Storms and outlays. Sales desperately needed; subscribers and shares needed, too.

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One wave of yesterday's wall of dirt. Walls, plural, actually. Yes, it's played hell with my breathing. It was actually a terrible storm, the kind that is trying fiercely to speed up the rotation in the clouds enough to turn it into a tornado or several, but we got off relatively easy here. Parts of town, notsomuch. As far as anybody knows, it was only bursts and no funnel managed to touch down, but it took out tree branches and power lines, the latter sparking fires in the trees in some places, and left a good chunk of tribal lands and town without power. Under those circumstances, a few short brownouts and blackouts and an unwelcome asthmatic response on my part are actually not bad, considering.

The water heater issue is less welcome. It does need a part, and he'll bring it by early tomorrow. The other thing it needs is a fuller propane tank, and that's gonna cost. Our tank is the one we've had forever, something like 200-gallon capacity, and it takes us half of forever to use that up. We're now down almost, but not quite, to the red zone, which is to say, 20%. We would normally be fine, but this is a tankless water heater, and given how long it's been since we've had to put any significant amount of propane in the tank, it's no doubt settled a lot. There's a liquid antifreeze solution that gets mixed with it to prevent freezing in winter, and while the part replacement will fix a lot, what's still happening is that, now that it's low, when the water heater powers up, it sucks up the liquid faster than the gas and it's foiling the ignition. So we have no choice but to fill it this week preferably tomorrow, but I don't see how we can if we don't make some sales today; the medical stuff this past week wiped us out).

So. Sales. Sales, sales, SALES. We need them badly. We can't do this kind of outlay without juggling and shifting and otherwise delaying elsewhere. And none of that even begins to get at what I'm dealing with (and will be for a very, very long time yet). We managed to pay outright on the medical stuff (because we had no choice; it's all cash on the barrelhead), but this leaves us seriously short. So please share the links, because we really need to bring in a lot more to make it through the rest of the season, forget the rest of the year:

• My new Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds);
• Wings's site, for sales, with new items posted;
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff;
• 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).

That all I've got. My entire existence is focused around chasing sales to pay medical and other) bills, and it's not going well.

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