Personal stuff
We’re entering the Week 3 of the annual Keep The Moneylenders From Repossessing Kim’s Children fundraiser, so if you haven’t yet thrown some coins into Ye Olde Begginge Cuppe, please consider doing so.
And heartfelt thanks to all those who have already contributed. The difference it has made to our circumstances (and to my general mood) is beyond description.
As we enter Week 3 of the annual Help Keep The Repo Man From Kim’s Door event, please let me first thank all those of you who have made donations already, from the blogger who I happen to know is himself struggling, to the Regular Readers whose names I recognize, and to the Readers whom I don’t.
Thank you, one and all.
And to those who haven’t yet stepped up to the (collection) plate, please do so if it’s at all possible.
Honestly, it’s your responses and donations that make blogging worthwhile — I don’t do this for the money (or else I’d have ads and paid advertorials all over the place), nor do I write these daily missives for some kind of self-justification.
But it really is nice to be appreciated, and your generosity shows me that, in spades. Thank you.
One last thing. This website is having increasing issues with connectivity — I get those “dropped connections” notices often, sometimes as I’m writing the posts themselves and sometimes when I try to respond in Comments. Even my emails crash when I try to respond to messages. It’s not my wi-fi at home, it is very definitely happening at Hosting Matters, so please be patient as TS II and I try to resolve the thing.
I have no idea why this is going on — it’s a damn nuisance — but I am aware of the situation. If you’re having problems commenting, just wait a few minutes and try again, as I do. Sorry about all that, but it’s outside my control.
I just wanted to thank all those who have contributed to my “Keep Kim From Poverty” fund: the results from Week 1 have been wonderful, not to mention in some cases astonishing (and you know who you are).
I know this is a PITA, and believe me, I hate asking for help. But this blog is no longer the site it once was — back in those days, I actually had more discrete readers per day than the Daily Mail — and it pains me that the once-proud “BANG” [Buy (Kim) a New Gun] fund has been reduced to a HKKHLO [Help Kim Keep His Lights On] fund.
But there it is, and here we are. Please consider supporting this tired old back porch, if you haven’t already.
…and:
Over at the brilliant Day By Day website, Chris Muir has been forced to bring forward his annual fundraiser because of the current Biden economy…
…and so have I.
I cannot tell you how much the economy — most specifically, Bidenflation — has eaten away at my paltry income. Over the past two years, the value of my safety net account has dropped by over 70% as New Wife and I have struggled to make ends meet. And believe me, we’ve pared back on our spending, whether it’s on groceries, clothing or anything else that one needs to keep alive. Forget luxuries.
I’ve sold all the guns I can, a couple at a loss even, and there’s nothing else left to sell.
The only small consolation is that we’ve managed to keep our credit card balance really low, so as to minimize the monthly payments.
Now we’re at rock bottom, where any kind of unforeseen demand will push us over the edge. We can’t afford to put any large expenses on a credit card because then we’d be unable to make even the minimum payment.
This website is my only source of income. Those of you who make a monthly contribution to Patreon have my eternal thanks, because that amount has oftentimes kept us afloat.
Now I’m asking for your help, and I hope everybody can be at least a little generous. Yes, I’m aware that everyone is under financial pressure, so what I’m asking may be too much.
And yes, it hurts to be so needy, and so desperate. But there it is.
Remember this, from these very pages a couple weeks back?
...”A grateful nation says thank you for your service — now fuck off and live on the streets.”
Turns out the original story appears to have been fabricated bullshit. Read all about it here.
I need to wait longer before I talk about this stuff. Sorry about that.
In the past I’ve scheduled my posts to appear just after 6am Central so that people could read them either before or soon after they got to work — which many people have supported. But several Longtime Brit and Euro Readers recently asked via email whether I could possibly give them the same opportunity, and it’s an easy change to make.
Henceforth, my daily posts will appear soon after midnight Central, i.e. early morning Over There. (I have no Asian Readers other than a slew of what appears to be Chinese bots, and my ANZAC Readers will just have to deal with it, as the time difference is too extreme for me to do anything to help them. Sorry.)
Speaking of Brits, Mr. Free Market shared this wonderful take on modern education with me, and I didn’t want it to be submerged amongst all the other cartoons and memes:
Brilliant. (I know: “Theorem” not “Theorum”. Probably written by a Math guy.)