We held the December meeting of my Adobe user group last night. I had asked the people if they wanted to do something party-ish or just have a normal presentation-based meeting, and they voted for the later, so I did a preso on using Flash, After Effects, Soundbooth and Photoshop to create an animated greeting card.

It's been a tradition of ours to encourage members to bring an unwrapped toy to the December meeting that we then donate to the Toys for Tots program. Last night, I ended up being about fifteen minutes late for my meeting (yet another time when I'm very glad to have a co-manager...) and when I did arrive, I was taken aback by my group's generosity: there was a really big stack of toys laid out a table. Not only that, but they were *nice* toys - a stack of games like Battleship and Sorry, a couple of dolls, even a fairly big playset.

So there are going to be a bunch of kids that will have a better holiday season this year thanks to the group, and as I said in the subject, it's a day that makes me proud to be associated with these folks.