Unbelievable

Every time I think my donations from friends are finished (they've either donated or decided not to donate by now - I thought), I'm blindsided by the amazing generosity of another one. My old buddy from high school and current Orange County resident Jeremiah Johnson (like the mountain man) added $100 to the total raised!

He donated it with the express condition - "if you use it to gamble Cameron, I get 50% of your winnings." That raises two issues - (1) does he think I have such a gambling problem that I'm going to gamble with donated money? (2) how cool is it that he's so confident of me winning, he didn't say "don't gamble it," he said "i get 50% of your winnings." I wish I had that confidence in my blackjack skills. Well - I wouldn't even think of using donated money for gambling...and his donation took the grand total raised up to $712. That's 16% of my grand total. This is an awesome start...but I NEED EVERY BIT OF HELP FROM EVERYONE I KNOW. 84% is a LONG way to go.

By the way - swam a half mile the other day...no sweat (and no, it's not b/c it's impossible to sweat in a pool). I mean it was easy. Hopefully I'm not jinxing myself....but I think I turned the corner on the swim deal.