I hate doing it, but it is time for an annual plea for funds for season tickets. And I’m ambitiously going to ask for a significant amount of support for blogging related things.

The last few weeks, blogger and blogspot has been incredibly flaky and frustrating. Some lost posts, missing archives, and lots of other nagging problems. Stuff that had been building for a while.

It’s gotten to the point where I want to move the blog to its own domain. I also am ready to leave blogger for either word press or movable type blogging software.

The advantages are better stability, appearance, commenting and just an overall better site.

The problem is, it costs money. Paying for domain registration, server space, etc.

The one advantage of blogger versus the other blogging software I mentioned, is that blogger is browser based software. That means I can blog from any computer with an internet connection.

Right now, the home computer is a 4 year old desktop. Ideally, I’d like to move to a laptop, so I can do more. Liveblogging of football and basketball games while they are on TV. More immediate blogging before and after home football games. Just being able to do more blogging from anywhere. Obviously that would mean more content.

The deal with the wife, though, has been the time taken by this is (usually) okay as long as it doesn’t eat into our tight budget.

Believe it or not, those “blog ads” up there don’t really pay that much.

Some of you have donated in the past, and I appreciate it immeasurably. I’m asking again, and for a little more if possible from more of you.

Ideally, this would happen quickly so I could get the new site up and running over the spring and summer — working the kinks out during the slow time — so it would rolling by the fall.

Sorry, if it makes you feel uncomfortable to read this solicitation. You have no idea how uncomfortable it is for me to ask.

Thank you.