RangerWickett
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Edit: The short version is, we're trying to raise money to get the newly married Russ and his wife one of three possible gifts -- badges to GenCon ($150), hotel accommodations at GenCon ($1000), or airfare to GenCon ($3000). If you want to contribute money to Russ and Sharon's gift, you can send it via PayPal to RNOCK(at)EMORY(dot)EDU.
Morrus, this site's founder and all around suave British playboy, just got married. He won't be back to the site for three weeks; I assume he and his new wife need that long to collate their Dr. Who collections.
In the meanwhile, I was wondering if people here would be interested in sending them a card, and possibly pooling money and getting them a nice wedding present. There's already a congratulatory thread, though, so perhaps a card would be redundant.
Regarding a gift, I figure we can discuss ideas in this thread, determine a budget, and then finagle the details of actually getting the money. Maybe we could set up a Kickstarter fund, though I've never tried that. If there's not much interest for a group thing I'll just send a gift of my own, but if people want to team up, we could get the newlyweds something really special.
I don't know what the two of them have, so I'm not sure what they'd be interested in, but I have some initial thoughts:
Piddling -- A pair of ceramic gnomes.
Low -- Amazon or some tech-store gift card.
Medium -- Gen Con 2011 badges for them both. (My understanding is that the missus isn't much of a gamer, but she still enjoyed the con. My recollection could be incorrect, however, in which case we'd need something else.)
High -- Hotel lodging for Gen Con 2011.
Primo -- Airfare.
I know finances are tight for a lot of folks, so please don't worry if now's not a good time for you. But if you're interested, even in just chipping in a few bucks, that's awesome.
Morrus, this site's founder and all around suave British playboy, just got married. He won't be back to the site for three weeks; I assume he and his new wife need that long to collate their Dr. Who collections.
In the meanwhile, I was wondering if people here would be interested in sending them a card, and possibly pooling money and getting them a nice wedding present. There's already a congratulatory thread, though, so perhaps a card would be redundant.
Regarding a gift, I figure we can discuss ideas in this thread, determine a budget, and then finagle the details of actually getting the money. Maybe we could set up a Kickstarter fund, though I've never tried that. If there's not much interest for a group thing I'll just send a gift of my own, but if people want to team up, we could get the newlyweds something really special.
I don't know what the two of them have, so I'm not sure what they'd be interested in, but I have some initial thoughts:
Piddling -- A pair of ceramic gnomes.
Low -- Amazon or some tech-store gift card.
Medium -- Gen Con 2011 badges for them both. (My understanding is that the missus isn't much of a gamer, but she still enjoyed the con. My recollection could be incorrect, however, in which case we'd need something else.)
High -- Hotel lodging for Gen Con 2011.
Primo -- Airfare.
I know finances are tight for a lot of folks, so please don't worry if now's not a good time for you. But if you're interested, even in just chipping in a few bucks, that's awesome.
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