Tag: pledge drive

[UPDATE, 06/29/2014, noonish: Well, that was fast. The pledge drive is now officially closed.]

Honestly, half of the time I just do them for the hate mail.

Anyhoo, as some of you may have guessed I am playing The Secret World now. For those who don’t know, it’s a MMORPG with a horror/conspiracy flavor to it, with puzzles that stopped being ‘clever’ and ‘erudite’ and are now just flat-out ‘insanely esoteric.’ Free to play: so, yup, you guessed it, those never are. Trying to navigate their special membership billing situation so that I can have a monthly membership (giving me extra special access) while not putting new dresses for my dollies stuff from the item store on the house credit card is sufficiently baroque* that I’m just going to throw my hands up and save up to buy a yearly membership. It’s about a hundred and ten bucks; the tip jar is below.

I ain’t going to do this for more than a few days; a week, at most. Even for me, this is a silly one.

Moe Lane

*Turns out credit card fraud for these things can be widespread. Gee. Go figure.

[Midnight-ish UPDATE] Contributions, when added to existing funds, gets me to just under $400.  I believe that we will call it here: maybe I can find a refurbished-upgraded iPod. Thanks again to everybody who contributed!

[6 PM-ish UPDATE] Contributions are now enough that I can get the replacement, and maybe I’ll be able to even upgrade, which I was not expecting to be able to do, honestly.  Thanks!

It’s doing well, actually.

Mind you, that includes personal funds, birthday gift cards, and existing Amazon store credit. But I still have awesome readers. We’re pretty close to getting to $300, which would replace the existing iPod: if we hit $400 I can get the one with double the storage space. We’ll see how it goes, obviously.

44 years old, as of 12:00:01 AM Eastern. And what utter frivolity am I aiming for, this time?  Why, a new iPod! The old one is starting to maybe wheeze a bit, and I’ve already replaced the glass once, and it can’t handle the latest iOS, so maybe it’s time. A bit expensive, but I’ll be getting some birthday money in and save up for the next couple of months for the rest of it. Minus whatever one-day contributions from my one-day pledge drive, of course.

So there you go.

Moe Lane

It goes, it goes. Only a three day affair this year, unless of course people start throwing ridiculous amounts of money into my tip jar. I’m introverted when it comes to squeezing cash out of the Internet, not stupid.

Remember: I promise to spend this money strictly on video games.

And, as it transpires: I will actually have enough to purchase the version with the Kinect and the 250 GB drive.

Sooooo… what am I singing?  Remember: nothing political, nothing too obscene, and something within my range.  And, oh, yeah: English.  I’ll pick the selection I like best from the comments section.