So here’s the thing: I’m a slacker. And I need to raise $100 in donations by this time tomorrow.

My wife works for the American Lung Association where the Power Climb will be happening in downtown Des Moines tomorrow.

I signed up to be on the team, “Dancing With the Stairs” (Get it? Because we’re going to be climbing stairs, we made a funny parody off of the hit show on ABC, “Dancing With the Stars“! Clever, no?).

In order to do the Power Climb, you need to have raised $100 or more. Right now I have $0. I have had close to six months to do this, but I haven’t even started. Such is the ongoing saga of Larry Lag-Behind (my nickname in college).

But all is not lost! Sure, the impetus for this request is sheer neglect on my part, but what if we turned this into a neat, social media experiment? Can social media impact the world in a tangible way in a given amount of time? The donations are going to help fight lung diseases in the communities throughout Iowa, so it’s a noble cause to say the least.

So…Can you help? $1? $5? $20? Or could you take care of the whole darn thing with a $100 donation? Here’s my donation page. You can donate right on the site and watch my pledge meter go up as the dough comes in!

So here we go. As of the end of this post, we have t-minus 22 hours and counting before I try and heave my 6’4″ frame up 43 flights of stairs at the Power Climb! I’ll post pictures regardless to commemorate this epic challenge!

Tell your friends, relatives, countrymen! Let’s do this! This is going to be fun. Giddy up.

(Update: I will give a FREE Deviant T-shirt to the person who takes me over $100!)

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