| Rolled over again, because the Rantburg coffers are not yet full. |
It's been a full year sine the last time I asked for money.I have to now and then, since we don't have any advertising on the site. You can use your ad blocker all you want, you should never see a popover that you have to figure how to dump, and you're never told you've used up your number of views allowed.Last year's bleg bought our nifty new server that crashed when I was in the hospital with COVID and no way to fix it. I didn't have the strength to turn over in bed, much less holler at Comcast. Hardware donations helped make it even niftier (Thank you, Roger!) I also bought a nifty machine that'll clone a drive in not too many seconds flat -- minutes, anyway. I haven't been buying much in the way of strong drink, since COVID hosed my taste buds, and I haven't made any trips of note.
The old server's sitting by my desk and making two backups of the database a day. The Burg is still around when most of its old blogroll have been forgotten. Another year and the Burg itself will be old enough to buy strong drink.
For the immediate future, we'll watch as Afghanistan reverts to type, al-Qaeda miraculously rises from the ashes, the Medes and the Persians try to act like a world power, the Turks try to act like an imperial power, ISIS spreads in Africa, and Europe tries to figure how to handle the Moslem colonies infesting her. In our own country we have to worry about a Marxist fifth column that we're too squeamish to destroy, not to mention the usual crop of petty crooks, gangsters, and operators in our government..
Since we still have a reason to go on, I guess we'll go on to the end -- the end of me, at least. I ain't gettin' any younger, but as long as I can keep getting older I'll be here, scouring the news and occasionally blegging.
