At least it aint rusting away like my equipment.
Was it a tax right off?

Well if you ever make it down there, let them know who you are and I'm sure the locals will set you up with a nice long, fat, "Marley." ;)

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Like Phobia and Bwana I don't donate to national orgs, especially the Red Cross. The NKF fundraiser is a local KC event where all proceeds go to Camp Chimer a camp for dialysis patients in Lawrence. This was fundraiser came about when my great niece Maya was found to have no functioning kidneys at 9 months of age and after all the help the family received they felt a need to give back and started Maya's Miracles. They try to do a couple of fundraisers a year but the big one has been Martini Madness. Maya attended Camp Chimer for the first time last year at age 9. She has been on dialysis for almost 10 years. So this is a personal charity for me.

Volunteer work is for criminals

No that's unpaid labor.

No, that would be called Community Service."


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I'm doing Science Olympiad this weekend. I'm taking over running the local Math Counts event in a year or so, and have helped with that event the last few years. Both are one-day Saturday competitions for Jr. High or HS students. In the past I've served food at the downtown mission and served as the chair of the board of education for a parochial school.

Sure. What kind of equipment do you have rusting away? I'm slammed right now. Spring is gonna be crazy.

I volunteer to jerk off the animals at the zoo on my weekends off.

I'm a volunteer counselor for the American Legion Boys State of Kansas program - if you're unfamiliar with it, it's a leadership academy that helps instill civic responsibility in high school juniors that uses a mock government as the mechanism. The actual camp is one week in June, but there's a ton of prep work that goes on throughout the year with getting things organized, recruiting for attendance, etc. It's really a great organization that I'm very proud to be apart of. I also do what I can for the United Way, and I'm also leading some efforts for a Food for Students food drive - we build relationships with area grocers and people who can donate food for children in local elementary schools who are deemed potentially hungry on the weekends.

I just started doing some. I'm working with juvenile adult males, and trying to integrate them into improper online social behavior. I'll let you know how it goes. :D

Wow - I just remembered something else I'm doing. I'm a mentor for non-violent criminals who are on parole. I just make contact with them and encourage them as needed. If I know of a job opening, I direct them in that direction. I forgot about it because I've been in the program for about 6 months through Catholic Charities but they haven't given me anybody yet. I was supposed to get a call last week but didn't.

"Volunteering is for suckers. Do you know that so-called volunteers don't even get paid?"

--Homer Simpson, 1997

I coach little kids basketball (I have no kids).

I've also done quite a bit of volunteer work through my fraternity in the past, but haven't much the last few years.

I do work at the Free Health Clinic and some various activities related to my church.