Grant NAN: Donations

Dear everyone who's written me and asked about supporting the Nan Grant,

I have had two of the original three grants sponsored, and added a fourth through generous donations by regular readers of my LJ. I cannot thank them enough.

I plan on asking websites to donate banner ad impressions after San Diego, and will make banners for people to use.
In the meantime, please continue to spread the word about Grant NAN. Feel free to talk it up in San Diego. I wish very much there was a woman on the SD webcomics panel who could mention it. (But there is not.)

Anyone who'd like to donate to something like Grant NAN, I suggest Modest Needs.

"Modest Needs exists

To prevent otherwise financially self-sufficient individuals and families from entering the cycle of poverty, when this might be avoided with a small amount of well-timed financial assistance;

To restore the financial self-sufficiency of individuals who are willing to work but are temporarily unable to do so because they do not have the means to remit payment for a work-related expense; and

To empower permanently disadvantaged individuals who otherwise live within their limited means to continue to live independently, despite a temporary, unexpected financial set-back."

MN operates on the principle that Grant NAN does: a modest amount of help to get or keep somoene going. Their founder, Dr. Keith, started MN in 2002, anonymously donating 10% of his salary as a professor to help people as he'd been helped.

Dr. Keith is one of the people, along with Peter Laird, who inspired the Grant NAN.

UGH!

I spent an hour plus fiddle-faddling with an Ioemga parallel port Clik! drive only to find out it doesn't work with Win XP, which means no easy transfer of data between desk and laptop so I can write whilst watching Boy in the Pool.
Back to floppies--except I can't find the swappable floppy drive for the laptop.

Back to writing on the Palm, which is not impossible (witness Warren Ellis' Palm-based pub output, witness my many own scripts rewritten at the neighborhood pool the last couple years), I just like more room!

Checked the storage ottoman...no, but I have a Powerbook Duo floppy, a Mac battery, a Mac battery case, and two old Zip disks!

Feckity fecksticks. The Universe is telling me to use the Palm. Okay, dammit! I'll use it!

The Gorram Gigantic Meme-O-Tron!

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games.	× I've tried marijuana.  (Nope. Nor acid, nor speed...)
✓ I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.  (Nope. Considered it once.)	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
× I curse sometimes.	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

( it goes on... )