Nerd Carolling Thanks You (final total)

So Nerd Carolling has come to an end. We were really happy with the results!

We had hoped to raise $100 from our two days of singing.

We made that in the first night.

After 5 nights of carolling, (3 more than we had planned thanks to an amazingly positive response) we raised...

$505.58 CAD

Sarah and I made the donation last night to Child's Play. People have also been giving online donations and telling us about them. So our real grand total is

$565.58 CAD

Thank you so much to the people who got excited and sent us around to a variety of people. You started a chain reaction that got us sent to so many different places in the city and got the word out further.

Thanks to Sarah and Emily for putting in their time and singing voices to making this possible.

A huge thank you to Jonathon Coulton (jonathancoulton.com) and The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society (cthulhulives.org) who said we could use their music and basically made the whole thing possible. They have really great music, if you haven't done so already you should check them out.

This was a really fun project and we hope to be able to do this again next year!
Merry Christmas

Nerd Carolling (first night)

We went out singing last night and already have passed our goal of 100 dollars for Child's Play (http://www.childsplaycharity.org). So now we're hoping to double it. We had so many people get into it when we started going around. Once they understood what we were doing it snowballed. We'd sing for one house and they would send us to two more houses.

Also people were really happy to give to Child's Play. Most had been wanting to for a while but didn't feel like it was worth it for their five or ten dollars. But we've also had people from other cities email us to let us know they've donated an amount and want us to sing for someone in Regina. So exciting!

Typing

I love typing fast. I love hearing the the variations of the key strokes as I slam down on the board in different levels of intensity. I feel in those moments that I'm playing a new sort of instrument and that the crescendo of my idea is somehow transmuting itself into something new and wonderful. Mostly I love to send off emails as fast as my fingers will allow. Just listen to the keys. I've had so many emails where I simply have to say "Yes, I can do this." or "Right away." that it feels like the phrase is simply part of the motion and not the reason for the email. I would find any reason to send off that email. Now just to find that portion of my brain that is the poet. To coax out some description so that others will understand, what I hear in the beautiful sound of typing the word.