Wait a minute!

DW ~ you can collect REAL MONEY in a "virtual tip jar" out there in cyberspace? Do you use PayPal or something like that? (I'm suddenly getting more interested ;^)

24 bucks for a half-hour open mike slot isn't bad at all. My tip-basket earnings over the past year at my monthly full-hour gig have ranged from $1 (once, when I accepted a too-early 7pm timeslot) to $21.

My total take was considerably higher one night when my wife put in a twenty, just to see my reaction, but I can't really count that. It was like taking money out of one pocket and putting it in the other.