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Christmas Card

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

This was going to be the Christmas card I sent out this year, but I decided against it. It just felt too hackneyed to me (click to enlarge):

Jesus vs. Santa

The one I actually sent will get posted after Christmas sometime, once everybody's received theirs. On Thursday, I finally finished the card design and mailed out 275 cards across the US and Canada, also reaching the UK, Australia, and the Philippines. And by "I mailed out", I mean I provided a company with the image for the card, an address book, and let them print the cards, add stamps, and mail them for me. It's the thought that counts, though.

Also, thanks to Heather for the delicious-looking chocolate pecan pie (and gift!) that arrived on Friday. I haven't had a chance to eat it yet, but I plan on consuming the entire thing in the immediate future. You are awesome!

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Grazie

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Here is the direct link.

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Christmas

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Before today's post, I just wanted to let you know that today is the deadline to email me at my first name at my last name dot com, with the subject line of "Santa is coming" and include your address so I can make sure you're on my holiday card list!

Today, we decided to decorate the Christmas tree. It's actually been up (it's an artificial one) for two weeks, but we never got around to putting any ornaments on it because of Amy's travel and my general laziness when it comes to something other than work.

In 83 degree weather, I put on the Santa hat like I always do, and we opened up the Christmas ornament boxes. Unlike a certain stick-in-the-mud's tree, our tree is not a Martha Stewart-esque image of perfection. It's not color coordinated, it's not decorated in grids with perfectly matching bulbs, it's not even perfectly straight.

We actually put all of our personal ornaments on there. We have ones we've received from family members (and some of them are oh-so-fugly), we have ones that we've bought for each other every year, we have ones we made when we were too poor to do anything for the holidays, and we have a mishmash of ornaments that each have their own story. We also put lights on the tree in addition to the white lights that come attached to the branches. This year, they're these purple/blue/green/orange/pink ones that are absolutely hideous, but seem to complete the tree, and it really starts to feel like Christmas is coming.

After decorating the tree, we started discussing the outside decorations.

"Do you want to put some lights up out front?" My wife asked.

"I don't know – we don't really have enough to go crazy, so it just looks half-assed."

"Yeah, that's what I thought. Besides, our lights are for us, not for our neighbors. Who cares if they see them?" She started pulling out the light nets and rope lights and stuff.

I asked, "You want to decorate the backyard instead?"

"Yeah, why not? That way, we can enjoy them more than if they were in the front. And it will surprise anyone who comes in. It will be all like, serious out front, and then a party in the back."

"So you want our Christmas decorations to be like a mullet?"

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Super mondo big announcement!

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Last night I had a very strange dream: Dave from Blogography had a Blogography compound outside of Seattle. It was a multi-acre piece of land that sloped downhill all of the way to the interstate. Dave ran his entire Blogography empire from this compound.

Then, one day, the site no longer worked, and emails to his email address came back undeliverable. A large group of bloggers flew to the Blogography compound, only to meet with Dave and find out that he decided to close up shop after four years of blogging every day. The reason? He decided that blogging wasn't environmentally friendly, so he sold the compound to Al Gore.

Al Gore was there, and he had decided to make the compound into a park that had one long slide, much like a Slip-n-Slide. Except, since using all of that water was wasteful, it was a dry slide. As you can imagine, it didn't work very well.

I talked to him, and said, "Al Gore, you should visit my blog sometime. It's at Avitable.com." (For some reason kept referring to him as "Al Gore" instead of "Mr. Gore" or "Vice President Gore").

He laughed and said, very patronizingly, "Ohhhh, suuuure. I'll go check out your blog." He started randomly typing keys on the keyboard and pretending to type in my URL. For some reason, whatever random characters he typed went to a Christian Scientist site. He laughed at me, but I felt vindicated because his stupid slide idea didn't work.

Then, everybody got naked and danced to that song that they dance at the end of Caddyshack.

Weird, huh?

And now, for the super mondo big announcement!

It's almost Thanksgiving, and that means that Christmas is right around the corner. And that means that it's almost time for another round of Avitable Christmas cards!

If I was smart (well, I am) and organized (I'm totally not), I'd already have many of your addresses from when I sent out postcards. But I don't!

So, get sending! Email me at my first name at my last name dot com with the subject line "Santa is coming" with your name and address, and I will add you to the list. Santa won't be checking this list, so it doesn't matter if you're naughty or nice. Although naughty is better.

Email me by the end of next week to make sure you get added to the list!

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