It's a hard world out there.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

He thinks he's hidden while he's learning to stretch his wings. I mean, he can't see me through the branch, so how could I possibly see him? He's a youngster, but he'll learn.

Because it's a hard world out there.

This week has been absolutely brutal. On top of everything, the sublux of my right knee night before last (in my sleep, no less) has worsened rather drastically, and I spent most of the night half-sobbing, unable to put any weight on it, and unable to find any position that would relieve even the smallest amount of pain. I finally took a Benadryl, which normally knocks me flat, and it still took another three hours before I fell asleep for a few minutes. Once more, only a couple of hours of badly broken sleep, cumulatively; five minutes here, ten there. Wings gave me one of the knee braces I bought him a long time ago to try to keep it marginally in place, so that I can at least move around the house a bit. The problem with this is that there's no getting it back into place; it has to do it on its own, which means that all I can do is wait it out. No, I have no idea how long I'm going to be stuck with this kind of pain and immobility and lack of sleep.

And I still need to bring in sales. As I said yesterday, this is on top of the fact that I have to figure out this secondary solution for Wings from a wholly different provider, and I have no fucking idea how, but at some point it's got to be done. His knees also need to be done, to the tune of almost $2 grand in cash, up-front, in June. And it's just endless with the tax bullshit. With the two big tax payments we've already sent in, I've got to start making up for it somehow, and that means bringing in sales. Like right away. In the best of times, we need to average one sale a week (any amount; it eventually averages out) just to break even. We're nowhere near that right now, thanks to this colonial government.

In the meantime, all of our links are here; BIG emphasis on sales for now, for obvious reasons. Basically, we need to bring in roughly one sale a week to cover everything anyway; if I can bring in just a couple more sales before month's end ($1-2K worth, but there are only three days left in the month, so . . .), we'll be okay until it starts all over again in May. Here are all the links:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priority, because this week I've been forced to eliminate another staple from my diet just to function rather minimally, and someone mentioned that perhaps our old non-stick pans, which are in fact long since well beyond their useful date, are making the matter worse, so there's a non-PFAS replacement set at the top that would help with cooking/cleanup/my hands/my illness; and yes, the Zero-Odor sprays are still useful right now, although these days it's dusty dogs, not wet ones); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, so please share all of the links. 

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