Donated!

[Superdave847]

The PayPal link was super easy and I hope my donation goes to hire David Tracy and Stef Shrader to blog on here full time about old Jeeps and Parsh.

[jminer]

@superdave847 Thanks - we all appreciate it and I'm humbled by folks wanting to kick in. We're a ways from paying folks for content - but at some point that is the dream.

[Chariotoflove]

@jminer said in Donated!:

@superdave847 Thanks - we all appreciate it and I'm humbled by folks wanting to kick in. We're a ways from paying folks for content - but at some point that is the dream.

I think Stef will work for Timbits at this point. Do we have the budget for that?

[jminer]

@chariotoflove Do they have timbits in Texas?

[CB]

@Superdave847 I donated as well. I hope it was enough for Oppositelock Black and hot tub privileges.

[barnie]

I really like the fact that we can donate monthly like a subscription. A little every month is better for me than a lump amount and I don't have to think about it anymore. You guys are doing a great job. Thank you!

[CarsOfFortLangley]

I didn't even see the button until I came here to comment

[jminer]

@CarsOfFortLangley I kind of hid it on purpose. You can donate if you want, but don't feel obliged to.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@jminer Just did!

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@cb Hottub closed due to COVID.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@chariotoflove I can send some, but they're gonna be stale on arrival

[CB]

@carsoffortlangley Better than the pool being closed due to AIDS.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@cb iunderstoodthat.jpg

[davesaddiction]

I’m in.

[Chariotoflove]

@jminer said in Donated!:

@chariotoflove Do they have timbits in Texas?

Nah, we need CofFL to go shopping.

[Chariotoflove]

@carsoffortlangley said in Donated!:

@chariotoflove I can send some, but they're gonna be stale on arrival

That just means you dunk 'em.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@jminer Uh, I donated $12.34 to be cute, but now I'm wondering if that's real money at all... do you have any parameters at all? Otherwise I'm gonna keep throwing wacky numbers.

[jminer]

@Dr-Zoidberg No parameters - donate what you want and your budget allows. I did chuckle at the 12.34. Someone else donated a buck with a funny commend and made me laugh.

Running costs are $150-200 per month right now so your 12.34 will pay for 2+ days running time on oppo!

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@jminer Oh jeez. So this place costs ~$2,400 a year to keep up if your time is worth zero dollars...

[jminer]

@dr-zoidberg Web infrastructure isn't cheap when you're serving 50k pages a day with hundreds of users reading, posting and replying.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@jminer Hmm well I hope the sum of the initial donations are encouraging

[jminer]

@Dr-Zoidberg Yes - people have been generous so far we're in very good shape. I need to make a thank you post for everyone.

[gamecat235]

@chariotoflove said in Donated!:

I think Stef will work for Timbits at this point. Do we have the budget for that?

Trying not to be like... the craziest person here. But I associate timbits with oppo and sadness.

Sigh... FINE. Storytime. (You asked for stories!)

So... back when Oppo 5.0 was transitioning, a whole bunch of us jumped ship to G+* (that failed google social media thing), and a lot of us made some great friends in the process. The biggest advantage of having a social media platform effectively to yourself is that when you migrate with 300 people, you can make it work! (*I didn't jump ship, I kept my oppo game strong, and that's how I became one of the first mods on Oppo).

So... long story short. A bunch of Oppositelock folks are on Google and the semi-solid friendships which formed on oppo became much more real as all of us stayed on G+.

One of the folks who left old Oppo and stayed on G+ was Guard Duck, he and I had a ton in common and regularly corresponded, he would send me beer, and I'd send him random shit, and then he developed #asscancer (his words not mine) and it took a lot out of him but then he beat the fucker. And once he beat it he and I had made some plans to meet up the next time I travelled up north. He got to spend some time traveling and making the most of his lease on life.

And then a trip to Montreal appeared on my radar, and I let him know I would be in the area (he was in northern NH), and then my trip got delayed and his cancer came back. STRONG.

My trip got solidified just as he was going into hospice and I got worried. but he and I spoke on the phone, and exchanged messages... and finally a week out, he wasn't doing that great, but he was stable. So he asked for me to come visit and to bring him some timbits.

So I landed in Montreal, rented a car, stopped at a Tim Hortons, got a box of Timbits, drove to NH, stayed with him and his wife at the hospice from 9 PM until nearly 3 AM, drove back to Montreal, got back at 5, napped for 2 hours, and then taught a group of engineers for 10 hours.

Guard Duck died a couple of weeks later. But I did finally actually get to meet him.

Anyway. This is what I associate Timbits with. Because without a doubt this is my strongest association with them.

RIP Guard Duck...

(sidenote, this story is also over on reddit...

[Chariotoflove]

@gamecat235 Sounds to me then like Timbits are associated with hope, faith, and friendship. At least that’s what I’d like to take away from that excellent story.

Guard duck was mostly legend to me. I was sorry when he passed in that vague uncomfortable way you get when you know that someone important is gone, but you never got the chance to know who they were.

[gamecat235]

@chariotoflove for sure. That was 100% love and hope and following through. Still a bit sad that everything happened the way it did. But I do feel extremely fortunate to have been trusted to be a part of that time of his life.