Holiday Season

It’s getting be that time of year again. You wouldn’t know it, what with our frigid 66° weather, but that is besides the point.

The real point is that you all, even you GoogleBots, want to buy me lots of gifts. I know, it will be a strong urge to resist, but please try. For the children.

Seriously. I write about it every year (which means 12 of you read this), and this year is no exception. However, instead of just Child’s Play Charity (my long-running favorite – pick NOLA!), I have two additional:

OLPC: Give One, Get One – OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is a project to develop a super-cheap, rugged, Linux-based laptop to distribute to poor, technologically deficient countries to help boost education, which will in turn boost, agriculture, medicine, etc… For $400, you can buy one for yourself, and included in that price, one will be shipped to a child in a developing country – but you only have until Nov. 25. $200 of that is tax-deductible, and you also get a year of T-Mobile hotspot access, as an additional incentive to that warm fuzzy feeling. To put my money where my mouth is, I just bought one ($423.95 USD after shipping).

Now that all the techie stuff is out of the way, let’s get to the fun stuff: football and booze. They go so well together, right? Well, there are apparently two new wines out there courtesy of Gridiron Cellars: the Cajun Cannon Cabernet benefiting the Louisiana Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the Vintage Brees Chardonnay, benefiting the Brees Dream Foundation.

Go forth and donate!