My perspective is that I chipped in a little bit to help the group achieve a couple of very cool things. Said v. cool things happened, therefore it's all good. No additional math required on my account.

No slight intended to those who like or need such things, whether accounter or accountee.

It sounds cliche, but I just love all the love, and the stories, and the working together. Watching Nillyfest from afar has been a great experience. Not as good as taking part, but close. I would also like to thank JZ and the others who worked on the Nillyfest t-shirt. It's a beautiful shirt, and she was great about including non-attendees.

It's come to my attention that I have been a dick in taking some undeserved accolades and also in not sending out the anonymous accounting by now.

Okay, this is like pig-pile country again, but I have to add my two cents (no, probably don't have to, but I feel like I have to.)

Allyson, we wouldn't have Minearverse if it weren't for you. We wouldn't have Tim if it weren't for you. The conversation in Minearverse wouldn't have happened without you. Nilly wouldn't be here without you. Whether someone else could or could not do it, you did do it. I, along with many other people, gave a little so Erika could meet Nilly, people gave to get me to SF to meet Nilly, people gave to you to bring Nilly here. We were all given an amazing gift, but you've consistently pointed out others who were helpful in making it happen. I'd not only trust you with my money, I'd trust you with my children (though, really, you don't want them).

We wouldn't have Tim if it weren't for you.

Credit for this goes to Madeline Minear.

Credit for this goes to Madeline Minear.

And some guy, right?

Nilly wouldn't be here without you.

Hey, is there a Big Story about how Nilly found the Buffistas (or the proto-Buffistas, as it were), or did she just stumble across the board?

And some guy, right?

So I hear.

Allyson rocks. So does Tim Minear. And his mother. And Nilly. And various and sundry other buffistas who are too numerous to name at this time.

Credit for this goes to Madeline Minear.

Credit for the world having Tim Minear goes to his parents. According to rumors, and it seems likely to me that they are true, the credit for us having Tim Minear goes to Allyson, and to Tim Minear himself. Thanks!

Oh, that's totally a story I want to hear--how Nilly found the Buffistas. I've never heard that story, I don't think.

Allyson, if it's your own exacting need to account driving you to be thorough and exact I'll back off. I'm familiar with that. But you do have to stand and be thanked for doing the legwork. It was work, you did it, you get thanked. That simple.

Also, if anybody besides you has a question about your honesty, your careful accounting or your integrity? I'll just be borrowing Deb's crossbow, if she'll let me.

What Bev said. Except for the crossbow thing 'cause my aim sucks.