Quick Birthday Card check in

[TayTay]

Tay TAy has signed a card and forwarded it to Whome. Whome has forwarded it to Rox. Rox wants to know who comes next (Discerning Christian, that might be you as your are geographically next.)

I also sent one out to Sandnsea who has also, I believe sent it to Vektor. Vektor will then send it to ?????

Anyway, this thread just asks people to say, got it, and next and them people can PM the person who has it and ask to get it.

Is tis a good way to organize the effort?

[New Earth]

1. i'm in NJ

so whenever it's in the area, please let me know ASAP. who do i send my address to?

PS) my birthday is one day after Kerry's :P

[karynnj]

13. I'm in NJ too

[ginnyinWI]

2. and don't forget Wisconsin

there are three of us here.

[WildEyedLiberal]

3. Maybe one of you could send it down to me when you're done

Make sure us lonely Midwesterners don't get forgotten!

[sandnsea]

4. Sent to Vektor Thursday

She should have gotten it today, maybe Monday. I haven't gotten a PM or seen a post, just waiting....

[saracat]

5. I am in Az. Is there any way I could sign? Pretty please?

[beachmom]

6. How does this work again?

Are you, Tay Tay, going to post here who it should be sent to next, or ask who it should be sent to next (and that person will post here saying "me"), and then the next person PMs the previous person with their address? Does that sound right? I assume you're going to travel the eastern card down the eastern seaboard eventually to the South?

[TayTay]

8. Ok, let me try to re-explain.

Once upon a time there were two lovely Birthday cards designed, printed and sent on their way by the lovely, essential and incomparably talented Bablylonsister in Planet Houston (an outpost of the Evil Empire.). Bablyonsister signed one of the cards, and then sent both to TayTay in the lovely but cold People's Republic of Massachusetts. (Home base of the Rebel Alliance, "RA".)

TayTay scratched her head and whispered to herself, "Now comrade, how shall we get these two lovely and heartfelt cards into the hands of the other members of the RA?" She pondered and ruminated and slept on the problem. In the morning it hit her, why not send it along geographic lines. Send one card on down the East Coast where many member of the RA can admire it and sign it. The other card will wing it's way across the vast reaches of the Empire and find it's way into the hands of Sandnsea, General in the Rebel Alliance, West Coast division. (Not quite a People's Republic, but not very far off either. One Senator short, sigh. And no, you cannot have mine. He is not a 'loaner' and Whome would kill me. perish the thought.)

TayTay was ever mindful that the Rebel Alliance is difficult to organize, as all loose collections of brilliant, roguish and independent minded people are. (Sigh, there are costs to being Rebels, don't ya know.) So she pondered how to make sure the cards get around the US to the eager potential signees. Hmmm, difficult, very difficult.

How about a thread that says, I got the card, who wants it next? That was just so ingenious and simple and easy to write that TayTay of course muddled it up by excessively intricate writing. (It's a gift, people, a gift I tell you.) This muddling by TayTay has taken an easy solution and complicated it. What to do, what to do?

I have it. Perhaps the people who have the cards now could post that they are ready to send them on and post that they are ready to release the card from the glorious state of XXXXXXX and who should they send it to next. Vektor in California might want to forward it to our glorious sisters (and maybe a brother or two) in another Western state, perhaps the half Rebel half Empire state of Arizona? Then the person in AZ might post online and say, anyone else in AZ want to sign the Kerry card? Yes, off it goes to another location in the Land of Enchantment. No, then the card might go to the glorious and historic and musical state of Mississippi. (Or to the Land of Lincoln.) Recipient posts, I got it, who wants it until everyone who wants to sign, has signed. Then it goes to Senator Kerry who will no doubt be charmed and heartened by it.

Clear? Upshot post this:

Vektor in California got the card. Who else lives west of the Mississippi (or some other dividing line that makes sense.) Vektor then forwards the card. Next person posts same thing, different state.

Clear? Same thing on the East cost, but different states. Clear?

[Goldeneye]

9. Maybe we should figure out the order now.

It might take too much time if we only figure out where to send the card after we get it and sign it. It'll get kind of chaotic too, because people who are in the area won't always catch the post that says "I'm in (insert region here) and I've got the card. Who wants it next?"

We should have a sign in thread. If you want to sign a card, post your state and then we can use that information to figure out how to get the cards around the country efficiently.

Just a thought...I'll check back in later.

[rox63]

10. I'm in Massachusetts

And I have one of the cards that has already been signed by Whome and TayTay.

[Island Blue]

11. That was brilliant Tay Tay!

And I gotta tell ya, as a member of the Rebel Alliance it ain't easy living behind enemy lines.

I think I'm just going to go ahead and PM Beachmom with my address since I would be the next logical person to get it after she and FedUp. (Whenever that turns out to be.)

[ginnyinWI]

12. so...

would us in WI and IL be on the East Coast card, then? We are east of the Mississippi. :)

[babylonsister]

18. LOL, Tay Tay. Very cute. nt

[jillan]

14. Saracat and Pirhana - we will probably be at the tail end.

Which is very cool, as we get to see everyone's efforts!

Last person needs to take a pic of completed project and post!

[rox63]

7. Will the next east coast recipient please PM me?

So I can send the card on it's merry way. Thanks.

[ray of light]

15. I'm so confused!`

Whose birthday? What card?

[babylonsister]

16. Here's where it all started, ray of light...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=273&topic_id=41944&mesg_id=41944

[ray of light]

17. Oh I see! thanks!!!!!!

I'm Michigan.