Mysteriously absent from my blog reports over the past week have been my portion of the tally for donations. I headed to California with plans to make fund raising calls. I put them all off. This is supposed to be a vacation. I figured my time was best spent keeping track of what was happening and reporting it here so as to prevent a lack of information from sowing fear and paranoia. I’ve kept careful track of the dollars raised and who else needs talking to. I’ve got a long list of people to call. Other than blogging and checking up on phone traffic I’ve had that vacation. It would have been a dirty trick to our hosts and to Claudia to have saddled them with my constant communication back home.
I found a substitute to read the news for me on Monday at Lighthouse for the Blind’s radio show. That required asking my daughter to find the list of volunteer readers and phone back their phone numbers so I could find a replacement. I had lots of people in Duluth doing things like that in my absence. Remote organizing is a challenge.
I found a replacement and now I’ve got all of Monday and Tuesday morning to polish of the $100,000. With a little bit of help we’ll get it done.
Now for some coffee and my long trip home.
