GU Giveaway Winner!

Last night, as I was struggling to get everything done before I finally rolled into bed at midnight, I thought about ways of picking today's GU Giveaway* winner. I almost talked myself into being okay with the random.org selection method due to sheer lack of time, but knew I could come up with something better on a few hours of sleep.

First thing: I made a list of all the people who earned an entry. There were 54 entries between my blog, Twitter, and bonus entries.

Then it dawned on me. There are 52 cards in a standard deck of cards, plus two jokers. So, I'd just assign you all a suit and pick a card, right?

Sure, but it's not very fun if I do it.

List of entries + corresponding card

Deck of cards (a.k.a., you guys)

Shuffled cards

Unsuspecting coworker thinks she's just picking a card -- little does she know she's actually changing someone's life. :)

Coworker shuffles the cards and splits the deck in half, and then has me pick a pile.
Coworker again splits the cards into two more miles and has me pick a pile.
Coworker splits into three piles (two cards each) and has me pick a pile.
Coworker then plays eeny-meeny-miney-moe. (She came up with all this nonsense, not me. I just wanted her to pick a card.)
WINNER!

Congrats to my fellow Bay Area runner, Sesa!! :) Please shoot your mailing address to diaryofanaveragerunner [at] gmail [dot] com, and I will get this in the mail for you right away. Enjoy!


*I was given these GU samples free of charge and was allowed to do whatever I wanted with them.