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It's not a great shot compositionally, but I included it here for a very specific reason. See that little rounded brown smudge at the horizon in the very center? I thought it was a spot on my camera lens when I first looked at the photo, so I enlarged it. NOPE. It's a dust devil, roundish instead of a tall skinny spiral, probably shrieking April Fool's! at the top of its dirty lungs as it moves.
There a reason — many reasons, actually — that I hate this day.
As weather goes, it's been a doozy: Sun, clouds, extreme winds, freezing rain, sleet, graupel, snow on the peaks, albeit not down here. But more of all, the wind. And the dirt, and the dust, and the pollen.
I'm so far behind, too. Things keep cropping up and derailing me from the thousand and one things already on today's to-do list. Tomorrow will be busy, too, but then I hope I'm home for the rest of the week and able to get this nonsense off my desk once and for all.
Of course, "once and four all" imlies being able to ay everything all at once, and that's unlikely, too. Two days is about all I have left [okay, maybe four] to get everything done on our taxes, too. Being able to pay them is another matter entirely; it's grim, and I'm at my wits' end. Last year was awful in every way; this year has begun with more of the same, with the added problem of a bunch of external demands on us that have drained all of our resources. I have to get our taxes done, to the preparer, and paid this week. I cannot do that if we don't bring in some really big sales this week — either a bunch of sales daily or one or two really big ones; I don't have any preference, as long as I can get it done. It's that last that's the stumbling block, because it's not depending on how hard I work at work. I can't force people to buy. And I'm out of options [but I'm still working 16 hours and day and more to try to get everything done].
I've resented taxes a lot in my life, but never so much as I do right this moment, thanks to this Nazi "administration" stealing our money and what they're doing with it. But there's no choice in the matter, and I'm am truly at the end of my tether right now, between the taxes and the well pump and the lack of sales and income and my accelerating health issues. So now would be a really, really good time to buy, because I really, really need to bring in more income this week. We're out of time.
Links are here:
- Sales here;
- Testimonials here;
- Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and those adjustable Black KN95 masks are badly needed, because I gave away all the rest of ours to relatives; it would good to have several boxes, so I can keep handing them out, too);
- Patreon here;
- Ko-fi here.
After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing before taxes take every last cent, so please share all of the links.
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