Today I began the annual ritual called "Sorting the Charities". It's a ( Read more... )

OK, 13 charity checks written so far, about 25 more to go. But the mailman has already come, so if I get the rest to the post office by sometime tomorrow afternoon I'll be happy.

Party in progress -- we have a tub full of iced drinks and a table covered with cheese, olives, bread, and smoked turkey. The ham's in the oven.

Party at the Starport today. That means that there's a lot to do, but very little of it will involve writing checks, printing CDs, or writing CGI scripts to take preorders. Urk!

I went to bed early -- 10pm -- and woke up feeling considerably better. I ( Read more... )

Well, it took all afternoon, but I finally made it through the pile of charity begging letters, which filled a printer-paper box plus a paper grocery bag when I started. The final stack is thirty-five envelopes, plus a currently-unknown number that got tossed in with the pending bills (because I knew I was going to pay them) and ( Read more... )

I am not a particularly religious person. Given a choice between a charity associated with a church with which I have no association whatever, and a non-secular one performing the same function, I'll take the non-secular one every time.

Enclosing a necklace with a crucifix attached is not going to ( Read more... )

Here's Cory Doctorow's post on BoingBoing where he gives links to a long list of charities.

I'm a horrible procrastinator; for the last couple of years I've mostly ( Read more... )