Yes, that’s right–this Friday (September 28th) will be my sixteenth birthday, and hopefully it will be a much better one than my fifteenth birthday (which means that there hopefully WON’T be a budget crisis school board meeting where all heck breaks loose, and I hopefully won’t get sick during the weekend of my birthday, especially considering I just got sick two weeks ago.

However, it is going to be my birthday, and so I thought I’d put up a completely self-serving note that if you would like to send me a little birthday gift, there’s a Donate box right over there on the sidebar to your left. I don’t have a real job due to the fact that I do so much volunteering, and the work that I do on this blog, my two podcasts, and also articles that I’ve guest blogged over the past few months are done completely for free. (The occasional advertisement is really only enough to pay for the hosting and software for these projects, and not much else.) Not to mention a full-time school commitment and my participation in a number of volunteer organizations, and you see where I’m coming from.

My birthday is this Friday, and I do have my eyes on a couple of things, so if you are interested, please feel free to send me a little gift via PayPal. I’d really appreciate it!

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