Socked in.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

That was the extent of our visibility this morning, even with a zoom. We were socked in by fog all morning, and I do mean exactly that.

It started to dissipate in early afternoon, and of course, we had errands that could not be avoided . . . except that we wound up having to avoid three of them, because a car slamming into "a significant pole" in town force IKP to down electricity to everything south of Cid's. No power, no ability to process transactions, and there was no way we were sitting in that mess with no stoplights, either. So it'll all have to wait until next week, most likely.

Which is fine. I stood in line at the post office, and  then gimped my way around the grocery store, and that was more than enough. It also took far too much time out of my day for all the other thing that I needed to get don, but here we are. At least today was a bit better on the pain front [emphasis on "bit," and noting that it's all relative]. Wings and I decided that for now I should stop taking a traditional medicine I've been on for years, and it seems to have made a difference. There will be a point when I return to it, albeit a bit differently in dynamics. But circumstances require flexibility now.

Of course, the "made a difference" part is all very much relative, too, natch.  And given how terrible a year this has been sales-wise, through it all I still have to make sales, of course. 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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