A pleasant surprise today. A very thoughtful note, and lovely rectangle of green paper with a dead president on it, from a reader. They had some nice words of encouragement and, honestly, it’s always nice to have a couple bucks in hand to throw at the hosting service. So, to that very thoughtful individual, I thank you veddy much.

Sharp-eyed readers will notice that the ‘Donate money to the Bunker Equippage Fund’ button has been absent from the website for the last year or so. The reason is pretty simple – the folks at PayPal don’t take too kindly to people using their service to trade in evil rifle magazines. Thus, they sent me a lovely form letter saying that our relationship must, sadly, come to an end.

But…but…we can still be friends, right?

So what is a person to do if they are feeling generous and want to encourage yours truly to continue polluting the blogosphere with dry humour, NSFW innuendo, and real-time updates of a life lived with a major gun addiction? Not much, it seems.

Normally I put the arm on people for blog-related expenses once every couple years. I throw in some Amazon referral links form time to time to help defray costs, but pretty much any remuneration I receive for blogging is virtually nil. And I’m fine with that, I’m not blogging to pay my grocery bill…I’m blogging because I enjoy it and the Warholian 15-minutes it sometimes brings.

However……

Should you ever feel the spirit move you to do something nice for that guy in Montana who sometimes actually has a post that makes you go “Hmmm….I never thought of that”, and you’re at a loss for ideas, here are some options:

• An Amazon gift card in email goes a long way towards giving me the ability to get gear to beat up and talk about. I used to keep an Amazon Wish List but it’s really quite a bit of work to update and maintain one, so if you wanna send the Zero some love head over to Amazon’s ‘send gift card via email’ section and send it to zero@commanderzero.com
• Or, if you’re less about email and more about physical mail, just send something to the PO Box. The address is in the ‘Contact‘ page which is on the menu bar up top somewhere. Cash, silver, gold, mags, other gear, Jennifer Lawrence’s apartment keys, whatever…..

That’s pretty much all there is to say on that except… I very much appreciate the actions of those who, from time to time, send the Zero some tangible encouragement. Good on ya, mates! Thx!