Last year, the Blogathon had 219 participants, with 1,777 sponsors pledging over $55,000. This year, 285 participants for total pledges of $96,887.68. That’s pretty cool.
Last year, I had seven fine sponsors, pledging $241. This year I have 12, pledging $457. Again with the Wow.
(Sponsors, you’ll be getting an e-mail or two from the Blogathon with a message from me and the link to the EFF’s Support page. There’s all sorts of ways you can do support stuff there, including a form you can download for using snail-mail if your of that sort of inclination.)
And now the Thank Yous.
Thanks to the Blogathon crew, including my monitor, Elegy. This couldn’t happen without all the volunteer time all y’all put in. It is appreciated.
Thanks to my commenters: the Mother-in-Law, Steve, Elegy, Kelson, Avocet, Mary, Mal, Margie, DOF, Kate, Travis, Mrs. SEB. Getting feedback is critical, and it helps, awfully much.
Thanks to Les, who put up with my Google Talk chatter. Having that connection at 2 in the morning helped me, and I hope it helped in return.
Thanks to my Sponsors. You guys make this pay off, literally. I believe that all of the following names were okay to disclose, and, if not, I apologize: Stephen, Mom, De, Lee, Margie, Mary, Amanda, the Mother-in-Law, and Randy. Plus three anonymous sponsors in there. $457 to a very worthy cause, people. You’ve done a little bit to support me, and, bread upon the waters, I trust it will come back to you in myriad ways.
Thanks to Katherine for being patient with Daddy being a bit cranky and a lot unavailable.
As always, biggest thanks to Margie. She was immediately supportive of my doing this, took care of all the logistics around me regarding it, and was an overall doll. I love you, honey.
And with that, I believe I am within the rules to count this as my final half-hour post, and to say good morning, and good night. The posts should be all below here for your Sunday perusal. I’ll be out of commission until early-mid afternoon.
See you in the funny papers.
Good Job!!! the M-I-L
Congratulations! Thanks for another stack of interesting comics suggestions. I’ll be giving Gotham Central, Fables, Ultimate Galactus and Daisy Kutter a try thanks to your reviews.
And, thanks to your preview, I’m looking forward to picking up the Samaritan one-shot at my comics shop next week.
Yeah!!! Great work dear!
Congratulations! Wooooooo Hoooooo!
Well done, Dave. Our congratulations.
:blushes: Garsh.
As much as I appreciate (truly) all the comments above — Steve’s the the one that means most, because it means I’ve had an influence in sharing stuff I love.
Gotham Central is cancelled, alas, so only available in trade (at least 3, maybe more). Start with 1, which starts with the beginning.
Fables is still going strong, and has pretty full trade coverage from #1. Great stuff.
Thanks, again, all of you.
Rats – I didn’t get over here until it was almost over. Congrats on a job well done – I’m impressed with the money you raised and all the hard work you put into it. Enjoy your nap!
Do what you love and helping others is where is at! Thanks for your info about Civil War; I’ll give it some consideration.