Hey peeps! In honor of Delurking Month, why not help support the board? As you know, we don't charge anyone to post, but it does cost $99/month to run the board. Whether you're a regular poster or not, if you have any extra funds this month, consider sending some of it my way for board maintenance!

You can paypal to donations at buffistas dot org, or email me (same address or any other, I should get it) for my address to send a check. Note that I moved over the summer, so if you have any earlier address for me, it's wrong now.

Thanks!!

PEOPLE!. - I am late getting this announcement out....BUT.....IT IS TIME TO START the sign up for the Annual non-belief system specific winter secret gift exchange! ANSSWSGE for short (this year, each year it is slight different, it seems).

Please email me at b.org.msbelle AT gmail.com if you want in, you will get an invite from elfster - YOU will need to get your address info up on elfster (only viewable to whomever draws your name) and then you can lists likes/dislike/wishlist/other random info. Any questions?, email me.

If you want, you can read my contribution to the the Daily Kos KosAbility series [link]

I sent out the first elfster invites for ANSSWSGE 2012. Here are the other important dates:

Sign-up deadline is 10/28 Drawing names (done electronically - you cannot have who you had last year) will be 11/1 Gift Giving Deadline is 12/31

And as I do every year I encourage people to communicate or gift multiple times and generally mess with your giftee. Otherwise it is just me doing that and it ruins it.

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This is my firend Carolyn's kickstarter. Small business -- that is looking to get their own kitchen and employe a few people . This is the seed money for the kitchen. Donate , spread the word , or just torture yourself by looking at pie.

Latest diary on Kos...really want to hit the Rec List this time. [link]

For those not in Natter, this is too cool not to share. Have you guys seen this? Amazing time lapse National Geographic footage of the space shuttle traveling through Los Angeles: [link]

If Chrome or Google was giving you a malware error when you tried to access alt.buffistas.net, third times' the charm, and our rep seems to be clean now.

If you have problems, please report them in BBaBB++

Hey, first blog post in several months!

"Confessions of a Bibliophile and Logophile: Copy Editing Turns Me On" [link]

Methinks several of y'all can empathize with my message!

SO, HEY! the sign-up deadline came and went for ANSSWSGE 2012. AND the names were drawn electronically this morning.. one person who had expressed interest never accepted the elfster invite (I will email), so for A FEW HOURS ONLY!!! 3 hours from this post time, in fact, you too can get in on the ANSSWSGE 2012 action. Email me at my profile addy and I will get you added.

AND - if anyone has a question or problem with who they got in the draw, (GETTING ME CANNOT BE A PROBLEM, IT IS A BLESSING) you can email me and we will work it out.