Last night I received my first disbursement for August referrals of Spanning Sync for $160.  In keeping with my plans, $80 is going to charities.  I put $50 in Kiva for team Learning Ninjas and $30 to the Salvation Army.  Brian was smart enough to organize a Kiva Team, and I’m going to start inviting the awesomely cool learning professionals we know to join up with us.  Knowing that I just got August’s payments yesterday, I’m excited for the first of December when I should be able to donate a lot more.  It’s nice to be in a position to (ahem) “redistribute the wealth.”

That $80 that I’m keeping?  Together with some games I took back to Game Stop, it just bought the Guitar Kit for Guitar Hero: World Tour (I’ll have to buy the drums and microphone seperately).  If anyone has a line on the drums and microphone for Guitar Hero, let me know — the band kits are all sold out around here and now that I have the game and the guitar, I really just want to round out the game so Logan, Suzy and I can have full band sessions.

My sidework tapered off a bit this last two weeks, so it’s been a quiet weekend to try and catch up with things like sleeping and playing video games.  I have a more reflective post coming up, but I wanted to share the good news and encourage you all to check Kiva out.

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