The crash has already begun.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

More clear blue skies. Two degrees shy of fifty, so 20 degrees too warm again.

The weather doesn't really matter right now in terms of pain levels. I've spent the last two weeks pushing myself far beyond my body's limits, and the crash has already begun. As I said elsewhere, it's a slow-motion one this time, but it's under way, and the pain is already completely out of control. Nothing touches it.

I have to go to the post office tomorrow; pharmacy later this week and grocery store at some point. Unless I have to ship other orders, that will be the sum total of my venturing out. I'm too beat to spend time walking around or standing in line on hard surfaces; I can barely walk as it is. And with no immune system at all now, I'm not exactly inclined to be around anyone in town, because virtually nobody masks anymore. Besides, I'm just tired.  Beyond description.

And 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 [two new ones a couple of nights ago, finally, here and here, and eight more likely to come by tonight]. 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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