Blue moons and fool moons and just a really, really bad week.

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Okay, so it kind of actually looks like a blue moon. I think it's more of a fool moon, though. This week has sucked beyond description.

It began in downright misery on the financial front; that's only gotten worse, and will continue to be for a very long time. Add to that the attempted entry into our lives and space of a certain individual whose claimed motivations are clearly not the real ones, and it's been a lot of added stress on two people who are battling a great deal of physical and other strain already. And, of course, there's my continued inability to get my new platform functional.

Then there are the two dead chickens in two days, as outlined in posts below. And, of course, the culprits, who, after two months of taking care of them daily, are now necessarily being permanently banished, because they cannot be trusted not to kill all of them.

Then there was today's other weirdness, in which Wings was subjected to assault and battery by a mentally ill person (no injury, but he put his hands on Wings twice and tried to follow us, and that's really unsettling). We had to go to Smith's to pick up Wings's newest prescription, and homeless people often sit under the overhang, smoking and sometimes panhandling. They tend to be mostly a polite bunch. Not this big hulking white guy. He jumped out in front of us, saying something, and I thought at first he was one of the folks who recognized Wings from years back; they're always accosting us everywhere, sometimes just to say hi, sometimes to ask for scratch. 

Not this guy. He was clearly mentally ill, and just as clearly violent, and just as clearly no one we knew in any way, shape, or form. We reported it to the store management but declined to involve the police, for all the usual reasons. But it was frightening, to say the least, particularly since whatever was going on in the guy's head made him see not Wings but someone else entirely, and he was also entirely ready to throw down. Fortunately, we defused it long enough to be able to walk away, although he tried to follow us as we were leaving, too.

So it's been a bad day in several ways. It's been a worse week. And I've gotten nothing accomplished on the many, many things I needed to do today, nor have I managed to make a single sale, and I sure as hell can't write for the new site because it's not functional. So I'm posting the links again tonight, in hopes that folks will share them, and maybe someone will be inspired to buy some of Wings's work, at least. Here they are:

• Wings's site, for sales;
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount; another almost $400 for Wings this week);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of supplies for She-Wolf;
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. There are some things left on both registries that I thought by now I might be able just to buy outright, but medical bills (mine and She-Wolf's both) have to come first.

And now, since my blood pressure has been sky-high most of the day and that painful dead weight in my chest even heavier than usual, I'm going to give up on stuff for now and try to avoid anything really unpleasant happening with my health right now.

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