Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
"Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!"
-Joe Hill
My brother texted the family group chat this quote before he went to work today. I'm not in a good place this morning, but we can't lose ourselves to despair. I know I have a lot of anger right now, but getting into whose fault that is won't help anyone.
Dwelling on the people I will never forgive won't help anyone.
I'm not that optimistic, but hope is a choice we can still make. It's a hard one to make this morning, but I'm still going to do my best. We are where we are, and focusing on yesterday won't change that. We can only move forward, and save as many as we can along the way.
There will be a tomorrow because we're going to make sure there's a tomorrow.
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Sorry, Lynn, you’re only allowed to complete that word if it’s scribbled on.
Lots of little purchases? An anime DVD generally runs in the $10 to $50 range…
“Transactions”, not necessarily “purchases”… Moving $100 to a Paypal account would be a transaction. The questions being “who”, “why?”, and how it all went unnoticed?
Ruth just took over as treasurer. Who was the previous one? Even if they didn’t embezzle, they fell down on the job not catching it sooner.
Agreed, whoever was previous treasurer needs to be contacted ASAP.
Maybe the previous treasurer was investing in many Nigerian Princes to try help Bork Con obtain a huge fortune so that way they can have the biggest convention in the Midwest plus money to afford lawyers in case a lawsuit ever broke out so that way the con isnt out if business.
Not necessarily a Nigerian prince, it could be a permanently broke friend the treasurer was loaning money to. “Dude, I’m a bit short this week, can you give me $50 until Friday?” “Dude, I just got fired, can you cover my rent until I get a new job?” “Dude, I promise I’ll pay you back, I just need $50 for work boots for the new job and I don’t get paid for 2 weeks.” Suddenly it’s 6 months and 5 grand later and the guy is no closer to paying you back than he was when you started.
Wait a minute…
Little transactions?
MICROpayments?
They’ve been robbed by Scott McCloud!
“Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.” Albany AnthroCon was almost scuttled after its first year when a bookkeeping error left it short of funds to pay artists for Art Show sales after other bills were paid first. (The chairman at the time thought he had more money than he did.) After that the Art Show funds were kept in a separate bank account. Staff and others lent the con money to finish paying the artists that year, and were repaid within two years.
Many conventions make errors, even the big ones. Maybe it is an error.