{"id":811,"date":"2003-12-23T01:42:41","date_gmt":"2003-12-23T04:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=811"},"modified":"2011-06-05T02:16:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T07:16:43","slug":"reasons-for-christmas-free-hanukkah-xmas-e-cards-and-still-no-damn-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/reasons-for-christmas-free-hanukkah-xmas-e-cards-and-still-no-damn-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for Christmas, FREE Hanukkah &#038; XMas E-Cards&#8230; and STILL no damn newsletter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man&#8230; another season flying by this year. It seems like only yesterday that the Christmas Season started in September&#8230; where does the time go?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try and squeeze a newsletter out before Christmas&#8230; but no promises.<\/p>\n<p>Free Hannukah and Christmas E-Cards here&#8230; I&#8217;ll probably be making them Flash next year.<\/p>\n<p>Photos FROM Dec 11th&#8217;s Reasons for Christmas live show are up on their site. I have to add a new review FROM the L.A. Times and I believe we&#8217;re going to wrap it up over there for now. Plans are being made for it next year to not only raise money for Pocono Area Transitional Housing&#8230; but it will be re-packaged with a new INSERT and raise money for a Pentagon Memorial for the victims of Sept. 11th.<\/p>\n<p>A few people have asked here how well the sales went. I know the goal was to raise $300,000. I have no idea how close they got, but I know some major companies kicked in FROM the community:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>East Stroudsburg Savings Association not only fronted the money for all production costs, but bought a copy for each employee and sold them at every bank branch.<\/li>\n<li>The PA SKI Association bought a copy for each member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.<\/li>\n<li>Aventis Pasteur footed the bill for the live show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those who have been too polite to ask where the copy of Reasons for Christmas that you won back in November. Please don&#8217;t take it out on your mailman&#8230; the embarrassing truth is, I haven&#8217;t been able to mail them out yet. I&#8217;m really sorry, and your gift will be coming to you later than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to the rest of the post&#8230;<br \/>\nI need to take up something with someone privately, so I ask that unless you&#8217;re a jolly dude dressed in red, or one of his helpers this is the end of the line for you guys. (Which I realize is a dumb thing to say considering I&#8217;m asking for privacy on a web page&#8230; but it&#8217;s something I need to get off my chest and will probably DELETE afterwards or I&#8217;m going to have a nervous breakdown.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~<br \/>\n<strong>Dear Santa:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Special request to Santa wuz here. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s seen it wherever he is. Besides, it was embarrassing to leave it up.]<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<br \/>\nYour CyberPal,<br \/>\nEric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man&#8230; another season flying by this year. 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