First ever TAH fundraiser

I’m going to be off the network today because I’ll be at Walter Reed for an appointment with my pretty lady doctor – that means five hours on the road. But I thought I’d leave you with some news. Master Sergeant Soup Sandwich earned us over a half-million hits this weekend and about 100,000 new visitors, thanks to our friend at the Ranger Training Brigade for those pictures. As near as I can tell, the traffic was all generated by the new Facebook “Like” button which was coincidentally installed the day of the post. Thanks for hitting the button and sending the post out ‘net-wide. We’ve had our largest amount of traffic since Obama blew off the Medal of Honor Inauguration Ball back in 2009.

Wednesday night we’re moving from Yahoo servers to my hippie chick code monkey’s private server because we’ve reached the limit on what Yahoo can do for us. It’s going to cost us a little bit more money, but it’ll improve your experience here, and it’ll get rid of some the problems the authors here have had with the administration of the blog.

You may have noticed a few spam comments have made it through the filter – we’ve had more than a quarter million spam messages hit the blog in the last 60 days, so it’s inevitable that few might slip through. I guess it’s the price of growing popularity.

So that being said, I’m begging for some donations for the first time. Many of you have donated without being asked and I appreciate that – it’s what keeps me going sometimes. Some of you have donated $1 and every bit of it is appreciated. So far all of the money that’s been donated either went to other bloggers or this blog.

For those of you who haven’t donated before, the button to PayPal is at the bottom of the sidebar – or click this link. Any amount is greatly appreciated and it’ll all go to administration of this blog since I can’t drink anymore according to my pretty Walter Reed doctor woman.

If you can’t donate, don’t feel guilty about it, I understand that times are hard – your patronage is still appreciated.

Thank you in advance for everything you’re able to donate.

I hope my co-bloggers will be able to keep you entertained today in my absence. I’ll be back late this afternoon.

Category: Administrative