over on Twitter (@keirhansen), and provide your email address.
By doing so, I add your visibility to the Google Docs spreadsheet where we’re gathering up names and postal addresses, and if we can all agree (here, please) on a cut-off date to send cards, we can have a fixed idea of who and how many people are in, and where to send them all.
(Yes, I have to set a deadline, else someone comes winging in a week before some holiday, say, Baby-Jee Day, and we’ve already sent cards to everyone else. That will make someone sad. And THAT will make me sad. And I don’t like being sad.)
So there you go. As of the end of November, we have five or six on board already. I’d love to get a few dozen by two weeks into the month – how cool would it be to have a mantle (or if you don’t have a mantle, your bar, I know you all have THOSE) lines with GWC geek holiday cards??
Make it so!
