I cannot believe $11,000! Can it really be $11,000? I love $11,000! Don’t you?

Some amazing generosity and chatroom participation pushed us to break $10,000 before Jer began his driving shift. Thanks everyone!

yeah.

8000

Angry Bird 8000

Keep it rolling!

Thanks largely to Evil_Jim donating his entire “Economic Stimulus Check” of $528 in exchange for changing the bus driver’s name (to Evil_Jim), we’re already at $7000!

7000 pleases Cthuhlu-God.

Turns out that mentioning how no one has donated recently leads to donations!

6000

So Fresh and So Clean!

Keep them coming!

EDIT: Just to be clear here, we will still be bussing, and you can keep donating, and we will have to keep going to much longer.

We haven’t even started bussing yet and thanks to one very generous donation of $3000 we’ve already destroyed our goal. Thanks everyone!

Can we beat last year? I believe we can. Let’s make it happen!

Wow.

Graphic from Simmemann

Looking at the donations, we’ve just hit three days of play time! You guys are awesome–we don’t even start driving for another five hours :).

I joined Justin McElroy for an interview on today’s Joystiq Podcast, which just went live a few minutes ago. This is probably the best gaming podcast of the post-brodeo era, so go check it out! Go-go-go!

Chipin is a great service that allows us to collect donations on behalf of Child’s Play without being hit with double paypal fees like we were last year. Unfortunately, it appears that their donation widget has some problems with caching that results in different people seeing different donation totals. In order to make sure that the donation total is always as up-to-date as possible, we have decided to forgo the widget and update the value manually whenever it changes.

All donations are still being handled by Chipin and the Donate link on the sidebar will take you to exactly the same place as the link in the widget did.

If you are having any problems or have any questions about the donation process, please email me at paul@loadingreadyrun.com

Hey hey, everyone!

Just wanted to give you a reminder that Desert Bus will be on The Zone tomorrow. If you’re up, there’s a strong possibility you’ll be tune in to 91.3FM and hear me on the The morning Zone with Dylan Willows and Jason Lamb. If you’re more of an afternoon type, then turn your radio on around 3, and listen for us on the afternoon show, with Jeremy Baker.

If you haven’t got a radio, or you live somewhere outside the range of the typical FM radio station based in Victoria, you can head on over to www.thezone.fm And listen via live streaming. Just click “Listen Live” and you’re good to go. That should help get your computer warmed up for the main event, too. Remember, we’re kicking off at 6PM.