When we opened up pre-orders back when the project first kicked off, Jessamyn collected a big pile of cash in her Paypal account.  Fastforward a few months—she’s done her duty as trusted and responsible community figure, and it’s time to get ready to spend that money on hookers and blow CD duplication.

So she cuts me a check and puts it in the mail.  And makes me pinky swear to not mistake it for junkmail and throw it out.  I swear.  We re-swear.  Things get sworn.

And a few days later, I get this in the mail.

The post office tore the check in two.  Fantastic.  It’s good to know, though, that the USPS does care, and does sincerely regret.

Fortunately, it was a clean tear.  I called up my bank and asked if it’d be a problem if I deposited a taped-together check.  No problem at all, they said.  Whew!

One of my goals is to get the chain of money-in and money-out summarized and posted in the next week or two.  The capsule review: that $1584.80 is the sum total of pre-orders as of late August (and some seed donations, to be refunded when we’re in the black on sales), less commissions from Paypal (those devils!). 

There are a few more pre-orders that have come in since that check was cut—yay—but even that sum has covered the major costs for duplication (about $1540 for the duplication and for fedexing source materials out to said dupe firm) with a few bucks left over.  Now we just need to buy a few hundred padded mailers and postage, which those overflow bucks and the interim pre-orders will probably cover.  Heck yeah!