And I just wrote a "thank you" to Dean for his donation. A point I mentioned in it - and that I've made time and again here -- is that I try to keep the commercial advertising to a minimun so you'll get all racing, all the time (well, and jokes, too) and not flashing banner ads and so on. Some things may have to have a bit of advertising as they develop - - things like the audio streaming that we've got going. It'll take a person full time to keep it up and running right, so I've got to be able to pay him, get the equipment (most of it already donated, thank you), and pay for the streaming "airtime". When you hear an ad during streaming -- take it in stride and maybe even thank the advertiser.
Speaking of revenue raisers for this site, I recently turned down an offer from one company. They wanted to imbed a sort of "shopping" service into the site, so when you click on something -- say, on "fuel pumps" and then buy one from a site you end up going to -- the site would get a buck or ten or something. I decided that I didn't want the responsibility of having some of you be surprised when you end up (maybe) at a site where you didn't think you'd go, didn't want you to find out that I'd "secretly" added the feature to the site, etc. I could have posed the question here -- should I or shouldn't I -- but I think/hope I guessed right. The company is VIGLINK. Go visit their website if you'd like to see what they've got to do.