DoozyCards

Our programmer Jaysam took us to visit “Mabel”,  the Doozycards internet server, where she lives at a data center. Her data center is a well known posh facility, we discovered, with hundreds of other servers all chugging away loudly for their companies in one enormous linoleum paradise. Mabel is a high-class girl with  very famous neighbors like Netflix and Time Warner.
Our Creative Director, Bennett, like all Angelinos,  has been tortured by Time Warner Cable, so he grabbed the plugs to the cable empire’s gargantuan servers.  Jaysam, our nimble programmer, tackled  Bennett and wrestled him to the floor, saving millions of people from dark TV sets. We learned this is why all the servers are protected by chain link cages, because it is sooo tempting to pull a plug that has HUGE consequences.  Just a perverse part of human nature, they guess.

We are going to save for a fur coat for Mabel since they freeze the poor little servers with constant air conditioning blasts.  Mabel’s a doll though.  A real workhorse.  She’s only the size of two stereo receivers. She is also safely locked inside a cabinet,  protecting all  your cards and correspondence.

Our entire correspondence with our customers goes in and out of these cables!

Bennett and I pretended to be Sergei and Larry from Google surrounded by all these stacked servers.  We thank Jaysam for a fun tour and for protecting all our customers accounts and cards so vigorously!

Send Irish blessings and cheer with our brand new St. Patrick’s Day ecard.  The penny whistling cat, the  drunk chihuahua and their back up band are at it again.  Regardless of how drunk the chihuahua is, the show must and does go on.
We hope you get your Irish on! Send some of our funny St. Patrick’s Day e-cards like  St. Patrick’s Day Riverdance ecard or our one of our more traditional St. Patrick’s Day ecards such as Across the Miles St. Patrick’s Day.
We wish you  a Happy (and really lucky) St. Patrick’s Day! (mind the leprechauns, though… they get persnickety)

It’s time to spring foward and set the clocks ahead an hour.   Get extra caffeine for Sunday when we  lose an hour.  Our customers are getting ready for Daylight Savings since our new Daylight Savings E-card Spring springs Daylight Savings has been very popular this week. Remind friends,  family and yourself  to set the clocks forward.  Send daylight savings e-cards! One of my favorite Daylight savings ecards is: Daylight Savings Therapy. It’s a bit like my marriage…

Here are Otis and Charlie delivering Meals on Wheels

On Sunday, my son Otis,  my nephew Charlie and I delivered Meals on Wheels.  Living near Beverly Hills, we often get to see how the top 1 % of the country lives.  However, going east of Vermont Boulevard toward downtown LA is a different story.  Many of the recipients on our Sunday delivery route live in tiny rooms.  For several of them, the bed takes up most of the space in their home.  We delivered a meal to one woman who is blind and living alone with just a bed and a desk.  After helping the her up to her third floor apartment  I can’t even imagine  how she gets herself to the grocery store regularly.  She has no refrigerator or even a kitchen.    However, thanks to Sister Alice Marie (“Sister Sam”) at St. Vincent Meals on Wheels, hungry seniors are being fed.  These forgotten seniors need help.  Please consider helping Sister Sam in her mission to feed thousands of home bound seniors a day.  Click here to make a donation.  Every dollar goes to feed a home-bound senior in need of your help.

The family teenagers have taken over Doozycards.  Here is my nephew Charlie Cooke and my son Otis at a production meeting.  My  nephew Robbie Cooke and my son, Cooper are at the same meeting.  My brother and I have eight boys between us.  None of boys are apparently NBA basketball players.  So I am sad to report none of them will be forking over homes and bling for Mama at twenty-one.   Sigh…  Not one to give up, I had brilliant brainstorm.  We will give the boys  what every young man needs: ecard making skills!
And the boys are learning so much. Settling arguments on how to dress the animals is why we had to install a boxing ring in the backyard.  The boys seemed very excited to learn you must go to the mat for important company decisions like – the fairy  WILL be fatter.
I’m  happy to report the boys are naturals in the world of ecards and may surpass our wisdom soon.  Apparently their endless hours of watching important Youtube content and playing internet games has paid off in spades.  The boys are naturals at making ecard games!  Their brainstorm, Find the Birthday Cake Game is a top seller.  What a relief, I can start spending their college funds on shoes immediately.  Friday night we wrapped up an Easter game and a Father’s Day game.  Stay tuned for pics of my new shoes and for new games by the teenagers!

I would love to have an in-house doggie Mariachi Band.  Every time the little boys tackle each other or the teen complains, I could say hit it!  And they would appear and enchant us all.     Living in Southern California, we hear a lot of Mariachi music.  Last weekend I rode my bike through McArthur Park near downtown Los Angeles and there was live Mariachi music in the park.  In fact my parents had mariachi music at their second wedding to each other (that’s a whole nother story!).  I think the best place to hear Mariachi music is on Olvera Street.  T his is a great place to take kids and out of town guests.  They sell something my kids absolutely love: eggs blown out and filled with confetti.  Boys apparently delight in smashing these on each others’ heads.  In the spirit of Marichi bands all over the world, we are proud to present: Our Mariachi Valentine Ecard.