Not Joining This Either

In order to make the series of emails, postcards, and website experiences more interesting I have recast them as a door to door solicitor named "Nextdoor.com". This is an awkward name for a humanoid, but it fits for him since he's a 40 year old guy wearing black horn-rimmed glasses and very dark blue jeans in order to look friendly, yet cool. The effect is rather spoiled by the fact that his voice has a rather nasal quality that makes one think of a somewhat self absorbed middle manager rather than someone you actually wish to be friends with. So here I am at home starting a load of laundry when I get a perky knock at my door. Nextdoor.com stood there with a clipboard in his off hand and his right extended in expectation of giving me a hearty handshake, "Howdy, neighbor."

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