Best-laid plans and gale-force winds. Sales and shares (especially of the new platform) needed.

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Well, this day went nothing like intended. Nothing bad, as long as you ignore the 50-mph winds (that's the big north willow during a moment lull this evening), which have my joints wracked with pain and my breathing really labored. [Well, and an hour or so ago, we had the second rollover in a week at the corner of our north boundary, the same corner where that rollover in 2014 required the Medevac copter landing in our north field. Twice in a week (minus the copter). Tonight's driver and passenger were reportedly lucky, broken bones upon ejection but nothing worse, I guess. The one a week ago was a fatality. There's something there from a long time ago, always has been, and apparently this year it's decided, as it does periodically, to awaken again.]

For us, though, the day wasn't bad, just not especially productive, thanks to errands and winds and other interference. Best-laid plans and all that. I didn't get thing one done on the crowdfunding platform, though, so nothing's changed from last night. As I said then, here's where things stand: The overall goal is my $25K+ in emergency medical bills, but for now, I'm trying to raise an initial $1,700 to take care of two specific bills: the local ambulance and the hospitalist's fee. We're $135 of the way toward it. A caveat: I have a lot of kinks to get worked out yet, but PayPal is now theoretically linked to the progress meter on the site. I say "theoretically," because I've just discovered that I apparently have to set up at least one other page to make the subscription "purchase" possible. Eventually, if you subscribe via PayPal (it's a monthly thing like Patreon), it will show, although for now the only way to do it is to hit the PayPal "Subscribe" button. I'm hoping to get that figured out and fixed tomorrow. I also need to figure out how to pin it to the main page, so for now, the only way to access it is here. Please share this link around on social media and elsewhere.

Dinner's on, but there's more work yet to do tonight, among them getting some items packed for shipping (apologies, all, for the delay; the start of this week, with Monday's ER events, set me way, way back). So here are the links: 

• Tonight's post elsewhere (Bluebird knows);
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to She-Wolf's & my medical bills);
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. There are some things left on both registries that I thought by now I might be able just to buy outright, but medical bills (mine and She-Wolf's both) have to come first.

This week, we hope, Tony will be back to spec out what remains to finish off the house (he's been dealing with a family job). Hopefully that means that the stairs will get finished, and I'll eventually have some cabinetry for kitchen storage and countertop space. That's a long, drawn-out process, though, and in the meantime, I've got to deal with all the medical stuff. So please check out the new platform, share the links, get your friends to participate. I've got a long road ahead of me, just in terms of diagnosis and, I hope, eventually treatment. Being able to pay off the medical bills will go a long way toward keeping me as healthy as possible in the meantime. Thanks, everybody, from both of us.

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