Basic blog business out of the way first- Marissa’s not doing so well.  Her seizures have evolved into a single tonic event, followed by a bunch of myoclonic drops.  Translated, this means “big, bad grunty seizure followed by a bunch of annoying ones that she’s lucid enough to complain about after each event.”  We’re not sure what the next few days entail, and we’ve had discussions with various health professionals about IVIG, radical brain surgery, or gene therapy.  None are particularly attractive candidates, but we’re at the long downfield hail Mary pass downfield for victory, or abject failure part of the treatment anyhow.

Heavy discussions will be had both here with the Wife and family, and also here on the blog with you lot fairly soon, I’m sure.

More is Better, Unless it’s Seizures

Earlier this week, the UPS guy dropped off a bag at the Marissahaüs.  We had a few things on order, clothes, therapy goodies, etc, so I didn’t think about it right away.  I had spoken with Crucial.com some time ago to sponsor Marissasbunny.com, and boy, did they come through.

I’m a tech head.  I’m a cheap tech head, but I’m a tech head.  RAM is easy to sleight on computers.  Typically, as long as a computer runs, and has adequate performance, I’m pretty happy.  In the bag was enough RAM to quadruple the capacity on my main work machine.

I knew RAM made some difference, and when I spec out a machine I have a certain quantity in mind for various tasks.  Some for surfing machines, some x2 for gaming machines,  some x2-4 for rendering machines.  I wasn’t expecting a palpable difference in my main workstation above and beyond what I had installed for gaming.  Big difference.

So, thanks to crucial.com, we’ve got a RAM giveaway.  If you win this contest, Crucial.com will send you an upgrade for one of your computers, up to $250 in value!   

Here’s how to enter.  Choose one method, choose many.  Some will only ever give you one entry, some can be done once per day.  Only do what you’re comfortable with, and please be sure to complete all steps for your method!

Method One (one entry per vote and email combo per day)

You’re probably familiar with this one. 

Step One:

Vote for Marissa’s Bunny on topbabyblogs.com by clicking here.  No registration is required.  If you don’t want to click on the text, the banner at the bottom of the page works too.

Step Two:

On the landing page, be sure to get your vote counted by clicking on the “click here and your vote will be added” text.

Step Three:

Email Marissa and tell us you’ve done this.

Method Two (one entry total)

Step One:

Leave a comment here with the specs of your main work machine, and what you’d like it to go up to RAM-wise if you win this contest. 

Step Two

Be sure we know how to contact you. You don’t have to leave your email here, but do email it to Marissa and match it with the comment.

Method Three (one entry per tweet per day)

Step One

Follow us on Twitter, and tweet to your followers that we exist, and you’d like your followers to read us.  A convenient shorturl for marissasbunny.com is http://alturl.com/xmkoc

Please include a hashtag.  Include #marissasbunny to make it easier to find your tweet.  Alternatively, if you don’t like hashtags, email Marissa and tell us your twitter name after you’ve tweeted about marissasbunny.com.

Entry in the contest gives us permission to use whatever name you’ve provided us, whether it be your real name or your screen name for winner announcement purposes.  We won’t harvest your email address, ever, or sell them, ever.  Entries close on August 1st at Noon eastern standard time.  Winner takes all!  Upon notification of a win by email or tweet, you’ll have 72 hours from the time the email or tweet was sent to respond to it with your mailing address and the RAM upgrade you want (up to $250 in retail value).  We’ll provide this information to our crucial.com contact, and they will fulfill the order directly.

Good luck!  Thanks to Crucial.com for sponsoring this giveaway.