…this fellow over at Boardgamegeek has a son who was born premature, and who has to undergo a fifth (!) surgery, and his insurance isn’t covering everything and he’s out of work. He’s already sold games, but a bunch of other people on BGG – including me – have listed games with proceeds going to him. So if you’ve got a BGG account – or are willing to set one up and like boardgames (and there’s also a pretty complete Nintendo Wii setup there as well which is currently going for relative peanuts) – you might want to consider bidding.

As an added bonus, if any of my readers wins one of my auctions, I’ll throw in a little something extra into the box.

EDIT TO ADD: As of right now, nobody has yet bid on this autographed/certified Eric Clapton vinyl album.

Happy New Year to all those Jewish folks out there reading this little corner of the interwebs, and I’d like to thank you guys, not only for the four-day weekend I’m enjoying because York University made all Jewish holidays universal for students and staff, but also because our law professors took the opportunity of a four-day weekend to load us down with so much reading it almost didn’t fit in my backpack.