Survey Sez

So I planned a shindig and worked up a great flyer in pdf format to print and mail out. But I only had a handful of addresses, while I had everyone's email. So since email works for me, I emailed all the invitations.

My partner contends that emailing the things was rude. Much better to call and get snail-mail addresses, or walk them around, something. She's probably right. Maybe some of the declines I got were in reaction to an email being impersonal. I wouldn't know, because my social instincts are alleged to be weak.

Then I got a positive response, and this started a convo, and the gist of that was that everybody sends evites these days. Real mail, envelopes, stamps? Pfah. Granted, this person works in the same overly-electronified industry as I and may be as out of touch with basic reality.

So what say you? Would you be less inclined to accept an invitation sent in email than if the flyer was sent in real mail? Granted, anyone reading this is plugged in and switched on and predisposed to send and receive their global communications in the form of IP packets, so maybe as a poll this is far from scientific, but I'm interested in your reaction regardless.

In other news, as a sort of general catch-up to What Is, I finished my retaining wall and poured the hot tub slab, my dad's still in hospital but recovering (as well as one can - there's really only one way to recover from old age), skies are clear of smoke but only for the time being as we head into a year of record-low precipitation and water storage, the cat is slowly getting less reactive to the puppy-dog's enthusiastic leap and play, our house continues to be a brief waystation for random collections of surprisingly polite teenagers, and there is still only one number between one thousand and two thousand that is not a sum of consecutive integers.