March 24, 2007
See? This is why I don’t carry cash. I had an emergency twenty in my wallet a week or two ago, and one thing led to another (a cup of soup, splitting a bag of fruit with a coworker, paying for parking …) until that fat twenty finally melted into five piddly ones. Luckily I still have those five dollars, and a few quarters, to cover parking when I meet up with an former high school teacher for lunch today!
March 19, 2007
Pledges have been trickling in from colleagues and my train folks. How cool! That’s an important lesson: if it’s for a good cause and you have a relationship with the people you work with, it can’t hurt to let them know what you’re up to.
New Donations: $195 online, 80 offline
Subtotal: $375
Pending: $80 offline to collect, $80 Employer Matching Gifts.
Training: Off day
I’m not sure how the Employer Matching works exactly but some companies will match donations that their employees make. The matching gifts I’ve seen on my tracking list shows that the matches are 100%! That’s a great way to make your charitable giving dollars go farther.
March 18, 2007
I have awesome friends. Three of them have already donated and thoroughly inspired my morning workout.
Goal: $3000
New Donations: $100
Training: 500 steps (of various heights)
This is going to be so fun!
March 17, 2007
BoyDucky called at lunchtime today to invite me to join him at a climbing fundraiser for the American Lung Association. We’re climbing to the top of 555 California in San Francisco: a whopping 52 flights of stairs!! I don’t know why 1200 steps sounded perfectly fine over the phone but, uh, that’s a LOT OF STAIRS. Still, it’s kind of exciting. This is all new to me: the fundraising, the pre-training, the whole bit. There’s definitely gotta be some training involved because crapping out on the tenth flight would be incredibly embarrassing.
Climbers are encouraged to create a website where their sponsors can donate money as well, and I considered making that available to my blog readers. If anyone’s interested, email me at (myname)@yahoo.com and I’ll make that information available to you!
Participants are raising funds for:
American Lung Association research, education and advocacy programs in the areas of:
March 16, 2007
In typical Fatwallet fashion, I tend to comparison shop, check for free shipping, coupons, cashback from the site and from the credit card I use. But there’s always one more element that comes into play when I want to make a purchase: what is this costing me? Not in the dollars and cents sense, though that’s certainly always considered, rather, in the sense of what am I giving up by spending this amount of money on this item? If I spent $15 instead of $10, I have effectively sacrificed $5 of spending ability in another area. No surprise there.
Five dollars is usually the equivalent of a third of a trade paperback comic book, two thirds of a paperback, or an emergency lunch when I’ve forgotten to bring lunch to work.
March 15, 2007
A few weeks back I finally tried out Bloglines and as a reader, I love it for the convenience of knowing when someone has updated. As a blogger, though, I wonder if the convenience of Bloglines or any other blog aggregator has any negative effect on the responses from the readers? I’ve a small handful of subscribers (yay!) but I don’t know how long you’ve been subscribers and if that encourages you to drop by more often or speak up less? Do you find that you comment more or less when you use a feed aggregator? Have you experienced a drop or increase in dialogue on your blogs?
March 12, 2007
This category deserves a whole section to itself:
The job: Underpaid, overworked? Me! Me! Little boss says that I’m the star performer and am already doing the job of an assistant to him, which is a management position, but is ridiculously vague about when the change in position would be forthcoming. No matter how much I push him for a firm answer, I’m sure that it’s at Big Boss’s whim and he may balk simply because I was just promoted to the current position back in November of last year. This fact doesn’t take into account the fact that I had been doing the higher position’s job for several months at that point as well. I’d like to take the conversation to Big Boss when I’ve got my salient points worked out, but I’ve always felt like that would be going over Little Boss’s head. Maybe I should speak to him though, if only to present the information that I think that he should take into consideration when discussing our fiscal year raises with Little Boss. What say ye?
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