I got an email from my dad yesterday morning, informing me that he'd remembered a gmail address that he no longer uses and that David could have. Since they have the same name, it worked out well.
Even though I don't watch TV, I occasionally run across a commercial while I'm browsing around on the internet. A couple weeks ago, I saw one that Google has apparently been running wherein a dad sets up an email address for his newborn daughter and then sends her things while she's growing up. She gets older, he gives her the email address, she cries, fade to black. I thought it was a cool idea, the only problem was that you can't set up a gmail account for people who are younger than 13. Now that problem is solved.
So, if you want to send David a message, you can email him at <firstname>.<lastname> at gmail dot com. When David gets older and moves out, I'll give him the password and he can peruse all of the things people have told him throughout his life. I have no plans to read any of this - your emails to David will be private. I will occasionally open the account up to de-spam it and to make sure nobody has signed him up for daily porn or something. But I will not be actually opening any of the messages. This will basically be a write-only time capsule that will be opened when David is all growed up. So enjoy. I'm sure he will.
Neat idea!
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