Most of the snow is gone.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

Despite the cold, most of the snow is gone, even from the peaks. Despite the clouds at the western horizon, there's supposed to no chance of anything this weekend now. It's another drought-ridden winter.

Meanwhile, the colonizers who have zero idea of what patterns should be here are spreading continual disinformation "reporting" for the local rag, referring to last winter's thaw as "massive" when in fact it was vastly below where it should've been. I'm so tired of this deadly nonsense, but that's who gets to set the narrative here now.

::Sigh:: just dropped my phone, because the RA is hell on my hands right now. And since the living room rug is gone [ruined by the flood event of Christmas Day], it landed on the tile, and of course the screen is now cracked in two places at one end. 

Merry humbug.

I don't think the tree will stay up as long this year. I think we just want to leave '23 behind.

But there's no respite even now from the need to chase sales, either. It's been such a terrible year, in that regard but also in so many others, and there are . . . what? three days in which to make up this horrible sales 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, and since there are exactly three of those days left, we won't even come close to making it. 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.

Normally, I would've been pre-paying taxes 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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