I finally put together my Christmas Card/Gift list for the year, and holy crap, I've got a lot of cards to write. I'm trying to be all professional this year, and send cards out to people and organizations that helped me a lot out at work, people that did me favors, and people I've let slip off the radar. Because maintaining contacts is what normal healthy successful people do, and I've decided that at 30 it's about time to at least try and fit into their ranks. I have great difficulty trying to think of good gifts for people. I try to be original and funny and cheap. I cherish every gift I get, and I want people to get gifts that they'll remember for years to come. Failing that, I'd like to get them gifts they want. Years ago, when I still had a step-family to shop for, it would get very stressful trying to think of so many gifts, and the siblings were not very consenting on the idea of telling me what they wanted. My standard threat was that they would find a stocking full of frozen burritos from Kroger if I didn't get a list of desired items. I've never had to make good on my threat, but I've just found something much much better: Arch Cards! I am so getting someone an Arch card, it's the perfect sarcastic joke gift.