Ooh, can I answer apocalypse stuff in thread? I can`t easily click over to email at the moment.
 
Barb, Rosetta Stone is supposed to be excellent, although pricey. My sister, who is a linguist, recommends it. Jonquil doesn`t like it because of its associative learning style, but that`s pedagogically correct according to my sis.
 
smonster, there are a couple of options. Does the nonprofit in question already have a merchant account (i.e., accepts credit cards?), because if so, you can probably do it through the merchant bank. My org uses the paypal button at the moment, too, and then we have some donors who automate through their banks electronic bill pay.
 
The other option is the way we`re going because we don`t have a merchant account (too expensive, and our board doesn`t want people to donate on credit), which is setting up an account that allows ACH transactions. That is, our donors will sign authorization forms and then we`ll deduct directly from their checking accounts on a periodic basis. I find this more intrusive, but some donors really want to do it this way.

Barb, Rosetta Stone is supposed to be excellent, although pricey. My sister, who is a linguist, recommends it.

Ooh. I've considered getting Rosetta Stone to learn Hindi.

Kat, my mother just asked about your babies again today. You need to take a vacation to Jamaica so that she can meet them.

And, yeah, I can imagine it's slow from where you're standing...but milestones! Giggling! Signs! I'm remembering when you first got to take her home for a bit, like at Thanksgiving, and she was a lot less mobile, and spent more time hitting herself, etc. Yesterday she was just pleased as punch.

My boss called me yesterday because of something he sees as a glaring system testing omission. Proble is, I don't really see it. He wanted me to call my co-workers, stat, and get them engaged. One of them isn't even on our team. And I didn't have their info on me.

I've just dropped a text to the business owner, and I'm not sure what he's going to read into it. The developer thought I was crazy, but luckily he accepted my suggestion of calling my boss and talking to him about it.

Just...I'm hoping I don't get dinged in any way for not acting on it immediately.

You might know since you set her up in her dorm. Like, does she have a coffee maker? Microwave? Freezer? Hotpot?

Liese, I'm not sure because D's roommate joined a sorority and is moving out. So, I don't know what was hers and what was her roommate's. Poor girl is sort of feeling adrift by the move out, I think. Let me call my sister and I'll get back to you.

I'm remembering when you first got to take her home for a bit, like at Thanksgiving, and she was a lot less mobile, and spent more time hitting herself, etc.

And even THEN those things felt huge. In some ways, we've trained ourselves to be expectation-light when it comes to Grace, so when she does things, it's really amazing and awesome and wonderful.

You need to take a vacation to Jamaica so that she can meet them.

I'd love to go to Jamaica! But I think we're hanging close to home as much as we can. Traveling is an ordeal and it's less because of Grace and way more because of Noah and his attempts at non-stop-motion.

Also, WRT the Boss, what immediate outcomes is he expecting?

I just saw the picture of Maura Tierney on the cover of Parade, and she looks adorable. I want her haircut.

I found four dollars on the sidewalk! Happy birthday to me!

Whoa! That happened to me about 20 years ago and I thought it was so weird for 4 separate dollar bills to be wafting down the street.

There was one dollar bill alone and three dollar bills scrunched up next to each other. I guess they fell out of someone's pocket, and it wasn't windy, so who knows how long they'd sat there. There was no one around, so it's anyone's guess. If I'd seen someone looking down at the sidewalk on the way back, I would have given them their money back, but I did not.

Remembered to vote for Kat's Limeades project. Phew.