Phew! The Secret Santa e-mails have gone out – I only WISH that they’d done so smoothly… All but 45 of the 621 final Santa e-mails were sent out this morning – the other forty-five (which included some of the … let us call them … most vocal of the UK blogging scene) got stuck somewhere in our server and couldn’t be retrieved for love nor money…
When we finally did manage to get them out from the damn server, Cal had to go, only having time to export them to a not entirely Mac / PC compatible format, which I was then unable to import into my e-mail program. So the last forty-five e-mails had to be cut and pasted in by hand – since every single one is unique. Which would have been been great if I hadn’t been a bit frayed from a day of relatively unsuccessful design work, and put the wrong wishlist URL in ten of them. So there then followed an incredibly apologetic e-mail, a careful and comprehensive checking of the whole process, and then another e-mail sent out to those people with all the details in it, this time all present and correct…
Most of the immediate responses seem to be unbelievably positive. I know that I’ve already bought my present for the person I’m Secret Santa-ing for…