Our main page to go to help out is http://spring.net/contribute

OK, I'll do it!!! What is new? I had to get in frojm Google. Have things changed or has my PC been more messed up than usual?

I know what the problem was. I still had this computer configured for LAN. I had to reset lots of programs for access. *sigh*

Whew! Glad you're back with us! You're the woman!

Donation sent. Merry Christmas fronm Geo!

Thank you so much Marci! Merry Christmas!

This message is primarily to Geo and the rest of the Spring, I acknowledge the generous contributions made by Drooleurs during the Fall Pledge Drive. We recently had a call from our "colo" or colocation facility that we needed to replace a motherboard. It turned out we did not need a motherboard after further checks. Had it been a motherboard, the Spring would have been down for 3-4 days. So, we're having a fund raiser to raise the money to keep a spare motherboard on hand to reduce our downtime in case of a motherboard failure to hours instead of days. We also had one of the six hard drives in Spring crash and it needs replacing as this drive is our backup safety net and we're limping along without it now. Here is what we need to be able to come back online quickly in case of a real failure of the motherboard, a cpu or memory module. And the cost of the replacement hard drive. 405.00 P3TDDE Supermicro Motherboard 109.00 512k memory module 95.00 IBM Hard Drive 120 mb 609.00 total Please send paypal contributions to bank@spring.net Or mail your checks / money orders to The Spring 182 Clover Rd Cedar Creek, TX 78612 With your help, I can build an effective safety net to protect our server against hardware failure. We had our wake up call, now it's time to really prepare!

When is Spring going to get back to normal? with our backgrounds and buttons. Also the confifty option isn't working either. I've had a lot of emails from people who are having a hard time getting around without these amenities.

We're working on it. I just talked to John, who has the old server ont he bench and he wants to make totally sure we can rely on this server before we migrate back. In the meantime, I'm fund raising in Geo and around the Spring to build a third server so we'll be triple redundant in the future. I'll talk to wer today about his procedurs to get those backgrounds and buttons.

it's been awhile since my last donation (oh, that sounds like a confession) but do you have any updates on the fundraising?

It will be soon, since this is around the time we do our annual fund raiser.

What got censored and scribbled on drool was my reference to the new martha stweart topic in the news conference.

how are we doing on expenses for 2005? i'm having issues with paypal in that "they" sent me something to update my account but i was too scared to do it so may have to start over with them. paypal had a scam going on with a lookalike. shortly after the "account" update email, i received a quarterly report. the account update said that my account had been suspended because of unauthorized attempted use of my credit card, checked my card statement and thankfully, nothing went on but i am still a bit nervous. just a caution to all the paypal users out there.

Haven't collected much yet for expenses. Drool takes care of the basic server costs, but not day to day expenses.

New fundraiser! Make paypal donations to banking@wholetech.com We're funding a new server and a years hosting paid in advance.