Blinding yellow banner... melting eyeballs

Roit, I like my little counter thingie wossname and I like the little chat room... and I want to keep it and I'm certain the eye melting yellow is doing nothing to illicit people to stay... SO...
Help me get rid of it... for good...

Click on the Google ads on the side, every click ads to my piggy bank. You dont have to do anything other than click on it every time you're here... So be a good sport and help our eyesight.