A visit from my girl, and a decided lack of progress on other fronts. Sales very much needed now (subscribers and shares help, too).

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My girl. I was having a crappy day yesterday for all kinds of reasons (mostly related to lack of time and the constant complications my health issues bring to every single thing). And she showed up out of nowhere, came over to greet us, circled right overhead a few times, and then took off for higher currents. She's here early, and she's often gone for days on end, hunting . . . but she always comes home.

A lot to get done today (and this week). First off, thank you to everyone who took items off our wishlist yesterday; that's got to be some kind of record. I'm so grateful to you for all of it. Some were more urgent than others, but all needed, and all things I couldn't justify spending money on right now with everything else that's going on.

Speaking of "everything else," I'm about ready to come down hard over the damage to the laundry room and downstairs bathroom. I don't have the time or physical strength anymore to be doing this kind of thing, and it's got to get done, and soon. I'm also getting more than a little fed up with the lack of progress on my medical referral. It's one fucking referral, and you've had more than a month to do this. Yeah, I know the practice is converting to a nonprofit "community healing center" so it can rake in more scratch. I also know your big splashy event was yesterday and your [re]launch is today. None of that helps me one iota when I've been waiting for months already, and now more than a month this go-round, just to try to find out whether, you know, I'm going to live or die.

Speaking of scratch, we need to bring in a lot more, especially now with winter here early and with the closure looming not long after the new year. So as I keep saying, I also have to spend today (EVERY day) on work that brings in actual scratch, sales or subscribers or otherwise. Ordinarily, the sales and commissions we get this time of year are what see us through six long hard months of winter (but that has not the been the case the last couple of years); on top of ordinary winter cost of living and now this construction mess, I have more tests upcoming soon on top of the tens of thousands of dollars' worth of medical debt already trying to drive me into an early grave. Time is short for the holidays, so if you have special orders, get them in to me now so he has time to create them for you. For now, though, I'm so far behind on this day (and on the week as a whole) that I'll never catch up, so most of the rest is cut-and-paste.

Most of my attention has to be focused on bringing in money, through sales or subscribers or any other means, because the bills don't pay themselves, either, and the heavy burden I'm carrying on that score is inhibiting my ability to heal in a not-insignificant way. Please share these routinely:

• My new Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds) (and if you subscribe today you won't be billed until January 1st for December);
• Wings's site, for sales, with new items posted;
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff;
• 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).

Please share the links. We're now officially into holiday order season, because commissions take time, so if you're planning on holiday gifts, please keep Wings's work in mind. And given what we're up against, we won't turn away donations, either, because we simply can't afford it.

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