Just an early midday " BUMP ": I just noticed I tend to bump late at night when everybody " sane " in the Western Hemisphere is probably sleeping and the bump gets pushed down by other topics before many people get to see it if they only look at the most recent posts.

Hmmmmmm: We are not to far from $3000. ;) A nice round number. :lol:

Oh, last year we almost doubled the objective: The economy was better and we got into a competitive spirit of trying to see how high it would go. :D

Now the extra funds raised last year where mostly used by Nathan to offer nice " surprises " to the members in prizes and I can't say what he would do with extra funds this year ( apart from being nice to have a reserve or a head start on next year's expenses ), but generally Nathan uses any extra moneys to the general benefit of the site and/or for prizes or new features that he couldn't otherwise afford. ;) :cool:

So until the Fund drive is officially over I am continuing to encourage donations and wider participation in helping this site: Again, one of my hopes for this year is to get more people to contribute a little so as to spread the load as widely as possible and to get more people to feel that this site is something they belong to or have a stake in.

Anyway, I've run out of things to write for the moment ....... but that NEVER last for long .... ;) :p :D

One more week and a winner will be chosen.
Stay tuned, we'll be having more contests shortly after!

Thanks to you Jean for your unflagging generosity, it's really something special.

Jean Thibodeau wrote:

...This would be fun and maybe also how they found this site in the first place and when they decided it was worth while coming back often to read or post to Topics.

Well, Chad's got me soundly beat as I didn't join until ~45 days of user registrations had gone by, but I remember when myArmoury was a series of regular links posted by Nathan on SFI to his personal site. The thing that snagged me, I remember, was actually a contest! :p Gradually as the membership changed at SFI I found I enjoyed the regular articles here, and that's my story.

Well we are at $2871 so getting to $3000 would seem possible by Monday and every new donation makes me feel good as wider participation makes me " happy " for all the reasons I have " repeated " over a lot of posts. :p :eek: :lol:

Oh, and a lazy " BUMP " as I don't have the time right now to update my results Graphic on the other donation Topic thread I have been also " overfeeding " ( That " DOG " is getting really fat, woof woof. :p ).

Also, I'm not sure if I just want to update that Graphic or think up a new " Funny " graphic ..... don't have a visual idea for that yet.

Remember that there is one less day to donate. ;)

There's about 5.5 hours until the contest entry period is over. A winner will be chosen shortly after that time and will be contacted to confirm acceptance of the prize. If all goes as planned, I'll announce the results sometime tomorrow evening!

This contest is over and the winner has been chosen. Check out the Winner Announcement.

Thanks goes out to everybody who participated. We're having another contest soon!