As a reminder to everyone, in a few days we're going to be shutting the boards down temporarily while I work on giving our site a much needed and long overdue upgrade that is going to take a considerable amount of my time and effort.  I want to make sure everyone has a chance to log on and see the results before I take down the boards, so I'm going to wait until WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 10pm board time (pst) to take them down.  My guess is that the entire update process, followed by my having to rebuild a huge portion of the site from scratch (due to this major upgrade reverting a TON of our custom stuff to default and requiring all plugins/modifications to be reinstalled/tested) will take several days, possibly over a week.  If all goes well, we'll return with an even better site than before and possibly with a new design.

I haven't been working as many hours lately, so this is a good time for me to put more of my personal time toward this.  Things are very tight right now though, so if anyone would like to show their support with a donation, this is actually a time it would be very helpful and it would need to happen BEFORE I take the site down Wednesday night.  There is even a small chance I will need to ask for paid assistance if this upgrade goes haywire like I've read about it doing to some people who try it on their own.  Keep in mind if you don't have much $ to spare, even 5 or 10 bucks helps.  Please don't avoid pitching in just because you think $5 or $10 isn't much... because it DOES help if multiple people are doing it, and if you're in a position to help much more than that, great, please do whatever you can.  Here is the link:  http://xwf99.com/announcements.php?aid=7

Perks:  All donors can select a secondary avatar to add to their account if they wish, and they're also welcome to come to me with custom requests of ANY kind.  If you have an idea for something cool you'd like to see happen as a thank you for your donation, ASK ME.  The worst that can happen is I say it's not possible, but I'm willing to seriously consider all requests from donors.  Thanks all!