I know everybody's planning for Lime Rock this weekend, but it's not too early to think about RAL - particularly the past ability of the IT community to garner charitible contributions for the cause (with Tim K. historically going way above and beyond the call).

Unfortuntely, even though I've asked everybody in my family to move any and all special events to either before or after the race season, they don't always listen, thus I can't attend RAL this year..

Since I can't be at RAL, I won't be getting the pledges from my friends and family that I've had in the past, but I don't want to deprive the charity of those funds, so I plan to pledge the amount of money I likely would have raised..

How are everybody else's fund-raising efforts going?