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Well, folks, t’is the first day of the first ever (and hopefully last) CF Begathon. Can you FEEL the excitement in the air? The backstory that necessitates this appalling and embarrassing turn of events is here and here. Already got a couple hundred bucks’ worth of donations over the weekend, in advance of the Begathon’s official kick-off; thanks so very much for that. I can’t begin to tell you how much it’s appreciated. Also went out and got myself one of these on Saturday, too, so with any luck we won’t be having any more catastrophes like this last one.
You can donate if you wish by clicking on the PayPal button below or in the right sidebar. This post will remain at the top for the rest of the week, or until I scrounge enough to replace the toasted iMac, whichever comes first. Thanks again to all of you for your generosity, and for dropping by ye olde weblog in the first place.
Update! Bill points out a most regrettable typo in the title, which I fixed, and will forevermore swear never happened.
Updated update! The response so far has been fantastic. I’ll be e-mailing my thanks to each of you who have donated individually, of course, but until I have a chance to do so, please accept a blanket expression of my gratitude here. You guys are terrific, and I appreciate your concern and generosity more than I could ever adequately express.
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Don't know about that, but I hope it arrives. If it doesn't, let me know and I'll give it another shot.
If you can scrounge a case and power supply, you could be up immediately.
Would you like to have me mail it?
If you can scrounge a case and power supply, you could be up immediately.
Would you like to have me mail it to you?
( correction: a MICRO-ATX motherboard ... although it will probably fit in any ATX case, just lots of unused space inside ... )
So at the risk of sounding ungrateful or overly picky -- neither of which I am, I assure you -- I'm going to stick with a refurbed 24-inch iMac from the Apple Store, which will also come with a one-year warranty, something I hope to not ever have to think about again after typing it here. And given the absolutely humbling response I've gotten to this fundraiser so far, it ought to be doable by the end of the week -- another in a long list of things I have to remember, and remember well, this coming Thanksgiving Day.
See you Saturday!
But thanks just the same for your kind offer. And Rusty, and dpu, thanks to both of you as well, and to everyone else here. I gots a lotta e-mails to write over the next few days...