Well, aside from one very brief stop, I stayed well away from the keyboard after I got up yesterday afternoon. I didn’t read much, either — I was seriously into “passive absorption of someone else’s entertainment product” mode.
We went for a walk to the park, and Katherine and I watched some Sarah Jane’s Adventures. I headed upstairs for the evening at around 9.
I ended up with 15 pledges totalling $636.73, which is amazing. Thanks to all. Those who came late to the party can still sponsor me — sponsorship closes on this coming Friday, I believe.
Now I have to get all those books up onto the bookshelves.
I also need to do my Prize Raffle. I may wait on that until the weekend, on the off chance that someone donates something between now and then. Slim, I know. I did pull in the process a few additional books that I’ve decided I don’t need to keep, but that someone else might like. You’ll see at the final list.
Despite my not-very-good eating habits during the “Thon, weight gain (per this a.m.) was pretty minimal. 🙂
Interestingly enough, per Google Analytics, there was no traffic bump over the weekend. Vaguely disppointing, though I didn’t do it for the fame.
Overall, a fun, if intense, experience. I ended up having (again) more material than I needed. I never even got to some of the non-comics-review material I had in mind, let alone natter more about the Dumb Friends League. I had to rush a bit near the end, in fact — which is okay, because I was dog tired. Which led to the only problem I had with the new laptop over the weekend: the keyboard layout was different enough that, esp. as I got more fatigued a blurry-visioned, I had problems finding where “Home” and “Del” and so forth were.
And next year? Yeah, I’m up for it. The only possible conflict is that we’ve bought tickets (thanks, Mary!) to next year’s San Diego Comic-Con, which was this past weekend as well. While it is theoretically possible to blog from the Con, I think I would probably give it a pass. But we’ll see!
We now resume your regularly scheduled programming …
$636 is awesome! wtg!
It’s the best I’ve done at a Blogathon to date. Folks are awesome.
Participating at Blogathon at the Con might actually cause irreparable physical and mental harm.
It would be doable — except for the staying up all night and missing Sunday thing. 😛
Way to go, Dave. I’m sure if they could, all the critters at DFL would chime in thanks too.
Well, my thanks to you and everyone else who contributed. I’m glad I could be an “inspiration” to that end.
Well there was free wifi all over the Con (except in the dealer’s room). I used it with minimal effort on Sat when I took the laptop.
Not sure I’d want to lug around a laptop at the Con. I can do photos (and basic text) via Twitter, so that’d be okay, I suspect.
You could alway borrow Mary’s cute little Mac.