Just received an electronic gift from my, self-proclaimed, 'bad Santa'. After not having received my secret Santa gift, I was surprised to receive notification from Reddit Gifts that my item had shipped - Hurrah! Finally my Santa has shipped my gift - and I headed off to see the shipment data: 'Electronic' - hrm, interesting - I wondered to myself (not aloud for that might upset my cube-neighbors) whether it might be something from my Amazon Wish List, an electronic gift card sent to one of my email addresses, or perhaps a Steam gift (which might be a challenge in that my steam Id is probably not readily obvious as rgautier1 rather than rgautier). After checking all of these out [checked 5 email accounts, blogger account, etc] and still having no idea what might have been sent my way electronically, I logged onto Reddit (well, switched tabs....I'm rarely far from Reddit)

Some interesting points for my self-proclaimed 'horrible Santa' to note - [as (s)he is anonymous I have no way to tell him/her anything in person]: 1. I am not just a Networking/IT guy - I started life as a programmer - just for the record. 2. Your gift is not unappreciated - one thing I had thought about getting someone I know (who has more money than any one person should) was a check to his favorite charity - being that you have done the same [effectively] for me, and knowing that I myself already have everything in life that I need says something in and of itself. If I choose to be upset that I did not receive something else, I'll merely chalk the cost of that something else up to charity and buy it for myself - money, my friend, is not an issue. 3. A gift of Reddit Gold, by definition, does not 'suck balls' - you should feel good about the donation! Your donation not only went to someone who needed it [the Reddit we know and love] - but it's doing the world a lot more good than sending me some tchotchke (SP!) that I will look at 3x and then forget about. 4. Don't beat yourself up about procrastinating - for the record, you should know that I, myself, am not done shopping for Christmas presents for people that I KNOW AND LOVE! You don't even know me.

Thank you for the gift of Reddit Gold! I know that your gift is doing good work [in keeping an important online community alive] - and you have gifted not only me this holiday season, but the recipient of your donation as well - the users of Reddit!

Have a Merry Christmas!