End of Blogathon 2009 (49/49)

This is the end of Blogathon 2009. It went surprisingly well; I achieved all the things I’ve been wanting to – making every other post about my charity, making good posts, making informative posts, and most importantly raising money for charity. It’s not hard, really…you can do other stuff during the blogathon. For example, I helped install some laminate flooring, made fabulous progress in my video game, bought a cell phone on eBay, went grocery shopping, etc. You can’t do that during the Race for the Cure or something else. But you can in the blogathon! But I wouldn’t say it’s easy, either…you have to stay awake for 24 hours and stay interested – and, hopefully, interesting! – throughout that time.

Here’s my donor list as it stands in the last few minutes of the Blogathon:

• W Marty Welch (@tsugupe)
• Marsha (@MarshaAZ)
• Never the Bride
• Cricket (@faegirl)
• Rachel (@tikva)
• Ryan
• My mom (@flyaway47)
• My dad (@pathseekerken, he has a blog but I’m too tired to remember the URL)
• And a proxy sponsorship from Primalex.

That’s $345 raised for the animals! I’ll be drawing the winner of the $25 Amazon gift certificate later; I plan to write everybody on a piece of paper, numbered 1-9, and then have somebody (my wife, a friends, whatever) pick a number between 1-9. Best easy randomization I can think of.

I’m watching The Planet’s Funniest Animals, one of my favorite “go to sleep” shows because it’s not challenging in any way – just watch cute animals. I think it’s fitting, don’t you?