It’s August 29th, and the fundraising news is mixed from the last missive to today.
The good news is that we’re about $150 from covering the server bill at Bluehost and the Jetpack subscription. With a little more $, we’ll be good to go for the 31st, when both bills are due.
The bad news is that, while the GoFundMe is starting to rumble to life, we are exactly two weeks from training camp, and we’ve raised $350 of somewhere between $4,500 and $5,000 needed to get both myself and Aunt Annie up to Traverse City for the truncated prospect tournament and main training camp.
Aunt Annie and I will be counting our pennies and living like we’re camping in our hotel room, but the expense of a handicapped room for my double-hip-replacement patient (even with a gigantic “small business discount”) and the rental car = it’s going to be expensive to get myself and my 82-year-old charge up to TC.
It’s just the way it is now. I wish that we had a working car right now, and that Aunt Annie could take care of herself, but we’re crossing the first bridge now, and I simply have two jobs now–blogger and caregiver. So she goes where I go.
So if you’re looking for me “singing for my supper,” I can do that. I can wash your car if you bring it to me, I can try to do your taxes or substitute in your bowling league at PINZ! if you want. We’re just at crunch time in terms of fundraising, and it’s gotten really scary because there are two weeks with which to raise a crap-ton of money.
If you’re willing to lend a hand, have an official GoFundMe fundraiser page at https://gofund.me/c08de120; we have a PayPal option at https://paypal.me/TheMalikReport; there’s Venmo at https://venmo.com/george-malik-2; if you’re into the, “I don’t want to use any of those pages” option, here’s always the Giftly option by using my email, rtxg@yahoo.com, at https://www.giftly.com…
And in the banking options, you can contact me via email if you want to send me a paper check, or “Zelle” me via my email, rtxg@yahoo.com. I’m also on Cash App under “georgeums.”
As always, thank you for your readership and your time.
