This puts me about 5% of the way toward meeting the “flee Slovakia for Spain” expenses.

Every bit helps, and any amount is most welcome. Also, if you’re not inclined to making a direct gift, if you’re doing some shopping at Amazon.com and start your session there by clicking on one of my Amazon product links low on the right side, I’ll get something like 4% of the purchase price as a commission.

¡Muchas gracias para tu apoyo!

As my friends and regular readers know, I’ve left Slovakia and taken up provisional digs in Granada, Spain. There were two reasons for getting out. The first is to be able to tell the story of being brutalized at the hands of the Slovak Police and to publish Miroslav Pašek‘s name widely, without same beasts knowing precisely where I live and having easy access to my fragile corpus. The second reason is psychological. From the time of the attack until I left, I was more or less a shut-in. Leaving my building, walking around the city, taking a bus, even visiting with friends all were liable to trigger memory and emotional associations which would set off various negative psychological/somatic reactions in me: fear, stress, anxiety, depression.

Image unrelated, but still a good read

So it was time to go, get my story out — for what that’s worth — and try to rebuild my psyche. And getting out has done me good: the fear/stress/anxiety stuff is gone, since I’m not in the triggering environment. The depression — something I’ve been prone to for long years anyway — is still there. And now there’s a new element, too: homesickness, an emotion-complex I’ve not really experienced before. Bratislava had become home to me, and now that’s been ripped away, along with easy access to my dear friends there. This will all get better over time, I know, but it still sucks for the moment.

So, to the bleg. Moving is expensive. And it gets extra expensive when you have a sweet 18-year-old cat depending on you for his daily love and vittles. €857.48 worth of expensive, to be more or less exact, or US$1,274.99. Money I don’t really have.

An itemization of my moving expenses is below, followed by a special treat. If you can help out, I can take payments to mike (at) gogulski (dot) com via PayPal, MoneyBookers, Revolution Money Exchange and Pecunix. Direct “pay” links to all of them can be found at Support nostate.com above, and there’s also a ChipIn widget here now. Please don’t mark anything as a “donation”, since PayPal particularly seems to think anyone who accepts “donations” needs to be a state-registered charity. Use “gift” instead, if anything.

And thanks as always for your attention, your interest and your support.

And now, the promised treat!

Henry's first breath of freedom (which he used to complain, loudly), in Marbella, Spain, after 10 hours of undignified travel

All your carrot are belong to me!

Just since the last post, even…

MH sent $15

JT sent $20

WM sent $200 – double WOW!

Anonymous sent €200 – quadruple WOW!

This lays the Phone Bill o’Doom well to rest, and I’ve taken the ChipIn widget down.

Thanks a bundle, folks! And I hereby promise never to be so careless with my calls again — or, at least if I am, to not come ’round asking for help with such a goofy thing.

Another cat pic? Yes we can! This one’s from Santa Cruz, California, circa 2002. Henry doesn’t seem to want to eat carrots, but the smell does something to him that approaches the effects of catnip on the old boy.

Enjoy!

As always, Henry and I thank you!

Heartfelt thanks and gratitude to those who have responded to my Phone bill of doom! posting and ChipIn. Y’all rock!

I’ve asked donors in the past, erratically, if they want to be named, linked, etc. Answers tend to vary quite a bit, with most tending to not want to be named or not caring either way. So, I’m adopting a new policy. When donations come in and I post them, I’m just going to list initials. If you then want to be linked or named, you can do so yourself in the comments or email me privately with your request and I’ll update the post.

• JS sent $15 (a while back)
• T sent $25
• JB sent $25
• JE sent $25
• AM sent $10
• M sent €100

I’m still about €321 short on the phone bill, and the ChipIn — which doesn’t update properly and doesn’t include some out-of-band donations — is still running, so of course your contribution is welcome!

Thanks very much to all of you!

This (re)awakening created a huge excitement in me, which needed to be shared immediately. So, I started calling close friends and having long telephone conversations. Some of those friends are in the US and the UK. I really wasn’t paying attention to where I was calling or for how long.

So, the downside fruit: my mobile phone bill for the last billing period is for €528.86. Argh!

Can ya help me out with that? Donations welcome via the ChipIn widget or via “support nostate.com” above. The US$699 number represents the amount over and above my usual ~€30 monthly bill.

The full bill is available in PDF form here, in Slovak: T-Mobile bill of doom

And when you’re done responding to my own rather trivial blegging, Anarcho-Professor Roderick Long is in need of serious mutual aid, due to the tax man robbing him.

Big thanks this week to all who responded to my shameless blegging post last week:

Aaron Kinney sent US$20.

James Tuttle sent US$100.

An anonymous donor sent US$50.

Nick and Thalia Puglia signed up for web hosting with BlueHost, which brought me a US$65 referral fee.

I thank you, Henry thanks you, and Henry's reflection thanks you!