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08/11/07

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Categories: Busly Saturdays

Busly Saturdays - ...and I thought my "Thursday Thirteen" this past week was a slam dunk!

Starting off today with a rant of sorts... well, not really a rant, but a comment on my surprise that my Thursday Thirteen, which I thought was a comedy classic slam-dunk got precious few comments!

I mean, hey now! I worked Leon Redbone, Mark E. Smith, and Jessica Simpson all into the SAME POST!

I know! It was SO funny, that you all couldn't type because you were laughing too hard! (At least, that's what I'm going to tell myself... don't ruin my fantasy, please...)

On the news front, I am STILL amazed at the numbers of visitors we have been getting! We are now AVERAGING 1,200 visitors PER DAY! Oddly enough, Tuesday last week was the busiest day with 1,697 visitors and Sunday was the worst with only 874 visitors...

I've been hearing from SO many people words of support which is GREAT! Many of our visitors APPEAR to be coming here just to see "how we're doing" which is WONDERFUL!

Fiscally, sad to say, there's been no change from last week, and "busly news wise", it's still status quo... it's in a barn in Santa Rosa being slowly filled with garbage. That last part is kinda a bummer when I write it, but it is the way of things right now.

Oh, and as there is still some confusion... We do not own this bus yet... we are trying to come up with the money to do so... that is why this blog exists. This is not to say the blog will go away if we are successful, but it will change "formats" from what it is to "Our Adventures With Our Bus".

Soon, we hope... details are below...

Anyway, I should warn folks... I'm USUALLY pretty good at commenting back on comments ASAP... but this weekend is a little busy so bear with me... I may not get back to you until Sunday evening...

Basically, got an investigation on Saturday, a dinner-date on Saturday night, and the little one is home after a week up North on Sunday... so a pretty full social calendar.

I *should* have my "Sunday Blessing" up in time... but "BlogTalkers" will probably wait until the evening.

So, on that note... have a GREAT Saturday... and I'll "E" you Sunday!

The standard last note on the old blog... PLEASE SUPPORT THE DREAM!

This blog is here to help promote a dream that an entire family shares... that dream is to rescue an old London Double-Decker bus.

Please, if you have a few minutes, take some time to find out more about this bus and the kooky dream by clicking here.

This bus is VERY special to myself and the whole family, and any help any person can lend us would be most gratefully accepted.

If you or someone you know might be interested, there's our tiny banner site, HelpCoverTheBus.Com and a PayPal donation button (see the upper-right hand side of the blog) and, of course, a Cafe Press shop for T-Shirts and shtuff!
(...and who doesn't need some shtuff!)

Please help us make this dream a reality and save a piece of history!

We thank you for your support!

Please Note: We are also hoping for help from a public relations/marketing standpoint... If you might be able to assist OR know someone who might be willing to, please click here and read this entry...

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This blog was started in April of 2006... its original itent was really twofold. One was to be a "sounding board" for it's author... and the other... well...

At the time we started this, your humble author was unemployed and going through the usual crisis situations that arise from being jobless.

We (my wife, stepdaughter, and I,) used to "amuse" ourselves (read: Take our minds off our troubles) by more-or-less fantasizing as a family about what we'd do when things "turned around". Along this route, we discussed going to England on a vacation... and in that, alighted on "double-decker buses".

We kind of adopted one bus... Regent Low Height 3... as Our Bus... and we used to talk about what we'd do with "our bus" if we got it... from fixing it up to the trips we'd take on it.

Along the way, we became students of the history of this bus which HONESTLY seemd it was truly for us... trouble was, we couldn't afford the bus and weren't in a position to work towards the bus... so we had a couple of options...

Since the bus' position was sketchy (there's a chance she might be sold for scrap or "carved up" in other ways,) we could forget about her and pretend she didn't exist...

...or we could TRY... ask for help... put our dream of owning and saving "One Old Green Bus" into the universe and see what happens...

As of February, 2008, we knew that there was a perspective buyer for the bus (not us, obviously,) and made some difficult decisions... The first was that we wouldn't "beg" for help anymore and give the little money we received to a few different charities both online and off... and the second was simply hope that either we find a corporate sponsor (for an "ad" idea we have, click here to about read that,) or even a patron who see's the value in a silly family's dream...

But, if the bus is about to be purchased by someone who's planning on restoring it and they "get there first", we wish them well and are glad that at least Our One Old Green Bus is in a safe place being looked after.

For now, though, we are still hoping WE might be the ones to get our One Old Green Bus and see a family dream come true...

Regardless, this blog WILL continue... and we will still "go for" a bus of our own... but this blog will ALWAYS be dedicated to our own One Old Green Bus.

Want to know more about Regent Low Height buses? Click here!

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