Bad News I Am Affraid

[ausjack]

Yes great to talk to you as well Fulvio and miss ya mate and me little mate seems to be coming along really well :friends: She was saying she didn't want anything valuable there so I can understand but a shame as it's a great boredom breaker but really good to talk to her and I hear ya Jeff as quite often members near make me cry, but them I think it must be something in my eye that is just making it water :winkextra: But hey I'm old enough that I don't have much shame any more and I can tell you that I cried when I first found out but doesn't matter as she's on the mend and that's all that counts..sometimes I think I might be human but then

[robbiegal]

good point about the valuables AJ
the nurses could lock them up for AC
but yeah, if it's not there for the taking, then there can't be any problems I suppose

[Fulvio]

The valuables thing is a big deal apparently. Her dad told me they took everything home except the bear because of it.

Anyway, I've got the box here, and I won't touch it, just take it back on each visit. Its a tad over 2.1Kg of 3d, so it should keep here amused till she gets out. With luck, I should be able to get down there a couple times a week.

She pulled a nice little pile of die cracks as well as the rainbows, but she only opened maybe four rolls, what with all the phone calls and stuff.

BTW... Neal, do me a favour and change how you roll stuff, mate! It was a hell of a job getting them cut open.

Oh, and we had fun getting me out of the building like two hours after visiting hours ended (8pm apparently... one of the nurses got a little pissed off with me, but nobody takes any notice of her anyway, they were saying). Talk about a rabbit warren! We ended up traipsing all over the hospital, me, Kim in a wheelchair and the nurse with the keys.



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So, anyway, about my absence...

As I told AC, AJ, Splock and Goldy, I got pissed off about some things that were said and done here, and I haven't even looked at anything since. I'm not over it, to be honest, but today went a long way towards getting me there. Some of you lot are too valuable to walk away from. I'm not going to jump straight back in, at least for now, because...

...I'm up to my eyebrows in all sorts of stuff now. The whole Dogecoin thing has exploded, and I've got half a dozen major projects on the boil, with about 20 people in the core group on Skype coordinating stuff. Oh, and I got forced onto Twitter, much to my disgust. I hate it, but its the only way to get some things done.

I'm putting together our sponsorship of Lee Holdsworth's Erebus Mercedes in the V8 Supercars event in Townsville in about six weeks. Trying to get art sorted, deal with the team, get hold of Betty Klimenko, who's been in hospital herself, Get Lee up to speed on Reddit and into an AMA (Ask Me Anything). Oh, and find the rest of the fifty grand we need, AND get a reliable method for converting the Dogecoins back into A$ at a decent price. Unless I can sweet talk Betty that is.

Just finished doing a scholarship for three street kids in the Philippines, which ended up being partially funded by Josh Wise's NASCAR winnings after we won him the fan vote. Now trying to find ways to help others in that community, to build a template we can then use worldwide.

Got ShibeNet going, with the web stuff coming along nicely. We're building a database to automatically match help requests with the nearest volunteer able to go out and lend a hand when needed. We're not doing funding, just support. Once its all set up and tested, then its time to recruit as many of the 87,000 members of /r/Dogecoin as possible. That should be fun.

Working with US and German charitable foundations to build frameworks for Dogecoin's use in direct aid. Did you know that the existing fiat payment systems chew a $2 billion hole in aid payments annually? Or that the main P2P payments system in Africa is SMS, backed by the Telcos, with insane fees? We can do all that for basically free.

Working with the RSPCA to make DogePOOPS (Pets of Older Persons) happen in Victoria. The program is already operational in NSW and WA, and we want to fund it here, basically because its awesome.

Working on PR campaigns of various ilk, to increase our community and visibility. The NASCAR sponsorship brought us 27,000 new people on Reddit alone, and according to the publisher of VeryMuchWow magazine, less than half the community is on Reddit, so the actual gain may have been well over 50,000 from that one event. Wait till we get our lunar rovers on the moon next year!

Also working on programs to get merchants on board to give shibes more places to go spend those hard-won Dogecoins. Sure, you can buy coins from the Shibe Mint, and you can buy one of the 5,000 T-Shirts we sold in 3 days, but the currency needs to be accepted at the milk bar down the road to be truly successful. We're working on it.

Considering taking the Coins4Doge concept over to Reddit, after you lot managed to totally kill my enthusiasm for doing it here. Mind you, the /r/Coins community didn't seem too excited either, because its not Bitcoin, and because they're all yanks anyway, but who cares? I'll just start another subreddit when I'm ready, and offer a selection of my own coins to begin with. If it doesn't work, nothing lost except time.

Oh yeah, and got interviewed for a 3-page spread in VMW the other day:

http://www.verymuchwow.com/

So, all that lot doesn't leave a lot of time for much else right now. I won't say I don't miss you lot, cos I do, but don't expect me back like I used to be.

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Oh yeah, nearly forgot... I'm also doing a presentation on coin storage systems at MNS on July 10th. haven't even started planning for that yet! Hmm. Wonder if I can kidnap Kim and a wheelchair for the June 12th meeting? They give prisoners day release, after all...

[ausjack]

That's GREAT news and just so fantastic to see she's got that cheeky smile on her dial (well done little mate your looking really good but don't let it go to your head ) and I hear ya Fulvio as I have my days mate so we are here when you want to come back and you have my number so anytime you want to give me a bell please feel free :friends:
But should she be sitting like that??? KIM I told you to be good and play the game, just for a little while mate and honestly in the grand scheme of things a few weeks isn't much at all and we want you to heal the best you can, gee I need you all to keep me in line or I go feral :laugh2:

[Fulvio]

But should she be sitting like that???

I didn't think so... she's got a pretty impressive injury right at the bottom of her spine (I didn't take pictures to protect her modesty), but she insisted on sitting up in the lotus position for most of the time. The nurse did dress it, with one of those foam pads, but I reckon its gotta hurt.

[ausjack]

Tell her if she keeps going I'm coming down to sort her out or you can and save me the trip, I can see I'm gonna have to have another talk to her but not that she listens.

[Pedro]

Great to hear AC is on the mend.

Sound like you have been very busy Fulvio.

Pedro

[Robster]

I agree, the first sign of recovery is a big smile so you have that step covered A.C.!!!  Fulvio, I am amazed by the amount of projects you seem to be involved with, congratulations and continued success.!!

[ausjack]

Yes some of you really amaze me with what you can do so if you can do more than one thing at once you should be truly thankful and so wish I could, I hate being trapped in my slow mind when I know I'm not really..just takes a little for things to sink in But it is a lot better than the alternative :good:

[Robster]

A.J. My slow mind hates being trapped in me.!! :angel:

[ausjack]

:laugh2: gee I never thought about it like that, thanks Robster :friends:

[robbiegal]

thanks Fulvio for the photos of pretty Kim and her little treasure find there

and well done with the charity work too - I am pleased that it is coming into fruition for yourself and others - you should be in the PR business! (or maybe, you are)

[Fulvio]

(or maybe, you are)

No, but I was. I'm not in any business now.

[Robster]

One for A.C.!! Hope the improvement continues.!

[ausjack]

Well I called me little mate again tonight and by god can she talk like a thrashing machine, never shuts up and for three bloody hours mind you but it's just so good that she's well and truly on the mend :friends: Won't be long and she'll be back with us :heart: