'cause I figure i can take the 20K and use it to make some REAL money.     Can't possibly fail.

So anyway, that happened.    Thanks all for your efforts!      

Now we're debating our "stretch goal"...  something extra we'll do if we can hit a new funding level before time runs out...

Yes.  Although I avoided saying so in the description, we are including those rewards with the $50 level, since they don't cost us anything to fulfill.

Well, _I_ haven't, because I've never used Tumblr and don't know what promo images and tracked tags are...   

But is that something someone else could do? 

All right DiF team - progress report time.  We're past the halfway point in our 30-day funding window... but not past the halfway point in actual funding.

However, there's a lot of good news here.  First of all, we're well out of the "death zone" - half of all Kickstarter projects die with nearly no pledges at all.  Statistically, just passing 30% of our goal means we're far more likely to go all the way.    Second, funding tends to pick up in the back half of Kickstarter campaigns anyway - people start to respond to the ticking clock.

But even so - we've stalled a bit in the past few days and we need to hit the gas again.   There's a direct correlation between Twitter/Facebook blasts and donations - we do the former, we see a rise in the latter.   But the thing about Twitter and Facebook posts is that if people don't see them right away, they vanish off the screen.    Or they see them and decide to check on them later, then forget.    So the name of the game is - keep doing it!   (All of MY Facebook and Twitter followers can vouch for how annoying I've been.)   

Also, Celebration VI is happening now, and we've got people there working the floor on our behalf.  And we're still working to get more writeups on blogs and news outlets, too - these things are especially good because they tend to last a bit longer than tweets, and can go into more detail.   

So anyway -  anyone who wants to help out, get out there and spread the word (again)!   Hell, even though we didn't get a lot of traction from Reddit, we still saw donations from it.   Totally worth it.   

Don't think you have to limit yourselves to Star Wars-centric zones, either.  We got huge numbers from a sound-mixing blog post, and Owen's wacko scoring of a retweet from Gun's N' Roses' guitarist is probably the biggest single pledge-generator we've had.   Who wants to try to top it?

Thanks everyone for all the help thus far... now, ready and.... go!