Thursday - June 05, 2014

Paying The Bills

FINAL UPDATE: PLEASE, NO MORE MONEY THIS YEAR

THAT’S HOW GENEROUS BMEWS READERS HAVE BEEN. The Blegging is over; expenses are fully covered. FULLY. You guys are bloody fantastic.

If you still want to toss a quarter in the tip jar, that will be set aside for next year. And I do keep a pretty careful accounting of funds and expenses, just in case some snoopy tax dude thinks this is some kind of job. It isn’t. I don’t clear a dime on this blog. In the very, very rare case where I have too many donations one year, I roll them forward and sometimes even delay asking for help until I need it. So we’re good for 2014. 100% great in fact.

Golly, I’m nearly feeling woozy. It’s either the generosity of my readership, or the acetone I used to do a final wipe on the windshield. I go with the generosity and let Sally say it for me ...

UPDATED UPDATE: The outpouring of support from the BMEWS readership has simply been tremendous. I am overwhelmed. Surprised. Amazed. Impressed. Verklempt, even! We’ve had more people Give A Click this year than ever before. I guess we’re doing something right after all.

I’m going to float this post at the top for today into tomorrow, then let it sink downwards. I don’t want to harass or bleg too much, but I do want to keep up a big running THANK YOU to those who have, and the tiniest reminder to those who might.  And come Monday, I’ll shut up about this for a full year.

Ok, I have to go try and clean my windshield today. I’ve got my Sunday job to do, cleaning offices, so I’d better be able to see to drive there. Maybe I’ll take photos and compare 3 or 4 solvents at a time.

UPDATE: One HUGE round of applause for them what put in a contribution. We are humbled, and most unctuously grateful. A little help, a lot of help, any help at all, it all helps a lot. Thank you so very much!

It’s the time of year once again when all the bits and pieces that make up BMEWS show up at my door, looking for money.

Server fees, domain registrations, a couple of widgets. That sort of thing. Actually, BMEWS is going to cost a bit less to run this coming year, since the lovely widget we had for mapping out folks online is gone. That company went under, and they shut down and vamoosed months ago. And still owing me at least half a year of service too.

Meh. What can you do?

So this hobby blog costs just under 80¢ per day. A bit steep, but I’ve got unlimited storage capacity and unlimited bandwidth. Which is probably a bit excessive, but I’ll never run up against a wall.

In the meantime, I’m trying to cut whatever expenses here that I can. And give thanks once again for all my readers who have helped out in the past.

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