Nov. 25th, 2013

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

A quick note before we begin -- my surgery is tomorrow, and I will be recovering the rest of the week, so there will be NO RADIO FREE MONDAY next week. I will make a post where you can leave comments about fundraisers and causes, but there won't be an organised blurb-rich post next week. Thanks, guys. :)

Ways To Give:

[personal profile] twospots linked to a fundraiser for Dew, who needs a double lung transplant. While many of her medical expenses are covered, she still has lots of extra expenses to pay for her care and her lengthy recovery period.

[livejournal.com profile] editrx is still raising money to purchase a second hand bookstore in Vermont, and she has two friends who are matching donations up to the next $2500 of the campaign. Now's a great time to support a burgeoning local business, Star Cat Books!

[personal profile] mazily linked to a fundraiser for the Newark Print Shop, who need to move to new, bigger digs after a fire in their old building. The indiegogo is for moving, renovation, and new equipment in their new space!

Twistedingenue on Tumblr has a post up about how to get aid to victims of the tornadoes that hit central Illinois last Sunday, which caused a great deal of damage.

[livejournal.com profile] hellotailor linked to a fundraiser for Bang Press, a new press taking on first-time novelists from a fanfic background. It's crowdfunding novels by eleveninches, gyzym, and febricant to get started; I don't think I know eleveninches and febricant personally but I do know gyzym, who is a great writer and whose prose I will vouch for. You can read more about Big Bang Press here and support their kickstarter here.

AgentPaxieAmor linked to a fundraiser to bring MCalc, a gender-neutral and inclusive menstruation calendar and calculator, to iPhone. In addition to being a great cause to support, this is also a nifty-looking tool already available on Android. You can read more here and donate to support here.

[livejournal.com profile] schnoogle linked to a kickstarter for "Ever, Jane" an online roleplaying game set in Regency England. It looks fascinating, and it's 2/3 of the way to goal, but it's a big goal and they could use your support.

Just For Fun:

[livejournal.com profile] lovessong linked me to more information on the Ronald Reagan Plaque that I posted the other day. This might be the finest news story ever written with a straight face.

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time.
All right kids, I'm off to surgery in the morning. I'll be out all day, more or less. As I've been joking to my family, I'm having surgery with a robot; if I do die tomorrow, death by robot is how I would want to go.

They find this remarkably unfunny.

Don't cry for me, Blogentina. I won't die, this is a routine procedure done all the time, but if something does go wrong, I have a plan in place so news will reach everyone. Otherwise, expect to hear from me sometime either tomorrow night or Wednesday. I frankly cannot wait to take painkillers again.

Apparently it may snow tomorrow in Austin. I'm not sure if this is some kind of sign. I do love the snow, but the last thing I need is to spend my last pre-cholecystectomy moments scraping my mother off the ceiling of the car when she freaks out over my stepdad's perfectly safe driving.

In the meantime, I'm curled up with the dogs on the bed watching O Brother Where Art Thou. Not a bad way to spend the evening at all.

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