Winter blues.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

Winter blues. Lots of blues. 

It's been a murderously awful couple of weeks. My pain levels alone would be enough for that, but no, there've been a few dozen other problems, too. On the plus side, I took my second chemo dose yesterday, and by bedtime, it was clear to me that the tumor in my throat [that thyroid one] was less prominent in terms of external visibility. Of course, that means that the inflammation levels in my body have been so completely out of control that even the tiniest doses are showing a difference.

On the minus side [which one? there're so many right now], that dislocation in my left shoulder and upper arm decided to worsen drastically last night. I had to knock myself out on muscle relaxants, eventually, just to get a couple of fitful hours of sleep. So today I'm tired, fuzzy-brained, and still in agonizing pain. My arm is also back in the sling, which helps a little, but I don't have time for this right now.

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 likely seven or eight more to come over the weekend]. 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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