Right, erm, that was a bit mad and Capra-esque and sincerely, cheers.

I’m still reeling a bit because y’know, I didn’t actually expect to raise enough money for a monitor and sort of vaguely hoped I might cadge enough to offset the costs a bit. Yet, thanks to some lovely wonderful people I’m sitting here typing this on a new monitor. Ok, I’m not typing on the monitor, I’m typing on a keyboard and looking at the results on a monitor.

Which is totally awesome and amazing.

After a bit of mad financial wangling involving mailing the hosts and getting a couple of days grace (this week is hosting monies week) and the magic of a Paypal top up card (and the switching of hosting payments onto said top up card) and then using the hosting money to peg it out at the last minute to go and get a monitor, I can has visuals. Which is crazy stuff.

Bit of bargaining on an ex display model to come away with a pretty decent size considering and yeah. Bloody hell. Thank you.

Rolled back in and starting wending my way through the thank you emails and working out who I need to send “a special drawing” too with a monitor that actually turns on! If I’ve not gotten back to you yet, sorry – it’s been a bit crazy and it took me a while to actually let what just happened sink in too.

After a few days of the old thing thing barely starting before killing itself this morning, that’s weirdly special. Especially given the month or so I’ve had where you sit tight thinking “as long as nothing blows up, I’ll see the other side of this in no time”, it was crushing to actually have something give up the ghost when you know there’s nothing you can do to sort it. And then admit to that in public.

I sorta kept shtum about the hows and whys of having to drop out of World Of Love, it wasn’t just the money as I said there were care-y concerns I had to factor in too but being hit by a pair of bills that wiped me out the day after I’d spent hours writing out the talk and doing the slides was harsh and made the difference between “I could still pull it off with a bit of a wangle” to “oh, nuts – I haven’t got a hope in hell”.

Really, I can’t thank everyone enough and y’know, the download link and a scribbled cock doesn’t seem like nearly enough to express my gratitude. Yet, grateful and humbled I am.

So, yeah, thank you. All of you who tried to rustle up a monitor or chucked in and dug me out of a hole or just offered words of support. You’re lovely and wonderful.

I guess I better get on and make some games then. Starting with beating the hell out of Farbs.

<3