My friends and I, along with thousands of others, are going to be doing a “marathon” for charity. It’s not really a marathon, as in an event where people actually do physical activity outdoors, but we will be playing video games for 24 hours straight to raise more than a half a million dollars for charity. So let’s just call it a marathon. It sounds better than “march of death”.
This has to be at least as hard as walking. Or running. Or whatever it is that people do at normal marathons.
It’s for a great cause, too. The Children’s Miracle Network hospital of Oakland is terribly cash strapped, and there are so many children in need that it really breaks my heart. My team hopes to raise thousands of dollars, and there are more than 100 teams. The amount of money raised in this fundraiser is truly staggering.
I’m asking everyone I know to consider donating to the cause. If everyone who reads my blog, follows me on Twitter, or calls me a Facebook friend gave me just $1 for every hour that I’ll be playing video games, I think it would be about 700 grand. That’s just a quick back-of-the-bar-napkin estimate. The real number is probably much higher.
But I can’t do it without your help! Donating is really easy, just go here and give them your digits: http://extra-life.org/participant/banjor
