New Thing 212, New Thing Every Day: Choose Someone at Random and Do Something Nice for Him/Her

The first thing to know is that I keep my entire personal rolodex in a database -- a list of basically everyone I know, everyone I have met in the last 25 years or so. To make this New Thing work, I exported a list of everyone I know in Columbia. Then, I opened it in Excel, which automatically assigns a number to each record. To randomly choose someone I know, I went to www.random.org, which has a random number generator.

I ended up with the name of a person I like very much and have not talked to in at least two years. Tomorrow, I will do something nice for him.