At least one occasional reader noted what your correspondent failed to do: The Amazon.com Honor System – under whose aegis so many of you have, over the years, opted (out of the kindness of your hearts) to subsidize these our scribblings, and the appertaining costs (both tangible and psychological) attending thereto - has turned turtle.
Their reasons for doing so, of course, are their own.
Important message:
Beginning December 11, 2008, Amazon.com will not support payments through the Amazon Honor System. Members should make plans now to remove PayBoxes from their websites.
Members will have access to disbursement information through December 30, 2008. After that date, Amazon Honor System account pages will be removed from the website.
Your correspondent does not run this enterprise as a profit center. While remaining grateful to those who, over the years, have deigned to throw a fin or so at the tip jar. If only for the Guinness that’s in it. What with the All-Girl Spending Team up to their usual pranks. I do not mention the confiscatorial tax regime in place in sunny southern California.
So anyways, the (I think, quite lovely) image of your correspondent as a younger man on the starboard sidebar has been re-directed to PayPal. Where them as such who enjoy the content provided herein (and feel obligated out of some anachronistic sense of obligation for goods delivered, goods received) are free to do what they think is right.
Not that, you know: I’m asking.
Boats, power or sail – as any civilian sailor well knows – are notoriously and chronically expensive. So too can be daughters (and wives), as your “All-Girl Spending Team” implies.
Thus, the close runner-up Name for the sailboat I purchased some number of years ago was: “Cheaper Than a Daughter”! Seriously! (But you gotta luv ‘em, still.)
I’d flip a ducat into your kitty, but PayPal knows who I am, and that would blow my selfishly protected, deep cover.
Meanwhile, I will just try to figure out a dead drop, to pass along my appreciation for your blog, and allowing this prickly antagonist a small soapbox, and some interesting discourse (and even some small, chain-jerking
…. for a select few).
But for now please accept, just a sincere albeit cheap, Muchas Gracias! Small $$ to follow….
For some reason, as I was reading this post, my mind conjured the image of Lex as a dirty, bearded homeless guy standing by the highway off ramp trying to wash my windshield with some nasty old newspapers.
Lex,
I have used Amazon 3 or 4 times to buy you Guinness or more. It will be missed. I do not do PayPal.
Sorry to hear about that.
I lived in NYC when the homeless would mess up your windows using squeegees! not messy newspaper. i woud give them $ NOT to “clean” my windows!
Sir,
I will be attending Navy OCS in the new year and then once I have some money I will be adding to the beer fund. Thank you for what you do; it is very interesting and informative.
PG
Dropped a dime just to show those idiot rodential-illegitimate-descendants “what fer.”
Seems to me that throwin’ down on the bar once in a while gives one the option of legitimately whinin’ amongst the Lex Bretheren. Maybe not too convincingly of course, and ruffling a few feathers on the way, but, it does seem to apease the Guilt Gods for trodding here now and again. So, I do what I can, when I can.
Agi Quod Agis…
PayPal works for me – shall continue to provide whatever meager support I can for our host to continue his – hosting.
For the Lex Babes – we stand united!
Pay pal… ugh.
Still, I imagine there’s always another horse camp to pay for.
I might go read that post again actually…. it makes me smile.
PayPal works for me; now I can use it for something in addition to eBay!