I'm going to take a moment of your time and a little of your bandwidth and quickly mention a charity I'm working for. It's not really a charity though, it's more of a fundraiser I'm helping out with for a family member. We're trying to raise about $20K for a standing power wheelchair for a family member who has cerebal palsy and is a parapalegic due to it. I won't go into all the details, but her insurance won't pay for it, and so we've been trying to make it happen for her. We're just over 48 hours from the fundraiser's end date, so I figure I'd shake what few branches I haven't tried so far, and that's you guys!

Anyway it's a good cause, to a person who really needs the help, but just as importantly you could consider it your easy way to get Christmas gifts as donations for $10 or more all get things in return. We've got t-shirts for Cannibal the Music and Orgazmo that were donated by a guy who works with Trey Parker. There's a few horror movie t-shirts too if you're into that. Larger donations of $25 or so get you entered into a raffle for some really stellar stuff. For instance there's a table top Tesla coil! Show your friends how electricity works! There's a guy who offered a website and support for a year, and a DVD of the Night of the Living Dead 1990 remake that's been autographed by the whole cast. There's other stuff like a a custom made corset and some fairy stuff but I really can't see anyone here being interested.

The link with the details is here:  http://www.indiegogo.com/GoTeamRobin.  If you can't help out right now don't worry. It's completely understood. Rough time of year to be doing a fundraiser, we're well aware. But if you can I'd totally love you forever.

Posted by robio Thu, 13 Dec 2012 02:00:11 (comments: 22)
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Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:28:05
aspro said:
Will read/ check out this weekend.
robio said:

Yep. In fact, as of an hour ago we hit the goal. Great feeling. The family as you can guess is estatic. Anyway, a few of you were able to help out so I just wanted to take a moment and say thanks a lot.

The whole thing was pretty eye opening. People are actually pretty good after all. Who would have guessed?




Procrastination pays off for Aspro again.  Congratulations to you and your family Rob. I wish I had gotten in sooner.

EDIT: I just visited the page and it says you did not reach the goal in the comments. Is there a way to still donate for the Florida trip? I could not see a button on the page.

 
Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:12:20
aspro said:





Procrastination pays off for Aspro again.  Congratulations to you and your family Rob. I wish I had gotten in sooner.

EDIT: I just visited the page and it says you did not reach the goal in the comments. Is there a way to still donate for the Florida trip? I could not see a button on the page.



Thanks man, but don't worry about it. We are good and we did the goal though. I think the comments just didn't get edited yet because we've had a fairly insane week up here. We've been trying to finish this thing up strong, and on top of that holiday season living in Orlando means you always have someone visiting who won't quite leave.

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