Share in the 2007 43Things holiday card exchange

Cheryl started the 2008 team and it might be worth our while to start signing up now. So join the fun, or at least add it to your Christmas Wish List so you will be ready when the season approaches!

I just got in some mass quantities of Christmas cards that I have in my eBay store and figured, what the heck, someone may want to scoop some up at a decent price. (nothing like promoting Christmas when its the hottest day of year, so far)

I for one, will be doing my Christmas cards WAY early this year. And there is a good chance that some of the cards from TuesdaysAndThursdays will find their way into your mailboxes from me.

I am considering Santa Asana as my card for next year – any thoughts ?

I can’t find my personal information with regard to the card list at all.

I did however find the police report for the stolen Mercedes, also found the police report regarding finding said burnt out Mercedes on the 110 Freeway.

I found business license stuff. As well as a blog post regarding my now defunct wedding. Also found someone who was poking fun at my obsession with the hazelnut yoghurt at the Waitrose in Bath, found my name on a petition to give Virgin America a flight vertificate, found the transcript of my editorials on KPBS (but no downloadable video, yet. Also found myself on a list of scholarship recipients.

Hmmmm.

I am proud of all of them. Well, not really having a car stolen, but, shit, how many people here have owned (not leased) a Mercedes – so yeah, some pride there too.

Overall, I am glad to see my stuff out there on the internet! Dang, I have done some cool shit in my day – here’s to many more !

If you have a phone, or own real estate, or pay property tax of any kind your name and address are accessible in most of the world. Own a business – bingo! Have a mortgage – you got it! Apply for a construciton permit to put a dormer on your house, or have a garage sale – yup – your name and information is a matter of public record.

And if you are not a goody goody – perhaps you made an illegal u-turn, or were the recipient of an automobile accident – you got it – your personal information is out there.

The funny thing is that it always has been out there. Before the internet it took a visit to the office of records, or sometime just reading the local police report in the local newspaper.

Information has always been available – the internet just imade it faster to find.

WOW – four people to whom I subscribe have disappeared since this series of posts started a few hours ago. Very interesting.

after all my praise for the postal service and the ability to order stamps on line they have failed me !

bah humbug

my order for stamps is still “in process” – ARGH ! ! ! ! !

cards will probably be going out quite late this year

bah humbug !

or Om not.

Thought I had the ideal card. Of course I sold the last of them today and the manufacturer is completely sold out as well.

Humbug!

Olivia was going to be my card of choice this year – the “Cheers” theme is perfect for 43T, but lo and behold, a customer just swiped them all from me…

... back to the drawing board!

ugh! This years Christmas Stamps from the postal service are not as wonderful as I would have hoped. Sweater patterns – zzzzzzzz. Perhaps this year the Christmas cards will go out with Channukah stamps, or maybe break completely with Tradition and go with Yoda stamps.

(It’s really easy to get your choice of holiday stamps online at the US Postal Service webstore. It’s www.usps.com , there is a $1 delivery charge for stamps but its for as many booklets or sheets as you want)