Crackmonkey: Holiday Shopping

[featherynscale]

It's slow at the office today and I am revelling in that slowness, since the next few days are going to be Utterly Batshit Insane. One of the things I'm working on is a gift list for this year's Season of Winter Avarice. I know, it's not Halloween yet, but since I'm doing Winter Bazaar, I'm essentially giving up a few weeks of "official" shopping time, so it seemed reasonable to make it up on the front end. Increases the chances that people will actually get the prezzies from me on or before the winter holiday that they actually celebrate.

So, I'm digging through Amazon, looking for wishlists for the people on my gift list. Every once in a while, I turn up someone with a common enough name that there are several possibilities as to which list is actually their list, but it's easy enough to pick the right one, or determine that my person actually doesn't have a wishlist. Best example so far: putting in biscuitgod's name returned one list full of books for the Mormon family, one list full of books about the military, and one list full of diet and bodybuilding books. I'm guessing none of those are him. :)

Also, sometime next month, I was thinking of starting the Second Annual Wild-Ass Gift Exchange again (it needs a clever name!). It worked out pretty well last year, with only one person failing to send a gift like they were supposed to. That person knows who he is and will suffer eternal shame and finger-pointing, and is Banned from future gift exchanges, unless his lady will vouch for him and pick up his slack. So there. :-P

Comments

[iron-clad.livejournal.com]

It works! I thought I'd try one more time and it worked. I installed all the games and was able to piggy back the two older ones to the new one. It is the coolest PC game I have ever played. Chaos shall fall by the will of the Emperor! Thank you so much for whatever you did. I shall buy you a copy soon so we can meet on the field of battle if you dare! Muaa haa haa haa haa!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Un-effing-believeable. Did you ever get the patch for the first game to work?

[iron-clad.livejournal.com]

Nope. None of them worked. I did however install a shit load of Windows updates. Maybe that made a difference? Also when I installed the second one, it "Updated my Dawn of War files." I don't know. All I know is, thank you. You have to come over and see it now. I know that this week is effing busy for you, but I am here almost all the time as you know.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

A frigging computer shaman, she is.

Second Annual Wild-Ass Gift Exchange

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

Count me in again!