One week until blogathon 2005

Woo hoo only one more week til the thon. I'm pretty satisfied by the way the pledges are going. We're up to $260. I'm thinking we can get to $400. That would be great. Maybe next year people will believe us more that this isn't a scam. I guess after you ask everyone to help you get a free ipod they're kinda suspicious of any other online schemes that cost money. But as I keep telling people, they can just mail in checks, the blogathon site is just a pledge system for recording the donation amounts. If you just want to donate to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, you can just go to their donation page here and it tells you where to mail a check. I'd prefer to get the pledge on the blogathon site so I know how much was raised, but if you don't want to mess with all that online registration stuff, then just mail them money.

I think I'm going to need to stock up on some Coke for Saturday, just so I can stay awake. I stopped drinking it for a while, so now it'll be extra effective since I'm not used to it any more. Also I think I'll need an egg timer so I can keep track of when I need to post.

Alex and I were planning on taking 12 hour shifts where he blogs during the day and I blog during the night, but now he says he has to clean his place since it's the weekend before he moves out. So now it looks like he'll be blogging from 9am to noon, and I'll have 12:30pm to 9am. Great...

Oh yeah the blogathon people added a feature where bloggers can add their status to a web page. So I added to the top of the home page of killkaraoke.com. It's a little javascript thing so some people might not see it. Sorry about that.

In case by this point you've read all of this post and want to pledge money, here's the blogathon pledge page for killkaraoke. You just have to register with some info, then log in and go back to the campaign page, and enter an amount of money to pledge. It's honor system based, so you still have to send in your money to the AFSP after that. But you'll get a reminder email the day after the blogathon. Thanks.