{"id":866,"date":"2010-04-29T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adam-jackson.net\/?p=866"},"modified":"2010-04-29T13:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:08:29","slug":"coming-up-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2010\/04\/29\/coming-up-short\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Coming up Short&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14335,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.climbingforkids.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20221126090615\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.climbingforkids.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-06 04:52:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-25 06:55:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 19:58:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-30 20:16:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 01:32:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 03:41:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10 10:07:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-15 10:03:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-21 02:53:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26 00:08:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-30 07:30:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 16:45:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17 06:20:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-20 19:28:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-26 13:26:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 17:14:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 01:22:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:00:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 10:00:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 18:09:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 16:27:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 10:51:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 08:31:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 08:31:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14336,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.kintera.org\\\/faf\\\/donorReg\\\/donorPledge.asp?ievent=323924&amp;supId=277262371&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>In late January, I announced that I&#8217;d be climbing a mountain. Well, I may not be able to do that now. The full, $4,500 is due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climbingforkids.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Climbing for Kids<\/a> on Tuesday to be able to qualify for the climb. I&#8217;ll be about $2,000 short after I give what&#8217;s left of my paycheck after paying rent.<\/p>\n<p>I cancelled my iPad 3G order to make this deadline but I&#8217;m still short. I didn&#8217;t go on any business trips since December other than my pre-payed and pre-panned trip to Florida in March. I trained, lost 30 pounds and even moved to a part of San Francisco with steep hills and a convenient gym so I could prepare for this climb.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped drinking lattes and other high fat drinks. Haven&#8217;t had a soda in months. I was and am fully committed to the mid-June climb of Mount Shasta.<\/p>\n<p>No one else believed in me. Well, maybe that&#8217;s a bit harsh. About 8 people did including a woman who I&#8217;ve known for 8 years now via the web, for which I&#8217;ve never met. Her $500 donation meant a lot to me.<\/p>\n<p>I asked my martial arts family who I&#8217;ve been training with for nearly 20 years. Nothing. I asked my family who loves me and has supported me for years. Mom and Dad gave which did help.<\/p>\n<p>My emails and phone calls to my 75+ person family yielded one $15 donation from a family member outside of Mom and Dad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s 5 days before deadline and I&#8217;ve raised $1,150 of the $4,500 needed leaving a remainder of $3350 needed to meet my goal which I pledged in January that I&#8217;d raise. That $1,150 that I did raise, actually includes $500 that I had to donate in order to join the program and be recognized as a climber.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>I have until July to pay off my balance. It&#8217;s a situation where I sign a contract committing to paying this. By July, I can pay this. I make enough that if I don&#8217;t leave my house for 3 months, the $3,000 can be done. This means I&#8217;ll be going from work to home w\/o ever going out until July and I&#8217;ll be able to pay this off.<\/p>\n<p>However, paying in July means I didn&#8217;t make the climb. I wouldn&#8217;t be able to climb the mountain which is why I did this, why I did this training and why I signed up.<\/p>\n<p>This is a bit saddening. It&#8217;s for the kids so they get the money I promised to raise. There&#8217;s no backing out on raising money. I&#8217;m fully contractually obligated to &#8220;give&#8221; $4,500 so that&#8217;s that. But, I&#8217;ll be unable to make the Mt. Shasta climb unless I raise the $4,500 by Tuesday which is completely impossible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>All I can say, is that it was a good ride. I made a good effort but, at 23 I just don&#8217;t have the network of wealthy friends who can donate money. I wish I could return the money you all gave but remember that money is going to a good cause and now I just have to skip meals and skip buying a car so I can pay off the money that I promised. If I don&#8217;t, it goes to collections and you know that&#8217;s never good.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks everyone for your support. Here&#8217;s the donate link if anyone has $5 to spare. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kintera.org\/faf\/donorReg\/donorPledge.asp?ievent=323924&amp;supId=277262371\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kintera.org\/faf\/donorReg\/donorPledge.asp?ievent=323924&amp;supId=277262371<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the program here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climbingforkids.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.climbingforkids.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In late January, I announced that I&#8217;d be climbing a mountain. 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