Paypal is easier than ever. This is the third or fourth time I’ve attempted to install a button that would let me raise money on the Internet for a political campaign or similar project. The first time I gave up in despair. The second time I managed it after weeks of fussing around trying to figure out how to do it and actually raised a couple hundred bucks. This time it took me a couple hours of nervously trying to prevent my computer from blowing up. In the end it was as simple as the Paypal directions suggested. It only took fifteen minues (after an hour and a half of agonizing)
I am an old dog and I’m slow and resistant to learning new tricks but I woke up this morning with a brainstorm…….I wondered if I could litter my blog posts with the same fundraising “button” I’d agonized about yesterday. Well, after the fourth attempt I seem to have managed it:
Ta Da!
Putting Paypal on my website was a low priority item for me. I preferred sending out fund raising requests in the mail. I don’t expect a lot of money to come through Paypal but that’s partly because being an old dog I don’t like to use it to pay for things myself. I much prefer to use the new technology of the 1970’s, an ATM machine, to get cash and make payments. Don’t even get me started on Kickstarter. Its cool but I’m not.
Until a couple days ago the Paypal job kept being put at the bottom of my daily “to do” list. It was number 17 or 18. The fact that it finally moved up into third place is a testament to my dogged desire to get the myriad tasks of a campaign done in a timely and orderly way. I had a free couple hours yesterday so I decided to move Paypal from three to one. Even so, my grandson’s came over before I was done and Michelle at Paypal who guided me through the process over the phone got to listen to me getting zerbits from my grandson’s after I introduced her to them. (Zerbits are the raspberries that Bill Cosby gave his children when he was being Dr. Huxtable on his old 1980’s TV series It involves pressing your lips against someone else and pretending they are a brass instrument that you are trying to play. I blame Claudia for teaching this to the boys because now they zerbit us all the time.
I see that today’s to do list is still up to 17. That’ll keep me busy.
