Hard not to look forward to a fresh start of sorts.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

Iridescence. Happens a lot this time of year, but usually with deeper cold; it's forty-five degrees here right now, which is twenty to thirty degrees too warm.

Less than two days.

Then we mark a new year, by the colonial calendar, anyway [we have other ways of reckoning that frankly make much more sense]. As I said elsewhere last night, I'm not usually in favor of trying to hurry time along, but this has been an unspeakably bad year, one that has snowballed into all kinds of terrible as the year draws to a close, not just on a personal level, but on a truly global one.

Hard not to look forward to a fresh start of sorts.

And no respite even now from the need to chase sales, either. It's been such a terrible year, in that regard but also in so many others, and there's . . . what? essentially one day left in which to make up this horrible sales deficit? We've had a half-dozen now since T-Day, but we needed to sell a lot more between now and year's end, obviously, clearly, that's not going to happen. Which sets the stage for a terrible year next year, too, apart from all the global and political horrors it will necessarily involve. Of course, we haven't brought in anywhere nearly enough sales all year across the board, even before recent developments that require a moral stand of us. It's grim.

Normally, I would've been pre-paying taxes quarterly, but not this year; we haven't had enough sales to do that, and I'm behind on everything else, too, all while my illness worsens seemingly by the day. Until those prepayments are off my desk, I can't relax, can't do anything other than push to get them covered. I really need help. As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities now are Wings's Flex-Tape, and especially the vacuum, because mine has died a complete and ignominious death, and if I don't vacuum every single day, the dog hair takes over completely); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there will be much more in the days to come [EIGHT NEW PIECES last week [one sold], plus two new ones a couple of nights before that]. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays are already here, so please share all of the links. 

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