A blustery day in multiple ways. Sales badly needed if we're going to make it through all of this; subscribers and shares, too.

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I feel like Winnie-the-Pooh; it's a blustery day, wind howling, hot and cold by turns. I guess it's fitting, since in the outside world, everything is terrible. Not so hot here, either; I woke up with a sore throat and worse, the truck is back in the shop over the exhaust mess, I'm so far behind on everything, and the medical stressors, both bills (lots of bluster from there, except it's not because they do have the capacity to make life hell for me) and more tangible issues, just never let up.

As I said yesterday, I'm having a really hard time right now. I have literally no time to do anything, including try to push sales, and I've pushed myself way beyond the point of physical exhaustion. If I don't find a solution soon, I don't know what I'll do; the medical bills are killing me as surely as whatever's actually wrong that they can't be bothered to find. I've got to find ways of bringing in more scratch, and I have no idea how, but it has to happen. I spend my days chasing sales and trying to figure out other ways to raise revenue, and it's wearing badly on my health at this point (as if that weren't already precarious enough). Among other things, you can get in now on subscribing to my Patreon for the month of October (if you subscribe today, you'll get access to the coming month's content at the relevant level, but you won't be billed until November 1st). I have a ton of pieces in the works, and no time lately to work on any of them, unfortunately, because every spare minute is spent chasing money. There'll be plenty more of the last today, along with everything else, and I need to get to it, so the rest is cut-and-paste.

There are a lot of ways to help out. First, obviously, is sales; purchases of Wings's work (and/or work by the other artists whose art we carry) is always the first option, and it was the baseline for the construction in the first place. [And next week will be their last, most likely, because he don't have the cash to pay them beyond that for the labor — and right now, it's virtually all labor.] Second is subscribing to my Patreon page, which gets updated regularly with really cool imagery and a good amount of really good writing; if you now for September, you won't be billed until October 1st. Below there's also a link for "coffee," which allows folks to make small donations, and a couple of wishlists for keeping the animals in kibble and filling out needs around the house. In the middle is the link to Wings's PayPal account, and no, I won't turn away any donations, because we have to get this done and I have to have some peace of mind over it because I have none over my own survival these days). The only fundraising we'll be doing is right here; nowhere else. So here are all the links; please share them around, and if you are able to purchase, subscribe, donate, whatever, we'd be profoundly grateful:

• 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. I'm going to be back under the gun for the next several weeks. Thanks to everyone in advance. 

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