I know it's a bad time of year, but the fund has gone low. It's been four months, and I admit I spent part of it on on non-essentials. Well, I guess hosting is essential, but you know what I mean.I sincerely thank those of you who make regular monthly donations.
I have a PayPal account set up that's supposed to cover hosting, hardware purchases, and occasionally beer or strong drink. I used to have an Amazon account for those who couldn't stand PayPal, but Amazon long ago decided I wasn't a good cause and dumped me. I've looked at other approaches, but none is quite as convenient (for me, anyway) as Paypal, meaning I'm either too dumb or too impatient to navigate the sign-up process.
The server's been up for 32 days as of tonight, since the last restart. That was associated with securing it. I upgraded from Debian 8 to 9, and most of the time it just loafs along now. It's hard to believe that I haven't laid physical eyes on it since July, 2016. Inevitably it's gonna crash someday, which is going to be a pain. I've moved to Delaware, so I'm not living twenty minutes away anymore. I was replacing hardware every three years, but this one feels more solid than any other one so far. Still, I'm going to buy its successor and start sync'ing it at some point after the new year.