Not improving now.

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[Note:  This was Sunday's post, written at the time, but unable to be published because of our Internet outage.]

It’s been a terrible day so far, and not improving now. I have no idea when this will post — today? tomorrow? days from now?

Our Internet is out, and it appears that the UPS may be bad. If so, we will have no Internet until it’s fixed or, more likely, replaced entirely, and who knows when that will be, because you can’t even pay extra for someone to come out on a Sunday, and they can’t guarantee tomorrow or any particular day thereafter, either.

“Short-staffed.”

Like everybody in town, because the colonizers who run shit pay themselves enough to get and stay stinking rich while the line workers get garbage wages.

Meanwhile, the town is hell-bent on making sure everybody gets the Delta and Lambda variants, apparently, so that we can have MORE “short-staffed” all over again.

So I’m really screwed now, because there is literally no chance of making sales if I can’t push them online (yes, today’s NDN Silver post is written, but I can’t publish the damn thing, because no Internet).  And I have to pay out $1,500 in bills this week (was supposed to be tomorrow for more than 1/3 of that) and I don’t have anything approaching that kind of money.

The next week could destroy us if I don’t bring in some scratch, and everything seems to be conspiring to push us in exactly that direction. Add to that the constant worsting pain and fatigue, from the lupus or whatever, and I’m half-blind right now but the work has to get done, and my whole body is so stiff that I can barely move.

I need help.

We need sales.

All the rest is cut-and-paste; I can’t even get into the file at the moment for the text, but when (IF?) the Internet’s ever back up again, I’ll deal with it then.  All the usual is below:

This is our second-most-costly month of the year, thanks to certain biannual expenses, and every year, I think this will be the year that I get ahead of it, and every year, I get crushed instead. This time, it was all these medical expenses that did it. But the upshot is that I have to find ~$3,500 before the month is out, ~$1,500 of it by the first of the week, and I'm nowhere on it. My Patreon is down by 3 figures these days, and I don't have the health to do it daily anymore. And now we might finally know why; labs indicate lupus as a likely culprit. You can read the details of that here. I need help, though. The fatigue alone is kicking my ass, and I don't have time for it, because the bills won't wait.

So I have got to bring in sales to cover anything, and push has come to shove now. I have to be able to pay this $1,500-ish on Monday. There's another ~$2K lurking that has to be paid the following week. I also can't do it alone, so please share our links. There's a lot of work in progress right now, and the new cuff is done, and it's up here. It's . . . there aren't really words for it. Not for the work involved, and not for the power and beauty of the result. It really needs to be snapped up fast:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are all the mosquito-prevention items, especially the portables and the patio-surface ones, because Wings can take them around the land with his as he works);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to make up this staggering outlay somehow. There's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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