A Brief Extension and Update on Birthday Cards

[dawn_felagund]

ETA: Birthday cards are now closed.

Initially, the birthday card form was going to be taken down today. However, I am going to be working on the newsletter this morning and have friends coming over in the evening, which means I will not realistically be doing much of anything with birthday cards today. Because of this, I am going to leave the page up for one more day, until August 2. If you missed sending all that you wanted to send, you still have a little more time.

Please take care when sending cards to choose a recipient from the dropdown. In the rush to send cards in the past few days, several were sent without recipients. If I can figure out who it goes to from the message, I will assign it to that person. If I can figure out the sender, I will contact that person for clarification. But I did receive several that I could not figure out, that were unsigned, but had lovely messages that now will not be able to be sent. So as you rush to finish, please don't forget to take a deep breath and complete all steps. :)

Here is the link for anyone who needs it: http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/birthday10/card-send.php

Finally, to give an estimate as to when the albums will be sent out: We have received hundreds of requests over the past few days. I plan to work in earnest tomorrow to begin clearing the backlog. Hopefully, albums will be ready to send out by early to the middle of next week. If anything arises that delays us further, I will let everyone know.

Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

So much hard work on your part, Dawn. You are really a fandom treasure (I have said on a few of my cards--there are a surprising number of those--but you really, really, really are at the top of the list). This is a wonderful project. I will send a few more today--not dozens just a few I intended to send from the beginning and did not get around to doing.

[dawn_felagund]

I knew last night that I'd be doing an extension, but I waited intentionally so that most would be in ... so yes, those who rushed to get them in yesterday have a right to glare at me right now. :) I just know by now how these things go. Half the participants will wait till the last day. (And for the record, I am among them, as I haven't done my cards yet either ... So that is not intended as criticism or judgment--just fact!) And someone will wake up this morning a little sad that they didn't get finished, so I'm hoping this will at least be a bright point to them.

They're not hard to do, but anything times several hundred takes time. They are actually relaxing, and I very much need to calm my mind after this past week ...

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

They are actually relaxing, and I very much need to calm my mind after this past week ...

I know that feeling all too well!

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Not glaring at all! I'm glad I didn't have to rush, and now I can sit down with the list in peace and figure out if I missed anybody while trying to get mine sent. :)

[dawn_felagund]

Oh good! As I was typing up this post, I kind of worried that the first comment would be along the lines of "I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT DOING THESE THINGS AND NOW YOU ANNOUNCE AN EXTENSION." But it didn't seem fair to take down the form if I'm not even ready to work on the cards yet, and I'm glad the response has been positive so far. :)

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

My staying up all night had almost nothing to do with the cards and everything with the moon being so incredibly bright. Heh. I just made use of the time. But I can honestly not imagine an objection to more time! It's an opportunity to send yet more cards! ^^

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Time just flew away from me. I'm extremely grateful for the extension and hope I can grab a few minutes to put a few cards into the queue tonight.

- Erulisse (one L)

[dawn_felagund]

Oh good! I knew a few people would wake up this morning and regret that they didn't get more done, so this my my wee gift to my fellow procrastinators and busy people (or which I'm both!)

[klose.livejournal.com]

Oops, I procrastinated on sending this and was resigned to have just missing out altogether. Thanks for the extension!

[dawn_felagund]

Ah, so you're one of the people I was thinking of who would be relieved by this extra day! :D I'm glad it worked out.

[zdenka]

Oh good! I got most of mine in earlier in the month (not procrastinating for once!) but I just sent one more.

[dawn_felagund]

I'm glad the extension gave you the chance to do so. :D Now if only I could figure out that "not procrastinating" thing ...

[binkaslibrary.livejournal.com]

Do you need any help with uploading? I sent out all the cards I wanted so I can help if need be (starting Monday).

[dawn_felagund]

Binka, you're awesome! I should be okay--they go pretty quickly, especially when I'm working from home (versus work with the sloooow Internet)--but if come Monday, I'm still staring down hundreds of this suckers, I will let you know. :D

[binkaslibrary.livejournal.com]

Actually, I may have one card to sent I think...

If you let me know on Sunday evening your time that you need help, I can start on Monday morning :)

[dawn_felagund]

I will do that. :) Thank you!

[independence1776]

I woke up this morning and remembered one more card I wanted to send. So glee resulted when I read this.

[dawn_felagund]

Yay! This is exactly what I was hoping for when I decided to do the extension. :)

[hhimring]

Thank you very much, Dawn!
I just sent a couple more.

[dawn_felagund]

You're welcome! It seems the extension was needed, so I'm glad it worked out. :)

[elfscribe5.livejournal.com]

Hi Dawn. Thanks soooo much for all you do for us. I sent a bunch of cards but since I did it over the month and foolishly didn't write anything down, I'm sure I forgot some people or sent some twice. Will there be any opportunity to send cards once the albums are up? Or does it not work that way? Also I wanted to send cards to all SWG's tech support but only remembered a couple of names and couldn't find a list anywhere on the newsletter. Can you post a list? (Sorry to be more trouble.) The cards were a wonderful idea.

[dawn_felagund]

Today is the last day to send cards. You aren't the only one who forgot to write them down! I'm going to duplicate a few myself, I suspect. :)

I got your tech support card. I can send that one to all the webmasters if you want: Rhapsody, Russandol, and myself. You also mentioned the newsletter, on that card. The regular newsletter staff is Oshun, Rhapsody, Russandol, Angelica, and me with several authors who pinch-hit for Oshun when she needs someone to cover for her on the bios. There is a card for the newsletter that I can give to those people if you'd like.

[elfscribe5.livejournal.com]

Okay good. Actually I sent cards to almost everyone there except one. So, going to do that now. Thanks!

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'd written it off in my mind because there wasn't a chance to sit with it till this weekend. Now I've had time to work my way down the list and hope I didn't miss anyone. (though Elfscribe's question about tech support is a good one, I didn't send any because I didn't want to leave someone out)

[dawn_felagund]

I'm glad this extension worked out! It seems it was very much needed. :)

The mods who work specifically on tech stuff are Rhapsody, Russandol, and me. (The rest of the mod team is Angelica, Tarion, and Elleth, with Uli on hiatus and Jenni retired.)

I've been thinking lately that we need a list of the mods on the About page, including who works in what area, and this really hammers home that this would be a good idea! :)