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Blog Funding Day 5

Post of the day — Meme post — below.

It has been suggested that I keep a discrete post up top indicating links on the side of the blog for the fundraising sites, so people can hit the tip when they feel like/have extra money.

What does the commentariat think?

I haven’t done it in the past mostly because idiots use this as proof that I don’t make enough as a fiction writer. But that’s not the calculus — though frankly, I’m just starting to ramp up the fiction writing again, as healt...

Meme Me Tender, Meme Me Slow

Blog Funding Day 4

THE POST OF THE DAY IS BELOW!

Welcome to day four of blog funding days. Yeah, I probably am not going to make anywhere near the total, because the first week are when most of the donations are, and even between GSG and Substack subscriptions, it doesn’t come close. BUT …. But it is what it is. And I still have to ASK, which is hard, but is the point. I mean, I put in about 30 hours a week on this blog, and if I don’t get funding, it makes it very hard to also write fiction.

So, fully ...

I Can Feel It

*BEFORE THE POST AN ANNOUNCEMENT:
Due to WordPress being less functional than normal, would you please sign your comments with your usual handle? (Also, yelling “we’re number one” is allowable, of course.) It might, though knowing the Huns it’s not guaranteed, limit the amount of friendly fire around here.*

I was sharing the link for the substack installment of Witch’s Daughter (Winter Prince tonight. This week and next are rocky, as they could/should be titled “fun with doctors.” For us o...

Signatures, please!

As you have probably all noticed, WordPress has broken displayed commenter names. For the time being, please do your fellow readers a favor and sign your comment in the text box.

Thanks very much,

Holly Frost

P.S. We can see names on the Admin end.

BLog Funding Day 3

(Why bats? I don’t know. But just as last year, y’all donate more when I put up a picture of a bat. It’s entirely possible this is done to drive me batty.)

NOTE TODAY’S POST, A BARN-BURNER BY PHANTOM IS BELOW THIS POST.

Now, what is a nice blogger like me doing with a fundraiser like this?

Well… I hate doing fundraisers. I used to jokingly put out a thing on the 29th of February every 4 years. And I averaged about 2k per year in blog donations. Which is nothing to sneeze at and hey,...

Why the Metric System sucks by Phantom

Why the Metric System sucks by Phantom

One Metric Banana In Length

I’ve said, since Canada adopted the metric system in the 1970s, that it sucks. It is a stupid French utopian idea, and I hate it. 

At a very basic level, metric doesn’t mean anything to me. How big is a centimeter? I have to check every single time. It has no meaning, it’s an arbitrary thing.

Imperial is based on real things. How big is an inch? My thumb, pretty much...

Blog Funding Days, Day Two

THE DAILY BLOG WILL BE BENEATH THIS POST!

Yesterday I had a really strange interaction with a friend: he pinged me and said he saw I was doing a blog fundraiser and did I think he should do one too?

I scratched my head because, well, you see, his blog is paid. I pointed out that in my opinion it was in poor taste to fundraise on a subscription blog because you’re already getting paid. Unless, of course, there is a major emergency. Then it came out he didn’t realize this blog wasn’t pa...

Strange Innovations

I think I’ve told the story here of shopping for a carafe for the coffee machine and finding the world’s strangest review, right?

If I haven’t, older son and I are cheap coffee fiends. No, this doesn’t mean we buy cheap coffee, just that we sometimes (coff or always) buy our coffee machines at thrift stores, provided the machines are very good quality. We, of course, clean them well before first use. Anyway, I no longer remember the brand, but in son’s last years in our house, we bought ...

Why Celebrate The Fourth

Some years it’s easier to celebrate the 4th of July than others. This year is one of the others.

Unlike a lot of my co-religionaires (Usaians, unreformed) I don’t believe the republic is dead. It’s not that I don’t believe most of our government is corrupt and probably irredeemable (but what do you expect of people who frauded their way in? Respect for our laws and founding documents?) but that I believe we’ve been in this place or worse before, and came back at least to an extent.

I...