Month: July 2007

In case you missed my “live” performance, you can check out my Blogathon posts most easily by one of the following methods:

1. Well, if you use an RSS feed, they’re all sitting out there.  If you’re using the Atom feed, it includes pictures.  Ooooh …
2. You can click on the “Blogathon” category archive link in the sidebar.
3. You can do a search for “BT07” — all posts during the ‘Thon have that in the subject line.

Enjoy.

Some time in the next week or so, the Blogathon people will be sending out e-mail reminders to you about your pledge, with a link to the ERD giving page.  That’s it.  Nothing is being automatically deducted, no actual bill from the ERD being send — heck, the ERD will never know that you pledged, and if you never send them (or anyone) anything, nobody will ever know.

Except, of course, you.  🙂

If you want to get a hop on the process, or look at your (many) options, you can go here.  There are various simple donation funds, pages with corporations that do matching gifts, and lots of stuff under “Gifts for Life” (things like giving a goat, etc.) — you can even buy “Bishops Blend” coffee.

The direct donation page is here, and it’s easy-peasy to use. It also includes a snail-mail address you can use if you prefer to send money by Post rather than over the Net (there’s even a Phone option).

Thanks again for your help and support.

Well, it’s 2:30p — about seven hours of snoozing.  Not bad.  Kind of groggy and sweaty, but alive and all that.

Hi!  Wha’s goin’ oin?

This sort of thing doesn’t just happen.  I have a lot of folks who’ve helped.

First off, thanks to the folks who organized the Blogathon.  You give structure to this effort, which helps make it happen.  Because otherwise it wouldn’t.

Thanks to the folk who monitor — in my Khouria Jen.  Knowing you were watching helped. 

Thanks, too, the the folks who commented the past 24 hours:  Les, DOF, Amanda, Doyce, Mom, Margie, De, Ktbuffy, Avo, Lee, Kevin, Steve, and Ginger.  This is not an effort easily done without any feedback.

Thanks, again and more, for those folks who actually made this a worthwhile effort by pledging to the ERD (you should, in the next few days, get an e-mail reminding you of your pledge and where to go to make the donation):  Steve, Mom & Dad, Mary, “Anonymous,” Solonor, Ktbuffy, Doyce, Randy, DOF, Lee, and Amanda and Marn.  At $520 $540, this was the most I’ve raised in a Blogathon, and I very much appreciate it.

(For the record, the overall Blogathon attracted 361 blogs and a total of $117,097.86 in pledges to various causes.)

Thanks to the creators of the comics that give me so much joy, not to mention fodder for commentary.

Thanks to Mom & Dad for encouraging reading and tolerating my comic book habit (esp. for that Giant-Sized X-Men #1 we picked up off the spinner rack at the Grand Canyon many moons ago …)..

Thanks to Jim & Ginger for helping us put together the new office to serve as Blogathon Central here.  Again, it made life a lot easier both in terms of removing distractions and convenience to the material.

Thanks to Katherine for being good for me.

And most of all, and always, many thanks to Margie.  When I offer up 24 hours of my life to an effort like this, perforce it means a lot of extra hours for her, too, plus all the food shopping and solicitude and all that good stuff.  Margie’s been a brick in this, and her “but of course” willingness to support me made this not just possible, but doable.  Love you, honey.

And to all a good night!

I’ve not been up 24 hours yet — just a half hour short — but on a normal work day I’m already half-way to work.

About an hour and a half to the end of the ‘Thon.  I am currently sitting at (woot!) 12 pledges totaling (woot!!) $520 for the ERD.  If you’re just waking up and seeing I’m stll here, why not reward my vague coherence and pledge more, more, more!  Woot!