It will be a bitter cold tonight.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

The freezing rain arrived in the dark hours of the morning. Now, it's more fog, hanging low and heavy over everything. It's also, at this moment, a rising wind and a falling mercury, and the snow is on the way. It will be a bitter cold tonight.

I can barely move after yesterday's episode with the farolitos. Of course, they're not staying in place because the bases are so cheaply made, so we're having to fix THAT. Not like I don't already have too many things to do. No progress on the tree yet, because nobody lets me have a minute to myself; there's always something more important than whatever work I'm doing, never mind the tree. I lost two full weeks of work this month [of the non-NDN Silver variety], and the more things that are getting dropped onto me right now, the more resentful I get, especially since it was all for nothing.

The freezing rain is back; Wings is up on the deck trying to nail/staple the frames into place. At least dinner [buffalo stew] is in the crock pot. There's a fire in each stove. Now maybe I can get some other stuff done before dark.

Not that there's any respite from the need to chase sales. It's been such a terrible year, in that regard but also in so many others, and there are . . . what? ten days left in which to make up this horrible sales [and Patreon] deficit? We've had a half-dozen now since T-Day, but we'll need to sell a lot more between now and year's end, obviously. My Patreon for the month is still down ~$250 at the moment [that's how much it was short on the December 1st payout for subscriptions for the month of November, and so far, all of those still haven't been paid]. My guess is that those won't materialize later in the month; that will be the penalty [or one of them anyway] for taking a vocal stand about the genocide being perpetrated against Palestine and its people now. Of course, we haven't brought in anywhere nearly enough sales all year across the board, even before recent developments that require a moral stand of us. It's grim.

And aside from all of that, I also need to bring in at least $6K in sales between now and year's end to cover tax prepayments, and we haven't hit the $1K mark on that yet. Normally, I would've been paying them quarterly, but not this year; we haven't had enough sales to do that, and I'm behind on everything else, too, all while my illness worsens seemingly by the day. Until those prepayments are off my desk, I can't relax, can't do anything other than push to get them covered. I really need help. As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities now are Wings's Flex-Tape, and especially the vacuum, because mine has died a complete and ignominious death, and if I don't vacuum every single day, the dog hair takes over completely); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there will be much more in the days to come [EIGHT NEW PIECES a few nights ago [one sold], plus two new ones a couple of nights before that]. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays are already here, so please share all of the links. 

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